Here is the breakdown for the voting on this issue: Josh Andler Yes Tavmjong Bah unknown Ted Gould Yes Bryce Harrington Yes Johan Engelen Yes Tim Cole unknown Jon Cruz unknown With 4 yes votes we have a majority decision. Johan, please go ahead and proceed with step #3. Once that's done, I'll follow up with step #4. Bryce

----- Forwarded message from Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...31...> ----- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:59:50 +0100 From: Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...31...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013 Hi Bruce, I thought I had already re-voted, sorry. I vote a. Yes Cheers, Johan ----- Reply message ----- From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...> To: "Johan Engelen" <j.b.c.engelen@...51...> Subject: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013 Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 02:43 Btw, I need you to officially re-vote for the update so it's on record. Bryce On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:29:20PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote: > a. YES > > - Johan > > > On 13-1-2014 9:46, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > A majority Board vote is required for the following proposal. > > > > > > Proposal: > > > > 1. Purchase and distribute a programming book to the top 10 Inkscape > > contributors for the past 12 months, as calculated by Ohloh.net: > > http://www.ohloh.net/p/inkscape/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo > > > > 2. The contributors can choose from one of the following books: > > a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. > > by Scott Meyers > > b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code > > by Martin Fowler > > c) A Tour of C++ > > by Bjarne Stroustrup > > > > 3. The campaign proposer (Johan Engelen, or their designee) will be > > empowered to officially announce and introduce the campaign to the > > larger community. > > > > 4. The board chairperson (or their designee) will be empowered to > > i) Identify the qualified contributors as per (1), ii) Contact the > > qualified book recipients to collect their address and choice of book > > from (2), iii) Purchase and disseminiate the books to the provided > > addresses, iv) Collect reimbursement from SFC for expenses incurred. > > > > > > [ ] a. Yes, conduct this campaign as defined above > > [ ] b. No, we should not conduct this campaign > > [ ] c. Maybe, but I disagree with some definition of the campaign > > > > > > Background: > > > > """ > > Lately, I've become obsessed with code quality. I've been reading > > Bjourne Stroustrup's "bible" on C++11, watched all videos of the > > "Going Native" conferences, started using clang, ..., and it has made > > me much more aware of the language's facilities for preventing bugs. I > > regularly browse over Inkscape's code and try to fix things I think > > can be improved (janitorial); our source is a pretty big mess > > I really do think Inkscape can use some love to improve logic and to > > decrease some amount of spaghetti. > > > > I just saw the book "Effective C++", which I believe is a great resource > > to inspire thought and learn how to write better code, and is meant for > > experienced programmers. In general: how do you guys feel about > > donating something [like this book] to our top committers for their > > "education"? We would need some metric of what "top committers" means, > > we could use ohloh.net's numbers. > > > > *For example*, we have 10 people that committed more than 50 times in > > the past 12 months. So that'd be 10 books = 10 x 31 euro = 310 euro > > cost --- shipping and whatnot --> 400 euro cost. > > > > (After we release 0.91, I will become very active in pushing for C++11 > > (i.e., upgrading our compiler dependencies to more modern versions so > > we can start using part of C++11 features), and general maintenance / > > refactoring / cleaning up. It's pretty rewarding I find, and very > > low-key in terms of long-time brain-investment.) > > > > Johan > > """ > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg... > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-board mailing list > > Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg... > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. 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