[Election Question] Accessibility for non-Developers
by Ted Gould
Question for the candidates:
Inkscape has tried to be welcoming to both developer and non-developer
contributions to the project. Do you think the project has been
successful there? Is it getting better or worse? What could/should we do
to recognize or encourage non-developer contributions?
Ted
7 years, 5 months
Seamless Pattern extension updated to V0.5
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz
Hi to all. I just commit the updated extension to trunk.
0.91/0.48 users can get it from here:
https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1358/
Improvements:
Cleanup and better script for he helper text, thanks to Maren.
Cleanup of layer names to easy use it.
A transparency checkboard show in the pattern preview to notice about
transparency in the pattern.
Non unifrorm patterns not deform the default inkscape based pattern.
All elements not necesary for make the patter are blocked, so is more
easy work on it.
All the best, Jabier.
7 years, 5 months
Inkscape Board Election: Candidate Nomination Peroid has ended
by Ted Gould
Hello,
The nomination and candidacy submission period is now closed. We had
seven individuals nominated, four of which have been accepted.
This is a good time to start thinking of questions to ask the candidates
as you will have the chance to ask the candidates anything you'd like to
know before you elect them to the board. Please post those questions to
the inkscape-devel mailing list.
We will be sending out voting tokens to eligible voters before the end
of this week, then you will be able to access the voting website
provided by the Software Freedom Conservancy for our election. You will
be able to go to that website with your token and cast your vote.[1] We
will send out an e-mail after all the tokens have gone out so that you
can confirm getting one.
If you are (or think you should be) in the AUTHORS file, and did not
receive the test mail sent out by Ted Gould earlier this week, please
send a message to
inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... so that we can add it
to the voters list ASAP.
Thank you and happy voting - and good luck to all our candidates :),
The Inkscape Elections Committee
[1] The voting system used is Scottish STV (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote), the voting
software is an open-source fork of openSTV (from a version before it
went closed-source).
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CANDIDATES
== Name ==
Krzysztof Kosiński
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
University of Warsaw (until end of September), Intel
(probably until end of August), Google (starting in late November)
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies ==
long time contributor starting in 2008, 4x
GSoC participant, 2x GSoC mentor. Responsible for clipboard rewrite,
multipath capabilities in the node tool, Cairo rendering, render
caching, bitmap image handling improvements, recently focusing on
lib2geom - general refactoring and Boolean operations.
== Personal statement ==
Inkscape is a special project for me. It has offered me lots of
opportunities to build my experience, earn money through Summer of
Code, and has indirectly prompted me to seek a career in software
engineering. By serving on the board of Inkscape, I hope to be able to
reciprocate some of the positive influence that Inkscape has had on my
professional development over the years.
==================================================================
== Name ==
Martin W.F. Owens
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
- Freelance programming contractor, Free Software focus.
- Some past inkscape contracting; perl python/django websites, other.
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies ==
I state I have contributed to Inkscape evident in the commit logs
of the bazaar repository for the master branch and am the principal
author
of the inkscape-web project.
== Personal statement ==
Inkscape is an important tool for the Free Software community,
being its primary graphical design and user interface tool as well as
its most advanced web standards compliant authoring tool. Its
availability and
ease of use make it also important in being able to promote Free
Software and the wider understanding of Free Culture as a whole.
A large portion of Inkscape's future is in organising and inviting
users who participate in the wider community and I wish to be able to
help manage the interfaces that serve the community in both their
support and involvement in the large landscape of Inkscape's uses.
==================================================================
== Name ==
Nicolas Dufour
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
Sysadmin for the French civil aviation.
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies ==
I first used Inkscape in 2007 to create waypoints and airports icons for
aviation maps and it rapidly became the main tool for almost all my
personal and professional creative work. So I found it natural to give
back to the project in 2008 (first contribution: the Printing Marks
extension, in collaboration with Aurium) and never left the project
since then.
Some of my favorite areas are extensions,
internationalization/localization, documentation, triaging bug and
fixing forgotten low priority bugs.
I have some blueprints pending (extensions presets, multiple preferences
management and crash recovery dialog), but unfortunately there's too
much to be done in the other areas and I have difficulties finding time
to be a real developer.
Apart from Inkscape, I also contribute to the Floss Manuals project as
technical writer (very occasionally now) and as webmaster of the French
FM server.
== Personal statement ==
I feel there's a real need for non-developer contributions. A FOSS
project is not only a question of code, and bringing it to users is
basically why we're contributing. That's the reason why I first focused
on documentation and internationalization/localization tasks.
Answering questions on LP, the Inkscape forum or IRC and helping with
the website content are crucial, too (unfortunately it's very time
consuming and I can't contribute as much as I'd like).
Being on the Board is different, but also helps developers meet other
developers and users, and legal and financial issues are very important
to keep the project safe. I'd be very happy to help Inkscape that way,
too.
==================================================================
== Name ==
Alexander (Alex) Valavanis
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies ==
I have been an Inkscape developer since May 2011, with over 550
contributions committed to the project's code. My main involvement
has been in improving the quality and maintainability of the code, and
making the best use of the programming language features and software
libraries available on the many different operating systems used by
Inkscape's diverse user community. Specifically, I led the migration
of Inkscape to the new GTK+ 3 graphical user interface library, which
will "future-proof" our code, allow us to make much better use of
touchscreens, and provide better support for OS X. I set up and
maintain the Inkscape personal package archives (PPAs), which enable
Ubuntu and Debian users to access both the latest stable version of
Inkscape and daily builds of our experimental code. I have also taken
a lot of interest in improving the build systems, which are used for
building the Inkscape program from its source code. I have aimed to
ensure that Inkscape can be built reliably on a wide range of systems,
and I have liaised closely with the downstream Ubuntu and Debian
package maintainers to make sure that we receive user bug reports and
distribute new versions of Inkscape to users as efficiently as
possible. I was very grateful for the opportunity to attend the
Inkscape Hackfest in 2015, and to meet with other developers and board
members to work on the code and discuss the future roadmap for the
project.
== Personal statement ==
It is a true honour to have been nominated as a board member for
Inkscape. I fully appreciate the high regard in which the project is
held by its users, and the wider free software community. My role in
Inkscape has, so far, focused mainly on the technical side of
improving the quality and longevity of the project, and I am eager now
to support the project at board level. It was a real pleasure to meet
some of the other board members in person at the Hackfest earlier this
year and I look forward to the opportunity to work together with them.
As a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, I have experience
in the financial planning of small to medium-scale ($1000 - $1.5
million) technical projects, and am confident in my ability to take on
board responsibilities for Inkscape. I am also interested in the
inter-project collaboration aspects of board membership, particularly
in promoting the development of shared libraries and resources for
common use with other free-software projects.
7 years, 5 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] How to include .lib or .a in inkscape
by Alex Valavanis
Hi Pratap,
I'm afraid I don't know much about Windows development... I'll have to
defer to one of the other team members!
Best wishes,
Alex
On 18 Aug 2015 7:04 am, "Pratap Odedara" <p.odedara20@...400...> wrote:
> I am using windows os and compiling the inkscape using visual studio as
> given in official site
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pratap,
>>
>> Which OS are you using? How are you compiling Inkscape?
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 14 August 2015 at 13:15, Pratap <p.odedara20@...400...> wrote:
>> > I want to include external library in inkscape project I have both .lib
>> and
>> > .a files of that library i want to include that library and use its
>> methods
>> > in inkscape so please guid me how to do it
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > View this message in context:
>> http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/How-to-include-lib-or-a-in-inkscape-tp49...
>> > Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>> >
>> >
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>
>
7 years, 5 months
Seamless Extension Update
by Jabier Arraiza
Hi to all, attached are the template for the Seamless Pattern extension.
It have some explains in english, also added a new feature to show white
patterns without background or transparency.
I need help to fix the strings and also a request to clarify it in the
user point of view.
Thanks in advace for your effort, Jabier.
7 years, 5 months
[Fwd: Inkscape Ballot E-mail Test]
by Ted Gould
If you are in the AUTHORS file, you should have received an e-mail like
this in the last half hour or so. If not, please check your spam filter
(it kinda looks like spam, I understand that) and then contact the
Elections Committee. We've been working hard (mostly Maren) to get all
of your e-mail addresses correct and updated, but I could have made a
typo or we could have an old e-mail address for you. It'll be much
easier to correct things now rather than when we start voting.
If you know someone who is an Inkscape author but is not on
inkscape-devel, please contact them and tell them to look out for this
message as well.
Thank you,
Ted
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...>
> To: inkscape.elections.committee@...3261...
> Subject: Inkscape Ballot E-mail Test
> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:16:52 -0500
>
> Hello,
>
> We are testing the e-mail addresses that we have for people who can
> vote in the Inkscape election. If you've received this e-mail there's
> likely nothing you need to do. If this e-mail is going to an address
> that you don't want us to use, please contact the Inkscape Elections
> Committee:
>
> inkscape.elections.committee@...3261...
>
> If you know someone in the AUTHORS file that should have gotten a test
> e-mail, and did not. Please have them contact the committee so that we
> can get it sorted out.
>
> Thank you,
> Elections Committee (via Ted)
7 years, 5 months
How to include .lib or .a in inkscape
by Pratap Odedara
I want to include external library in inkscape project I have both .lib and
.a files of that library i want to include that library and use its methods
in inkscape so please guid me how to do it
7 years, 5 months
Inkscape Board Elections: Last chance for nominations and candidacies
by Maren Hachmann
Hi everyone,
it's been a little difficult to get people to volunteer (nobody did
without having been asked) or to even nominate someone (same!).
Now's your last chance to step up and tell us you'd like to run for one
of those two empty seats - or to nominate someone you think should be on
the Inkscape Board.
We'd really like to see your candidacy and / or nominations (hurry up -
we still have to ask the nominee ;) )!
(else the election could become a little boring...)
Please send your mail to the Inkscape elections committee list at
inkscape.elections.committee@...3260...
Thank you!
Regards,
Maren
7 years, 5 months
