July 2018 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Yesterday was SMIL and today is Mesh Gradients
by Victor Westmann 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Hi fellow inkscapers, I was amazed to read that inkscape already has Mesh Gradients (since version 0.92) just like Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator got this exact same feature in the version 8 (released in 1998). 20 years ago. But it seems that Mesh Gradients will be removed from the SVG 2.0 specification. My question is WHY? That made me really sad and wondering: isn't there anything we can do to prevent that from happening? Can we make a petition or talk to Mozilla/Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi browser so they can implement this and this feature, as soon as it gets traction, to be kept in the 2.0 spec of SVG technology? Ideas anyone? Is this too unrealistic or we can do something about it? I remember google chrome almost removed SMIL feature from Google Chrome but then the feature got traction and started being used more and more... so they kept it.

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Website Testing (upgrades)
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Dear Devlopers and Users, The Inkscape Website is going through some upgrades, from python 2.7 to python 3.5 and from django 1.8 to django 1.11. There's a pile of other upgrades since I rebuilt the dependencies from scratch, but these are the main ones. I've deployed the new version to http://inkscape.sandcats.io:8091/en/ and I encourage people to hit the website and test functionality. Try different things and feel free to report issues to the inkscape-webgitlab issues tracker if you can (to keep the mailing list clear) but if you can't issues track, then fallback to emailing here. When ready, we'll hopefully be deploying this new version to a new server too, so it's all moving hopefully forwards. Thanks for your help everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Website Developer

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Board meeting Friday Jul 6th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Jul 6th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * Kiel Hackfest ** [[Hackfest2018 Kiel]] - Sun, 2018-09-09 until Thu, 2018-09-13 ** Board sponsored dinner * Future meetings/hackfests. ** [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/ SCALE] - March 7th-10th, 2019 (Pasadena, California) ** [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) * Merchandise sales ** Spreadshirt ** Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Outreachy: Next round starts in August [https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/] * Action Items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- === Upcoming Events 2018-19: Kiel Hackfest; SCALE; LGM === ♢ ACTION: Brainstorm plans for 1.0beta / 1.0 commemorative merch [crogers, tedg] ♢ ACTION: Check into pre/post SCALE meeting options & AirBNB [tedg, scislac] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote #2 on Kiel hackfest (funding arrangements) [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote #1 on Kiel hackfest (official decision) [bryce] ♢ ACTION: ping jimmac about the symbolic icons for adding the theme to Inkscape [scislac] === Merchadise Sales === ♢ ACTION: Followup with crogers on spreadshirt progress [Mc] === Other Action Items === ♢ ACTION: Send prkos link to mailman ansible code [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Plan video for Inkscape 1.0 release [assignee needed] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Kiel Hackfest
by Tavmjong Bah 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi Inkscaper's, We'll be holding a hackfest in Kiel, Germany in September (Sun, 2018- 09-09 through Thu, 2018-09-13). All members of the Inkscape community are encouraged to attend.[1] We already have 13 people signed up! If you are interested in attending, please add your name to the Attendees web page.[2] We're handling financial support a bit different this time. The board has decided to reimburse travel expenses up to $2000 per person with no specific requirement on number of commits and length of community participation. However, the board will need to include your name in a vote so you will need to sign up before the meeting. Also, SFC travel policy requires you to book airline/train tickets at least two weeks in advance.[3] Looking forward to seeing you there! Tav [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Kiel [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Kiel_Attendees [3] https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conservancy-travel-poli cy.html

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Vectors Meeting - Today
by Ryan Gorley 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Hello All, This is just a friendly reminder that our monthly Vectors meeting will be held at 8AM-9AM PDT (see time conversion <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…>), today (July 7). Come join us at teams.freecreatives.org <https://teams.freecreatives.org>. We are experimenting with the meeting format and will conduct this meeting by text only. The agenda includes: 1. Migration to Rocket.Chat 2. Inkscape 0.92.4 Release Planning 3. Kiel Hackfest Fundraising 4. Team Organization & Recruiting Needs 5. Formal Team Roles & Voting Update If you'd like to comment prior to the meeting, feel free to do so here <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/63>. I hope you'll join us! Ryan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 146, Issue 15
by unknown＠example.com 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Hi folks. Sorry to go meta, but I'm seeing something weird with the mailing list. I'm subscribed in digest mode, but it seems to be sending every message immediately in a single digest, sometimes just one or two minutes apart. Ideas?

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New tools for team communication
by Marién Soria 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hi everyone! I'm very active this weekend. Sorry about it! Mihaela: Gitlab is great for collaborate with code but it's not for graphic design process. I have find and interesting app that can help us, it has an unlimited free plan. We can share mockups and leave feedback. It has 3 differents role types and you can see files like a guest. Take a look to an example board that I create for testing. https://app.conceptboard.com/board/58go-o3n8-iz3g-n7us-4roc ------- Have you disscused the possibility of migrate these comunications to a most friendly environment like Slack or RocketChat? So we can use @mentions or divide conversations by topic or silence notifications, etc.

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