forum guidelines/rules 2nd draft review
by brynn
Hi again,
I made the edits requested from the first review. And those gave me
some other thoughts. I added a couple of new "wrinkles" to the prerequisites
for moderator section, and for the duties and responsibilities.
For the change in prerequisites, I thought it couldn't hurt to encourage
wider participation in the community, just by adding that language, but it's not
a strict prerequisite.
For duties and responsibilities, the ability for a moderator to choose
what they want to moderate is already allowed for the gallery moderation. So
that's not a stretch. The reason for adding it is that it might encourage
someone to help out (with approving new messages), if they otherwise didn't want
to feel obligated to get involved in a behavior issue.
New version:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20...
Thanks again for any comments, suggestions!
brynn
4 years, 5 months
Please register for attending LGM
by Maren Hachmann
Hi all,
I just got another message from Aude (who coordinates LGM and provides
the space for the Saarbrücken hackfest).
She is asking us to register for participation at LGM, so they can more
easily plan for the resources they will need (e.g. ordering vegetarian
lunch, ordering T-shirts, special needs, ...).
Thanks everyone,
Maren
4 years, 5 months
GSoC candidate
by Alaa Nousir
Hello everyone!
I'm so excited to introduce myself and interact with the community here and
hopefully be a lively contributor to inkscape!
First things first, *who am I and why do I want to apply?*
I'm a communication and information engineering undergraduate student in
Zewail City, Egypt. I also happen to be a freelance artist who likes to
explore new art programs along the way. I'm in my 3rd year in engineering,
and I have taken a strong Object-Oriented programming course in C++ last
year and data structures and algorithms course this year. The final project
for the C++ course was to add features to a paint program! It was an
incredibly beneficial and fun experience. Some of the features were
resizing, creating new shapes, redoing, undoing, and other similar tasks.
Whenever I'm not learning anything new (through online courses or
university courses), I invest time to enhance my artistic skills.
I was skimming through the projects available to apply for in GSoC and I
found inkscape. I was immediately hooked. It's perfect in every possible
way! I'm already familiar with manipulating objects in GUIs, I have a
strong passion for art, I'm experienced enough to know what the user would
want to see available while drawing and I'm skilled in coding!
*What have I accomplished so far from the tasks listed in the GSoC website?*I
have already built and run the project, and I have chosen to work on P3.
slice Items. I believe I have what it takes to contribute. I'm currently
creating some artworks to upload on the website and formulating a rigid
timeline to follow for the project I chose.
*Inquiries: Regarding the submission of a drawing I have made task, I was
wondering where exactly should I submit it. Would it be enough to just
upload it on my inkscape profile and attach the link to my application? *
*Also, where should I submit my inkscape application exactly?*
Thank you for your time.
4 years, 6 months
LGM/Saarbrücken Hackfest
by Maren Hachmann
Hi Inkscapers,
today, I phoned Aude Poilroux, project manager working at k8, who had
offered to help us with getting a space for the planned Hackfest before LGM.
k8.design (Institut für strategische Ästhetik)
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A non-profit company (gGmbH) owned by the Saarbrücken arts university.
They do work on organizing events, art cooperations, digital
transformation, supporting and executing projects that originated in the
university, and many other things that the university itself isn't
allowed to do, because it's an educational institution, and not a
business. Their offices are at Keplerstr. 3-5 in Saarbrücken.
Meeting space
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Aude is offering us a part of k8's open-plan office for May 27th, 28th
and 29th. The part is usually used as sitting area, but they want to put
some additional chairs and tables in. She says the place can hold up to
20 persons (but then it will be a bit cramped). There is another
adjacent office, that can hold about 10 persons, but it may not be
available all the time. We could use it for discussing stuff, while
working can be done in the larger room. I forgot to ask about
whiteboard/blackboard/projector/flip chart or similar. There are lots of
electricity outlets, but we might need to bring some German multiple
socket outlets. They have WiFi. I'm not sure about wired LAN, but she
says the internet connection is broad band and very fast.
We could use the space from ~ 9:00 in the morning, and if we can name
one responsible person, she is considering to give us a key, so we can
stay as long as we need.
There is no canteen, and no organized meals. However, the venue is
located in a pedestrian zone with multiple places where one can buy food
close by. One of them is a wholefood shop, which offers meals at
reasonable prices. There are also a couple of bakeries, and then there's
a microwave in the office.
She is asking us to let her know the rough number of attendees by mid
May. We would then also need to name a responsible person, who would
need to sign for the group, and would guarantee for us not wreaking
havoc in their offices.
On the 29th, there will be an additional event called "From Code to
Community", starting around midday, where local (as in ~ 100km radius)
businesses and open source projects are meant to meet. The program isn't
ready to be published yet, but it is planned that there will be keynotes
by politicians and people from FSFE, talks about open source business
applications, talks about open culture, a workshop on collaboration
culture, booths from various open source projects (educational, LUGs,
mapping, MSF, framasoft). The event is meant to attract students and
businesses. It's going to take place in the same building where, at
18:00, the opening of LGM will take place.
Aude is asking us if we would be able to staff a booth there, to present
Inkscape to students and small businesses. The event is mostly in
German, but people from Luxembourg and France are invited to attend too,
so it might be useful to also have one of our French-speaking community
members there.
During LGM, they seem to have more rooms available than there will be
conference tracks, so she says it should be possible to have a
collaboration space for Inkscape. However, we probably won't be able to
have the same place continuously, and we would have to ask when we need
it. There is also plenty of sitting space available on the venue that is
not in a separate room.
So Q1:
Shall I confirm the dates as written above?
Q2:
Would someone be interested in presenting Inkscape to local people
before LGM on Wednesday? (I would be)
And Q3:
Is there anyone volunteering to be the one who holds the key (if we get
one) and to sign the agreement? I will probably not stay late, so I'd
like that to be someone else.
It's probably not a problem to translate things to English, but someone
from Germany would be preferred for this.
Thanks!
Please let me know what you think about Q1-Q3 quickly :)
Maren
4 years, 6 months
Compilation Problem : ninja error
by Syed Shaharyaar Hussain
I have successfully build the project using cmake, however, ninja is giving
an error during compilation:
[ninja: error: '/c/msys64/mingw64/lib', needed by
'lib/libinkscape_base.dll.a', missing and no known rule to make it]
I am also attaching a snapshot of my terminal to bring more clarity to the
problem.
Can somebody please help in resolving this issue?
Regards
Shaharyaar
4 years, 6 months
Status on extensions for 1.0?
by Bryce Harrington
Hi Martin,
Would you mind giving us a status report on how the extension work is
coming? Maybe a list of all the extensions and for each whether they're
good to go, in progress, broken, etc.
In reading some user critiques of Inkscape, sounds like some of the
extensions may be underutilized, so 1.0 may be a useful point to do some
selective curation? Curious about if you already have plans underway
there.
Bryce
4 years, 6 months
HelperFunctions.cmake 109 (check error)
by Syed Shaharyaar Hussain
Greetings
My name is Syed Shaharyaar Hussain. I am building Inkscape so that I start
working on Project Refactoring. I think I am very close to building the
project, however I am encountering an error. I am attaching error-log and
terminal snapshot to clarify my problem. Can anybody help me in this
regard? Thank You!
Shaharyaar
Regards
[image: helper funtion 109 check error.PNG]
4 years, 6 months
Inkscape Build Issue
by Syed Shaharyaar Hussain
Greetings!
My name is Syed Shaharyaar Hussain. I was trying to build Inkscape on
Windows using msys so that I can start my work on Project Refactoring. I
followed the instructions provided on Compiling Inkscape on Windows with
MSYS2
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_wit...>.
However, during build process I am encountering an error. I have attached
the snapshot of my terminal as it will bring more clarity for understanding
the nature of problem. Error is “C Compiler is not able to compile a simple
test program”. Can you please shed light over what’s going wrong in the
build process?
Regards
4 years, 6 months
GSoC application review
by Valentin Ionita
Hello again, developers!
I am Valentin, or @vanntile as you may know me on Rocket. As Bryce had
recommended me a couple of days ago, I have created a repo where I've put
the necessary resources for my application to Inkscape. This is a
long-planned step and I hope I can get some overall feedback on the draft
and some specific feedback from Tav. I am planning on working on the CSS
support and JS polyfills projects, both of which you're a mentor on.
You can find my draft here
https://gitlab.com/vanntile/inkscape-gsoc-application
I hope you have a wonderful week coming up!
Valentin
4 years, 6 months
