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Vectors' Meeting September
by Maren Hachmann 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday (i.e. tomorrow)! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/259 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Godot Company
by Martin Owens 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

Dear PLC & Devel, This is an interesting bit of news. Godot, which is a member of the Software freedom Conservancy, and one of their largest other projects have had their leadership set up a for profit company called w4 games. This is ostensibly to develop Godot further. "Our mission is to strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need." - https://w4games.com/ This is interesting to us here I believe. One of the conflicts I have personally with the SFC is how constraining and limited the SFC are for many of the things that would allow Inkscape to grow, invite commercial partners, hire developers, pay mentors, fund marketing research and design. Material things that we currently patch together with very kind support for key volunteers, but should be more properly resourced. Has anyone here had thoughts about developing a commercial company to develop Inkscape? I'm going to be reaching out to the new Godot business as well as a few of their contacts to see what their thoughts are and see what I can learn and if we can copy them. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Monthly PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Howdy folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting this Friday (Aug 5) at the regular time on chat. You can figure that out in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220805T10&p1=202 The projected agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Everyone is invited! Also, a special thanks to Maren who sent out the Vector's reminder and made me realize I had forgot to send this email. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting July
by Maren Hachmann 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Hello Vectors (and those interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/258 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape 1.2.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Inkscape 1.2.1 ============== Inkscape 1.2.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, fixing a nasty data loss crash with the export dialog, various other crashes, and improving page export and some translations. Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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Github Page and Repository
by Ted Gould 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Howdy folks, I was looking at our repo on Github, and frankly, I like it. But, I know for some employers they're rating potential employees on their Github profiles (I don't agree with this, but it happens) and so not having the commits in Github reduces the exposure for that work. This probably effects our "interns" from Google SoC and Outreachy the most. For reference: https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape The problem we've had in the past is that when we had the repo on Github, people would fork it and create Pull Requests that no one would see or triage. Which would frustrate folks (understandably) and look poor on the project. The idea that I had is that we take the Inkscape repo, and we make a branch "github" that has the same README and graphic that is currently up on Github. We push the full Inkscape repo, but then set the default visible branch to the "github" branch. So anyone going to the repository sees exactly the same thing. Github doesn't seem to have a mechanism for disabling PRs, or forks. So we're relying on people actually reading the text. But I was curious what folks thought about the idea. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting July
by Maren Hachmann 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Hello Vectors (and those interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/256 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Howdy folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday July 1st. Everyone is invited. Proposed agenda is currently: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda You can find the time in your timezone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220701T10&p1=202 And you can add it to your calendar from here: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/46/ Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Inkscape lagging
by Finn Downey 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

> > > > > > > > Hello Inkscape. My name is Finn Downey. And I have been using Inkscape to make a drawing to put on Deviantart but I am having a slight problem. > It seems that the bigger my drawing gets, the slower the website seems to act. I have especially noticed that whenever I try to change the width and height of the drawing in the document properties, the numbers seem to automatically revert to what they were before I changed them. And whenever I select something to try and move it, it moves so slowly. > do you know what is wrong and if there is anything that can be done to fix these problems? > > please send a reply. Thank you kindly. >

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Vectors' Meeting June
by Maren Hachmann 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hello Vectors (and those interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/252 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Further information about CVEs
by Thomas Leroy 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hi there, As you may know, 3 CVEs [0] [1] [2] have been assigned to Inkscape, but there are a very few information available. The 3 CVE pages redirect to the same CISA page [3], mentioning Inkscape version 1.0 or later as fixed. Could you please confirm this information? Moreover, in the case of backporting patches is preferred instead of upgrading, could you please point me to the fixing commits? That would be very awesome.:) Best regards, Thomas [0]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42700 [1]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42702 [2]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42704 [3]https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-132-03 -- Thomas Leroy Security engineer SUSE Software Solutions

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Inkscape 1.2 released !
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 May '22

17 May '22

================ = Inkscape 1.2 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.2 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features, and watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.1 major release. The highlights of this release are: * Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages, which are managed by the new Page tool * Editable markers and dash patterns * Layers and objects dialog merged * On-canvas alignment snapping and Snap settings redesign * New 'Tiling' Live Path Effect * Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to * Import SVG images from Open Clipart, Wikimedia Commons and other online sources * Selectable object origin for numerical scaling and moving * All alignment options in a single dialog * Gradient editing in the Fill and Stroke dialog * Gradient dithering * SVG Font Editor updated * Flowing text around shapes and text padding * Convenience Boolean operation for splitting paths * Configurable Tool bar, continuous icon scaling and many more new customization options * Performance gains for many parts of the interface and many different functions * Lots of improvements to the user interface * Numerous crash & bug fixes in the main Inkscape program and in in the stock extensions We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inkscape_1.2.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… +https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/bug_migration [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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PLC Meeting in an hour
by Ted Gould 06 May '22

06 May '22

Okay, I think I figured out why these emails aren't going out on Monday, but that doesn't help for this one. Sorry for it being late. But we have a PLC meeting in an hour. I imagine most of the big things are going to be hiring and the release. But we'll check in on other stuff too. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Inkscape 1.2.x branched of main
by Ted Gould 05 May '22

05 May '22

Howdy, Not sure who else needs to know it but apparently 1.2.x was branched of main. AFAICT it wasn't announced anywhere. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/tree/1.2.x Ted

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Fw: Re: Introduction
by Shlomi Fish 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Please see https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-l… . Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:43:12 +0200 From: "Fares M. Basosy" <faresbasousy(a)gmail.com> To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Introduction Is there a task that i am supposed to do? On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 7:30 AM Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> wrote: > Welcome, Fares! > > please see https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and > > https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/how-to-start-co… > . > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:02:40 +0200 > Fares El-Basousy <faresbasousy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello I’m a student from GSOC and I’m willing to contribute to Inkscape, > > my name’s Fares and I am in 3rd year in computer engineering, > > > > My main languages are C/C++ and python, I am new to open-source > community > > and I am willing to give it my all the thing I love the most about > this is > > that I can gain new experiences and get to know more people in the field > as > > well, > > > > > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ > NSA Factoids - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/ > > Buffy: OK, Xandoosh, can you perform a search to find where such a > duplicator > is present? > Xander: Sure! Hey, Wil, can you use a spell for that? > — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Buffy/A-Few-Good-Slayers/ > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply > . > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - https://shlom.in/enemy Chuck Norris ability to destroy is only matched (and exceeded) by Summer Glau’s ability to undo his destruction. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Summer-Glau/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .

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Introduction
by Fares El-Basousy 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

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Creating an Inkscape wiki login
by Solutions Master 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

I am trying to set up an account on https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=C…. This page says the following: > Automatic account creation has been disabled due to high levels of spam. To request an account please email the developer list Can anyone give me access, or know a more proper way to get/request access? Thanks.

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GSoC Proposal for integrating Tesseract OCR into Inkscape
by Bashar Ahmed 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Hello everyone, I am Bashar Ahmed, a CSE Sophomore at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. I wanted to get some feedback on my proposal before the final submission. I have already sent it on the IRC. Any reviews will be valuable https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C10mlxyYuyTDBY7B9g6xS09RKzYbdJqwXWAm0ff…

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Help Vote on 1.2 Release Video Features - Urgent
by Ryan Gorley 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

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From Roy Torley: support to evaporate soon for gtkmm?
by Roy Torley 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hello, I took a quick look at Kjell Ahlstedt's statement that he will cease to maintain gtkmm and other such modules soon. Before I write him to find out what's happening, I would like to get a few ideas from any of you what you want to see in gtkmm so that I can write a letter that is worth reading. For context about me, I am just getting back into C++ after a 20-year hiatus and am in the process of reviewing latest developments in the language. I have written an introductory tutorial series for Inkscape, so I have a decent feeling for how to use it so I can talk with you about it intelligently (I hope). My basic idea is that, if Kjell wants to move on from gtkmm, might it be worth our while to step in where he leaves off? Might there be other options? I speak naively because I am new to this particular arena of software development and yet am interested in contributing to Inkscape's good health in a meaningful way. I appreciate and salute all of you who are doing all this work for Inkscape and for all those graphic artists who desperately want to learn, improve, and realize their creative potential with this powerful tool. Your thoughts and perspectives are more than welcome. Best wishes for the early Spring, Roy Torley

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Inkscape 1.1.2 and Inkscape 1.2-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Inkscape 1.1.2 ============== Inkscape 1.1.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as lost styling when when converting text to path, or relative position of clones pasted into a new document ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.2, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the multipage support, editable markers, on-canvas alignment, revamped alignment and snapping options, layer and objects dialog, etc. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it tohttps://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.2alpha0/ ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us onhttps://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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From Roy Torley: gtkmm lack of maintenance
by Roy Torley 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi Martin, I have read your musings about gtkmm and I wonder: is it worthwhile for somebody else to cultivate the Web site and help gtkmm keep up with the rest of the world? I am sorely tempted to get involved, especially because I am reviewing my old C++ from about 20 years ago. Maintaining and improving gtkmm would be a huge task and, indeed, much more than one person can do, and yet, that is how wonderful things get started, or revivified. I have looked over the gtkmm Web site and noted that it is a good Web site. To keep it up-to-date is a huge project for one person. On the other hand, might it be worth thought and energy for new blood to maintain gtkmm and its Web site? I am tangentially involved with a science fiction and fantasy convention organization in Portland, Oregon, USA, called Orycon. We are aging out and desperately need new blood to continue a worthwhile and valuable tradition in this city. The challenge for us involves reaching out and contacting younger people of a New Age culture to become involved in keeping Orycon alive and vibrant. I spend time thinking about what we can do to keep gtkmm alive and thriving. I remember that a new fellow in India, Soham, just contacted us and is interested in getting involved. This is a good sign. How can we recruit more? This is just a naive rhetorical question right now, perhaps all the more rhetorical because I have a busy and chaotic work schedule. At least, I can sit with a glass of a nice white wine and think through what we can do. I hope I'm not wasting your time. I like to sit on the sofa and think about projects and, when the time is good, act on those thoughts. The tutorial I was writing is finished and now I can move on to other things, such as gtkmm. I appreciate your time, thoughts, and concern. You are not alone. I hope that I can provide good company. Best wishes, Roy Torley

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New Contributor - Help
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Contributors, Hello everyone, I am Soham Tripathy aka Archaic Mage from India. I started using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator (which was costly) for my school projects (small scale). Inkscape is free to use, easy to navigate and has noticed many significant improvements over the years. I was fascinated by the team which was able to make such a wonderful product.This inspired me to contribute to open source projects. Since, Inkscape was the first software which introduced me to open source, I wanted to start contributing to it. I am a second year, computer science student in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I am completely new to open source contributions, but I have a good enough knowledge on git, c++, CSS, GitHub and I have also started learning GTK. In regards to it, I have successfully forked and cloned the Inkscape repository on my local system(Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS) and I was also able to build and run it. I have also read the programming style used. Kindly guide me, on how to start making small contributions to Inkscape, what kind of issues to address and how to start researching about those issues. Thanking You, Yours Sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Post on List
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Sir/Ma'am, I want to post to the Inkscape Devel mailing list, kindly consider the same. mail: sohasoham811(a)gmail.com Yours sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different artists: ----------------------- 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs ------------------------ Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): ========================================= Ranking: Name or nickname: Contribution to Inkscape: ========================================= You can subscribe to the mailing list here: https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can help you set this up. The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in one week from now). To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ Thank you everyone! --------------------- Explanation: Ranking: Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. The system that is used for determining the winner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. Name or nickname: The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. Contribution to Inkscape: We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the inkscape.org website for the voting. Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an Inkscape membership!

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