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Monthly PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 02 Oct '21

02 Oct '21

Howdy Inkscapers, This week we have a monthly PLC meeting. These months where the first Friday is in the early digits really sneak up on me! It will be our usual status update and tracking of tasks throughout the project. It will be in the PLC room on Rocketchat/Libera.chat/etc. Agenda is available: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda The time in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20211001T10&p1=202 Everyone is welcome. Hope to see you there! Ted

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Vectors' Meeting October
by Maren Hachmann 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/231 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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What's the Release process now?
by Ted Gould 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

I thought part of the release process was to email the packagers list about the tagging, but I don't think that happened. I guess I'm a bit behind as I only found out via: https://mastodon.art/@inkscape/107004517806832427 Ted

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GDI BUS Issues - constantly Crashing Inkscape.
by gjr 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Since V1.0 When opening ANY Non exported, Non embedded, Non Related image file with ANY other "GRAPHICS/RASTER" app causes inkscape to crash with a GDI BUS error if INSKSCAPE (NOT RESPONDING) is active in memory. Getting sick of it. For crying out loud - even attaching image to email crashes inkscape. I'm running Win 8.1 (yes, I know). I have tried assigning admin perms to Inkscape and gdibus.exe, to no avail. Here's what I think, you are lockcing the gdi bus memory, ASSUMING THAT ANY CALL TO THE GDI IS FOR YOU, THEN YOU RECEIVE A NULL RESPONSE AND YOU HAVE ZERO ERROR HANDLING. Not every gdi bus call is for inkscape. Fix this. Seriously, I have lost so much stuff because of this - it corrupts text areas and gradients and I am getting sick of it. For crying out loud, handling a null response is coding 101! Kind Regards, Gary -- ..................... Gary Rockley Tel +1 512 519 9593 Cel +1 651-216-4726

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Re: GDI BUS Issues - constantly Crashing Inkscape.
by Luca Bacci 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hello, I believe you’re experiencing two different issues, actually: * Crash on Win8 / Win8.1 when opening an image in another image viewing / editing program. See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5249. This is already fixed upstream so you can simply use the latest stable bugfix bundle: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.x/?latest=1. * Memory leaks when having the Document Properties Dock open. See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5667, https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5363. That’s already fixed for 1.2, current workaround is to leave it closed. Luca

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Inkscape is participating in Outreachy!
by Martin Owens 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Dear Developers, Inkscape is confirmed to be participating in Outreachy Dec-2021, the principle mentors are Kavya and Adam.Belis, but if you have a project you think would be good for an intern to work on, please do become a mentor or co-mentor too. The projects don't have to be development (unlike GSoC) so if you've been sitting on a documentation project and haven't had time to get to it, now is the time to do some mentoring and make Inkscape even better. Commitment is a couple of hours a week during the intern period. You can go to https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/inkscape/ Scroll down to the bottom to the green "Submit a Project Proposal" button and fill out the forms. The outreachy coordinators (myself, Tav and Marc) will review all the project proposals and confirm them and then they'll be open to potential interns to select from. = Schedule = Oct. 1, 2021 - Contribution period begins Oct. 31, 2021 - Contribution period ends Nov - Lots of administration happens. Dec. 6, 2021 - March 4, 2022 - Internships period Let me know if you need any guidance or further details Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Crash Jam 111 (Sept 8th)
by Martin Owens 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Dear Developers, Please join us tomorrow for the Inkscape Crash Jam 1.1.1, we're getting together for a few hours September 8th from 4PM UTC (for your own timezone, see calendar https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar/ ) The goal is to go through merge requests and find crash fixes which should be back ported to the 1.1.x branch of Inkscape. Currently the 1.1 point release is quite thin, but we think there's useful fixes that could make it a nicer release, so if you can, please join us and we'll have some fun on the video chat socialising too. Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Hat

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Vectors' Meeting September
by Maren Hachmann 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/230 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

Howdy Folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting to go over items and get updates. I'll be this Friday at Noon Texas time, find the time in your locale here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210903T10&p1=202 Agenda items (mostly standing): https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Working_… Everyone is invited to participate. Ted

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Inkscape Matrix Space
by Ted Gould 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Hello, There is a new beta feature the Matrix folks are working on, and after being pinged about it by jabiertxof I setup Inkscape to use it. It basically allows grouping of the Inkscape rooms to get a UX that is closer to Slack/Discord/etc. Feature description: https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/ Generally, since it is a beta feature, I don't want to put it on the webpage/social media/etc yet. But it would be useful if folks who have Matrix accounts and are willing to enable the beta feature could test it out. I believe if you click this, you will be able to join: https://matrix.to/#/#inkscape:matrix.org If you have any issues joining or any recommendations on how to configure it you can reply here, ping me in one of the chats, or DM me on Matrix, @ted:gould.cx Ted

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