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Call for Designer
by Martin Owens 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hey Devs, I'm not happy with the size increase on the website. I do admit that readability is important, but the website has lost some of it's style in the process. Could one of you kind designers help get the style sheet back in order? It should take more than 10 minutes for someone with css skills and a keen eye: http://inkscape.org/en/develop/ Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Website Announce
by Martin Owens 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hey Devs, Firstly, sorry for the 3 minute outage between 12:56 and 12:59 Secondly, should be announce the new website as news this week or next week? I interested on hearing if you think it's ready or if you think it could do with some more time to edit. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Website Announce (Martin Owens)
by Jelle Mulder 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Ehm,.. Martin,.. the downloads are not functioning at this moment. The link goes to the old staging site and has this curious notion of not being live. Confusing to say the least. I also think the basic typeface could be a point size larger for clarity. Cheers, Jelle On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:37:53 +0800, <inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Website Announce (Martin Owens)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Connector Tools
by Susan Spencer 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Hi Michael, Hope you're feeling better! Thanks for the the advice about updating libavoid. We'll be looking for more of this type of information during the next few weeks, so if you happen to think of anything, or see something in this thread that requires correction or addition, please let us know. Thanks, and get well soon, -Susan

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Website Translations
by Martin Owens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Hey Guys, Please pass this onto the translations mailing list: The website's internal translations are open: https://translations.launchpad.net/inkscape-web These are all the strings which one can not edit from the CMS interface, but should be translated for your local language. They'll be merged in one a week or so and uploaded to the live website. These didn't work until today and I'm still trying to identify strings which haven't been marked for translation. So if you see any, let me know via a bug report. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Staging & Website Update
by Martin Owens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Hey Devs, We're testing live over at http://py1.osuosl.org/ please register a new account for yourself and I will enabled your editing capabilities. Please do not edit http://staging.inkscape.org any more unless you want to test edits. These edits will be periodically overwritten with data from the new live instance. We're waiting on the masters of the DNS to change over www.inkscape.org when ready. In the meantime, please give the new live a test and please let me know if you find issues. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape and SMIL support
by Susan Spencer 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

As mentioned previously in this thread, details of fundraising are typically discussed *after* a proper estimate is developed. If this is a serious discussion (which I believe it is) then the following actions are up next: 1. Identify the programmers, testers, documenters and users who will participate. (Participants can assume multiple roles) 2. The programmers collaborate to create & share the requirements and constraints 3. The testers specify & share the testing and signoff requirements, based on output of #2 4. All participants specify documentation requirements to meet needs of both the users and the future developers/maintainers 5. Estimate the cost & delivery schedule 6. Design the fundraising campaign (which is another separate effort) if you're going to raise funds from the public then you can't be code cowboys about this, no matter if you believe this is a relatively small effort. Performing the above steps and publishing the results helps build momentum for public monetary support and creates tremendous public confidence. it also gives the tech media something to report regularly building up to the fundraising start date. Use the machine wisely, publicity never hurts! Assuming that remote collaboration results require more time than face-to-face sprints, we can shoot for 30 to 60 days for #1-5, 30 days maximum for #6, so max 90 days till fundraising. My skills aren't in programming, but if you would like me to I can help with project development & fundraising. If there are others more connected to Inkscape than I who would like to step up for this work, please do! - Susan >

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Website status
by Bryce Harrington 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 09:48:14PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 15:58 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Thanks, what is the ETA for this switchover? > > Last week of November was my target date. I'm confident it'll be > switched by next week. We have OSL on the ticket today for the new mysql > database and I've got everything from the repo to the nginx config > ready. > > Once live.inkscape.org points to py1, it can be tested. Once it checks > out, inkscape.org and www.inkscape.org can be pointed to the same. > > Martin, Hi Martin, Where do we sit with getting the new site online? I assume we just need a DNS switchover at this point; if so, do you have a contact person for doing this switch? I've had a few people contact me about making donations recently, so given google checkout is going away, it'd be helpful to get the new site up asap. Also, can you draft up a short intro guide to explain how to sign up for an editor account, and how to add content, news items, etc. to the site? Bryce

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Additional Inkscape Funding - paying developers feature by feature
by Anna Morris 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi, Firstly, I am a big Inkscape fan, I have used it for various projects in the past year, this is my favorite http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png (ie. I am not a spammer, lol) So, my email is about funding. I am working with Open Funding http://funding.openinitiative.com/ to assist developers to get crowd funding for Free Software. Open Funding works on a feature by feature basis. For example the core-team at gimp are funding a symmetry painting feature at the moment http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1578/ I am not sure how Inkscape is funded at the moment, but I would very much like to assist any developer(s) to get funding for a feature. Also, if you don't need/want to earn money for your work, you could always donate the funds to the project in general. This small scale funding is a great way for users (like myself) to give back, which they are often eager to do, but in a way which is very concrete, forward thinking and achievable. Its much simpler to set up than a large kickstarter campaign and is more deeply routed in the function of the software. Please let me know what you think and if you are interested in getting funding this way, either as a group of core-developers or, if not, as an individual developer. Thanks Anna Morris

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape and SMIL support
by Maggio Mago 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:59:22PM +0100, Krzysztof Kosi??ski wrote: > > That sounds like a good project. If you are interested in this, ping > me, I've done a little bit of work on vector renderers on opengl. > > Ping! I work at my level about SMIL support. I am interested in any document about it. In my own way I try also to document source code (conceptual / concrete architecture, sequential diagram, relationship diagram, major objects, ...) Best regards --------------------------------------------- Thank you to all the contributors who helped to Inkscape to be it is. I send you our best greetings, and all your family members.

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