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Inkscape sponsor requirements
by C R 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hey all. As requested of me at the board meeting, I've typed up a "common sense" draft of what I think is in-line with the project's purpose and goals. I thought about all the ways I could think of that a sponsor could make the project look bad with their actions, so here's the result: Sponsorship Requirements: The Inkscape project was founded to serve a world-wide community of artists, hobbyists, designers, scientists, engineers, and people everywhere by providing free and open source software (FLOSS) tools for vector graphics production. Since our sponsorship offerings include the service of exposure on our website, we require that all sponsors meet the following criteria to ensure a mutual compatibility with the spirit of the Inkscape Project. Thus to qualify for sponsorship, a sponsor must be: 1. A Legal, Law-Abiding Business - Must be registered as a business, pay taxes, and maintain a good standing with their customer base, and the country(s) in which they do business. 2. Politically Neutral - Our community is vast, and serves users from all walks of life and political views. The Inkscape Project does not, and therefore must not be seen to support one any particular ideology (beyond that of our belief in the essential software freedoms), and thus can not accept support from organisations of a political or religious nature. 3. Supportive of User Freedoms - A sponsor must not have a history of abusing user freedoms. This includes the sale of and promotion of proprietary software as part of the sponsor's core business, which we consider incompatible with the project's goals of user freedom. 4. Supportive of the Environment and the Future - The Inkscape Project can not accept donations from companies which promote the destruction of the environment. This includes companies which fund climate change denialism, anti-science groups, and members of the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. 5. Supportive of Equal Rights, Free Speech and Gender Equality - A sponsor must not fund groups which seek to deny the rights and freedoms of others based on gender, race, creed, religion (or lack thereof), or sexual preference. If a sponsor is found at odds with any of these essential compatibility points, the Inkscape Project reserves the right to pull the sponsor from our website, at which point a prorated refund of the donation amount will be returned to the sponsor.

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Error building (last two steps)...
by Patrick Dorion 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Hi, could anyone give me a hint? I don't know what to do... Building on FreeBSD-amd64 11.1-REL from the Ports tree... --> See attachment for output. Patrick Dorion 📱 +1 438 345-4575

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[Inkscape-board] Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Nov 3rd, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings [Please note that some timezones have gone through daylight savings time changes, but others have not, so check your time!] Agenda: + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting + Sponsor acceptance policy + Preliminary preparations for 0.93 [tav] + Merchandise sales + Other Business Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] reply to personal message re Inkscape
by brynn 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi Andrew, I'm posting this directly to the mailing list, as an introduction. And I'm also copying in Alexia, who has replied to me as well. You will have to subscribe before you can send messages to the list. As I mentioned before, please find the link you need to subscribe to the Devel Mailing List here: https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/ There's a good chance your scale issues can be fixed with this info: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#inkscape-092-my-drawings-are-just-quarte… Or the other possibility I can think of is Inkscape Preferences > Input/Output > SVG Output > Path Data If those don't solve the problem, then it's well over my head, and definitely you should subscribe and post to developers on the mailing list. All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Jansen Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 6:53 PM To: brynn@...3472... Subject: Re: reply to personal message re Inkscape Hello Brynn, Confirming receipt of email below. Please confirm and let me know if you can point us in the right direction. Thanks, Andrew Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 27, 2017, at 2:07 PM, "brynn@...3472..." <brynn@...3623...> > wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > I'm contacting you as a reply to a personal message you sent me today, > on Inkscape Community. I've pasted the text of your message below, just for > convenience. > > I don't think you've actually contacted the person you intended. I have > not posted in any forum about AxiDraw, and in fact, this is the first time > I've heard about it. I tried searching for a forum, and found a few which > have messages about AxiDraw. I'm guessing you were referring to the Evil Mad > Scientists forum. But once there, I still had no idea which message to look > at. > > The president of the Inkscape Board of Developers' name is Bryce. And > with my name Brynn, we get confused sometimes. This forum is run separately > from the Inkscape website, although I am quite active in the community. I can > certainly put you in touch with Bryce, or whomever you're looking for. > > I've never heard of the Inkscape community having a paid consultant > service. But I know the Board has been creating sponsorship opportunities, as > well as funded development options. So perhaps either one of those would work > for you, or perhaps could be modified. But certainly I can't represent either > one of those to you. > > The Inkscape development community primarily communicates via mailing > list (although they also use IRC for real time chats). I'm pretty sure you > can post to the Board of Developers list, without subscribing to it. But the > Development list does require subscription (although you don't necessarily > have to receive mail or stay subscribed, and you can read messages via the > archives). (Although for developing an extension, perhaps you'd want to be > subscribe to the list?) > > This page has links for all the mailing lists, as well as the archives: > https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/ > > Or if you know the name of the person you're looking for, I could > probably put you in touch. > > For the scale issue, I'm guessing there will be a simple solution. > Starting with version 0.92, Inkscape's native unit is mm, rather than px, and > if you need a different unit, you have to set the Scale option correctly. As > someone who participates primarily with user support, I can tell you there is > a good deal of confusion about it. So whoever you end up working with can > explain it to you. (Personally it confuses me, haha. As far as I can > understand it, it sounds like something that most users should never have to > deal with. But unfortunately, it currently requires user input.) > > Let me know if I can help you contact someone in particular. > > All best, > brynn > > __________________________________________________ > > Hello, > > My name is Andrew and I noticed you commented on a AxiDraw Forum. We're new to > using Inkscape and we currently use it for pen plotting. The pen plotter we > are using is called the AxiDraw3. Inkscape has been quite challenging to use > at scale. We currently use Inkscape and our pen plotter to write handwritten > cards. I understand that Inkscape is free but is there a paid consultant > service we can use to help us streamline our business? > I sincerely appreciate your time. > > I check my email more than I check my messages on this forum so if you could > respond back at andrew@...3622... that would be incredibly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! > > Andrew > (323) 532 6551

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moderation - 'could have been made w/Inkscape'
by brynn 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi Friends, I think I probably know how the community leans on this. But since it bothers me so much, and happens so often, I thought it was worth not assuming the answer, and finding out for sure. A few months ago, we decided not to allow random photos in the gallery, which are unrelated to the project in any way. We also decided not to bother with copyright issues. (long discussion - https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/35798617/) Probably equally as often as random photos being uploaded, are images which *could have been made with Inkscape* but which I doubt were. So far, I've been letting these go through. But as I said, I wanted to have a discussion, rather than assume. Here are a couple of recent examples: -- 2 images, 1 resource and 1 thumbnail -- https://inkscape.org/en/~noahgabe@...3618.../%E2%98%85music -- https://inkscape.org/en/~KristiBryant113/%E2%98%85jesus-saves-the-world2 (I did a little research on this one, and found it at many different sites (many on different sites selling tshirts, as well as just web images) with the same basic image (and this exact image here: https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--rVeDm8Gt--/t_Preview/…) -- so I'm pretty sure it wasn't made with Inkscape) --https://inkscape.org/en/~chiquitita/%E2%98%8515230751-703016283207581-8475381764676214363-n To me, all of those /could have been/ made with Inkscape. But I have reasons to doubt all of them. How do you all think they should be handled? I think they should be handled similarly to random photos (contact the member, explain and link to CoC, ask to explain the relation to Inkscape, ask if they would like to remove, inform after 2 weeks we will do it, of course with graciousness. Or do we let them have the benefit of our doubt? I honestly don't understand why people go around posting random images (apparently, afaict) in random galleries, once or twice, and never come back. (I have the same curiosity about people who post 1 or 2 frivolous, sometimes meaningless messages in forums and never return.) But it seems worth the effort not to waste our limited resource on hosting these things. Anyway, thanks for any thoughts or comments :-) All best, brynn

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Development versions
by Jabier Arraiza 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hi all. I have a request from a Grafica Libre user to get a PPA or AppImage of devel versions to start working filling bugs. Hi is focussed now in Jessyinc. Is posible create similar thing like the one for windows described a little time ago in Appveyor for Appimage to allow user coexist easy 2 inkscape versions without need install&reinstall PPA needs because same package devel and stable? This grow our testing base user and also provides people ability to test if a bug is realy fixed without need to wait the release, removing surprises. Thanks in advance, Jabier.

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Inkscape 0.92.2, win64: install additional Python modules
by Sebastian Kraft 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Hi, I have written an Inkscape extension (https://github.com/seebk/LaTeXText) that requires additional python modules (PyGObject). In previous Inkscape versions on windows, I could simply install the PyGObject module into the Inkscape/[...]/python/site-packages subfolder from the official PyGObject windows builds. However, since 0.92.2 it seems that the windows build and python version changed and is incompatible to the PyGObject windows builds. What would be the recommended way to add modules to the Python distro bundled with Inkscape on windows? I tried to use the python module from msys2/mingw64 but did not succeed. The import of gi fails, it misses some DLLs. Unfortunately, the error message does not give detailed information what exactly is missing. Thanks for your help! Sebastian

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Fwd: Message from User: Inkspace Issues - AxiDraw3 (request for "paid consultant service")
by Eduard Braun 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Hi all, I don't know why they particularly chose me to write this message to, maybe somebody is interested / knows somebody? Regards, Eduard -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Message from User: Inkspace Issues - AxiDraw3 Datum: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:27:08 -0000 Von: webmaster@...1478... An: eduard.braun2@...173... Dear Eduard Braun, Oparix, another user of the Inkscape web site, has sent you a personal message: Inkspace Issues - AxiDraw3 ================================================ Hello, My name is Andrew and I read your bio on the Inkscape website. We're new to using Inkscape and we currently use it for pen plotting. The pen plotter we are using is called the AxiDraw3. Inkscape has been quite challenging to use at scale. We currently use Inkscape and our pen plotter to write handwritten cards. I understand that Inkscape is free but is there a paid consultant service we can use to help us streamline our business? I sincerely appreciate your time. I check my email more than I check my messages on this forum so if you could respond back at andrew@...3622... that would be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Reply: http://www.inkscape.org/en/~Oparix/message/209/ Visit Oparix's profile: http://www.inkscape.org/en/~Oparix All my messages: http://www.inkscape.org/en/alerts/ All the best, Inkscape.org Website ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe: If you do no longer want to receive these messages, you can edit your subscriptions and notification settings at http://www.inkscape.org/en/alerts/settings/.

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msys2 Symantec oddness for your amusement
by mathog 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Installing msys2 on a 32bit W7 machine today. Check this out: cat >helloworld.c <<'EOD' #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> void main(void){ printf("Hello World!\n"); } EOD gcc -o helloworld helloworld.c ./helloworld Hello World ldd ./helloworld ntdll.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x77740000) kernel32.dll => /c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll (0x778b0000) KERNELBASE.dll => /c/Windows/system32/KERNELBASE.dll (0x75830000) SYSFER.DLL => /c/Windows/System32/SYSFER.DLL (0x754b0000) UMEngx86.dll => /c/ProgramData/Symantec/Symantec Endpoint Protection/12.1.4013.4013.105/Data/Definitions/BASHDefs/20171016.001/UMEngx86.dll (0x71c70000) msvcrt.dll => /c/Windows/system32/msvcrt.dll (0x76af0000) Hopefully that is just what it looks like in msys2 and not a real dependency for the Symantec dll in the resulting program! I cannot really tell right now because all the PCs near me have the same Symantec program on them, so they have that dll. msys2 is a lot more like Cygwin than mingw2. The latter was a really light development platform, msys2 has everything including the kitchen sink. Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Confusing windows build instructions
by mathog 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Hi all, Today while perusing the varied Windows build instructions I was struck by some contradictory, or at least, not fully fleshed out text. For instance, it says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows Warning: As our 32-bit development libraries (devlibs) currently do not offer GTK+ 3 (which is required by trunk) you have to follow the instructions for 64-bit builds or use MSYS2 if you want to compile the latest code (lp:inkscape)! Is "lp:inkscape" the name on github too? The Msys2 page says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_with_… nothing about devlibs. Presumably it doesn't need them anymore and msys2installdeps.sh takes care of it? Never having used Msys2 it isn't entirely clear what the "gtk3" install (for instance) is. If there is no devlib for gtk3, what is this? More like a cygwin library? The 64 bit build page says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_64-bit in several places to use "mingw32-make". No explanation why 32 and not 64. Somehow related to "win32 threading model and SEH exception handling"? Finally the visual studio page says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Visual_Studio "Follow all steps of guide Compiling Inkscape on Windows." At that point one has a fully compiled and working Inkscape. Why bother with Visual Studio? For the IDE? Is there a discussion in the wiki somewhere about other IDEs, like CODE::BLOCKS or Eclipse? Do any of these give instructions for packing up the built Inkscape so that it can be given to somebody else, like in a zip file? As I recall there are a bunch of dll's that need to be copied into the Inkscape folder from other locations (devlibs/bin, mostly). That was for an Inkscape built with mingw and msys and devlibs. What about Msys2 and whatever it is using for libraries? Can you just copy over whatever it has for devlib equivalents or are there Msys2 core libraries which must come too (like when distributing a cygwin binary)? Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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