Re: [Inkscape-devel] announce hackfest? first draft

7 Jun 2017

      Hi brynn,
Thanks for writing this up. A couple of comments:
1. I'm not sure about the "This is not really..." sentence. It seems a
bit negative to me. I think something more like: "If you are serious
about contributing to Inkscape then you are more than welcome to come
participate..."
2. We need an update version of this page:
https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfest-2016/
to point to. There is a donation button at the bottom with the funds
going directly into the "Hackfest" account.
Tav
On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 07:53 -0600, brynn wrote:
...
Hi again,
        Ok, so nevermind about my previous question.  I found a way
to write 
around the question I had, since time is growing short for this.
First draft is ready here: 
https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/813/%C2%A0%C2%A0Please feel free to
comment about 
needed changes.  Or for those who have access, please feel free to
edit it 
directly. (and/or publish)
I'm not sure about the "best wishes" at the end.  But my
thinking is 
hopefully will make users more excited, and feel more involved (even
if all they 
do is just read it).
Thanks for comments,
brynn
-----Original Message----- 
From: brynn
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 8:46 AM
To: Inkscape-Devel
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] announce hackfest? (advocacy
group/team?)
Hi - I think this message (below) got lost in the recent flood of
list activity.
(Unless the answer is lost to me....  Nope, not in spam folder.)
Regarding the news item announcing hackfest, please read below.
-----Original Message----- 
From: brynn
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2017 5:53 AM
To: Tavmjong Bah ; Inkscape-Devel
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] announce hackfest? (advocacy
group/team?)
Hi Tav and all,
        I'm writing up a quick draft.  I seem to recall from last
year, there
were a number of people in attendance who seemed to serve as
searchers or
resource-locators, or maybe testers, whom it was said had been
invaluable in
keeping up the pace of the workload.
Would that be worth mentioning, to invite that sort of
person, assuming
they could pay their own way?  If so, let me know some appropriate
way to word
it.  Would be just "code testers"?
Or just skip it?
Thanks,
brynn
-----Original Message----- 
From: Tavmjong Bah
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 12:50 PM
To: brynn ; Inkscape-Devel
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] announce hackfest? (advocacy
group/team?)
On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 13:14 -0600, brynn wrote:
...
Hi Friends,
        Should we put up an announcement about the upcoming
hackfest,
on the
website and forums?  (I realize it's already been announced on
mailing list.)
Sounds like a good idea.
...
I found this
page:  http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2017
But it doesn't give the agenda - only where attendees will meet
each
day.  (The
Hackfest Topics page isn't written yet.)
If someone can give me, if not agenda, just a short list of
potential
topics, I can write up a quick News item for the
website.  Something
more than
just - fix bugs, stability, and infrastructure - if possible? (And
I'll also
make forum posts.)
I and Mc have added a few things to the topics page. Hopefully others
will add more soon.
...
Apparently we don't need donations so much this time.  But
(announcing)
it would still be an opportunity to keep the user community more
involved --
even if all they can do is read about it.
Definitely!
...
Speaking of announcing, should we take another shot at
creating an
advocacy group or team?  Maybe after the hackfest activity is
over?  Late July -
August-ish?
Sounds good.
Thanks for bringing this up.
Tav
...
All best,
brynn

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