Dear Mike,
I'd say the most important document for you would be the release notes draft you can find here:
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/1.0
It's been updated by Maren with much that will be in the 1.0 release. Let us know if anything is confusing and could be drafted better.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 18:56 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hi Mike,
Thanks for contacting me, and double-thanks for your work at helping increase the number of Inkscape exprts. It's lovely to see the solid health of the overall ecosystem around Inkscape. It is indeed exciting to know 1.0 is coming soon, and having your tutorials available and up to date in conjunction with this release is a great goal.
Inkscape is a 100% free and open source software project, and as such there's no NDAs or confidentiality agreements to deal with. (Although yes, the actual release date is sometimes embargoed to synchronize PR with packaging. But I suspect you're looking for a general estimate not the exact date.)
That said, unfortunately it is difficult to predict when releases will occur with any degree of accuracy. Inkscape is a fully volunteer- driven project, and as such when there are release-critical issues the schedule can be driven by particular individuals' limited freetime availability. I hate to say, "It'll be released when it's ready to," but that's how it has always tended to end up working in practice...
Due to my own limited time availability, I've handed off the release management role to Mc, who hopefully can provide some better indications about the timeframes for 1.0. I do know that the team has been hard at work at final polish, and it sounds like they're keen to get it out the door within the coming months.
Beyond that, I'm not sure if you're aware, but there is a vibrant Inkscape community involved with documentation, user training, and support. They coordinate with book authors, conference organizers, and online instructors. I would encourage you to join this group, as it sounds like you're offering educational opportunities within that same space. Hopefully Maren or one of the others active in these areas can contact you with an invitation.
Thanks again for your work at supporting the Inkscape ecosystem, and I hope 1.0 will bring increased opportunities for us all to spread wider knowledge of this software.
Bryce
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 05:00:34PM -0500, Mike Rankin wrote:
Hello-
My name is Mike Rankin, and I'm the instructor for the LinkedIn Learning course on Inkscape https://www.linkedin.com/learning/inkscape-essential-training/. At LinkedIn, I teach courses on free and low-cost alternatives to Adobe software, like Inkscape, GIMP, and soon Affinity Publisher). The Inkscape course has helped many users and I'm very excited that I'll soon be able to update it for version 1.0.
I'm writing to see if you can share any news about when 1.0 will be released. Any information would be a huge help for me to get the new course done and released at the same time as the software. I understand that this may be confidential information, so I'd be happy to enter into a non-disclosure agreement.
In any case, thanks for making a great piece of software and giving folks an alternative to Adobe.
Regards,
Mike Rankin
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