I think saying that Inkscape "can be sold" is a rather confusing thing to say to our users. I rather think it's more important to say that Inkscape is free, and it was designed to always be free. If people want to invest in Inkscape so they can turn around and sell it, they are investing for the wrong reasons, imho. But at any rate, we should discuss this in detail, and form a clear picture of what we want to say about Inkscape to our target audience. This will likely be multi faceted, since different people will be interested in Inkscape for different reasons. We can develop press kits and adverts to cater to reach user group.
On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 07:28 +0100, C R wrote:
> Yes, we certainly can, Martin. That's a fantastic idea. Can you
> describe a bit more bout Adobe's setup? Did they have a booth? If so,
> what was in it?
It was a tutorial talk. So a walk through some of the more common svg
related features in both illustrator and photoshop.
> If you are still there, start taking pictures of things you like, and
> we'll see about adding those things to our list of presentation items
> (graphics, videos, slides, etc.) We can also make a press-kit package
> for Inkscape: a flier that you can hand out at these conventions to
> give an overview of inkscape, and what you can do with the software,
> including about why it's free, and the advantages of using it over
Certainly a kit that would be useful in the community. But we should do
it once we've got the tutorials done.
> commercial software.
Inkscape can be sold, some people have worked on inkscape for money
(contracts and other things) so Inkscape is commercial. It's just not
proprietary ;-) I know I'm being picky, but getting that strait is
important if we want users to think of the project as something they can
invest in.
Best Regards, Martin Owens