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screencasters video tutorials on the website
by brynn 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Hi Friends, Relatively recently, the screencasters.heathenx website was closed. I just found out about it a month or 2 ago. Mark (aka Xav, on InkscapeForum) has acquired copies of most if not all of them. Little by little, he has been uploading them to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9iOkFutSFbcTCzQlyCr5Ig/videos I think he said he's been adding approx 3 per week. I've just edited the link on the Learn page (https://inkscape.org/learn/) of the website, and added a brief notation about the videos being added to YT. On the Video Tutorials page (https://inkscape.org/learn/videos/), where there was simply a link to that website, I deleted it. The reason I deleted it, is because I don't have time to do this myself. But I recall a year or maybe closer to 2 years ago someone was interested in adding individual videos (links to them, I mean) to that page. So I thought they (or anyone) might like to kind of keep track of what's been uploaded to YT, and choose the "Best of" and add them to the Video Tutorials page. If someone is interested to do this, but they don't already have access to edit the page, just reply to this message, and someone can get you set up to do that. If no on is interested, or has time right now, there are already other videos on the page. So I think it will be ok. But if anyone is interested, the best of those videos would be nice to include there. All best, brynn

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Invitation to add your Inkscape project story ideas to the list!
by zigzagmlt zigzagmlt 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

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can't download JPG (or see full size)
by brynn 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Hi Friends, Regarding this image (which isn't flagged yet, because I didn't want it to get deleted before this question is answered) https://inkscape.org/~scramer89@...183.../%E2%98%85grandma-grandpa Mostly out of idle curiosity - it appears to be small, because when I click on it to zoom, it stays the same size (approx 1" x 2" onscreen). But I happened to notice the size is 4032x3024 (I guess is pixels? would be bigger than my screen). So I thought, "what the heck?". Decided to click Download button to see the real thing, and settle the discrepancy. Download button gives 403 Forbidden nginx/1.12.2. Interesting, Full Size button gives same. Should a JPG be downloadable? It seems like it should. But I want to confirm whether it needs a new Issue or not, before I make possibly unecessary work for mods on gitlab. Thanks, brynn

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Website update: current status
by Maren Hachmann 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi there, Martin, Bryce and Travis from our friendly hosters at OSUOSL have worked on switching the inkscape.org website to the newer version this evening. In some parts of the world, due to DNS propagation, you might not yet see the new page, but you will soon (it looks pretty much the same, though, just the backend is newer). It now features a new shiny django (yay!). Unfortunately, it currently has problems with page edits, news edits and resource uploads. Please hold off editing anything on it, to not lose any work. Martin is working on fixing things, and will let you know when it's good for editing again. Downloads and viewing the pages work as usual (except for viewing pasted texts), so most people won't be affected by the issues. Kind Regards, Maren

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Introduction
by Michael Glascott 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Hi all. I had suggested updates for the old doc on Floss Manuals and Maren let me know about the new project. I’m a technical writer and have been using Inkscape more and more recently. I see there are a number of open proofreading issues, I could certainly help with these but if there are higher priorities, let me know. I’ve glanced at the new manual, I’ll take a more in-depth look to familiarise myself with the style/layout etc. Michael Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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Vector vs Bitmap page
by Antoine Vanderschueren 21 Oct '18

21 Oct '18

Hi, I'm a Belgian CS-student at the UCLouvain and for our open-source course we're asked to contribute to such a project. While I'm figuring out how the source code is put together, I'd love to help make a webpage explaining the differences between vector graphics and bitmap graphics (as requested here: https://inkscape.org/contribute/to-do-list/). Since the Github issue is stale I wondered if this was still necessary. Thanks in advance, Antoine Vanderschueren

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FLOSS for Science podcast
by Patrick Diehl 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Hi, I started with a colleague the podcast FLOSS for Science [0] with the goal of showcasing free, libre and open source software uses in science. We want to highlight how FLOSS empowers researchers and enables them to produce high quality research. Through each of our episodes, we want to showcase a scientist using FLOSS to produce his/her research or the developers of software used for scientific research. Would one of the inkscape team be interested to be interviewed about this topic by us? Best, Patrick [0] https://flossforscience.github.io/

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inkscape.org offline since last night (probably)
by Maren Hachmann 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

Hi there, could someone please have a look at what's wrong with inkscape.org? Last night, when I went to bed, it was too slow to respond, and now it's just plain offline (ping works, though). As the only email from OSUOSL lately was about random reboots, maybe the reboot didn't go well? Maren

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welcome new moderator
by brynn 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi Friends, I just wanted to quickly introduce our new moderator ZAYNE. He seems to be catching on pretty quickly, and visiting relatively often, which is just awesome! He said he's planning to subscribe to the Docs list, so if he should need some guidance and I'm not available that day, he can post here, and other moderators can help. Welcome ZAYNE! All best, brynn

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problems on Around the Internet page
by brynn 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Hi Friends, Per the commitment I've made to regularly review the Around the Internet page (because it's jam-packed with 3rd party links); my current review finds a couple of problems I'm not sure how to handle. So I need some input from the community on these. https://inkscape.org/en/community/inkscape-around-internet/ In the Multiple-Artist Collections section: 1 -- Wikimedia Commons - Category:Created with Inkscape (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Created_with_Inkscape) The page which is linked is showing a red-colored sort of warning about how it's categorized. Half of the page is giving info about it. I'm not very familiar with how the Wikipedia/Wikimedia pages are created or edited, so if this is a problem which needs to be fixed, I can't do it. Maybe it's ok the way it is, but I thought I would ask those who know more than I do about it. As best as I can understand the warning info, it sounds like the page might need some significant attention. Questions: a -- Is this something that should be added to the Community To-Do List page on the Inkscape website? b -- Or maybe it's a quick fix which someone could do in the near future? c -- Or should the item just be deleted from Around the Internet page? d -- Or is there a better link to access the Inkscape images on Wikimedia? 2 -- Museum of Sodipodi and Inkscape About Screens (http://gould.cx/ted/ink-about/) The linked page gives a 404 Not Found error. Just one question: a -- I guess I've seen a lot of the About screen contest images in the gallery. Is this the best URL for finding them? https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/?q=about Or is there a better one? Thanks for comments or suggestions :-) All best, brynn

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