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Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 =================== Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release this summer. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3alpha0/ When testing, please try out the major upcoming features, such as: * Shape builder * On-Canvas Pattern Editing * Pattern Editor * Page margin & bleed * Document Resources Dialog * Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog and the (now optional) persistent snap bar * Font Collections * Syntax highlighting in XML Editor * LPE dialog user interface redesign * Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded rendering * Better PDF import … and more, see the release notes draft in the Wiki at: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3 If you find any issue with this alpha version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this alpha release! -- The Inkscape team

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Become an Inkscape Project Member!
by Maren Hachmann 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Dear Inkscape Contributors, it's time to make your Inkscape Membership official! With that come voting rights for all kinds of regular contributors - like translators, social media managers, forum moderators, documentation writers, testers, bug managers, ... - (not only developers anymore!). The first occasion we will be using that for is the Contributor Vote for the ongoing About Screen Contest (contributor voting starts tomorrow, and will end on April 9, 23:59 UTC, there will be a separate email for that!), which is also going to be a bit of a test of the membership system for the upcoming Inkscape PLC election. Read all about it here: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/ If you have any questions or are looking for people to confirm your membership request, please ask away in the #general rocket.chat channel. In some cases, it will be helpful to state the nature of your contributions to the project, or to approach those directly who know about your contributions. Please approve membership requests of those whom you know to be a contributor by first hand experience, and do not approve other membership requests, as in the worst case, when the person is not a contributor, that can get your own membership revoked. Thank you to the PLC and the SFC for getting that set up for us, to the website team for providing infrastructure for it, and to the Vectors team for writing about it! Maren

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Would like to contribute to the Docs
by A Mc 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

Hi all, My name is Anthony McGlone. I am a QA Engineer and I am very interested in making a career switch to Technical Writing. I've always wanted to learn how to use a vector graphics editor. Documenting a tool like InkScape would allow me to do that and give me a chance to learn some technical writing skills as well. In terms of my tech writing experience, I have mostly documented how to use test automation suites in Confluence. I know how to use Git and have a basic understanding of GitHub's Markdown tool. I've also used tools like pdflatex to create PDFs. I can make a commitment of about 5-10 hours per week minimum to this project. I could potentially commit to more hours as I get more experience. I'm happy to help out wherever I can. Regards, Anthony PS: Apologies if I should have done this Intro somewhere else.

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Re: The reason behind Blocking 1337x proxy
by hi 27 May '22

27 May '22

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] SDL opengl rendering demo
by Maximilian Gaukler 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Dear Jeff, please STOP using the mailing list as a chat. Your intentions are certainly good, but this communication does not help anyone. I kindly ask the mailing list admins to set Jeff's mail address to moderated, as this is now the third time people are asking him to stop. Best regards Max Am 03.04.22 um 12:12 schrieb NASA Jeff: > I think I have some stuff in git hub that demos a backend using SDL or > opengl to do the rendering. Limited support at the moment, no fills. > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, 00:36 Maren Hachmann, <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> wrote: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await> > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1> > > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn > <https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn> > > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist > <https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist> > > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs > <https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs> > > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors > <https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors> ) so we can > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > inkscape.org <http://inkscape.org> website for the voting. > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > Inkscape membership! > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest: Chris Hildenbrand wins with "New discoveries await …"
by Maren Hachmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, thank you to all of you who have cast their vote in the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest and to all of you who have worked to allow for this Contest to take place again! The winning image is this awesome entry: "New discoveries await …" by Chris Hildenbrand, aka 2DGameartGuru https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await Congratulations, Chris Hildenbrand! A big thank you also goes to all the other artists who took the chance and participated. You can find their Inkscape-made artwork in the contest gallery: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ The votes ballot file and election running log are available for your interest here: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2271327 For the next Inkscape About Screen Contest, Tim created a collection of possible changes that came up during or before the contest in Vectors meetings. We still need to set a date for when to figure out which of them and how to implement those, more discussion topics are welcome, too: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/243 Maren

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Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different artists: ----------------------- 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs ------------------------ Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): ========================================= Ranking: Name or nickname: Contribution to Inkscape: ========================================= You can subscribe to the mailing list here: https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can help you set this up. The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in one week from now). To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ Thank you everyone! --------------------- Explanation: Ranking: Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. The system that is used for determining the winner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. Name or nickname: The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. Contribution to Inkscape: We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the inkscape.org website for the voting. Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an Inkscape membership!

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Where is the moderation dropdown?
by Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Greetings, i decided to do my round of gallery inspection but I can no longer find the moderation tab to access the vote feature. Where is the moderation tab found? Thanks! Kind Regards, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer about <https://compileralchemy.github.io/> | blog <https://www.pythonkitchen.com> github <https://github.com/Abdur-RahmaanJ> Mauritius

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Inkscape Office Hours: Summary
by Maren Hachmann 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hi everyone in the Inkscape Contributor Community, thank you very much to those who had joined us for the first 'Inkscape Office Hours' meeting on July 16th! We had a great time getting to know each other and tossing some ideas around. You all can find the meeting log at https://inkscape.org/paste/28194/ During the meeting, we've all been working on a document together, where we've been collecting ideas for two of the major questions of the Inkscape Board to the community: https://pad.chaotikum.org/p/Inkscape_Office_Hours_1 For those who were not able to attend the live meeting, I will keep the pad open for another week, so you also have a chance to add your ideas there. Please mark your own ideas with the name you go by in the community, and also add a short suggestion about how you could help with making them reality! When the week has passed, I'll package the results up for handing them over to the Inkscape Board, so they can have a look at the feasibility, and we can continue from there. There's no established process for this yet, so we'll just have to try and see where we can get. There's no date set for the next Inkscape Office Hours meeting yet. Do you think this should become a monthly event? Or do you think it should be more frequent or less frequent? Thanks again everyone for your support of Inkscape, Maren

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Volunteering Request to become Content Manager/Editor-in-Chief assuming position is still available
by Shriya Singh 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hello! I am Shriya Singh, a Product Designer and Consumer Insights Researcher. I would love to be considered for this position, I have been using Inkscape for a while now and I believe that it has great potential and room for growth in terms of community engagement and user base. Please reach out to me if you think I can help. In either case, I would love to hear from the Documentation team. Best, Shriya Singh

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