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Belated Congratulations on v1.0!
by bandura1＠efn.org 12 May '20

12 May '20

Congratulations to everybody involved in the latest and greatest version of Inkscape! I just downloaded it and tried it out. I like the larger icon format because my eye-sight is clouding up with the years. I haven't updated my Inkscape tutorial that Brynn maintains a link to (thank you, Brynn!), so v1.0 gives me a kick in the appropriate portion of the anatomy to induce forward momentum! I use Inkscape a lot for cards, web page mock-ups and backgrounds, and designing educational material. I wish you continued success, good luck, and the best of health (in spite of on-going historic events), Roy Torley

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Re: Website: Update for Community landing page
by Patrick Storz 26 Apr '20

26 Apr '20

Thanks, added! Am 26.04.2020 um 22:44 schrieb zigzagmlt zigzagmlt: > > Hi Patrick, > > The Community Page looks terrific. Inkscape is now on Instagram, too! > > Take care, > > Michèle / zigzagmlt > >> ---------- Original Message ---------- >> From: Patrick Storz <eduard.braun2(a)gmx.de> >> Date: April 26, 2020 at 3:38 PM >> >> >> Good idea, links added! >> >> Am 26.04.2020 um 20:12 schrieb doctormo(a)gmail.com: >> > Thanks Patrick, this looks good. >> > >> > The only thing I would change is the social media icons that should >> > probably just be links and should include mastodon and our youtube >> > channel. >> > >> > Best Regards, Martin Owens >> > >> > On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 14:30 +0200, Patrick Storz wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> as already mentioned in chat I've just redesigned >> >> https://inkscape.org/community/ (not published yet) in preparation of >> >> the release. >> >> >> >> It's the new target of the "Ask us a question" link inside the >> >> Inkscape >> >> help menu. >> >> >> >> Could you review the changes and see if I missed anything? >> >> >> >> I'd also suggest to remove https://inkscape.org/community/discussion/ >> >> once we're happy with the new community page (it seems mostly >> >> redundant >> >> and I copied the parts that seemed worthwhile to keep, but please >> >> check >> >> whether you find anything else that's worth saving). >> >> >> >> If no issues are found I'll probably publish the page tonight and >> >> send >> >> out word to translators. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Patrick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Inkscape Docs mailing list -- inkscape-docs(a)lists.inkscape.org >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> >> inkscape-docs-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape Docs mailing list -- inkscape-docs(a)lists.inkscape.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-docs-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org >> > Michèle Thibeau > 418.659.1985 (h) > > "The world needs creative and motivated people to reach the clouds." > > LinkedIn > Pinterest > Twitter (@MicheleThibeau) >

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Website: Update for Community landing page
by Patrick Storz 26 Apr '20

26 Apr '20

Hi all, as already mentioned in chat I've just redesigned https://inkscape.org/community/ (not published yet) in preparation of the release. It's the new target of the "Ask us a question" link inside the Inkscape help menu. Could you review the changes and see if I missed anything? I'd also suggest to remove https://inkscape.org/community/discussion/ once we're happy with the new community page (it seems mostly redundant and I copied the parts that seemed worthwhile to keep, but please check whether you find anything else that's worth saving). If no issues are found I'll probably publish the page tonight and send out word to translators. Cheers, Patrick

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Fwd: LGM Hackfest in Rennes, France
by Maren Hachmann 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Forwarding an invitation from Marc: ----------------------------------- Hi everyone, we will likely have our next hackfest in Rennes, France, just before LGM in May. LGM is May 26-29 and it's likely the hackfest will last for a few days before it (last hackfests lasted from 3 to 5 days). All contributors* are welcome and encouraged to attend the hackfest! Financial support will be available, but please sign up in advance (either by answering to this email, or by adding yourself on https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hackfest2020_Rennes_Attendees ), to account for possible limited hosting capacity and to allow expense (and logistics) planning. I hope to see lots of you there -- Marc (* not just code, a hackfest can be a productive time to write a tutorial, discuss some UX, progress on a translation, or coordinate some media outreach, for instance!)

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Tutorials page edit
by brynn 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

Hi Friends, Just in case someone wants to review it, I've changed the Tutorials page slightly. As it was a little wall of text at the bottom, I took the instructions about how to participate off, and put them on a separate page. So the page itself is only tutorials, and the instructions are separate. https://inkscape.org/learn/tutorials/ Comments and suggestions welcome! brynn

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Documentation team?
by brynn 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Hi Friends, In conjunction with the new Tutorials page, and call for new tutorial authors to join, I'm thinking maybe a Documentation team should be created (on the website Teams page)? It might at least be a good starting place, to think about a new community-managed manual, and all kinds of other documentation. Comments? All best, brynn

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tutorials for Inkscape website
by brynn 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hi Friends, I'm brynn and I've contacted most of you before, as much as 5 or 6 years ago, when I was first creating a centralized listing of Inkscape tutorials (on Inkscape Community https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php). Unfortunately, for personal reasons, I'm going to have to close Inkscape Community at the end of this month. However, with help from the Inkscape website team, I've set up a somewhat similar system on the Inkscape website, where we want to make a new collection of tutorials. So I want to invite all of you Inkscape tutorial authors to join us, and make a new collection of tutorials on the Inkscape website. Please visit this new page when you have a chance, and check it out. https://inkscape.org/learn/tutorials/ If you'd like to help, please join us in the Documentation chatroom: https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation. Or repy to the Docs mailing list, if you're subscribed. Or email me at the return address of this message, or use the website PM system (click on my profile, then the envelope icon). All best, brynn

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some changes on website - vectors team
by brynn 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Hi Friends, Back about 5 years ago, when Martin started to develop what we've come to know as the modern day Inkscape website, I transferred what I thought was worthy info from the old wiki, and that became the current Around the Internet page (https://inkscape.org/community/inkscape-around-internet/). It was worthy at that time, because the gallery had not been launched quite yet. Because it's 100% 3rd party links, in a bargain to allow the page onto the website, (which does not want 3rd party links) I volunteered to keep it up to date. At the time, we regularly had users contacting us to list their sites there. And of course links would go dead from time to time too. I've just started the process to update it again, and I realize that we have not had a single request in the last couple of years, from someone to list their site there. And I see sites that once has a couple dozen images, which now have just a couple. And a few of those sites are about to be completely deleted (dead links). I'm thinking that the usefulness of this page - which was to show users what Inkscape can do - has outlived it's purpose. Now we have the gallery, where users can not just upload their images, but link to their own images, and as well do the same in their profile. So I want to propose deleting that page (or moving it into some kind of hidden historical area, if outright deleting it doesn't seem right). And at the same time, I want renew the discussion about starting a new website feature, where users can either themselves make a little article explaining and showing about their project where they've used Inkscape (or else a website editor could interview them, and write it up for them). I think it would only take one article to get the ball rolling, and start to attract other users to participate. Since I'm resigning as a moderator, I'll have enough time to be a contact person for such a new feature. Under the heading of "changes on the website", the new Tutorials page is almost ready. For those who have edit access on the website, you can preview it here. https://inkscape.org/tutorials-proposed. It will replace the current Tutorials page. And the Video Tutorials page will be deleted, since this new page has both kinds. Comments welcome on any of this! All best, brynn

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What can we improve in our wiki?
by Victor Westmann 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Hi All, I was just taking a look at Blender's Wiki ( https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Main_Page) and I was happy to identify they are using a similar wiki engine as we are. But I also noticed that they have a more modern (beautiful?) visual than we do. Is this something we are able to implement in our wiki as well? Besides this... are we going to revamp our wiki and centralize documentation material in it? Or are we going to readthedocs? Or are we going to centralize our efforts in the Gitlab wiki feature? Please let me know. I am really excited to read the article on how to write themes and icon sets for inkscape 1.x once it is ready. Thanks, Victor

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Minimum and recommended requirements?
by Victor Westmann 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

Hi All, Do we know where one can find the minimum, and recommended requirements to run Inkscape in their computers? I was just wondering if this could be found anywhere. So I went to google and tried: "inkscape minimum requirements" Oddly enough the first link was pointing to Adobe Illustrator... And when I did the same search in our own wiki (wiki.inkscape.org) the results I got were: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?search=requirements&title=Special%… Which pointed to the Effects, Extensions... but not to the actual requirements (Software and hardware) needed to run Inkscape on one's local machine. If this really does not exist anywhere could we add this in the website or in the wiki somewhere? What are the team's thoughts on this? Thanks, Victor

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