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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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new Tutorials page for website
by brynn 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Hi Friends, I've made a proposed new page which introduces something new for the website, which is new official tutorials. The page pretty much explains everything. For those who have website editing access, you can see the proposed new page here: https://inkscape.org/tutorials-proposed/?edit&language=en For those who don't have editing access, the page gives guidelines for the tutorials that would be acceptable, and invites contributors. I would also contact all the tutorial authors which I've found while creating Inkscape Community's big listings of tutorials (https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php). And there would either be a new channel in the chatroom for discussing these tutorials...or maybe we would just use the Documentation channel. (I'm not sure.) Generally my idea is that authors would submit tutorials, which I, or anyone else who might be interested, would review, to make sure they meet the guidelines. The tutorials must carry the CC-BY-SA or equivalent license, which would allow the community to edit them, if they ever needed editing in the future. Exactly how they get on the website is not set in stone yet. Currently my thought is that I would type them in myself. If the feature were to become too popular, we might have to go to the proverbial "plan b". Or possibly we could use the gallery, except it would require authors to create PDF files. If we used the gallery, we would not need the license. On the other hand, we would not be able to update the tutorials as needed. Anyway, questions and comments are welcome. Thanks, brynn

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The reason behind Blocking 1337x proxy
by switchsoft8＠gmail.com 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

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Inkscape 1.0 About Screen Winner
by Maren Hachmann 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

The Winner of the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.0 is ... 'Island of Creativity' ----------------------- (https://inkscape.org/~bayubayu/%E2%98%85island-of-creativity) Congratulations to Bayu Rizaldhan Rayes, the artist of this fantastic image! 25 Inkscape contributors selected the image from the five finalist images. It will grace the 'About Inkscape' dialog of our very special release Inkscape 1.0. The winner was determined via Instant Runoff Vote in the openSTV software. The voting result and the ballot file are available at https://gitlab.com/snippets/1922968 . We are very happy about the variety and number of submissions to the contest, and the involvement of so many community members and contributors in the voting process. We are already working on finding good places for making use of other fantastic entries from the contest gallery :) Tutorials, the Inkscape website, the development version and more all need new, cool pictures to show off Inkscape's abilities and its awesome community. View all entries at: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-10/ Thank you everyone who participated in the contest, be it by submitting an entry, voting or helping to organize!

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About Screen Contributors Vote: Closed!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

The Contributor vote closes now. Thank you, Gellért, and the 23 other contributors who cast their vote! Everyone who voted should have received a reply with an acknowledgment of the vote via mailing list. If you didn't get one, please verify with me that your vote is counted. The winner will be announced publicly and be made visible in the gallery on Tuesday. Vectors who are involved with the contest will get to know the result a bit earlier :) Maren Am 14.12.19 um 15:08 schrieb Gyuris Gellért: > Hi Maren, > > I'm not part of the developer list. > > ========================================= > > Ranking: 15342 > > Name or nickname: Gyuris Gellért > Contribution to Inkscape: translating and documentation > > ========================================= > > > 2019. 12. 14. 14:18 keltezéssel, Maren Hachmann írta: >> Hi all, >> >> we have 20 votes so far from Inkscape contributors for the About Screen >> for Inkscape 1.0. >> >> If you are a contributor to Inkscape (programming, web design, >> translations, marketing/outreach, bug triage, infrastructure, finances, >> moderation, ...), and haven't voted yet, please cast your vote today or >> tomorrow. >> >> >> 1: Island of Creativity >> https://inkscape.org/~bayubayu/%E2%98%85island-of-creativity >> >> 2: Graphic design >> https://inkscape.org/~bozena/%E2%98%85inkscape-10-graphic-design >> >> 3: Migrate to Freedom >> https://inkscape.org/~bajinra/%E2%98%85migrate-to-freedom >> >> 4: How to Fold a Memory >> https://inkscape.org/~Dismecha/%E2%98%85how-to-fold-a-memory >> >> 5: Inkscape 1.0 About Screen >> https://inkscape.org/~raniaamina/%E2%98%85inkscape-10-about-screen-by-rania… >> >> >> ------------------------ >> >> 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** >> (the new one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): >> >> ========================================= >> >> Ranking: >> >> Name or nickname: >> Contribution to Inkscape: >> >> ========================================= >> >> The vote closes on Sun., December 15, 2019, 23:59:59 UTC (that's >> tomorrow!). >> >> Kind Regards >> Maren >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape Translators mailing list -- >> inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org >

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Read the docs Manual administrative backup
by Maren Hachmann 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Hi everyone, can you help by volunteering as an administrative backup for the beginners' guide at https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io ? (as there's no official project email address, I'm not sure how else to make sure that someone else has access there, too) What I'd need from you is your readthedocs.org user name. Currently, that position comes without any additional work, as I'm able to take care of what needs to be done. It is only a backup thing, as there's currently a bus factor of 1. I'd like to have at least two other persons in the project registered with it. Thank you! Maren

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