Hi Friends,
        I've recently been contacted by a long time Inkscape user and former
active moderator on InkscapeForum.com.  (Technically she still is a
moderator, but not active for some years.)  And I think she also used to
help with bug management and testing.  And many of you may recognize her as
the co-author of PacktPublishing's "Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook".
        Mihaela, aka prkos, is ready to become reinvested in the project,
after having drifted away to work on other things for awhile.  She has some
good ideas for outreach and bringing in more diversity, and I think some
ideas related to marketing, which she will have to explain, because I don't
understand that kind of thing.  I don't know if she wants to help with bug
management again, as before, but maybe after she catches up to the version
0.92 era.  And she said she wouldn't be opposed to working on a sequel to
the Packt project.
        Ooohh!  Mihaela, I forgot to mention this privately.  Recently
within the project, there has been some drive to create an open manual,
which would be editable by the community.  And we also want to make it more
of a step by step manual, and more focussed to beginners.  And this is as
opposed to our current manual, which is copyrighted (can only be edited by
the author), presently out of date, and a little more theoretical, and
helpful for advanced users.  It's a great manual, which has served the
project well.  But there have been a lot of complaints from beginners about
a lack of documentation at their level.  So we don't want to get rid of
Tav's manual, but just have another manual available.
        The current state of those discussions is to use a project which was
started by a French team (aaii, why can't I remember to save that link?!).
It's another FLOSS manual.  We're waiting for it to be translated to
English.  And once it is, we hope to be able to use it as a base to build
the new open manual from.  Maybe you might like to help with that?
        Also, some of her ideas will help us with the forum project too!
And I'll be letting the committee know about that privately.
        So, welcome back Mihaela!  As you remember the developers' mantra -
code first, discuss later - please feel free to jump back in with both feet
:-)

All best,
brynn


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