Hi Roy, I apologize that I haven't replied to your messages about your tutorials, before now. I did bookmark your tutorials, and have it on my to-do list, to read them. I keep a kind of centralized list of links to all the best Inkscape tutorials that I know about, on my website, Inkscape Community (http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php). Roughly twice yearly I update the page, adding any new tutorials I find, and removing ones that have gone missing. So once I have a chance to read yours, I'll add them on. Eventually I hope to contact all the authors, and suggest that they could upload their tutorials to the gallery on the Inkscape website, using the Tutorial category. But that will probably be some months away, since I have some other projects working right now. Anyway, you would be more than welcome to register on the website (if you haven't already) and either post your tutorials there, or make a link to them. Unfortunately, the way this website feature is made, there is no way to have working links in the tutorials, because the tutorials have to be in the form of a raster image. They *could* be SVG (except that there's a slight display problem, if you view with IE, which is a problem with IE, as far as I understand). There has been some talk of having tutorials in the form of html, in addition to those in the form of images, but anything more than the idea is not certain at this time. Unfortunately in projects like Inkscape, just like in life, there are occasionally miscommunications, or misunderstandings, or even personality conflicts. Sometimes people simply lose their patience. All of these things are part of being human :-) In any case both of the parties involved have taken the appropriate action, by notifying the board, and ceasing communication until the problem can be mediated (assuming they both desire for it to be mediated). Hopefully it will just be a bump in the road for them, and they can work things out, and continue to contribute to the Inkscape project. :-) (I think the best thing we can do, is to give them the space to work it out, while we continue with our own projects.) Well anyway, I'm looking forward to reading your tutorials. I had a quick glance, but they deserve more time. Thanks for providing them for the community!
All best, brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Sylvain Chiron" <chironsylvain@...102...> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 9:51 AM To: <bandura1@...114...> Cc: "Brynn" <brynn@...78...> Subject: Re: Tutorial 4 done
Hi Roy, Le 05/09/2016 à 17:09, bandura1@...114... a écrit :
I just want to let you know that Tutorial 4 in my series of tutorials is up on Github. Copyright is put on, W3C Validator is happy, and so am I.
Yes, I saw your message to inkscape-docs. It's nice to see that you have fun with the program and are eager to provide some resource in return.
I'll be taking a break from writing for a couple of weeks before I start again.
Well, I'm not personally interested in your tutorials (unless I want to improve with Inkscape myself, but I don't have such needs currently). If you want them to be used by the community, I suggest you talk with some ‘community managers’ of the project, e.g. Brynn (here cc'ed) as she owns inkscapecommunity.com and interacts with many people around the project. Currently, my role within the project is to translate into French what has to be translated, and to improve what I can, remove glitches, make documentation better — I'm not in contact with many people in the project (actually, I often enjoy loneliness — ;) —). Maybe Brynn will say you should open a thread in her forum to lead people to it and get feedback.
I'm dismayed to learn about the bump in the road with Ugajin. I guess accidents happen. I hope things can be fixed.
Yes… It seems that this guy wrote the page without much help, and didn't like the way the webmaster talked to him after that. I don't have more information; since his message, I've wondered what I should do! I didn't get any explanation from Martin or anybody. I hope we'll benefit of this ‘social’ experience. I mainly talk with Maren and Martin, I already had my opinion about the too-many-thanks I felt from the first and the kind of ‘unshaved hacker’ Martin could be. My behavior within the community is closer than Maren's one, I think.
Regards,
Sylvain