Inkscape Office Hours: Summary
by Maren Hachmann
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
2 years, 4 months
Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann
Lazur just let me know that I forgot to insert the location (duh!)
We're going to have the meeting at
https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/inkscape_board
and might move it to audio/video chat, if that seems useful. A link to
that will, in that case, be announced in the chat channel.
Maren
> Hello Inkscape contributors!
>
> The Inkscape project has grown so much in the last couple years, and we
> have teams spread all over the internet, working on improving Inkscape
> and helping the project and its users. Also, we have lots of exciting
> new things to decide upon together as the Contributors' Team!
>
> For this reason, we've thought of trying out something new to allow
> every contributor to also contribute their ideas for the future of the
> project as a whole:
>
> The "Inkscape Office Hours"!
> ============================
>
> The first meeting of this kind will take place on
>
> Friday, 16th July (today!)
> at 5 p.m. UTC (in your timezone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ )
>
> If it is well received and productive, we'll make this a regular thing.
>
> We will have members from the Inkscape Board there, and also some of the
> other people who are most involved with Inkscape matters on a day-to-day
> basis. And YOU (hopefully)!
>
> ------------------
>
> Don't know whether you 'count' as a contributor? Doubts?
>
> Well, that's one of the things we'd like to figure out together! We
> really need to, it's required for voting rights. There's a Board vote
> pending, because we haven't yet come up with a good definition.
> We are planning to update our project charter to include more than only
> developers, as is currently the case.
>
> So please come and join us, even if you're unsure whether you 'qualify'!
>
> Another important topic is collecting and finding help with ideas for
> how to spend our donations. The pandemic left us with a lack of
> opportunities to spend them. They need to be spent in a manner that
> respects the charitable (non-profit) status of the project (if you
> didn't know, we're a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy
> (SFC)! [1]), and also needs to obey to high standards of honesty and
> conflict of interest policies. All our ideas will need to be approved of
> not only the Inkscape Board, but then also by the SFC.
>
> You can also bring other topics, as long as they have to do with the
> Inkscape community as a whole. During the meeting you can get help with
> implementing those ideas and making them a reality, from people who
> already understand how the project works.
>
> NOTE: this is NOT about any software features / bugs!
> For those, please use the bug tracker [2].
>
> See you in a few hours (and sorry for the late notice, we hope you can
> still make it)!
>
> Ted, Michèle and Maren
>
> [1] https://sfconservancy.org/
> [2] https://inkscape.org/report
2 years, 4 months
Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann
Hello Inkscape contributors!
The Inkscape project has grown so much in the last couple years, and we
have teams spread all over the internet, working on improving Inkscape
and helping the project and its users. Also, we have lots of exciting
new things to decide upon together as the Contributors' Team!
For this reason, we've thought of trying out something new to allow
every contributor to also contribute their ideas for the future of the
project as a whole:
The "Inkscape Office Hours"!
============================
The first meeting of this kind will take place on
Friday, 16th July (today!)
at 5 p.m. UTC (in your timezone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ )
If it is well received and productive, we'll make this a regular thing.
We will have members from the Inkscape Board there, and also some of the
other people who are most involved with Inkscape matters on a day-to-day
basis. And YOU (hopefully)!
------------------
Don't know whether you 'count' as a contributor? Doubts?
Well, that's one of the things we'd like to figure out together! We
really need to, it's required for voting rights. There's a Board vote
pending, because we haven't yet come up with a good definition.
We are planning to update our project charter to include more than only
developers, as is currently the case.
So please come and join us, even if you're unsure whether you 'qualify'!
Another important topic is collecting and finding help with ideas for
how to spend our donations. The pandemic left us with a lack of
opportunities to spend them. They need to be spent in a manner that
respects the charitable (non-profit) status of the project (if you
didn't know, we're a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy
(SFC)! [1]), and also needs to obey to high standards of honesty and
conflict of interest policies. All our ideas will need to be approved of
not only the Inkscape Board, but then also by the SFC.
You can also bring other topics, as long as they have to do with the
Inkscape community as a whole. During the meeting you can get help with
implementing those ideas and making them a reality, from people who
already understand how the project works.
NOTE: this is NOT about any software features / bugs!
For those, please use the bug tracker [2].
See you in a few hours (and sorry for the late notice, we hope you can
still make it)!
Ted, Michèle and Maren
[1] https://sfconservancy.org/
[2] https://inkscape.org/report
2 years, 4 months
New user
by Oliver Snyder
Following directions ohsnyder(a)live.com
2 years, 4 months
Any collaboration features built into Inkscape?
by Steve Litt
Hi all,
I'm writing a book, and one chapter compares and contrasts vector
drawing programs. This specific section is about several people in
several cities getting together via Jitsi or Zoom or GotoMeeting or
whatever and working on a diagram together. I'd envision one
participant making changes, then another participant, etc. I wouldn't
anticipate two doing it simultaneously: That would be a recipe for
disaster.
So does Inkscape in any way facilitate this kind of collaboration?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
2 years, 4 months
