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Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

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

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Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

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

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Vectors' Meeting July 2021
by Maren Hachmann 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/223 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Vectors' Meeting June 2021
by Maren Hachmann 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/219 and add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Libre Graphics Meeting looking for talks, live demos, lightning talks - Deadline April 19th 2021
by Maren Hachmann 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi everyone, our friends from Libre Graphics Meeting have asked us to let our community know that submissions are open for talks, live demos and lightning talks for the event, which takes place 27-30 May 2021, mostly online. Whether you're an experienced Inkscape user, a professional using Inkscape, an Inkscape developer or an active community member - or have knowledge around any other free and open source graphics software that you'd like to share with the world, please visit their website at https://libregraphicsmeeting.org and submit one or more proposals for their different talk formats. Submission is still open for a week, so hurry, and make an impact in the free + libre graphics world! Maren

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Meeting postponed to April 10th
by Maren Hachmann 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi everyone, we've decided to move tomorrow's meeting along with the Inkscape Board meeting to next week, as the Easter holidays are making it difficult for some to attend. You're invited to join the next Vectors' meeting on Saturday, April 10th at 15:00 UTC Hope to see many of you there next week! Kind Regards Maren

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Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Winner
by Maren Hachmann 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Hi everyone! Thank you all for your votes in the Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Contributor vote! *drumroll* The Winner Is: "Art Bot" by Ozant Liuky https://inkscape.org/~ozant/%E2%98%85art-bot Read the full news: https://inkscape.org/news/2021/03/09/ozantliukys-art-bot-wins-hearts-votes-… Find the votes and detailed vote results attached. I think our 1.1 will look really great with this fantastic new About Screen :D Kind Regards Maren P.S.: For those who wonder about the different name - that's Fauzan's artist name

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Contributor About Screen Voting until March 7
by Maren Hachmann 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Dear Inkscape Contributors, Here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.1 About Screen chosen by 411 community members from 82 entries by 62 different artists: ----------------------- 1: “Art Bot” by Fauzan Syukri https://inkscape.org/~fauzan291/%E2%98%85art-bot 2: “Desenhe Livremente” by Ray Oliveira https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85desenhe-livremente 3: “Ilha Livre” by Ray Oliveira https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85ilha-livre 4: “Running Free” by Antonio Santiago https://inkscape.org/~asantiagogeo/%E2%98%85running-free 5: “Fly Freely” by Luiz Lucas https://inkscape.org/~luizlllucas/%E2%98%85fly-freely-concurso-inkscape-11 ------------------------ 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** (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): ========================================= Ranking: Name or nickname: Contribution to Inkscape: ========================================= The contributor vote closes on Sun., March 7, 2021, 23:59:59 UTC (in one week from now). To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-11/ Thank you everyone! --------------------- Explanation: Ranking: Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. The system that is used for determining the winner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. Name or nickname: The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. Contribution to Inkscape: We allow voting from Inkscape contributors (as opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.).

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Inkscape Vectors' meeting March 2021
by Maren Hachmann 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting will be this Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/202 and add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/ See you on Saturday! Maren

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Chemnitzer Linuxtage Booth Coordination Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hello everyone, we're going to meet up to coordinate the timetable for the virtual Inkscape booth at Chemnitzer Linuxtage (March 13/14) this Friday at 18:00 UTC! More information: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/192 See the time in your local time zone: https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/ Location: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Even if you haven't said you want to help with the booth before, you can still join us on Friday! You could do any kind of presentation, or just be there to help users with their questions. See you soon! Maren

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