Hi,
I just want to let the board know a bit about the hackfest and LGM. I assume that you've read the posts on Google+ and seen all the activity on IRC and in Bazaar. I think this year's hackfest was very successful. We got a lot of hacking done including fixing the GTK3 flashing bug and getting a lot closer to being able to switch to CMake. This hackfest had a different tone than last year's. We spent a lot more time coding and a lot less time discussing (only an hour or two). I think we did need to spend a lot of time last year on discussions as that was the first time we really sat down together. Our monthly board meetings have probably also reduced the need to spend a lot of time on discussions. I also think the LGM meeting was more useful this year than last year, not because the talks were better (perhaps they were a bit on average) but because we were able to both continue working on the code and spend a lot of time discussing with others issues that effect Inkscape. We had a good meeting with some designers who use Inkscape everyday and have started an Inkscape interface group which should come in handy as we rework the GTK3 dialogs. I met with people concerning better library support in HarfBuzz for accessing OpenType features which would allow a better interface to font features. Martin talked to the Gimp people about their plans for GTK3. Tom Lechner gave a nice talk demoing some interesting ways of interfacing with text which might be of interest to us. (He also gave a workshop on his very interesting engraving tool.) I would recommend we start thinking about another hackfest, either in the Fall or Spring. LGM will be in Rio de Janeiro in late April or early May. While I would love to visit Rio, I'm not sure we would get a large enough turnout for a hackfest there (hotel/food would be cheap but flights expensive). Martin has suggested a hackfest in Boston. That might be a good location as it's not so far from both Europe and the US west coast. LGM 2018 will most likely be in Europe, possibly Milan. Tav ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
