Sorry for responding late. But I think you should give the reddit Inkscape
community a spin. It *like* a forum. But not quite a forum. It's reliable
though.
If the Inkscape developer community starts showing some love, I'm sure
it'll become a vibrant community. What it can't be used as though, is a Q &
A site. For that I recommend StackExchange. By using existing platforms, we
save ourselves a lot of time and we could reach out to the community
better. What do you think?
https://www.reddit.com/r/inkscape
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inkscape
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Brynn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> When I first started thinking about how to approach this task, I
> thought we would first find the most compatible, fullest featured and most
> flexible software for the new forum, and then use the software in the best
> way according to the growth and development of the new forum's community.
> But after a little discussion, I think it may benefit the current
> forum members to be able to help "brainstorm" the best features that they
> would want to see in the new forum. So since most of these forum members
> are not mailing list subscribers, I started that discussion here:
> http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=355.0
> So any developers or other non-forum members who want to be
> involved
> on this level, please feel free to post there. After everyone has aired
> out
> their ideas, we'll organize and prioritize, and then move into the
> committee
> work.
> I hope that's going to work out ok for everyone. It seems some
> forum member feels particularly excluded and helpless in this process
> (despite many invitations to participate), So I hope this will be the most
> inclusive way to start the process. At least it's there "for the record".
> Now I'm ready for a good night's sleep!
>
> Thanks,
> brynn
>
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> From: "Bryce Harrington" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2016 3:01 PM
> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Forum (was Re: Board meeting June 3rd)
>
> > The Inkscape Board is establishing a committee to investigate
> > establishing a new forum for the Inkscape user base.
> >
> >
> > == Background ==
> >
> > An issue was raised to the board level last month about the current
> > Inkscape Forum (inkscapeforum.com) being overrun with spam, and users
> > report trouble contacting the forum's administrator. This site is
> > operated by a third party, separate from the Inkscape project proper,
> > but has generally been considered the most "official" forum for the
> > community. Over the past month the board endeavored to contact the
> > owner of the site to discuss the issues and either solve the issue, take
> > over operation of the site, or get a database dump of its content.
> > Unfortunately, no contact has been made so far.
> >
> > There are other third party Inkscape forums out there, which the Board
> > gave some consideration to investigating as a possible alternative. But
> > relying on any third party site risks the same problem happening again.
> >
> > The Board is opting to investigate establishing a new forum, that would
> > be managed as part of the Inkscape project. Since this is a bit out of
> > scope for the Board itself, we're establishing a forum exploratory
> > committee to do the investigation.
> >
> >
> > == Inkscape Forum Exploratory Committee ==
> >
> > The Board is establishing this committee under Brynn's leadership.
> > She is actively involved in both the Inkscape project and the forums,
> > and has been maintaining one of the aforementioned alternate forums as
> > well. She will recruit the members and chair the committee and work on
> > gathering answers to questions in several categories:
> >
> > 1. Software. What forum s/w should be used? Where should it be
> > installed? How is spam going to be prevented? What should its
> > design look like? What level of integration with inkscape.org
> > should be attempted? Etc.
> >
> > 2. Content. Can we / should we migrate some / all of the existing
> > forum posts? If so, how?
> >
> > 3. Administrative Policies. How are the administrators
> > administrated? What are their responsibilities? Should the
> > forums use Inkscape's Code of Conduct or maintain their own rules?
> > How are forum user accounts handled? What is the path for
> > escalation of issues?
> >
> > 4. Community. Migration and building up a healthy community.
> > Outreach efforts.
> >
> > And I'm sure there's plenty more questions I haven't even thought of!
> >
> > Finally - thanks Brynn for taking on this job!
> >
> > Bryce
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 02:23:40PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >> Reminder that our June board meeting will be this Friday in
> >> #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time.
> >>
> >> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
> >>
> >> Agenda is above. There were a lot of action items out of the May
> >> meeting, so please doublecheck on your tasks and come ready to report.
> >>
> >> There will be an informal 0.92 release meeting after the board meeting
> >> (1pm US pacific time). Potential topics include a run through of
> >> release critical bugs, the about screen contest, translation work,
> >> platform packages of the release candidate, etc.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Bryce
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 01:22:35PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >> > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:34:18PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >> > > May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon
> >> > > Pacific
> >> > > time (2000 UTC).
> >> > >
> >> > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
> >> > >
> >> > > This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> >> > > identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> >> > > months.
> >> > >
> >> > > Bryce
> >> >
> >> > Thanks everyone for attending, that ended up being an impressively
> >> > productive meeting. I've gone through the meeting log and pulled out
> >> > action items:
> >> >
> >> > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
> >> >
> >> > I've penciled in Friday, June 3rd as our next meeting, and jotted in
> an
> >> > agenda to followup on a number of the items we touched on this week.
> >> >
> >> > Bryce
> >> >
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