Okay. Let me know if you need any materials for it (apart from stickers, which I'm making today). They will make nice take-aways for the event I think.
-C On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Martin Owens <[email protected]> wrote: > I like your idea of a community day. I think we should do it this year. > > If others are ok with it, I'll put it in the wiki for the Tuesday, > which gives people time to settle in and also enough time to work on > user problems if they want. > > If that works, then I'll send out a few invitations to a few groups I > know interested in Inkscape here in Boston. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 09:53 +0000, C R wrote: >> I'd like to offer any funds that were to be allocated for my >> attendance to be re-allocated to a developer or other member of the >> community who has shown interest in the project. >> I think it's a great idea to be more inclusive with reimbursement in >> terms of contributions rather than commits. >> Also, I'm ordering some metallic inkscape stickers on a roll this >> weekend for general purpose distribution and outreach activities. >> Looking at a few thousand, so there should be plenty. Maybe they >> could >> be handed out at LGM and the Hackfests. There was an idea for a >> community day - a special day where we invite people to come speak >> with Inkscape developers. This takes place during the hackfest, and >> since it's only one dedicated day it will not have a negative effect >> on development work during the hackfest. >> It would be cool to have a presentation for people to see. Maybe >> someone could show some tips and tricks for getting things done >> faster >> in Inkscape, and an "ask a developer" portion where people can just >> ask questions. It would help to attract people into positions we need >> filled if we have a list of them. Maybe we can offer special >> contributor stickers to people who pick up the shovel. Maybe based on >> our "hats" graphics from the website. >> >> Just some ideas. Yea, it's a little late this year, but next year we >> could have a lot done. >> I'll still have stickers for you this year. :) >> >> -C >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Bryce Harrington >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > When drafting the vote for this coming hackfest, a couple things >> > occurred to me regarding making our events more welcoming and >> > inviting. >> > >> > First, while I like the fairness of our reimbursement schedule for >> > longer term contributors, I wonder if it might be a bit >> > exclusionary for >> > situations where we do want to encourage newer developers to get >> > involved and join in. It makes me wonder if we should revisit the >> > tiers >> > and make sure the numbers aren't hindering attendance at these >> > events? >> > >> > Second, the tiers quantify based on patchcount, but many of our >> > developers are making numerous important contributions that can't >> > be >> > measured in git commits. Where we do use a tiered system, it would >> > be >> > beneficial if we could find ways to structure it to recognize that >> > work. >> > >> > Lastly, I worry a bit that not all types of people may feel >> > comfortable >> > attending a hackfest - language, gender, age, work duties, family >> > requirements, etc. can affect someone's choice to attend. We >> > invest a >> > fair amount of the project's money into these hackfests, but if >> > they are >> > only effectively open to a subset of our membership it makes me >> > wonder >> > if we need to broaden our thinking for other kinds of gathering >> > activities that might suit some of these other participants. >> > >> > Anyway, nothing here to do regarding the upcoming hackfest, time's >> > too >> > short. But what do you guys think of these ponderings in relation >> > to >> > making our future activities more inclusive of a wider variety of >> > people? >> > >> > Bryce >> > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > ------------- >> > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Inkscape-board mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----------- >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-board mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
