Hi Brynn,
it's funny you mentioned this because just yesterday I navigated between
some Facebook and Google Plus communities of Inkscape and thought that
maybe it could be nice if we did a larger promotion of the screen contest
(for example).
Just wondering. Really wanna help and think in new ways we can benefit the
community and be benefited by them.
Cheers!
--Victor Westmann
2016-10-09 8:56 GMT-07:00 Brynn <br...@frii.com>:
> Hi Friends,
> I've recently been contacted by a long time Inkscape user and
> former
> active moderator on InkscapeForum.com. (Technically she still is a
> moderator, but not active for some years.) And I think she also used to
> help with bug management and testing. And many of you may recognize her as
> the co-author of PacktPublishing's "Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook".
> Mihaela, aka prkos, is ready to become reinvested in the project,
> after having drifted away to work on other things for awhile. She has some
> good ideas for outreach and bringing in more diversity, and I think some
> ideas related to marketing, which she will have to explain, because I don't
> understand that kind of thing. I don't know if she wants to help with bug
> management again, as before, but maybe after she catches up to the version
> 0.92 era. And she said she wouldn't be opposed to working on a sequel to
> the Packt project.
> Ooohh! Mihaela, I forgot to mention this privately. Recently
> within the project, there has been some drive to create an open manual,
> which would be editable by the community. And we also want to make it more
> of a step by step manual, and more focussed to beginners. And this is as
> opposed to our current manual, which is copyrighted (can only be edited by
> the author), presently out of date, and a little more theoretical, and
> helpful for advanced users. It's a great manual, which has served the
> project well. But there have been a lot of complaints from beginners about
> a lack of documentation at their level. So we don't want to get rid of
> Tav's manual, but just have another manual available.
> The current state of those discussions is to use a project which
> was
> started by a French team (aaii, why can't I remember to save that link?!).
> It's another FLOSS manual. We're waiting for it to be translated to
> English. And once it is, we hope to be able to use it as a base to build
> the new open manual from. Maybe you might like to help with that?
> Also, some of her ideas will help us with the forum project too!
> And I'll be letting the committee know about that privately.
> So, welcome back Mihaela! As you remember the developers' mantra -
> code first, discuss later - please feel free to jump back in with both feet
> :-)
>
> All best,
> brynn
>
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