Re: [Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[Ganesanarasingam Visvakumar]

Dear Byce,

Thank you for your reply. As I have already  mentioned I want the software
competent enough to process the illustrator and corel files.
In most cases when we print or rip the files the clipping masks are open
and eps files can not be imported into inkskape. Please inform
what type of help you need so that we can discuss with our members and
revert.

Thank you once again.

G.N. Visvakumar

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:09 AM, Bryce Harrington 
wrote:

> Hi Mr. Visvakumar,
>
> Just wanted to follow up.  The Inkscape board will be meeting this
> Friday and will be discussing your sponsorship offer.  I wanted to check
> if you had any further requests or information the board should take
> into consideration?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryce
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:18:45PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Hello Mr. Visvakumar,
> >
> > The Inkscape board members were very pleased to hear of your interest,
> > and look forward to partnership with you in achieving these goals.
> >
> > Thank you for your interest in platinum level sponsorship.  There are
> > several ways to process the $10,000US, listed at
> > https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/, including paypal,
> > check/money order, or wire transfer.  This donations is fully
> > tax-deductable.
> >
> > We will follow up with more detailed proposals for technical and
> > training support.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryce
> >
> > 
> > Dear,
> > I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's
> Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers
> which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the
> designers and  printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator,
> Indesign softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the
> above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of
> India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost
> impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and
> Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all
> the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this
> circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less
> equivalent  or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We
> are ready to support such programmes.
> > Please send us a detailed mail
> > what you require from us
> > Financial Support,
> > Technical Support
> > Training Support etc.
> > An early reply is highly appreciated.
> >
> > G.N. Visvakumar
> > President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
> > Chennai, India.
> > Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
> >
> > Inkscape-board mailing list
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[Bryce Harrington]

Hi Mr. Visvakumar,

Just wanted to follow up.  The Inkscape board will be meeting this
Friday and will be discussing your sponsorship offer.  I wanted to check
if you had any further requests or information the board should take
into consideration?

Thanks,
Bryce

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:18:45PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Hello Mr. Visvakumar,
> 
> The Inkscape board members were very pleased to hear of your interest,
> and look forward to partnership with you in achieving these goals.  
> 
> Thank you for your interest in platinum level sponsorship.  There are
> several ways to process the $10,000US, listed at
> https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/, including paypal,
> check/money order, or wire transfer.  This donations is fully
> tax-deductable.
> 
> We will follow up with more detailed proposals for technical and
> training support.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryce
> 
> 
> Dear,
> I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's 
> Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers 
> which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the  
> designers and  printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, 
> Indesign softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the 
> above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of 
> India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost 
> impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw 
> are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems 
> they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances 
> we are searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent  or better in 
> performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such 
> programmes. 
> Please send us a detailed mail 
> what you require from us
> Financial Support,
> Technical Support
> Training Support etc.
> An early reply is highly appreciated.
> 
> G.N. Visvakumar
> President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
> Chennai, India.
> Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:47:58PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I also think this could be a great partnership... and I also agree than
> contributing features is a good idea. For example, we've had lots of
> interest in supporting CMYK printing but lack the expertise and time to
> do it ourselves.

Certainly direct feature contributions would be most convenient to us,
and least organizational effort on our end.  I get the feeling though
that this industry trade group has little or no experience with software
development, or at least not open source software development, so asking
them for feature contributions might not be viable.  We can certainly
make the offer but it may be they'd rather interface with us at a higher
level and let us tend to the development work.

One other thing to keep in mind is that while it's possible they may be
interested in supporting Inkscape because they are determined to switch
to open source and want to see the program improve, but it is also
possible they are looking for a backup option that gives them stronger
leverage in licensing negotiations.  We saw that pattern often with
corporate interest in Ubuntu, for instance.  If that's the case, this
can still be mutually beneficial but the emphasis on how to achieve the
objectives may be a bit different.

> I would be very willing to head to India for a local hackfest. I've
> been to the northern-western parts of India twice but never to the east
> or south.

That's good to hear, I agree having you visit on site would help secure
the relationship and gain better insight into requirements and
objectives.  Tav, how would you feel about running a training workshop?

Bryce

> Tav
> 
> On Mon, 2017-12-25 at 13:11 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> > I think that could be a very neat partnership. I think it would be
> > better to approach from the perspective of us helping them contribute
> > the features they need instead of using the funds to do. We should
> > encourage the contribution, not paying to develop features.
> > That being said I think an interesting approach might be to put a
> > hackfest local to them were we could help bring up to speed new local
> > developers who are working on the features they need. I imagine that
> > an organization like this would have access to a building we could
> > use and perhaps some local development grants that could help fund
> > the event.
> > Ted
> > 
> > On 12/25/2017 11:23 AM, C R wrote:
> > > Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh
> > > out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional
> > > printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our
> > > proprietary counterparts.
> > > 
> > > -C
> > > 
> > > On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens"  wrote:
> > > > This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It
> > > > fits
> > > > with what we do and would be useful for them too.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of
> > > > training and
> > > > etc. but we can probably work that out.
> > > > 
> > > > Merry Regards, Martin Owens
> > > > 
> > > > -- Forwarded message --
> > > > From: Anonymous User 
> > > > To: Martin Owens 
> > > > Cc: 
> > > > Bcc: 
> > > > Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -
> > > > Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request
> > > > Dear,
> > > > I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and
> > > > Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India
> > > > Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000
> > > > printers across India. Most of the  designers and  printers in
> > > > India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign
> > > > softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the
> > > > above products are very high and not affordable to the small
> > > > printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only
> > > > and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers.
> > > > Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and
> > > > printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether
> > > > they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are
> > > > searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent  or
> > > > better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are
> > > > ready to support such programmes.
> > > > Please send us a detailed mail
> > > > what you require from us
> > > > Financial Support,
> > > > Technical Support
> > > > Training Support etc.
> > > > An early reply is highly appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > > G.N. Visvakumar
> > > > President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
> > > > Chennai, India.
> > > > Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
> > > > 
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> > > > 

[Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[Bryce Harrington]

Hello Mr. Visvakumar,

The Inkscape board members were very pleased to hear of your interest,
and look forward to partnership with you in achieving these goals.  

Thank you for your interest in platinum level sponsorship.  There are
several ways to process the $10,000US, listed at
https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/, including paypal,
check/money order, or wire transfer.  This donations is fully
tax-deductable.

We will follow up with more detailed proposals for technical and
training support.

Thanks,
Bryce


Dear,
I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's 
Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers 
which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the  designers 
and  printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign 
softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products 
are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe 
is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small 
printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the 
designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether 
they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for 
softwares which is more or less equivalent  or better in performance of 
Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes. 
Please send us a detailed mail 
what you require from us
Financial Support,
Technical Support
Training Support etc.
An early reply is highly appreciated.

G.N. Visvakumar
President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
Chennai, India.
Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[Tavmjong Bah]

Hi,

I also think this could be a great partnership... and I also agree than
contributing features is a good idea. For example, we've had lots of
interest in supporting CMYK printing but lack the expertise and time to
do it ourselves.

I would be very willing to head to India for a local hackfest. I've
been to the northern-western parts of India twice but never to the east
or south.

Tav

On Mon, 2017-12-25 at 13:11 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> I think that could be a very neat partnership. I think it would be
> better to approach from the perspective of us helping them contribute
> the features they need instead of using the funds to do. We should
> encourage the contribution, not paying to develop features.
> That being said I think an interesting approach might be to put a
> hackfest local to them were we could help bring up to speed new local
> developers who are working on the features they need. I imagine that
> an organization like this would have access to a building we could
> use and perhaps some local development grants that could help fund
> the event.
> Ted
> 
> On 12/25/2017 11:23 AM, C R wrote:
> > Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh
> > out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional
> > printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our
> > proprietary counterparts.
> > 
> > -C
> > 
> > On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens"  wrote:
> > > This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It
> > > fits
> > > with what we do and would be useful for them too.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of
> > > training and
> > > etc. but we can probably work that out.
> > > 
> > > Merry Regards, Martin Owens
> > > 
> > > -- Forwarded message --
> > > From: Anonymous User 
> > > To: Martin Owens 
> > > Cc: 
> > > Bcc: 
> > > Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -
> > > Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request
> > > Dear,
> > > I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and
> > > Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India
> > > Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000
> > > printers across India. Most of the  designers and  printers in
> > > India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign
> > > softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the
> > > above products are very high and not affordable to the small
> > > printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only
> > > and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers.
> > > Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and
> > > printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether
> > > they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are
> > > searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent  or
> > > better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are
> > > ready to support such programmes.
> > > Please send us a detailed mail
> > > what you require from us
> > > Financial Support,
> > > Technical Support
> > > Training Support etc.
> > > An early reply is highly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > G.N. Visvakumar
> > > President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
> > > Chennai, India.
> > > Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
> > > 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[Ted Gould]

I think that could be a very neat partnership. I think it would be
better to approach from the perspective of us helping them contribute
the features they need instead of using the funds to do. We should
encourage the contribution, not paying to develop features.

That being said I think an interesting approach might be to put a
hackfest local to them were we could help bring up to speed new local
developers who are working on the features they need. I imagine that an
organization like this would have access to a building we could use and
perhaps some local development grants that could help fund the event.

Ted


On 12/25/2017 11:23 AM, C R wrote:
> Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh
> out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional
> printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our
> proprietary counterparts.
>
> -C
>
> On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens"  > wrote:
>
> This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits
> with what we do and would be useful for them too.
>
> I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of
> training and
> etc. but we can probably work that out.
>
> Merry Regards, Martin Owens
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Anonymous User  >
> To: Martin Owens >
> Cc: 
> Bcc: 
> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -
> Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request
> Dear,
> I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and
> Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India
> Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000
> printers across India. Most of the  designers and  printers in
> India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign
> softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the
> above products are very high and not affordable to the small
> printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only
> and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers.
> Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and
> printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether they
> use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are
> searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent  or
> better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are
> ready to support such programmes.
> Please send us a detailed mail
> what you require from us
> Financial Support,
> Technical Support
> Training Support etc.
> An early reply is highly appreciated.
>
> G.N. Visvakumar
> President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
> Chennai, India.
> Mobile : +91 81480 40818  / 94442 40818
>
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[C R]

Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh out the
for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional printing workflow.
It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our proprietary counterparts.

-C

On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens"  wrote:

> This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits
> with what we do and would be useful for them too.
>
> I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and
> etc. but we can probably work that out.
>
> Merry Regards, Martin Owens
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Anonymous User 
> To: Martin Owens 
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -
> Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request
> Dear,
> I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's
> Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers
> which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the
> designers and  printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator,
> Indesign softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the
> above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of
> India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost
> impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and
> Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all
> the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this
> circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less
> equivalent  or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We
> are ready to support such programmes.
> Please send us a detailed mail
> what you require from us
> Financial Support,
> Technical Support
> Training Support etc.
> An early reply is highly appreciated.
>
> G.N. Visvakumar
> President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
> Chennai, India.
> Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
>
> 
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[Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]

[Martin Owens]

This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits
with what we do and would be useful for them too.

I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and
etc. but we can probably work that out.

Merry Regards, Martin Owens--- Begin Message ---
Dear,
I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's 
Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers 
which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the  designers 
and  printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign 
softwares.  Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products 
are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe 
is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small 
printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the 
designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether 
they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for 
softwares which is more or less equivalent  or better in performance of 
Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes. 
Please send us a detailed mail 
what you require from us
Financial Support,
Technical Support
Training Support etc.
An early reply is highly appreciated.

G.N. Visvakumar
President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association
Chennai, India.
Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
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