Re: [Inkscape-board] Board meeting Friday May 3rd at 10am Pacific

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 17:07 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 3rd,
> at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel.  All members are welcome.
> 
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
> 
> @Tav: I'm not sure I'll be able to run the meeting Friday, as I'm
> starting a new job this week.  If I'm not present at the start, would
> you mind chairing the meeting?  Thanks -- Bryce

There's a good chance I won't make the meeting as I'll be driving my
family back from the south of France.

Tav

PS. Bryce, congrats on the new job!




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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Reimbursement to Chris Rogers for commemorative stickers

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a

On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 18:18 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> Chris Rogers is authorized for reimbursement up to 200 £ for printing
> and
> shipping of commemorative stickers for Inkscape releases and
> hackfests.
> 
>  - [ ]  a.  Provide reimbursement of up to 200 £ to Chris Rogers
>  - [ ]  b.  No
>  - [ ]  c.  Other:  _
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> Background:
> ---
> In honor of the upcoming 1.0 release, Chris Rogers is authorized for
> reimbursement up to 200 £ for commemorative stickers for the release
> and
> for hackfest events in 2019 as we prepare for it.  These will be
> high-quality metalic stickers with custom designs specific to the
> individual releases and events.
> 
> This is separate from the more general purpose stickers to be printed
> for handing out at the Saarbrücken booth, and separate from the award
> stickers being used as prizes in Inkscape's bug migration effort.
> 
> Chris will ship the stickers to various Inkscape members for them to
> distribute and to commemorate their efforts.
> 
> Receipts for sticker printing and postage/shipping will be collected
> and
> provided to Conservancy as necessary for reimbursement requests.
> 
> # Note: On resolution, CC:
> #  approv...@buckeye.sfconservancy.org, account...@sfconservancy.org,
> inksc...@sfconservancy.org
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Booth materials for Saarbrücken

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a

On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 17:46 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> Reimburse Maren Hachmann up to a limit of 200 € the cost of producing
> materials to supply a booth Inkscape will be hosting in Saarbrücken
> in association with our attendance at LGM and a hackfest.
> 
>  - [ ]  a.  Yes, reimburse Maren Hachmann up to 200 €.
>  - [ ]  b.  No
>  - [ ]  c.  Other: 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> Background:
> ---
> Following the SCaLE event, we brainstormed ways to improve our
> conference booth presence:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/111
> 
> We will have another booth opportunity, associated with our next
> hackfest in Saarbrücken.  We expect this may be a smaller event, and
> thus may be an excellent opportunity to experiment with new
> designs.  A
> gitlab issue for tracking the materials to procure, and designs under
> development is at:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/112
> 
> The rollup banner will be a copy of the one made for SCALE, to be
> kept
> in Europe for events located there.  The original banner was printed
> for
> about $80 (apprx 72 €), and we estimate the cost of printing a
> B1-certified banner to run 50 - 70 € depending on size.
> 
> For a previous SCALE event, we had budgeted $80 for hand-out
> materials
> including mini-stickers and mini-cards.  
> 
> Estimates for basic business cards are about 10 € for 250, but we
> intend
> to go a bit upscale so are budgeting 20 €.
> 
> Stickers (20 sheets A4) are estimated as 60 €, which should cover the
> event needs with some left over for future events.
> 
> Materials will be shipped to Tobias Ellinghaus' workplace in
> Saarbrüken.
> He is our local contact for the event and will hold the materials for
> us
> until the event takes place.  We don't have an estimate for the
> shipping
> costs but are budgeting 20 €.
> 
> 30 € will be budgeted for printing of additional literature or
> handouts,
> or to cover cost overages in any of the above items.
> 
> Leftover items will also be used as give-aways at the LGM conference.
> Remaining items will be retained by Inkscape attendees to distribute
> at
> future events at their prerogative.
> 
> > Item| Estimate |
> > --- | :--: |
> > Rollup banner   |  70 €|
> > Stickers|  60 €|
> > Business cards  |  20 €|
> > Shipping|  20 €|
> > Other   |  30 €|
> > --- |  |
> > Total:  | 200 €|
> 
> Maren Hachmann will be responsible for coordinating the printing and
> shipping, and thus will be the authorized reimbursee for this.
> 
> # Note: On resolution, CC:
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> inksc...@sfconservancy.org
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Attendees at Saarbrücken hackfest

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a a

On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 19:43 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Voting is needed on funding for sponsorship of attendees at the
> Saarbrücken
> Hackfest planned for May 2019.
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> 1.  Authorize reimbursement of the following list of potential
> attendees
> at the Saarbrücken hackfest:
> 
> Alex Valavanis  valavanisa...@gmail.com
> Alexandre Prokoudinealexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com
> Bryce Harringtonbr...@bryceharrington.org
> Elisa de Castro Guerra  elisa@gmail.com
> Jabier Arraizajavier.arra...@marker.es
> Jürgen Weigertjnwei...@gmail.com
> Marc Jeanmougin m...@jeanmougin.fr
> Maren Hachmann  ma...@goos-habermann.de
> Max Gaukler developm...@maxgaukler.de
> Mihaela Jurkovićmihaela.jurko...@gmail.com
> Patrick Storz   eduard.bra...@gmx.de
>     René de Hesselledehesse...@web.de
> Tavmjong Bah  tavmj...@free.fr
> Thomas Holder tho...@thomas-holder.de
> Thomas Wiesner  wi...@liwest.at
> Tobias Ellinghaus   m...@houz.org
> 
>  - [ ] a.  Yes, sponsor travel reimbursement for the above
> individuals
>  - [ ] b.  Yes, but with the following change(s):  ___
>  - [ ] c.  No, do not fund.
> 
> 
> 2.  Board-sponsored Dinner (revision).  The Inkscape Board will fund
> a
> dinner out for Hackfest attendees and their guests.  An estimated
> 20
> people averaging 30 € each gives a budget of 600 €.
> 
>  - [ ] a.  Yes, for estimated cost of up to 600 €.
>  - [ ] b.  Recommend a change:  ___
>  - [ ] c.  No, do not fund.
> 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. | 2. |
> >  |:--:|:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington |||
> > Josh Andler  |||
> > Tavmjong Bah |||
> > Ted Gould|||
> > Martin Owens |||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  |||
> > Chris Rogers |||
> 
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> 
> Background:
> ---
> This referendum updates an earlier vote on this issue, to identify
> the
> travelers and to update the Board sponsored dinner now that we have a
> better estimate on attendance numbers.
> 
> Some of the listed individuals are not certain if they will be
> attending, so our actual list may be smaller.
> 
> All travelers must adhere to the SFC's travel requirements, which
> they'll be notified about separately.
> 
> Additional attendees may be added subsequently, but this is the
> comprehensive list known as of today.
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Webcams

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 23:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> What should we do with the webcams awarded to the Inkscape project by
> The Univention Summit?
> 
>  - [ ]  a.  Assign to the Vectors team to determine disposition.
>  - [ ]  b.  Use as prizes in bug migration game.
>  - [ ]  c.  Retain as project property.
>  - [ ]  d.  Other: _
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Saarbrüken Hackfest 2019 Funding

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote aaa

I think we will have more than 10 people at the hackfest so we may need
to bump the dinner allocation amount.

Tav

On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 07:09 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Voting is needed on funding for sponsorship of attendees at the
> Saarbrücken
> Hackfest planned for May 2019.
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> 1.  Travel Sponsorship to Saarbrücken, Germany.
> 
>  - [ ] a.  Reimburse pre-approved attendees (TBD) for up to a flat
>amount of $2000 per person.
>  - [ ] b.  Reimburse using the ranked system used for the Boston
> hackfest.
>  - [ ] c.  Reimburse with open ended limits to extent permitted by
>Software Conservancy policy.
>  - [ ] d.  Other: ___
>  - [ ] e.  No, do not fund.
> 
> 2.  Board-sponsored Dinner.  The Inkscape Board will fund a dinner
> out
> for Hackfest attendees and their guests.  An estimated 10 people
> averaging 30 € each gives a budget of 300 €.
> 
>  - [ ] a.  Yes, for estimated cost of up to 300 €.
>  - [ ] b.  Recommend a change:  ___
>  - [ ] c.  No, do not fund.
> 
> 3.  Refreshments.  The event host will ensure there are snacks and
> beverages, and procure other incidentals as needed for attendees.
> An estimate of 10 attendees * 2 days * 5 € gives a budget of 100
> €.
> 
>  - [ ] a.  Authorize reimbursement of up to 100 € to the event host
> for
>snacks, beverages, and other incidentals relating to the
>event hosting.
>  - [ ] b.  Authorize a different amount:  ___
>  - [ ] c.  Do not authorize reimbursement for refreshments
> 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. | 2. | 3. |
> >  |:--:|:--:|:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||||
> > Josh Andler  ||||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||||
> > Ted Gould||||
> > Martin Owens ||||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||||
> > Chris Rogers ||||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> 
> Background:
> ---
> The Libre Graphics Meeting will be held in Germany in May.  We wish
> to
> also hold a 2-day hackfest preceeding it.  Travel grants will be
> provided to attendees of these events.
> 
> The exact list of approved attendees will be determined
> separately.  We
> anticipate attendance in the 5-15 person range, similar to past
> events.
> A listing of prospective invitees is available at:
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_Saarbr%C3%BCcken_Attendees
> 
> Further details about the hackfest are available from
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_Saarbrücken
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Univention Summit travel for Maren Hachmann

[Tavmjong Bah]

I would also be for "no more than 100Euros".
Tav
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 17:13 +0100, Marc Jeanmougin wrote:
> +1 for reimbursed depending on expenses with a cap of ~100€, or
>   (a) otherwise
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/28/19 4:23 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >   
> >   I vote A.
> >   
> > 
> >   I guess I'm thinking we usually do "no more than", and it
> > seems like those are conservative estimates. So I'd be all
> > for
> > "no more than 100€".
> > For instance to provide some flexibility over lunch, etc.
> >   
> > 
> >   Ted
> >   
> >   On Jan 28 2019, at 4:25 am,
> > Bryce Harrington  wrote:
> >   
> > > 
> > >   A majority vote of the current board members is
> > > required
> > > for the
> > >   following matter.
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   Proposal:
> > >   -
> > >   The Univention Summit selected Inkscape as one of its
> > > top
> > > 3 finishers
> > >   for an award to be announced in Brennen on Jan 31st.
> > > Maren Hachmann has
> > >   volunteered to attend the conference to accept the
> > > award
> > > on Inkscape's
> > >   behalf.
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   - [ ] a. Reimburse travel for the event, estimated to
> > > be
> > > 55 € by car
> > >   - [ ] b. Other: __
> > >   - [ ] c. Do not fund travel
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   Votes:
> > >   --
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   | Board Member | 1. |
> > >   |  |:--:|
> > >   | Bryce Harrington | |
> > >   | Josh Andler | |
> > >   | Tavmjong Bah | |
> > >   | Ted Gould | |
> > >   | Martin Owens | |
> > >   | Marc Jeanmougin | |
> > >   | Chris Rogers | |
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   Resolution:
> > >   ---
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   Background:
> > >   ---
> > >   Estimate of costs for travel to and from the event by
> > > car:
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   distance: 227 km * 2 = 504 km (313 miles) [1]
> > >   standard (charity) mileage rate (2018): 14 ¢/mi [2]
> > >   car transportaation: 38.41 € ($48.82)
> > >   parking for 9 hours: 12 €
> > >   lunch for 1 person: ~ 5 €
> > >   --
> > >   55.41 €
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   Univention invited two attendees for the event, but
> > > Maren
> > > was unable to
> > >   recruit a second from the project. However, her fiancé
> > > can accompany
> > >   her.
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   For comparison, round-trip bus tickets for Kiel-Bremen
> > > are 20 € per
> > >   person. plus 10-16 € parking and 5 € lunch.
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   1:
> > > https://www.google.com/maps/dir/24214+Schinkel/Hillmannpl.,+28195+Bremen/@53.5781492,8.4429086,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x47b3aa8de0eb36eb:0x4248963c6582890!2m2!1d9.955115!2d54.3556939!1m5!1m1!1s0x47b128117d7f7d4d:0x1f08e52a9cfdd9f7!2m2!1d8.8099005!2d53.0808617)
> > >   
> > > 
> > >   2:
> > > 
> > > https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/standard-mileage-rates
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Car Rental for SCALE Hackfest in Pasadena

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

(Is this option not normally allowed under the travel policy?)


On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 16:00 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> The Inkscape board is requested to vote on the following matter:
> 
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> Ryan Gorley will be traveling from Utah to California to attend the
> hackfest.  For this distance, the cost of travel by air is
> commensurate
> with the cost of renting a car and driving.
> 
> Using a rental car will have significant additional benefits,
> including
> being able to bring professional video equipment and a
> guest/assistant.
> 
> 1.  Authorize use of car rental for Ryan Gorley to attend Inkscape
> hackfest in Pasadena, California, within the normal travel cost
> caps
> already approved.
> 
>  - [ ]  a.  Yes, authorize car rental for Ryan Gorley's travel in
> place
> of air travel.
>  - [ ]  b.  No, do not authorize car rental.
> 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> > -------- |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> * - abstaining/recused
> 
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> Background:
> ---
> Ryan Gorley explains:
> 
> Hey Bryce, last year I captured some video at Boston and SCALE.
> The
> intention was to create a video about the project. The goal would
> be
> to educate people on how community run projects like this work,
> and
> paint a picture of how they can get involved and help. I didn't
> really have the right gear and a clear enough plan to execute on
> it
> well. I'd like to make another attempt this year, but with some
> upgraded video, audio, and lighting equipment from my business.
> 
> The trick is that if fly to LA I'm pretty limited on what I can
> bring along in the airplane. I also have a friend who has worked
> with me on professional video projects in the past that would be
> interested in joining and helping for the week.
> 
> For me the cost of a car rental (~$191*) and fuel (1400 miles =
> ~$150) will be comparable to the cost of an airplane ticket
> ($188~$288*) and ground transportation to-and-from the airport
> ($32~$192*). It's more exhausting for me, but I would be able to
> bring equipment that I wouldn't be able to otherwise, booth
> banners,
> and likely someone who can help. Both of my personal vehicles are
> a
> little older so I'm not sure I'd want to drive either of them
> that
> distance.
> 
> Do you think the project/SFC would approve me renting a car and
> spending ~$10/night* more to get a room that would accommodate
> two
> people? It would be the same number of hotel nights (7) and my
> friend wouldn't be seeking reimbursement for any of his expenses.
> I
> would remain well within my allotted budget of $2000 in either
> scenario. As you know, prices are going up and I need to lock
> things. Please let me know. Thanks!
> 
> 
> Conservancy travel policy permits use of car rental, with prior
> approval
> by the Inkscape board (PLC):
> 
> Ground transportation necessary as part of authorized Project
> trips
> is considered to be a reasonable expense. Public ground
> transportation, such as taxis, shuttles, buses and municipal
> transit, are generally the most cost-effective options and are
> the
> standard for eligible ground transportation reimbursements. All
> car
> rentals require pre-authorization by the PLC or by an officer of
> Conservancy. When car rentals have been pre-approved, the rental
> of
> compact cars is encouraged; mid-size vehicles are authorized when
> necessary (e.g., when compact-sized vehicles are not available or
> the number of passengers or volume of baggage makes a compact
> vehicle impractical).
> 
> -- 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Attendance at SCALE Hackfest #3

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I vote a. a.

On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 11:42 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> The board's vote is needed on a third update to our attendance list
> at
> SCALE.
> 
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> 
> 1.  Approve the people listed below for travel reimbursement to
> Pasadena, California, up to $2000 each, if they are able to
> attend
> the hackfest and/or SCALE.
> 
>  - [ ]  a.  Reimburse specific attendees listed below for up to $2000
> each, to cover airfare, lodging, and meals.
>  - [ ]  b.  Recommend a change: ___
>  - [ ]  c.  No, do not fund.
> 
> 2.  Allow Conservancy to prepurchase lodging and/or airfare for
> Martin Owens, as specified in Conservancy's travel reimbursement
> policy[1].
> 
>  - [ ]  a.  Yes, approve prepurchase of lodging and/or airfare.
>  - [ ]  b.  No, do not approve.
> 
> 1: 
> https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conservancy-travel-policy.html
> 
> 
> Proposed Attendees:
> ---
> Martin Owens
> 
> We will add to this list as future votes approve more attendees.
> 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. | 2. |
> >  |:--:|:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington |||
> > Josh Andler  |||
> > Tavmjong Bah |||
> > Ted Gould|||
> > Martin Owens | *  | *  |
> > Marc Jeanmougin  |||
> > Chris Rogers |||
> 
> * - abstaining/recused
> 
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> Martin is requesting that Conservancy assist with prepurchase of the
> travel, to avoid carrying the expense personally.  The board is
> requested to approve this reimbursement exception.  Martin will work
> with Conservancy on making the necessary arrangements for this.
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Additional attendees for Hackfest 2019 Pasadena (SCALE)

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 09:07 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Proposal:
> -
> 
> 1.  Approve the people listed below for travel reimbursement to
> Pasadena, California, up to $2000 each, if they are able to
> attend
> the hackfest and/or SCALE.
> 
>  - [ ]  a.  Reimburse specific attendees listed below for up to $2000
> each, to cover airfare, lodging, and meals.
>  - [ ]  b.  Recommend a change: ___
>  - [ ]  c.  No, do not fund.
> 
> 
> Proposed Attendees:
> ---
> 
> Marc Jeanmougin
> Krzysztof Kosiński
> Alex Valavanis
> Jabier Arraiza
> Joshua Andler
> 
> We will add to this list as future votes approve more attendees.
> 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> > -------- |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Renewal of trademarks

[Tavmjong Bah]

A.

Tav

On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 09:40 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> -
>  - [ ]  a.  Authorize renewal of 3 trademarks for $1,275
>  - [ ]  b.  Other:  _
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington |    |
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> 
> ---
> -
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I assume we want to renew all of these? Please let me know if the
> PLC 
> authorizes the trademark office fees of $1,275 (we foot the lawyer
> time 
> for renewals as we do with the initial stages of trademark defense).
> 
> best,
> karen
> 
>  Original Message 
> Subject: Renewal of Registrations for DRAW FREELY, INKSCAPE and
> Inkscape 
> Logo
> Date: 2018-08-31 10:44 am
>  From: Anne xxx
> To: le...@sfconservancy.org
> Cc: Pamela xxx
> 
> Re: Renewal of DRAW FREELY,  INKSCAPE and Inkscape Logo
> 
> Deadline: 25 Aug 2019
> 
> Dear Karen,
> 
> Software Freedom Conservancy has previously registered the trademarks
> referenced below for use with goods in class 9:
> 
> TRADEMARK
> 
> REGISTRATION NUMBER
> 
> REGISTRATION DATE
> 
> CLASSES & GOODS (TABLE)
> 
> DRAW FREELY.
> 
> 3672956
> 
> 25 Aug 2009
> 
> 9 - Computer graphics software; Downloadable computer software for
> vector graphics editing
> 
> INKSCAPE
> 
> 3672917
> 
> 25 Aug 2009
> 
> 9 - Downloadable computer software for editing vector graphics
> 
> INKSCAPE LOGO
> 
> 3672907
> 
> 25 Aug 2009
> 
> 9 - Downloadable computer software for editing vector graphics
> 
> The window for renewing these trademark registrations is now open.
> The
> renewals can be filed anytime between now and the final deadline of
> 25
> Aug 2019, and there is also a six-month grace period for renewing. It
> is, however, our suggestion that you renew it as soon as possible, in
> order to have time to address any problems that might arise in the
> renewal process.
> 
> To renew, we will need a "specimen" showing that the trademark is
> used
> on the goods described above. We have attached a screenshot from your
> website which we believe will be an acceptable specimen for renewal
> of
> all three registrations.
> 
> Please let us know if you would like for us to proceed with renewing
> these registrations with the attached specimen. The Trademark Office
> renewal fee is $425 per registration ($1,275 total). If you have any
> questions, please let us know.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Budget 2018 (v2)

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote A.

On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 19:45 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Re-posting budget for vote.  This version has additional money
> allocated
> to Hackfests, as suggested by Tav.
> 
> ---
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for
> approving
> this budget.
> 
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> 
>  Allocate budget for FY2018 (03/2018 - 03/2019) following past
> budgets,
>  including allocations to funding pools for hackfest sponsorships,
>  development funding, and Vectors team marketing outreach as before.
> 
>  |   | FY2017  | FY2017  | FY2017|
> FY2018 |Total   |
>  | Funding Pool  | Balance | Income  | Expenses  | Allocation
> |Pool|
>  |   | --- | --- |   | -- | ---
> --- |
>  | + Hackfests   |  $15722 | $732.45 | $2,986.85 |
> +$8000 |  $21467.60 |
>  | + SVG WG  |   $2010 | $416.11
> | $0|+$0 |   $2426.11 |
>  | + GSoC Travel
> | | |   ||  $0|
>  | + Vectors |$100
> |   $0| $0|  +$100 |$200|
>  | + Projects|   $4500 | |   $750|
> +$2250 |   $6000|
>  | + Conferences |   $1000 | |   |
> +$1000 |   $2000|
>  | General Fund  |  $18414 | |  $1661.95
> ||  $45732.29 |
> 
>  [ ]  a.  Adopt budget as shown above
>  [ ]  b.  Revise budget with the following changes recommended:
>   _
>   _
>  [ ]  c.  Do not establish a budget for this year
> 
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> During FY2017 our total assets rose from $41,746 to $74,826, thanks
> to
> generous donors and sponsors small and large who provided Inkscape
> with
> $37,728.90 in income.  Our expenses in FY2017 were lower than in past
> years, amounting to $4,648.80.
> 
> Our last hackfest came in well under budget.  We are looking at doing
> two hackfests this year and expect about half a dozen sponsorships;
> we are offering sponsorships totalling $10,000 but expect the actual
> expenses to be smaller.
> 
> The new Vectors team is very active and will be attending SCALE and
> other events.  They are planning use of their budget for printing of
> handouts and signage for technical events.  This budget increases
> their
> funding pool another $100.  The board will continue to review and
> approve expenditures as normal.
> 
> FY2017 saw our first funded development work.  We hope to expand this
> program in 2018 with more projects funded.
> 
> We added a new fund last year to help cover travel costs to non-
> hackfest
> conferences and other technical events.  While this was not utilized
> last year, we'll continue adding funds to it in hope it will be of
> value
> going forward.
> 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington | a. |
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Hackfest attendance for Ryan Gorley

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

Tav

On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 17:04 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> -
> 
> Reimburse Ryan Gorley up to $1000 for travel expenses to attend the
> 2018
> Inkscape Hackfest in Boston.
> 
>  - [ ] a. Yes, approve the reimbursement as stated above.
>  - [ ] b. No, do not approve reimbursement as stated above.
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> Ryan Gorley is lead for Inkscape's Vectors team, in which role he is
> heavily involved in marketing, fundraising, and infrastructure
> activities for the project.  He will be bringing camera equipment
> (tripod, lighting, etc.) to the event for capturing interviews and
> audio
> recording.  Due to this activity his attendance at the 2018 Hackfest
> in
> Boston is vital to the project.  He is a relatively new member of
> Inkscape (will be 11 months as of the date of the event), however,
> and
> the types of contributions he makes are not directly measurable as
> patches, so the established hackfest reimbursement rules do not cover
> the expected expenses for his attendance.
> 
> His sponsorship was discussed at the Feb 2018 Inkscape Board meeting
> and
> there was a rough consensus favoring holding a vote for sponsoring
> him.
> Martin Owens has offered to share lodging, so Ryan's expected
> expenses
> should total less than $1000, which is the allocation level we
> generally
> provide for 1-year contributors.
> 
> Note, this resolution does not increase the budget for the hackfest
> nor
> does it open up invitations to any other person without board
> consent.
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Boston Hackfest 2018

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a for all questions.

Tav

PS. THere is a typo in 2d.


On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 19:52 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> We'll be having our 2018 Hackfest in Boston in March.  Funding for
> this
> will follow the same model as last year's Paris hackfest.  We do not
> have attendance estimates yet, but expect it to be similar to past
> events and so are budgeting for 9 attendees.
> 
> Your vote is needed on the planned Inkscape Hackfest.
> 
> Proposals:
> --
> 
> 1. Sponsor a hackfest in Boston for March, 2018:
> 
> Total cost estimate for 9 people is roughly $13k.
> 
>   - [ ] a.  Yes, sponsor hackfest in Boston as proposed.
>   - [ ] b.  Approve holding a hackfest, but recommend making the
> following alterations:
> ___
>   - [ ] c.  Do not approve holding a hackfest
> 
> 2.  Reimburse using a ranked system similar to 2015/2016/2017
> hackfests.
> 
>   - [ ] a.  Use ranked reimbursement.  Long term, high commit
> developers
> are sponsored up to a higher maximum than new developers.
>   - [ ] b.  Use open ended.  We'll fully cover all valid expenses
> incurred by the sponsorees.
>   - [ ] c.  Other:
> ___
>   - [ ] d.  Do not reimburse for Paris hackfest expenses
> 
> 3.  The Inkscape Board sponsors a dinner event, to be funded from the
> Inkscape general fund (instead of the hackfest fund), for
> Hackfest
> attendees and guests.
> 
>   - [ ] a. Yes.  Allocate $600 from Inkscape's general fund for a
> dinner.
>   - [ ] b. Yes, but handle funding the dinner in a different way:
>
>   - [ ] c. No, do not fund a sponsored dinner for the hackfest.
> 
> Allocation for attending hackfest:
> 
> * Up to $2000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for
> 3+
>   years and > 200 commits.
> * Up to $1500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for
> 2+
>   years and > 100 commits.
> * Up to $1000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for
> 1+
>   year and > 50 commits.
> * Up to $500 each for any Inkscape contributor listed in AUTHORS file
> with
>   at least 10 commits by Jan 1, 2018.
> 
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. | 2. | 3. |
> >  |:--:|:--:|:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington | a. | a. | a. |
> > Josh Andler  ||||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||||
> > Ted Gould||||
> > Martin Owens ||||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||||
> > Chris Rogers ||||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> Past hackfests have provided excellent opportunities for Inkscape
> developers to meet in person, discuss the project and coordinate work
> on bug-fixing, feature planning, and other efforts.  In the past
> we've
> sometimes sought to align the location and time of the event with
> conferences or groups in the area to permit external collaborations
> as
> well.  Boston is home to Red Hat and a number of other important
> companies in the FOSS community, and we hope to extend invitations.
> 
> Martin Owens has volunteered as event coordinator for the hackfest
> event (with help from Tav).
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] LGM Attendance 2018

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

Tav

On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 20:02 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A second mini-hackfest is tentatively planned be held in conjunction
> with the LGM meeting in Seville, Spain April 26th through April 30th.
> Google may be providing some support for travel to LGM. They are
> interested in adding Variable Font support to Inkscape.
> 
> Details are available on the Inkscape wiki at:
> Seville: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM
> 
> Proposal:
> 
>   [ ] a. Cover travel and hotel expenses for Inkscape
>  developers to participate in LGM 2018, at half our typical
>  hackfest rates.
>   [ ] b. The budgeted funds for LGM should be used some other way:
>__
> __
> 
> 
> Allocation for attending hackfest:
> 
> * Up to $1000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for
> 3+
>   years and > 200 commits.
> * Up to $750 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 2+
>   years and > 100 commits.
> * Up to $500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 1+
>   year and > 50 commits.
> * Up to $250 each for any Inkscape contributor listed in AUTHORS file
>   with at least 10 commits by Jan 1, 2018.
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member     | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington | a. |
> > Josh Andler  ||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers ||
> 
> Resolution:
> ---
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> LGM is an important meeting for the Libre graphics movement.  While
> we
> won't be having a separate, distinct hackfest apart from it, as we've
> done in the past, this event serves as a good opportunity for
> European
> Inkscapers to meet up and to interact with the larger FOSS graphics
> community.
> 
> 
> 
> Sample Announcement from Past LGM:
> --
> 
> Interested in meeting up with fellow Inkscapers?  Thanks to generous
> donations to the project, we are able to provide funds to reimburse
> five
> developers up to $500 each for attendance at the Libre Graphics
> Meeting
> in Leipzig in April.
> 
> Anyone in the AUTHORS file as of Feb 19th, 2014 is eligible to apply.
> To register, please email Tavmjong Bah, our coordinator for the
> event,
> by March 6th to get on the list.  He'll let you know what position
> you
> are in the list.  Then, register for the conference, enjoy your time,
> and save your receipts.  Afterwards email copies of the receipts to
> Tav,
> who will forward them along to SFC for reimbursement.  A maximum of
> $500
> US each will be reimbursed to five attendees for travel, hotel room,
> and
> food.
> 
> Note that the LGM meeting may also give partial reimbursements, so if
> your total costs exceed $500 they may be able to help.
> 
> In addition, the board is sponsoring Tavmjong Bah to attend both LGM
> as
> a speaker and as our event coordinator, and the co-located SVG
> Working
> Group Meeting.  Tav will be representing Inkscape's interests at the
> SVG
> meeting, and will be working with them on features including mesh
> gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text.
> 
> Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Inkscape in the
> past.  Your
> funding has made these sponsorships possible.  We've found these
> face-to-face meetings invaluable both for sharing ideas and as
> general
> inspiration for advancement of the project.
> 
> 
> 
> Previous Years' Website Blurb:
> 
> Thanks to generous donations from users, the Inkscape Project is
> pleased
> to pay for five developers to attend the Libre Graphics Meeting, to
> be
> held in Leipzig in April.  Tavmjong Bah will be presenting and is
> sponsored to go as Inkscape's event coordinator; please contact him
> if
> you are an Inkscape developer and would like added to the sponsorship
> list.
> 
> Tav will also be sponsored to attend the co-located SVG Working Group
> Meeting.  Tav will be representing Inkscape's interests at the SVG
> meeting, and will be working with them on features including mesh
> gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text.
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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] [REFERENDUM] Accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 17:32 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Your vote is needed to accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean.
> 
> 1.  Accept DigitalOcean's offer of $500 credit on their virtual
> hosting
> system for use in provisioning various Inkscape web
> services.  Add
> DigitalOcean as a Bronze level sponsor for 2018.  Authorize
> Conservancy to initiate registration with DigitalOcean for
> Inkscape.
> 
> - [ ] a. Yes, accept DigitalOcean's sponsorship
> - [ ] b. No
> 
> Votes:
> --
> 
> > Board Member | 1. |
> >  |:--:|
> > Bryce Harrington ||
> > Josh Andler||
> > Tavmjong Bah ||
> > Ted Gould||
> > Martin Owens   ||
> > Marc Jeanmougin  ||
> > Chris Rogers   ||
> 
> 
> Resolved:
> -
> 
> Background:
> ---
> 
> In 2017, the Inkscape Board [solicited sponsorship offers][1] for web
> hosting.  We [received an offer][2] from DigitalOcean that provides
> a credit for $500 in service on their virtual hosting platform.  It
> doesn't match all the requirements we had called for, but it may be
> able
> to address near term service needs while we continue our search.
> 
> Registration with DigitalOcean requires entry of financial
> information
> so will need to be performed by the Software Freedom Conservancy
> staff
> for us.  This vote authorizes them to do so.
> 
> [1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/36074233/
> [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.ne
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] FPRJ-002: GList/GSList removal payment

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

Tav

On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 00:04 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> 
>   [ ]  a.  Pay $750 to Marc Jeanmougin for completion of the
> "Remove
>all use of GList and GSList" project (FPRJ-002).
>   [ ]  b.  Close FPRJ-002 as expired, with no payments.
>   [ ]  c.  Other: _
> 
> Votes:
> Bryce Harrington
> Josh Andler
> Tavmjong Bah
> Ted Gould
> Martin Owens
> Marc Jeanmougin
> Chris Rogers
> 
> Resolution:
> 
> Background:
> 
> The Inkscape Board selected as a fundable project the removal of
> GList
> and GSList from the codebase[1], designated FPRJ-002.  The
> requirements
> of this job were met by Marc Jeanmougin prior to his joining of the
> Inkscape Board.  While he did not official register for the project,
> and
> thus not all terms of the funded development policy have been
> followed,
> as per the terms of the policy the Board can grant process exceptions
> on
> a case-by-case basis via a majority vote (c.f. sec. 6 [2]).
> 
> The current balance of funds allocated to FPRJ-002 is currently $750.
> Thus the proposed action is to pay this amount to Mr. Jeanmougin in
> thanks of completion of the project requirements.
> 
> 1: https://inkscape.org/en/projects/remove-all-use-of-glist-and-gslis
> t/
> 2: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/funded-development/
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM v2] Budget for 2017

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote B

Tav

On Sun, 2017-10-22 at 22:20 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for
> approving
> this budget.
> 
> 
> Proposal:
> 
>  1.  Allocate budget for FY2017 (03/2017 - 03/2018) following the
> 2015
>  and 2016 budgets, including allocations to funding pools for an
>  OSUOSL grant, hackfest sponsorships, and development funding as
>  before.
> 
>  2.  Add a new funding pool for marketing activities by the Vectors
>  Team, and allocate $100 to the pool this FY.
> 
>  3.  Add a new funding pool for Google Summer of Code student travel.
>  This will be used as pass-thru to students in support of their
>  travel costs to Inkscape+GSoC related events, as per Google
>  policies.
> 
>  4.  Add a new funding pool for conference attendance, and allocate
>  $1000 to the pool this FY.
> 
>  Funding Pool   Balance  Income  Allocation  Expenses  Total Pool
>     ---  --  --    --
>  + Hackfests$11,946  $263+$5000  -$1487$15,722
>  + SVG WG   $1635$375+$0 -$0   $2010
>  + GSoC Travel $0
>  + Vectors   +$100 $100
>  + Projects $2250+$2250$4500
>  + Conferences   +$1000$1000
> 
>  [ ]  a.  Adopt v1 budget (proposed items 1-3)
>  [ ]  b.  Adopt v2 budget (proposed items 1-4)
>  [ ]  c.  Revise budget with the following changes recommended:
>   _
>   _
>  [ ]  d.  Do not establish a budget for 2017
> 
> 
> Background:
> 
> At the end of FY2016 our total assets had risen approximately $5k to
> $41,645.  So far, FY2017 is seeing a larger increase due to increased
> sponsorships.  Still, our expenses so far this year have been modest,
> and there is no pressing need for a budget much different from last
> year's.
> 
> Our last hackfest was managed efficiently and came in well under
> budget,
> however we will again allocate $5,000 from the general fund to
> hackfest
> expenses so that we grow the hackfest funding pool so that it might
> support multiple hackfests in a given year, or allow for larger
> hackfests.
> 
> The new Vectors team is seeking to increase Inkscape awareness on a
> range of fronts.  Marketing collateral (stickers, bookmarks, flyers,
> etc.) may assist their work, so this year a funding pool is
> established
> and seeded with a modest amount.  For now the board will continue to
> review and approve expenditures as normal.
> 
> Google provides funding for travel expenses of students.  We may need
> to
> work out how to utilize these funds, but for now the budget
> establishes
> a pool in case we need to track the monies within the Inkscape
> project's
> own finances.
> 
> Votes:
> 
>   Ted Gould:  a.
>   Martin Owens:   a.
>   C R:a.
>   Tavmjong Bah:   
>   Mc: 
>   Bryce:  
>   Josh:   
> 
> Resolution:
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Budget for 2017

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 19:58 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for
> approving
> this budget.

I vote b.

I definitely agree with increasing the hackfest pool. I think this is a
great use of our resources. This years hackfest was exceptionally under
budget as only two of the attendees filed claims and they were pretty
small.

One thing I think is missing is a conference pool. There are a number
of  conferences where we could/should send people:

* FOSDEM (Brussels, February 2018)
* SCALE 16x (Pasadena, March 2018)
* LGM (Seville Spain, April 2018)
* GUADEC (Almeria, Spain, Summer 2018)

Tav

> Proposal:
> 
>  1.  Allocate budget for FY2017 (03/2017 - 03/2018) following the
> 2015
>  and 2016 budgets, including allocations to funding pools for an
>  OSUOSL grant, hackfest sponsorships, and development funding as
>  before.
> 
>  2.  Add a new funding pool for marketing activities by the Vectors
>  Team, and allocate $100 to the bucket for FY2017.
> 
>  3.  Add a new funding pool for Google Summer of Code student travel.
>  This will be used as pass-thru to students in support of their
>  travel costs to Inkscape+GSoC related events, as per Google
>  policies.
> 
>  Funding Pool   Balance  Income  Allocation  Expenses  Total Pool
>     ---  --  --    --
>  + Hackfests$11,946  $263+$5000  -$1487$15,722
>  + SVG WG   $1635$375+$0 -$0   $2010
>  + GSoC Travel $0
>  + Vectors   +$100 $100
>  + Projects $2250+$2250$4500
> 
>  [ ]  a.  Yes, adopt budget as described above
>  [ ]  b.  Revise budget with the following changes recommended:
>   _
>   _
>  [ ]  c.  Do not establish a budget for 2017
> 
> 
> Background:
> 
> At the end of FY2016 our total assets had risen approximately $5k to
> $41,645.  So far, FY2017 is seeing a larger increase due to increased
> sponsorships.  Still, our expenses so far this year have been modest,
> and there is no pressing need for a budget much different from last
> year's.
> 
> Our last hackfest was managed efficiently and came in well under
> budget,
> however we will again allocate $5,000 from the general fund to
> hackfest
> expenses so that we grow the hackfest funding pool so that it might
> support multiple hackfests in a given year, or allow for larger
> hackfests.
> 
> The new Vectors team is seeking to increase Inkscape awareness on a
> range of fronts.  Marketing collateral (stickers, bookmarks, flyers,
> etc.) may assist their work, so this year a funding pool is
> established
> and seeded with a modest amount.  For now the board will continue to
> review and approve expenditures as normal.
> 
> Google provides funding for travel expenses of students.  We may need
> to
> work out how to utilize these funds, but for now the budget
> establishes
> a pool in case we need to track the monies within the Inkscape
> project's
> own finances.
> 
> Votes:
> 
> 
> Resolution:
> 
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[Inkscape-board] Board Meeting Reminder

[Tavmjong Bah]

Just a friendly reminder...

Board meetings scheduled for today at Noon PDT (in 2.5 hours).

  http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings


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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Paris hackfest

[Tavmjong Bah]

My votes:

1a
2a
3a

On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 08:46 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Your vote is needed on the planned Inkscape Hackfest in Paris,
> France.
> 
> Proposals:
> 
> 1.  Sponsor a hackfest in Paris, France, for June 27th - July 1st.
> 
> Total cost estimate for 9 people is roughly $13k.
> (Refer to attached proposal document for details)
> 
> [ ] a.  Yes, sponsor hackfest in Paris, France as proposed.
> [ ] b.  Approve holding a hackfest, but recommend making the
> following alterations:
> ___
> [ ] c.  Do not approve holding a hackfest in Paris
> 
> 2.  Reimburse using a ranked system similar to 2015/2016 hackfests.
> 
> [ ] a.  Use ranked reimbursement as used in the 2016
> hackfest.  Long
> term, high commit developers are sponsored up to a higher
> maximum than new developers.
> [ ] b.  Use open ended.  We'll fully cover all valid expenses
> incurred by the sponsorees.
> [ ] c.  Other:
> __
> [ ] d.  Do not reimburse for Paris hackfest expenses
> 
> 3.  The Inkscape Board sponsors a dinner event, to be funded from the
> Inkscape general fund (instead of the hackfest fund), for
> Hackfest
> attendees and guests.
> 
> [ ] a. Yes.  Allocate $600 from Inkscape's general fund for a
>      dinner.
> [ ] b. Yes, but handle funding the dinner in a different way:
> _
> __
> [ ] c. No, do not fund a sponsored dinner for the hackfest.
> 
> Votes:
> 
>         1.  2.  3.
> Bryce Harringtona a   a
> Josh Andler 
> Tavmjong Bah
> Jon A. Cruz   
> Ted Gould   
> Krzysztof Kosiński  
> Martin Owensa b   a
> 
> Resolved:
> 
> 
> 
> Background:
> 
> Past hackfests have provided excellent opportunities for Inkscape
> developers to meet in person, discuss the project and coordinate work
> on bug-fixing, feature planning, and other efforts. In the past we've
> also sought to align the location and time of the event with
> conferences or groups in the area to permit external collaborations
> as
> well. Our experience so far seems to show that we're getting far more
> tangible benefit out of the internal interactions than the external
> ones.
> 
> Thus, this event will focus more sharply on the hackfest itself,
> giving
> us much greater flexibility for time and location.
> 
> Tavmjong Bah has volunteered as event coordinator for the hackfest
> event (with help from Marc).
> 
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[Inkscape-board] Paris Hackfest proposal

[Tavmjong Bah]

Hi,

We have an offer of free space for a Paris hackfest for June 27th-July
1st at the Carrefour Numérique² fablab (at the Cité des sciences et de
l'industrie). Nine Inkscapers have expressed interest in attending. I
would like to have a vote on proceeding with this hackfest. Here the
proposed vote text:


Your vote is needed on the planned Inkscape Hackfest in Paris, France.

Proposals:

1.  Sponsor a hackfest in Paris, France, for June 27th - July 1st.

Total cost estimate for 9 people is roughly $13k.
(Refer to attached proposal document for details)

[ ] a.  Yes, sponsor hackfest in Paris, France as proposed.
[ ] b.  Approve holding a hackfest, but recommend making the
following alterations:
___
[ ] c.  Do not approve holding a hackfest in Paris

2.  Reimburse using a ranked system similar to 2015/2016 hackfests.

[ ] a.  Use ranked reimbursement.  Long term, high commit
developers
are sponsored up to a higher maximum than new developers.
[ ] b.  Use open ended.  We'll fully cover all valid expenses
incurred by the sponsorees.
[ ] c.  Other:
__
[ ] d.  Do not reimburse for Paris hackfest expenses

3.  The Inkscape Board sponsors a dinner event, to be funded from the
Inkscape general fund (instead of the hackfest fund), for Hackfest
attendees and guests.

[ ] a. Yes.  Allocate $600 from Inkscape's general fund for a
dinner.
[ ] b. Yes, but handle funding the dinner in a different way:
___
_
[ ] c. No, do not fund a sponsored dinner for the hackfest.

Votes:

1.  2.  3.  4.
Bryce Harrington
Josh Andler 
Tavmjong Bah
Jon A. Cruz
Ted Gould   
Krzysztof Kosiński  
Martin Owens

Resolved:



Background:

Past hackfests have provided excellent opportunities for Inkscape
developers to meet in person, discuss the project and coordinate work
on bug-fixing, feature planning, and other efforts. In the past we've
also sought to align the location and time of the event with
conferences or groups in the area to permit external collaborations as
well. Our experience so far seems to show that we're getting far more
tangible benefit out of the internal interactions than the external
ones.

Thus, this event will focus more sharply on the hackfest itself, giving
us much greater flexibility for time and location.

Tavmjong Bah has volunteered as event coordinator for the hackfest
event (with help from Marc).



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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Referendum] Conservancy Stickers

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 08:39 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> 1a, 2c.

I vote the same. 1a + 2c.

Tav

> I like the idea of having stickers, and if SFC has storage I think
> that makes sense. They could also possibly give some out at events
> they have tables at?
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Sun, 2017-03-26 at 16:53 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> > Your vote is needed to ask the conservancy to produce a set of
> > stickers
> > to be used for events using their existing process and contacts.
> > 
> > Two Votes:
> > 
> > 1.  Give the Conservancy $100 to produce a set of four stickers
> > based
> > on our 0.92 about screen winner and runner-ups.
> > 
> > [ ] a.  Yes, allow the conservancy to help up make bulk
> > stickers.
> >     [ ] b.  Offer a different amount of money:
> > _
> > __     [ ] c.  Do
> > stickers
> > some other way:
> > 
> > ___
> > [ ] d.  Do not make any stickers for events
> > 
> > 2. Distribute the stickers to key Inkscape contributors in batches,
> > to
> > be used for any local events and to also be further redistributed
> > in
> > cases where contributor can't go to the event.
> > 
> >     [ ] a.  Yes, distribute the stickers to atop list of
> > contributors
> > for events and redistribution.
> >     [ ] b.  Send the stickers to one person who is responsible for
> > sending them at event times.
> >     [ ] c. Leave them with the Conservancy and ask for them as the
> > right times.
> > 
> > (two does not apply if one is mostly d.)
> > 
> > Votes:
> > 
> > 1.  2.    
> > Bryce Harrington
> > Josh Andler 
> > Tavmjong Bah
> > Jon A. Cruz
> > Ted Gould   
> > Krzysztof Kosiński  
> > Martin Owens
> > 
> > Resolved:
> > 
> > Background:
> > 
> >   The conservancy has a strong track record of producing stickers
> > specifically for themselves and a few other projects. By providing
> > the
> > artwork and funding, they could produce this low-entry event item
> > more
> > easily for our fans at events and provide valuable brand
> > recognition
> > for Inkscape over time.
> > 
> > Martin Owens will coordinate designs and sending things with the
> > SFC.
> > 
> > Thanks everyone,
> > 
> > Martin,
> > 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Portland Hackfest Apr 28 - May 3

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Sun, 2017-03-05 at 14:41 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> Hi Bryce,
> 
> Don't Panic!

+1

> I'm interested in coming and I didn't think you needed my specific
> RSVP, but if in any case, here it is!
> 
> We can give it until the end of the week to get a number of people,
> if
> it's less that four say, would that be a good threshold?
> 

I am planning on coming (but still need the wife's sign-off).

Might ping the board members as to who would come to get a quicker idea
of attendance. A negative response is as informative as a positive
response. Some might not have read the email invite yet.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Portland Hackfest Apr 28 - May 3

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 22:24 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Your vote is needed on the planned Inkscape Hackfest in Portland,
> Oregon.
> 
> Proposals:
> 
> 1.  Sponsor a hackfest in Portland, Oregon for Apr 28 - May 3.
> Total cost estimate for 5 to 11 people is roughly $6k to $14k.
> (Refer to attached proposal document for details)
> 
> [X] a.  Yes, sponsor hackfest in Portland, Oregon as proposed.
> [ ] b.  Approve holding a hackfest, but recommend making the
> following alterations:
>   ___
> _
> [ ] c.  Do not approve holding a hackfest in Portland
> 
> 2.  Reimburse using a ranked system similar to 2015.  Note this is
> somewhat less than was allocated for the Leeds hackfest, but
> expenses are expected to be lower.
> 
> [X] a.  Use ranked reimbursement.  Long term, high commit
> developers
> are sponsored up to a higher maximum than new developers.
> [ ] b.  Use open ended.  We'll fully cover all valid expenses
> incurred by the sponsorees.
> [ ] c.  Other:
>   ___
> _
> [ ] d.  Do not reimburse for Portland hackfest expenses
> 
> 3.  Provide an additional $500 lodging stipend for anyone that
> prefers
> to make their own lodging arrangements.  (I.e. for reasons of
> age,
> gender, special needs, or personal preference.)
> 
> [X] a. Yes, permit an additional $500 lodging stipend for any who
> do
>    not wish to use the group lodging.
> [ ] b. Yes, but...
> _
> ___
> [ ] c. Do not provide an additional stipend beyond the standard
>    reimbursement limit.
> 
> 4.  The Inkscape Board sponsors a dinner event, to be funded from the
> Inkscape general fund (instead of the hackfest fund), for
> Hackfest
> attendees and guests.
> 
> [X] a. Yes.  Allocate $600 from Inkscape's general fund for a
> dinner.
> [ ] b. Yes, but handle funding the dinner in a different way:
>   ___
> _
> [ ] c. No, do not fund a sponsored dinner for the hackfest.
> 
> Votes:
> 
> 1.  2.  3.  4.
> Bryce Harrington
> Josh Andler 
> Tavmjong Bah
> Jon A. Cruz
> Ted Gould   
> Krzysztof Kosiński  
> Martin Owens
> 
> Resolved:
> 
> 
> 
> Background:
> 
> Past hackfests have provided excellent opportunities for Inkscape
> developers to meet in person, discuss the project and coordinate work
> on
> bug-fixing, feature planning, and other efforts. In the past we've
> also
> sought to align the location and time of the event with conferences
> or
> groups in the area to permit external collaborations as well. Our
> experience so far seems to show that we're getting far more tangible
> benefit out of the internal interactions than the external ones.
> 
> Thus, this event will focus more sharply on the hackfest itself,
> giving
> us much greater flexibility for time and location.
> 
> In the past events, we flexibly let each attendee arrange their own
> accommodation within an allowed stipend, so as to enable them to find
> options that best minimize costs. However, our experience has shown
> this
> to be unpredictable with sometimes sub-par stays and various levels
> of
> hassles making the arrangements and securing reimbursement.
> 
> Bryce Harrington has volunteered as event coordinator for the
> hackfest
> event.
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Updates to Sponsorship Levels

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 20:14 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following
> proposal to modify the funding levels and rewards for sponsors.  See
> Discussion for explanation of the changes.
> 
> 
> Proposal:
> 
> 1. Reduce the Bronze Level to $500.
> 
> [X] Yes.
> [ ] No. Keep Bronze Level at $1000
> 
> 2.  Divide Sponsors page by sponsorship level, with increased
> prominance
> and duration for higher levels than lower.
> 
> [X] Yes.
> [ ] No. Keep the page layout to discretion of web team
> 
> 3. Merge Platinum and Diamond sponsorship levels for now.  Diamond
> can
>    be re-introduced later when we need it.
> 
>    [X] Yes, merge Platinum and Diamond
>    [ ] No.  Keep these two levels as-is.
> 
> 4. Add reward of placement in the website footer for Platinum
> sponsors.
> 
> [X] Yes.  PROVISIONALLY... what does this actually look like?
> [ ] No. Do not include sponsors in website footer
> 
> 5. Add a Recent News item for Golden level and two news items for
> Platinum.
> 
> [ ] Yes.
  [X] One for each...(I don't see the purpose of a second news
article, what would its content be?).
> [ ] No. Provide no guarantee of any news mentions.
> 
> 6. Add mention in all Release Notes for two years for Platinum level
>    sponsors.
> 
> [X] Yes.
>     [ ] No. Do not include sponsorship messages in Inkscape's Release
> Notes.
> 
> 
> Votes:
> Bryce Harrington
> Tavmjong Bah
> Josh Andler 
> Jon Cruz  
> Ted Gould   
> Martin Owens
> Krzysztof Kosiński
> 
> 
> Resolution:
> 
>  ...
> 
> 
> Discussion:
> 
> We have received several donations of $500 in the past and would like
> to
> better recognize them by reducing the lowest tier to this
> level.  We've
> only received a single $1000 donation so it seems to not be as
> popular
> of a denomination.
> 
> A recent Silver sponsor requested inclusion in the website footer.
> Space there is limited and likely would be high demand, so we wish to
> limit it to only higher level sponsors.
> 
> Our original plan did not provide differential benefits for the
> sponsorship levels.  This introduces a few extra perks for the higher
> levels.
> 
> This also merges Diamond and Platinum as a $20,000 level
> sponsor.  Our
> benefits between these two levels were not differentiated at all, and
> it
> seems superfluous to have two levels given that we've not yet had a
> sponsor approach us interested in funding near these levels.  We can
> save
> Diamond for later and re-introduce it (maybe at $50k??) when we
> better
> understand what such a sponsor would be interested in.
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> ---
> 
>   Inkscape Funding Levels For Sponsors
>   
> 
> 
> 1. Principles
> =
> 
>   Inkscape wishes to acknowledge and encourage donations from
>   sponsors. This proposal establishes a set of funding levels with
>   given rewards.
> 
> 
> 2. Levels
> =
> 
>   The following levels are established (in US$):
> 
>   Platinum Pen:   $20,000
>   Golden Brush:$5,000
>   Silver Quill $2,000
>   Bronze Stylus: $500
> 
> 
> 3. Rewards
> ==
> 
>   A.  Bronze Level: Acknowledgement on "Our Sponsor Page" in the
>   "Special Thanks" section (which should be the lower portion of
> the
>   page).  No logos or links.
> 
>   B.  Silver Level: Acknowledgement on "Our Sponsor Page" (mid-page)
>   with a logo or avatar image and one hyperlink to the sponsor's
>   main website or to a product supplied to the Inkscape project
> (one
>   year).  We'll also offer thanks to the sponsor in our news feed
>   (1-2 sentences in our Recent News section).
> 
>   C.  Golden Level: Acknowledgement at the top of "Our Sponsors Page"
>   with a logo or avatar image and one or more hyperlinks to the
>   sponsor's website, products, or associated sites (one
> year).  The
>   sponsor will be listed on Inkscape's homepage as Recent Sponsor
>   until the next Golden or Platinum sponsor.  We will publish an
>   item in our Recent News feed, which will include a link to a
> full
>   news item describing the sponsor's Inkscape usage, drawing-
> related
>   products, or other prose/information provided by the Sponsor.
> 
>   D.  Platinum Level: Acknowledgement

Re: [Inkscape-board] Inkscape Board Meeting Nov 4th

[Tavmjong Bah]

Reminder: Board meeting today.


Meeting times:

  * Noon  (PDT)
  * 3PM   (EDT, DoctorMo time)
  * 7PM   (WET/UTC)*
  * 8PM   (CET)*

* Note the unusual times as Summer time in Europe has already ended.


On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 18:30 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Meeting time this Friday, Nov 1st at noon Pacific in #inkscape-devel.
> Everyone's more than welcome to attend!
> 
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
> 
> Agenda:
>   * SVG 2 news [Tav]
>   * Merchandise sales [bryce]
> - Spreadshirt account's ready to go
> - Next need shirt designs
>   * Sponsorship levels followup [bryce]
>   * Inkscape forum followup
> 
> SFC has been kind enough to establish the Spreadshirt account for us;
> next step is to arrange login access for administrators.  If this
> sounds
> interesting please come to the meeting, or contact me directly.
> 
> Bryce
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Referendum] Hackfest in Portland, OR

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 23:24 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Nevermind guys.  Terri heard back and the place is already booked up
> on
> those dates (and for the rest of the year).

I agree with Martin, quite disappointing! Are there any other suitable
AirBnB's in Portland?

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Board meeting July 8th

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 14:59 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 02:20:55PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 10:45 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > 
> > > Alright, well thanks for following up.  I think Martin also had
> > > some
> > > ideas regarding arranging something in Boston for tackling GTK
> > > issues. I'll talk with him on if he'd be willing to carry this
> > > action
> > > forward.
> > I dropped the idea after Tav decided we should do GUADEC. But if
> > there's enough people to support both, I wouldn't mind re-engaging
> > the
> > SIBP about the gnome event.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> Maybe worth looking at again at Friday's meeting.
> 

Only two people responded to the email about the GUADEC hackfest, Alex
who was a maybe and Chiron who doesn't appear to be experienced with
Gtk. I've pinged them to get an update on their interest. I could go
(it's 2.5 hours by train from Paris) but the timing of the dedicated
hacking sessions is not optimal as my wife if off from work that week
(going for the general meetings is less of a problem).

I asked on the gtk+ IRC channel and it does seem like we would be able
to get useful help if we did send people.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016

[Tavmjong Bah]

Thanks for all your support. I recuse myself from the vote.

Tav

On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 17:08 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> I'm a. of course too.
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:21:58AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > 
> > [Resending to the correct list this time... sheesh.]
> > 
> > - Forwarded message from Bryce Harrington  > n.org> -
> > 
> > Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 23:14:31 -0700
> > From: Bryce Harrington 
> > To: inkscape-de...@lists.sf.net
> > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings
> > for 2016
> > 
> > A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> > following matter.
> > 
> > Proposal:
> > 
> > Authorize SVG WG travel by Tav up to the amount in the SVG WG fund.
> > 
> >  "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to
> > pay
> >  any invoice from Tav between 2016-03-01 and 2017-02-28 for SVG
> > Working
> >  Group meetings, up to the amount presently available in Inkscape's
> > SVG
> >  WG Fund, $2384.91.  Tav must of course also comply with
> > Conservancy's
> >  travel policy."
> > 
> >    [ ]  a.  Yes, authorize SVG WG expenses up to amount in fund
> >    [ ]  b.  No, do not authorize these expenses
> > 
> > Votes:
> > 
> > 
> > Resolved:
> > 
> > 
> > Background:
> > 
> > In the past we've had to vote on each of Tav's meeting attendances
> > on a
> > case by case basis.  But now that we have set aside a fund
> > specifically
> > for these meetings, I think we should just approve any and all
> > travel he
> > may do, up to the total in that fund.  This will eliminate
> > uncertainty
> > for him in making his travel plans, and simplify our voting.
> > 
> > I enquired with Bradley Kuhn about how we can do this, and this is
> > what
> > he replied:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > 
> > > Tav attends these SVG WG meetings pretty routinely now, and I
> > > don't
> > > recall us ever not approving his attendance.  Now that we have a
> > > dedicated fund set up for this, that isn't going to be used for
> > > anything *but* funding Tav's SVG WG trips, would it be
> > > permissible to
> > > give him approval to arrange his attendance at these meetings at
> > > his
> > > own discretion, so long as the expenses are within the limit of
> > > what's
> > > in the funding pool, without requiring board votes on each
> > > individual
> > > meeting?
> > I'd suggest you approve an annual maximum budget that Tav can send
> > invoices for regarding SVG meetings, and instruct Conservancy to
> > pay
> > them provided Tav's within the Conservancy travel policy.  That
> > way, you
> > only have to think about it once per year, or when he goes over
> > budget.
> > Something like:
> > 
> >  "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to
> > pay
> >   any invoice from Tav between now and 2017-01-01 for SVG Working
> > Group
> >   meetings, up to a maximum 2016 Travel Budget for Tav's SVG
> > Working
> >   Group meetings of $Nk.  Tav must of course also comply with
> >   Conservancy's travel policy."
> > 
> >    -- bkuhn
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I aligned the dates to fiscal year 2016 since we decided to shift
> > our
> > budget to those dates.
> > 
> > Below is a tally of the SVG WG fund balance as of what's in SFC's
> > ledger
> > system for us:
> > 
> >  FY 2015 
> > Initial fund$ 0
> > + $2250.00  Budgeted from Inkscape General Fund 2015$ 2250
> > - $ 346.82  SVG WG Sweden   $ 1903.18
> > - $  12.89  " " $ 1890.29
> > - $  12.95  " " $ 1877.34
> > - $  37.24  " " $ 1840.10
> > - $  15.19  " " $ 1824.91
> > - $  49.53  " " $ 1775.38
> > - $ 394.00  " " $ 1381.38
> > - $  31.38  " " $ 1350.00
> > + $2250.00  Retroactive from FY 2016 Ink. Gen. Fund $ 3600.00
> > - $  12.99  SVG WG Sydney Feb 3-5   $ 3587.01
> > - $  12.44  " " $ 3574.57
> > - $1586.80  " " $ 1987.77
> > - $  15.55  " " $ 1972.22
> > - $  11.67  " " $ 1960.55
> > - $ 244.29  " " $ 1716.26
> > - $  68.89  " " $ 1647.37
> > 
> >  FY 2016 
> > + $ 736.54  Donation income Dec 2015 - May 2016 $ 2383.91
> > 
> > This will cover Tav's recent London SVG editor's meeting (which he
> > reports ran to about $500), an editor's meeting in Amsterdam, and
> > other
> > travel he'll undertake through the remainder of FY 2016.
> > 
> > If Tav needs to spend in excess of this 

Re: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 21:12 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:02:24PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> > > identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> > > months.
> > I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM.
> > We
> > spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of
> > the
> > $13100 budgeted.
> > 
> > This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason
> > it
> > was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical
> > masses to
> > work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
> > duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
> > particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a
> > gathering
> > focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
> > fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our
> > user
> > community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
> Excellent ideas all around.
> 
> With releases traditionally the work falls into these categories:
> 
>   0.  Getting tests to all pass and the build to build cleanly
>   1.  The actual release mechanics (make dist, signing, etc.)
>   2.  Translation
>   3.  Fixing release-critical bugs
>   4.  PR/announcement
>   5.  Website/infrastructure related bits and pieces
> 
> Some of these may be better suited to co-location than others.  #0 I
> suspect is probably already in the bag, and #1 I've been working on
> behind the scenes so am not worried there.  Translation I think kind
> of
> by definition is going to be hard to do as a hackfest.  The PR and
> Website stuff probably would benefit from a hackfest but they're not
> areas likely to be blockers for us, although a strong case could be
> made
> from a fundraising perspective that it would be time well invested.
> 
> I suspect for this release bugfixing is the biggest remaining hurdle,
> but I don't have anywhere close to a handle on what it's going to
> look
> like so who knows.  If we knew what bugs needed fixed the worst, and
> who
> the fixers would be, that would tell us the suitability of a hackfest
> and clue us in on where geographically it should be held.

Yes, I was thinking work category 3 as the primary reason to have a
release hackfest. Work on the other categories might also benefit from
a hackfest but not as much as 3.

> I'm guessing that there's enough of us typically involved in releases
> that are located in the western half of the US, that a west-coast or
> midwest location might be sensible, and might be a fair turn since
> we've
> had hackfests on the east coast and England.

It's a bit far away, but we will be able to send two people to the
Google Mentor Summit which is in the later part of October. So timing a
hackfest on the west coast at that time might be good. If not for a
release then perhaps for working on GTK3.

Tav

> Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>  
> This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> months.

I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM. We
spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of the
$13100 budgeted.

This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason it
was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical masses to
work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a gathering
focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our user
community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.


Tav



 

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[Inkscape-board] Hackfest and LGM Impressions

[Tavmjong Bah]

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




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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Sponsor Olof Bjarnason for $500

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 23:53 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> 
> Reimburse Olof Bjarnason up to $500 for travel expenses to
> attend the 2016 Inkscape Hackfest.
> 
> [ ] a. Yes, approve the reimbursement as stated above.
> [ ] b. No, do not approve reimbursement as stated above.
> 
> Votes:
> 
>     Bryce Harrington
> Josh Andler
> Tavmjong Bah
> Jon A. Cruz
> Ted Gould
> Krzysztof Kosiński
> Martin Owens
> 
> Resolved:
> 
> 
> Background:
> 
> I (Tav) was asked by another Inkscape developer if it would be
> possible
> to invite Olof Bjarnason to the Inkscape hackfest with a sponsorship
> level of $500. Olaf has been participating on the Inkscape
> developer's
> mailing list since September 2015 and was active in helping Marc with
> adding additional node alignment options this year. He is not in the
> Inkscape authors file thus does not qualify for sponsorship under the
> current criteria (he has had a few patches accepted for lib2geom
> including one in 2015). As an enthusiastic relatively new Inkscape
> developer it seemed prudent to invite him to the hackfest.
> 
> I queried the board members through the mailing list, and after
> getting
> positive responses by four other members I invited Olof. This
> resolution
> is to formalize the decision.
> 
> Note, this resolution does not increase the budget for the hackfest
> nor
> does it open up invitations to any other person without board
> consent.
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] Hackfest budget etc.

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 11:25 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 15:55 +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> > Any other opinions?
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Do we need to vote on that or is there
> already room in the allotted budget?
There should be room in the budget. I'll leave it to Bryce to decide if
we need a formal vote. I'll go ahead and extend an invitation.
Tav
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Re: [Inkscape-board] Hackfest budget etc.

[Tavmjong Bah]

Any other opinions?

I would like to invite Olaf Bjarnanson who helped Mark J recently with
keyboard stuff (Mark is already coming).

Tav

On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 21:48 -0700, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
> 2016-03-14 3:41 GMT-07:00 Tavmjong Bah <tavmj...@free.fr>:
> > 
> > It has been suggested to me that we selectively invite recently new
> > active participants in the Inkscape community who would not
> > otherwise
> > qualify for travel assistance. I like this idea as it would help to
> > encourage new participants to keep contributing. I would propose
> > asking
> > the Inkscape community to nominate people for a $500 special
> > invitation.
> I like this idea. Marc J. would be an obvious candidate.

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[Inkscape-board] Hackfest budget etc.

[Tavmjong Bah]

Hi,

So far we have allocate $9000 for travel expense for the hackfest,
$3000 for travel to LGM, $1300 for the venue (includes lunches,
snacks). $600 for Hackfest dinner. The actual amount for travel should
be considerably less (for example, it include $2000 for Alex who is
local).

See: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2016_Attendees

I believe we allocated $7500 for the hackfest + $5000 for LGM + $600
for the dinner. At the end of 2015 we had $11,600 in the hackfest
"account". Bryce, can you confirm these numbers?

It has been suggested to me that we selectively invite recently new
active participants in the Inkscape community who would not otherwise
qualify for travel assistance. I like this idea as it would help to
encourage new participants to keep contributing. I would propose asking
the Inkscape community to nominate people for a $500 special
invitation.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Sponsorship

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 09:59 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It would be really great if we could get the sponsorship reward level
> stuff nailed down sooner rather than later. The last off-list email I
> sent regarding this didn't seem
> to get any response, so I figured we'd just move the discussion on to
> the list to see if it helps move things forward.
> 
> I received a follow-up email from the potential donor with $5,000 and
> I still had nothing new to tell him. A donor having to follow-up
> because I didn't have a substantive response to provide is not a good
> thing... especially when weeks later I have literally no new info for
> them.

We already voted on sponsorship levels last September. For a $5000
(Golden Brush) donations we agreed:

> 1. Acknowledgment with logo on "Our Sponsor Page" (one year)
> 
> 2. Acknowledgment with logo on our home page (one year) for Silver
and above levels.
> 
> Logos must be 160x80px and non-animated. SVG's are encouraged. Logos
> must be non-political and non-offensive with the Inkscape board and
> SFC being the final arbitrators of suitability.
>

Is there something more being asked for?


> I was also contacted again by someone who produces educational
> courses for Inkscape who would like to donate via profit sharing if
> we'd be willing to promote his courses. Since he originally contacted
> me a year ago, he has garnered 5,000 sales of his courses. His
> proposal is to donate half of the proceeds moving forward. So, in his
> case it would be a unique situation since his donation amount
> wouldn't be predictable. I think it has the potential to be hugely
> beneficial to both parties.

This is a good offer, however, before agreeing to "endorse" his course
by linking to it, I would want to review it.


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Re: [Inkscape-board] Gitlab accounts

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Just created the account 'Tavmjong'



On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 15:18 -0800, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
> Please send me your Gitlab account names, so I can add you to the
> Inkscape group on Gitlab.
> 
> Best regards, Krzysztof
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[Inkscape-board] Hackfest Venue

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Hi,

As most of you already know, our original venue for the Leeds hackfest
fell through. Alex is looking for another venue which will probably not
be free. What would be a reasonable amount to allocate for a venue?
I've already suggested to Alex that a few hundred pounds would seem
reasonable to me for a three day hackfest. What do you all think?

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] GPLv2 Licensing Intent

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 18:03 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
> following matter.
> 
> Proposal:
> 
> The Board officially states that the Inkscape Project's intention is
> for
> the main codebase to be licensed as GPL version 2 or later.
> 
>   [ ]  a.  Approve statement that Inkscape is GPLv2+
>   [ ]  b.  The board should state a different licensing policy:
>        _
> ___
> [ ]  c.  The board should not state a license intent at this
> time

a.

I agree with Ted that we should evaluate moving to GPLv3+ in the
future.

> Background:
> 
> When Inkscape's code was originally written, it was important that it
> be
> covered by the GPL.  At that time, GPLv3 had not been created, and so
> version distinctions didn't seem compelling enough to necessitate
> spelling it out definitively, and thus it generally wasn't.  Indeed,
> it
> was not uncommon to leave out the boilerplate licensing statements
> from
> the code files simply for expediency; the assumption was that placing
> them in the repository was sufficient for "inheriting" the standard
> Inkscape licensing.
> 
> Over time the project accumulated snippets of code adopted from other
> projects, some of which had different licensing policies.  Generally
> these were compatible with the GPL license of the codebase, but not
> always.
> 
> Inevitably all of this has led to some developer confusion over
> exactly
> what Inkscape's licensing policy is and what it should be.  With the
> added complexity of GPL version 3 (and other permutations such as
> "GPL
> v2 only"), it is becoming clear that Inkscape needs to be more
> precise
> at tracking the licensing of the codebase, down at least to
> individual
> file boilerplates.
> 
> An obvious first step is to have a firm decision by the project about
> what the licensing *should* be, so that all code that is descrepant
> from
> that can be addressed, and the codebase brought into compliance
> through
> regular development efforts.
> 
> Note that this decision will be only for the core codebase itself.
> Plugins, dependency libraries, and other accessory codebases such as
> the
> website, will need to be generally compatible with GPLv2+ (assuming
> that's what we choose) to the degree that the GPL requires in order
> for
> them to link to, or be distributed with, Inkscape, or else Inkscape
> will
> be unable to continue using them; however, this board decision is not
> dictating what the exact license should be for those products, and
> any
> adjustments needed to them as a side-effect of this decision are left
> to
> their developers to sort out as makes the most sense for them.
> 
> 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Hackfest Sponsorship 2016

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 19:51 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Your vote is needed on the planned Inkscape Hackfest for 2016:
> 
> Proposals:
> 
> 1.  Hold the 2016 hackfest in Leeds on Apr 11-14 2016.
> (Refer to attached proposal document for details).
> 
> [ ] a.  Yes, hold hackfest in Leeds as proposed
> [ ] b.  Approve holding a hackfest, but recommend making the
> following alterations:
>   ___
> _
> [ ] c.  Do not approve holding a hackfest this year

a.

> 2.  Reimburse using a ranked system similar to last year, but with
> increased limits and relaxed contribution requirements, as
> detailed
> below.
> 
> [ ] a.  Use ranked reimbursement.  Long term, high commit
> developers
> are sponsored up to a higher maximum than new developers.
> [ ] b.  Use open ended.  We'll fully cover all valid expenses
> incurred by the sponsorees.
> [ ] c.  Other:
>   ___
> _
> [ ] d.  Do not reimburse for Leeds hackfest 2016 expenses

a.

> 3.  If a sponsoree does not hit their maximum reimbursement amount
> for the
> hackfest itself, can they apply the remainder against LGM
> expenses?
> 
> [ ] Yes.  Consider LGM and Hackfest expenses lumped together for
> purposes of reimbursement.
> [ ] No.  Airfare can be covered by either Hackfest or LGM
> sponsorship (or split between them), but hotel and food
> expenses
> for each event should be handled separately.

Yes.

> 4.  The Inkscape Board sponsors a dinner event, to be funded from the
> Inkscape general fund (instead of the hackfest fund), for
> Hackfest
> attendees and guests.
> 
> [ ] Yes.  Allocate $600 from Inkscape's general fund for a
> dinner.
> [ ] Yes, but handle funding the dinner in a different way:
>   ___
> _
> [ ] No, do not fund a sponsored dinner for the hackfest.
> 

Yes (first one)

> Votes:
> 
> Resolved:
> 
> Background:
> 
> After the success of the 2015 Hackfest, there is strong interest in
> sponsoring another one in 2016.  Last year we co-located the event
> with
> LGM, which was convenient for Inkscape developers who wanted to
> attend
> LGM; we had a few LGM attendees stop by the hackfest which was nice
> but
> perhaps not as critical.
> 
> This year's LGM is in London, and in order to achieve similar cross-
> over
> benefits this proposal suggests holding it nearby, but not
> necessarily
> (expensively) *in* London.  Leeds is a short distance and we have an
> Inkscape developer in proximity who can organize it and handle
> logistics, so this seems like a sensible locale.
> 
> Last year's fundraising brought in an amount well in excess of what
> we
> required, and indeed probably enough to cover most or all of the
> sponsorship for the 2016 hackfest.  Due to this, we probably don't
> need
> to allocate money from the general fund for this event.  Even so, it
> is
> intended that we conduct another fundraiser; this will help establish
> certainty for a 2017 hackfest, and/or might be usable for another
> smaller (perhaps US-located) hackfest in 2016.
> 
> We established limits on the maximum sponsorship amounts last year,
> in
> order to ensure spreading the funds widely.  However, since we
> underspent so significantly, and since attendance was below
> anticipated,
> this proposal suggests relaxing the requirements and increasing the
> limits:
> 
> * Up to $2500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for
> 3+
>   years and > 150 commits
> * Up to $2000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for
> 2+
>   years and > 50 commits
> * Up to $1500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for
> 1+
>   year and > 25 commits
> * Up to $500 each for any Inkscape contributor listed in AUTHORS file
>   with at least 10 commits by Jan 1, 2016
> 
> Alex Valavanis has volunteered as event coordinator for the hackfest
> event.
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Donation to Software Freedom Consortium for 2016

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 18:19 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> == Proposal ==
> 
> Should a $600 donation be made to the Software Freedom Consortium in
> thanks for their services provided?

I vote yes.

> == Votes ==
> Tavmjong Bah
> Ted Gould 
> Jon A. Cruz   
> Bryce Harrington
> Josh Andler
> Krzysztof Kosiński
> Martin Owens
> 
> 
> == Resolved ==
> 
> A $600 donation should be made to SFC. 
> 
> == Background ==
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As you all know, SFC is launching a big fundraiser on Monday. As we
> heavily rely on SFC I think we should consider making a donation to
> show our support. They are currently 81 annual supporters short of
> their minimum goal. Perhaps we could donate the equivalent of 5
> annual
> subscription (5 x $120 = $600)? Donations before the end of January
> will be matched.
> 
> Tav
> 
> * Note that many employers will match on donations to charities, so
> this
>   is worth checking into as it'll double the impact of your donation.
> 
> * Currently 10% of Inkscape's net income is provided to SFC, as is
>   standard for all projects SFC manages.
> 
> * Inkscape made a one-time donation to SFC as part of our Fiscal
>   Services Agreement effort last year, in the amount of $1600 ($400
> per
>   year from 2009-2012), plus a retroactive payment of 10% for income
>   received since 2012.
> 
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[Inkscape-board] Proposal to for donation to SFC

[Tavmjong Bah]

Hi,

As you all know, SFC is launching a big fundraiser on Monday. As we
heavily rely on SFC I think we should consider making a donation to
show our support. They are currently 81 annual supporters short of
their minimum goal. Perhaps we could donate the equivalent of 5 annual
subscription (5 x $120 = $600)? Donations before the end of January
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Re: [Inkscape-board] 2015 Budget actuals

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> > BTW, Alex is working on details for a Leeds Hackfest proposal. He
> > might
> > have a local sponsor.
> 
> Good, we have a meeting in a couple days which might be an
> opportunity
> for getting decisions from the board that he needs in order to move
> forward.  I forget what dates were scoped out but if it's prior to
> March
> 1st we can organize a vote to approve funds (there's such excess from
> last year's hackfest this should be no problem).  If it's after march
> 1st, then it'd be nice to have a rough guestimate to pencil in for
> budgeting.

LGM is April 15-18th so the hackfest would be just before or after. I
suggest penciling in 50% more for the hackfest than last year under the
assumption that costs will be similar and we hope to have more
participants.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] 2015 Budget actuals

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On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 00:35 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals
> column for the 2015 budget:
> 
>   https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/budget/

Thanks for doing this!


> Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses
> to
> come.  Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly
> so
> if anything looks weird lemme know.

I don't understand the entries for the Hackfest. Where does the
$13,721.87 number come from? The last entry suggests that we got
$6857.87 in Hackfest donations. Are some of these donations from 2014?

There should be a minus sign before the $5,724... or the numbers don't
add up.

I attended two SVG WG meetings last year, Sydney and Linkoping. I was
reimbursed $2250 for Sydney and $900 for Linkoping. The "budgeted"
amount was just for the Sydney trip as that was approved before the
budget was created.

What is our current balance? (Is the $31,000 number at the top from
last year, or has it been updated?)

> For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending
> plans.  It
> feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference
> attendance sponsorships.  It would be great to also see more
> activities
> like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been
> finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in
> organizing something like that please send in a proposal.

I definitely agree that we could be a bit more aggressive. The book
program was an excellent idea (I still use the book that I got).

BTW, Alex is working on details for a Leeds Hackfest proposal. He might
have a local sponsor.

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[Inkscape-board] License issue with Scour

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Hi,

Scour is now licensed solely under the Apache 2.0 license. This license
in principle is not compatible with GPLv2.[1] Eduard Brown would like
to merge an updated version of Scour into Inkscape trunk. He claims
that as we are only calling Scour as an external program (script) we do
not need to worry about the license incompatibility. Is this true?

Tav


[1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
[2] https://code.launchpad.net/~eduard-braun2/inkscape/scour/+merge/278
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[Inkscape-board] Inkscape on the iPad

[Tavmjong Bah]

We may have a copyright/trademark violation

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/inkscape/id1029852758

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[Inkscape-board] Hackfest 2016

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Hi,

If we are going to have a hackfest in 2016 we should probably start
thinking about it.

I quite like the idea of having a hackfest before or after LGM (London
April 15-18) in Leeds (two and a half hours north of London via train).

We don't necessarily need to be coupled with LGM. We talked a little
bit about where to hold the 2016 hackfest in Toronto. See:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2016

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Re: [Inkscape-board] The Graphical Web Conference

[Tavmjong Bah]

BUMP

Anybody else have feelings about this, negative or positive?


On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 09:57 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 15:21 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The Graphical Web Conference (formerly SVG Open) is taking place
> > Sept
> > 23-26 in Pittsburgh.
> > 
> > https://www.graphicalweb.org/2015/
> 
> Sounds like the kind of thing Inkscape people should be attending in
> some form or another.
> 
> > I submitted a talk on SVG 2 (in which I highlight Inkscape) which
> > was
> > accepted. For the past few years the conference has fully paid my
> > travel costs (I've asked Inkscape for backup funding each time but
> > I
> > never had to use it). This year it is clear that the conference
> > will be
> > unable to fund my travel as they are running a rather large
> > deficit. It
> > is probably not worth the $1500 it would take for Inkscape to send
> > me
> > to the conference but it might be worth sending someone who is
> > closer,
> > especially if that person could fill in for me. I was thinking
> > maybe
> > along the line of $500 of support. (We can probably get the
> > conference
> > fee waived.)
> > 
> > What do you all think about this?
> 
> It's interesting to me. Who's the closest and most available to
> PA/USA?
> 
> I'm 1.4 hours away @ $164 by air. What about others?
> 
> Martin,

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[Inkscape-board] Sponsorship Support Levels

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Hi,

In case anybody missed it, Karen reports that we have a prospective
donation of $1000 in return for mention on our Sponsors page:

https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/sponsors/


Bradley suggests that we should formalizing a donation program. One
example he gives is Twisted Matrix:

https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedSoftwareFoundation#B
enefitsofSponsorship

which has the following levels of support.

Diamondback: $20,000 and up
Platinum Python: $10,000
Golden Tree Snake: $5,000
Silver Sidewinder: $2,000
Copperhead: $1,000
Aluminum Adder:  $100

He suggests skipping the lowest level. Bryce and Josh have expressed
support for these levels. I think they are good too. Note that the
levels have been customized. Perhaps we could have:

Diamond Scribe
Platinum Pen
Golden Brush
Silver Quill
Copper Pencil


The Twisted Matrix program puts the logos of Silver and higher sponsors
on the home page for one year. They also dictate the size of the logos.
(160x80px).

I think we should adopt this program quickly before we lose this
opportunity.

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[Inkscape-board] The Graphical Web Conference

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Hi,

The Graphical Web Conference (formerly SVG Open) is taking place Sept
23-26 in Pittsburgh.

https://www.graphicalweb.org/2015/

I submitted a talk on SVG 2 (in which I highlight Inkscape) which was
accepted. For the past few years the conference has fully paid my
travel costs (I've asked Inkscape for backup funding each time but I
never had to use it). This year it is clear that the conference will be
unable to fund my travel as they are running a rather large deficit. It
is probably not worth the $1500 it would take for Inkscape to send me
to the conference but it might be worth sending someone who is closer,
especially if that person could fill in for me. I was thinking maybe
along the line of $500 of support. (We can probably get the conference
fee waived.)

What do you all think about this?

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Status of Elections, SFC Agreement, and 0.92

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 13:24 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
 On Friday, July 3, 2015 7:14:50 AM CDT, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
  How is preparing for the Board election going? What is left to be done?
 
 We are waiting on the results of the test election before doing a call for 
 nominees. I've talked with Bradley and he has been swamped with bookkeeping 
 tasks, but has promised to get them shortly.

I'm wondering if we really need to wait for the results of the test
election. Doing the nominations will take awhile.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Resolved] SVG Working Group Meeting - Linkoping

[Tavmjong Bah]

Thanks all for your quick votes!

Tav

On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 01:45 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 Votes:
 
 Josh Andler a.
 Jon A. Cruz a.
 Bryce Harringtona.
 Ted Gould   a.
 Tavmjong Bah   (recused)
 
 Resolution:
 
 The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG
 meeting for a total of up to $900.
 
 
 On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:22:35AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
  Proposal:
  
[ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Linkoping SVG WG meeting as
   outlined below, for a total of up to $900.
[ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav.
  
  
  Votes:
  
  Josh Andler
  Jon A. Cruz
  Bryce Harrington
  Ted Gould
  Tavmjong Bah   (recused)
  
  Resolution:
  
  The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG
  meeting for a total of up to $900.
  
  
  Background:
  
  I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Linkoping SVG working group
  meeting, to be held June 9-12, 2015.
  
  The SVG working group is working through remaining issues in the SVG 2
  specification. The specification is essentially feature complete. At
  this point incomplete features without a champion are being removed or
  moved into separate specifications (as happened with some new stroke
  and marker properties at the Sydney meeting). It would be good for me
  to be present in person to make sure that features important to
  Inkscape like mesh gradients, hatched fills, auto-flowed text are not
  dropped. Motions to drop features can arrive quickly and without
  warning as evidenced by the recent removal of SMIL animation from the
  SVG 2 specification.
  
  Attending in person can be very fruitful. At the Sydney meeting I was
  able to get text on a shape, auto-closing of paths, and smoothing in
  gradients into the SVG 2 specification. The major browser vendors are
  represented so it is a chance to lobby them to add these features
  quickly to the their browsers.
  
  
  Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: 
  
https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/
  
  My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at:
  
http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/sydney_2015.html
  
  and a meeting report at:
  
   http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1226
  
  Approximate cost for Linkoping
  
Transportation: Paris to Linkoping: $450
5 nights lodging/meals: $450
  
  
  BTW, here is what Inkscape spent on my attending SVG WG meetings in 2015
  and 2014 (additional funding to that for attending LGM and GSoC mentor's
  meeting):
  
  2015: Sydney $2250
  
  2014: Leipzig $900 (Just after LGM)
London  $757 (Transportation paid for by SVG Open)
Santa Clara $616 (Just after GSoC mentor's meeting)
  
  
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Re: [Inkscape-board] SVG Working Group Meeting - Linkoping

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On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 23:31 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
 On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 20:32 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote: 
  I talked to Bryce and Josh about this at the hackfest and they seemed
  positive. Ted and Jon, can you let me know what you think ASAP?
 
 I think that sounds reasonable. I do think we need an official vote
 before anything counts though.

Of course. I've checked in a proposal to board-docs. Bryce can you start
an official vote?

Thanks,

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Re: [Inkscape-board] donation for inkscape hackfest

[Tavmjong Bah]

Has anybody answered Máirín?

On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:21 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
 Hi folks,
 
 I hope this isn't too late -
 
 Red Hat put aside $500 for the Inkscape Hackfest. One of the 
 stipulations of the funding is that I write an article interviewing one 
 of the developers who went to talk about how the hackfest went / what 
 was worked on.
 
 If this sounds like a good deal, can you let me know if it's still okay 
 to use the donation link here 
 (https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfest/) post-hackfest and who 
 would be a good person for me to interview?
 
 Thanks
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[Inkscape-board] Summary of expenses for Hackfest and LGM

[Tavmjong Bah]

Hi,

I am about to submit the reimbursement request for the Toronto Hackfest
and LGM. We allocated the participants a total of $12000 for the
combined event. I will be submitting a reimbursement request for $4910
which, with Jabiertxo's airfare which SFC has already paid for, brings
the total participation support by Inkscape to $5780. The final number
may change but it won't be by much. (This does not include the $400
allocated for the Inkscape dinner.)

Krzysztof wins the prize for being the thriftiest, managing to find an
airfare for Warsaw to Toronto of only $505!

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] GPL violation of inkscape

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I vote a. I think GPL enforcement is important but don't want to see
this become a big money sink.

Tav


On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 00:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
 following Inkscape GPL violation matter.
 
 Proposal:
 
 [ ]  a.  Approve purchase of Digital Fashion Pro by the
Conservancy lawyers, up to $250.
 [ ]  b.  Approve purchase of Digital Fashion Pro by the
Conservancy lawyers, at any price.
 [ ]  c.  Do not   approve purchase
 
 Background:
 
 Hi guys,
 
 It's been brought to our attention that there is a company selling
 software called Digital Fashion Pro, which in actuality is just Inkscape
 with some templates thrown in, and a price tag in the hundreds or
 thousands of dollars.  It appears they neither mention that the software
 is open source under the GPL, nor make offers of source code for
 download, which is a GPL violation.
 
 In order to establish legal proof of the violation, Conservancy needs to
 verify the lack of source offer, and to do that they need to examine a
 purchased copy of the software.  Their policy is to ask the infringed
 project (i.e. us) to foot the bill for that copy.  If it is found that
 the company is in fact in violation, they will be asked (or legally
 required) to repay this amount.  They may also be required to pay legal
 fees, and to come into compliance with the GPL.
 
 The price of the software has varied during the time of observation.
 Currently it is on sale for $200, but I've seen it offered at $500
 and even $1500.
 
 Please see below for the Conservancy's estimation of the likely
 best/typical/worst case resolution of this.
 
 Bryce
 
 
 On 04/08/2015 04:33 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
  Before we get too far into this, can I ask a basic question?
  What is the best/likely/worst outcomes we should expect from engaging
  with them on this?
 
 Probably the best outcome would be for us to find that they already 
 include a fully-compliant source release of Digital Fashion Pro along 
 with the product itself, and that they are willing to update their 
 advertising to make it clear that Digital Fashion Pro is a modified 
 version of Inkscape (assuming that lack of clarity is one of the current 
 issues).  Even better would be for them to release Digital Fashion Pro 
 and its source code at no charge, but I don't think this is likely given 
 that it seems to be a main revenue stream so I wouldn't consider it a 
 possible outcome really.  Another good outcome would be that, though 
 they didn't ship source initially, they give us a source candidate when 
 we first contact them and it happens to be compliant, so we charge them 
 for our time and they pay us.  They might even agree to allow us to 
 write a Conservancy blog post praising them for coming into compliance, 
 though usually companies don't since they don't like people knowing that 
 they weren't in compliance to begin with.  But if we did get that, 
 perhaps by giving them a discount on what we charge them for our time 
 checking their source, it would be very helpful in deterring future 
 violators and encouraging compliance generally, as people would see 
 Conservancy is reasonable and willing to work with violators to amicably 
 resolve issues without public shaming.
 
 The worst outcome would be that we spend a lot of resources on this 
 issue and it drags on for a year or more and they're unwilling to budge 
 so we have to file a lawsuit and we eventually have to agree to a 
 settlement that offers only the minimum compliance required by the GPL. 
   That minimum compliance might not resolve the trademark issues, which 
 we could try to resolve some other way (through a separate action, 
 possibly also including a lawsuit).  Minimum compliance would in 
 practice likely involve them providing source only to people who have 
 purchased Digital Fashion Pro and who have asked for source.  Also, we 
 may have to keep chasing them as they may then release new versions that 
 are not compliant.  Note that we very rarely file lawsuits to achieve 
 compliance - this is a worst-case scenario.
 
 A likely outcome is that we buy Digital Fashion Pro, find that it 
 doesn't include source code or an offer for source code, and then when 
 we ask for source, they initially claim they don't need to send us any, 
 but eventually they capitulate and send us some source code they think 
 corresponds to the Digital Fashion Pro binaries they ship.  We will 
 probably need to go back and forth with them a few times when it doesn't 
 build correctly, but we will likely reach a point where they have 
 provided all the source to us.  We'll ask them to include an offer for 
 source with their product, which they'll do, and provide source on a CD 
 or similar to anyone who's bought the product and asks for source.  This 
 

Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Inkscape Hackfest Dinner

[Tavmjong Bah]

I think in principle this is a great idea. But as three of the current
five board members would benefit, there might be a conflict of interest.
(Speaking of which, Ted, how is election prep coming?)

The SFC maximum per-diem rate does allow for exorbitant meals (I truly
hope nobody would try to exploit this) so for those getting reimbursed
via SFC, they are technically already covered for the cost. But there
are those that are not and perhaps one or two people will show up who
aren't already registered. Also, sending the hackfest team to a nice
restaurant does have symbolic value.

There seem to be plenty of restaurants in the university area so a cab
is unlikely to be needed. (Looks like a few hundred within a twenty
minute walk).

For the moment I will recuse myself. 

Tav


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 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
 following matter.
 
 Proposal:
 
 Should the Inkscape Board send the Inkscape hackfest team out for dinner
 at a nice restaraunt while in Toronto?
 
 [ ]  a.  Yea, for the estimated cost of up to $400
 [ ]  b. Nay
 
 On approval, we'll find a good restaraunt (perhaps suggested by our
 local contacts), make a reservation, and arrange cab transportation as
 needed.  Attendance is estimated at 8-10 people, and dinner as costing
 around $30-35 per person.
 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Donation to SFC

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1. Yes
2. c or e, flat amount of $400/yr for 2009-2012, 10% from 2012 onward.

I agree that the donation should not be mentioned in the FSA


On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 15:03 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 [Reposting]
 
 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following
 proposal relating to retroactive payment to SFC.
 
 Proposal:
 
 1. In light of the services provided by the Software Freedom Consortium to
date, given on voluntary basis, should we provide a retroactive
donation to the SFC?
 
 [ ] Yes, donate to SFC in thanks for their past support.
 [ ] No.  We should pay only the required 10% fee going forward
 from date of signature of the new FSA.
 
 2.  Assuming we should donate to the SFC, how much should we donate to
 SFC?
 
 [ ] a.  10% of gross income since we have been a member (9 years).
 [ ] b.  10% of gross income since initiation of FSA #2 discussions
 (2012).
 [ ] c.  A flat amount of $400 per year that we have been a member
 (2009).  This amounts to $3600.
 [ ] d.  A flat amount of $400 per year since FSA #2 (2012).
   This amounts to $1200.
 [ ] e.  Some other amount:
   _
 
 Background:
 
 Tav writes,
 I agree with Josh and Ted that a donation to the SFC is appropriate for
 their past work on our behalf. Can we agree on the amount? I would
 propose $400 for each year we have been a member. We have been a member
 for 9 years so that would be $3600.
 
 This assumes that the 10% kicks in on the date the new FSA is approved.
 
 
 We were asked by Bradley to provide 10% of our revenue to SFC in 2012:
 
  (b) As I've discussed with a number of you, including Jon, Josh and
  Tavmjong, Inkscape has received fiscal sponsorship services
  from Conservancy at no charge since 2006.  Back when
  Conservancy was founded, I was an SFLC employee and SFLC was
  subsidizing my time -- effectively donating staff time to
  Conservancy.  This ceased in early 2008, and I served as a
  volunteer for Conservancy on nights/weekends until 2011, when I
  became a full-time employee -- which was the only way to keep
  it going with the services it promises (the other option would
  have been to shut down Conservancy).  Since then, to maintain
  legal services as part of the service plan once SFLC shrunk
  further, we hired Tony as well.  We get a lot done with a staff
  of two, but obviously we need financial resources to be able to
  provide these services.
 
  Conservancy's Board of Directors voted about a year ago that
  all member projects should be required to give 10% of their
  earmarked revenue to support Conservancy to continue to provide
  services.  This is a standard way for a fiscal sponsor to
  operate, and we were lucky before that we weren't required to
  do this, and I'd been waiting to bother Inkscape with this
  since you are one of our older members. (We haven't taken a new
  member for anything other than 10% in a few years, BTW).  I
  hope a 10% arrangement as we use with other projects now will
  be acceptable to you, and I and Tony are happy to discuss
  further this issue.
 
 In December 2012, we voted generally favorable to paying the 10% fee
 going forward from 2012.  There were questions regarding pass-thru of
 Google SOC payments and so on, but generally favored the basic idea:
 
 
 https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-board/?viewmonth=201212
 
 For comparison, Software in the Public Interest (SPI), an organization
 analogous to the SFC, provides similar services and takes 5% of net
 (after credit card, etc. fees):
 
 http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/
 
 
 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] updated Inkscape FSA

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On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 19:16 -0400, Tony Sebro wrote:
 Thanks for everyone's comments -- and for your edits, Josh.  I've
 attached an updated draft for everyone's review.  In particular, I've
 updated the Representation section to call for elections every two
 years.  If you'd prefer a different frequency, or if there's anything
 else you'd like to tweak, let me know. 

I'm confused. How does Each elected Member shall continue to serve on
the Committee until she or he resigns from the position. and Elections
shall occur at a time and place that the Members shall determine, but
must be held at least every two (2) years. work?

Committee is mispelled in section 2a (in the brackets).

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Board Elections

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On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 10:16 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:57:26PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
  
  Hi,
  
  And then there were five... I think we should have board elections ASAP.
  I believe that we have approved the voting method. Is there anything
  stopping us from starting the election process?
 
 The one thing I want to get hammered out is how the actual voting will
 take place.  I've done enough research to convince myself that there's
 adequate 3rd party voting tools available that we needn't implement
 something ourselves.  But we'd need to set up and test the software, and
 then sort out how to specify who can actually cast votes.
 
 Once those are done, then yeah we should hold the elections ASAP.  I was
 hoping to have time to work on it this past weekend, but didn't.
 
 Would it make sense for us to designate an election committee of, say 3
 people, to handle these things, and announce and run the election?
 Maybe that would get it done faster.

That is a good idea. Perhaps three non-board members?

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[Inkscape-board] Board Elections

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Hi,

And then there were five... I think we should have board elections ASAP.
I believe that we have approved the voting method. Is there anything
stopping us from starting the election process?

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Re: [Inkscape-board] My resignation

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Johan,

Sorry to see you go! You will be missed... You have been a great asset
to Inkscape. I can't see how you possibly could think that you have done
any harm to the project.

Tav

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 23:43 +, J.B.C. Engelen (Johan) wrote:
 Hello all,
   I want to resign my position on the board.
 
 I feel I do more harm than good to the project, and I hope it will do
 me good too.
 
 Some important and exciting things are going on and I want the new
 board member to be a part of it. I want to resign per direct, so you
 can start the election procedure as soon as possible.
 
 Hope to catch you on IRC one of these days,
 regards,
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Hackfest sponsorship

[Tavmjong Bah]

1. Yes
2. b or c
3. b
4. a
5. Yes

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 00:52 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 Your vote is needed on several proposals regarding the planned Inkscape
 Hackfest 2015.  Please vote on ALL numbered items.
 
 
 Proposals:
 
 1.  Should the $5000 budgeted for the hackfest be spent from reserves to
 sponsor travel and hotel expenses for Inkscape developers to
 participate in Hackfest Toronto 2015?
 [ ] Yes
 [ ] No.  Use the budgeted funds some other way:
 
 
 
 2.  Should we adopt a flat reimbursement model (similar to how we did
 LGM last year), or the proposed ranked reimbursement model (similar
 to how we did GSoC), or leave it open ended?
 
 [ ] a.  Use flat reimbursement.  Everyone is sponsored up to the
 same maximum amount.
 [ ] b.  Use ranked reimbursement.  Long term, high commit developers
 are sponsored up to a higher maximum than new developers.
 [ ] c.  Use open ended.  We'll fully cover all valid expenses
 incurred by the sponsorees.
 
 3.  If a flat reimbursement model is used, how should we set the
 maximum?
 
 [ ] a.  Divide the total funds available ($5000 plus earmarked
 donations) by number of attendees.
 [ ] b.  $2000 maximum each.  If this results in actual expenses
 exceeding the available funds, hold a follow-up vote to
 determine what to do.
 [ ] c.  $1000 maximum each.  At this level we should be able to
 cover all expected attendees.
 
 4.  If a ranked reimbursement model is used, how should we set the
 maximums?
 
 [ ] a.  As proposed on the Hackfest2015 page[1]; see Background for
 the amounts.
 [ ] b.  As with (a) but each of the limits should be raised $500
 higher.
 [ ] c.  As with (a) but each of the limits should be reduced $500
 lower.
 
 5.  If a sponsoree does not hit their maximum reimbursement amount for the
 hackfest itself, can they apply the remainder against LGM expenses?
 
 [ ] Yes.  Consider LGM and Hackfest expenses lumped together for
 purposes of reimbursement.
 [ ] No.  Airfare can be covered by either Hackfest or LGM
 sponsorship (or split between them), but hotel and food expenses
 for each event should be handled separately.
 
 
 
 Background:
 
 We've planned a hackfest[1].  We're undertaking a fundraiser to cover
 sponsorships, and we're also budgeting $5000 from reserves for this.  We
 need to hold a vote on the sponsorship levels to make things official.
 
 From the hackfest page, it was proposed to limit maximum sponsorshop
 amounts to the following, in hopes of spreading the funds across a wider
 number of people:
 
 * Up to $2000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 3+
   years and  200 commits  (About 18 developers qualify, not all
   currently active)
 * Up to $1500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 2+
   years and  100 commits  (About 17 additional qualify)
 * Up to $1000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 1+
   year and  50 commits   (About 24 additional qualify)
 * Up to $500 each for any Inkscape contributor listed in AUTHORS file
   with at least 10 commits by Jan 1, 2015 (About 50 additional qualify)
 
 Tavmjong Bah has volunteered as event coordinator for the LGM and
 hackfest events.
 
 
 [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015
 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Funding pre-approved jobs

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

We will have to do some fund raising to make the projects attractive.

Tav


On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 00:54 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 04:13:46PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
  A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
  following matter.
  
  Proposal:
  
  Allocate $750 total from Inkscape's 2015 Budget for three Pre-Approved Jobs.
  
  [ ]  a.  Yes, allocate money from budget to jobs
  [ ]  b.  No, do not allocate from budget
 
 Here's where we are so far on this matter:
 
 Votes:
 Bryce Harrington  a.
 Tavmjong Bah  
 Josh Andler a.
 Jon Cruz
 Ted Gould a.
 Johan Engelen
 MentalGuy
 
 Thoughts/Concerns/Votes?
  
  Background:
  
  Inkscape has set up a funded development process[1], and following that
  process has pre-approved[2] three projects from a list of suggestions.
  In the recent budget vote[3], we've budgeted $750 to spend in 2015 on
  funded work.  This vote is to formally allocate $250 to each project's
  funds.
  
  I envision we'll need to do some fundraising on top of this to make the
  jobs more attractive, but this will give us a starting point.
  
  
  
  1:  https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/funded-development/,
  
  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.board/+junk/board-docs/view/head:/resolutions/funding_model.txt
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  https://www.mail-archive.com/inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00212.html
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  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.board/+junk/board-docs/view/head:/resolutions/budget_2015.txt
  
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Election Procedure (v.3)

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote b.

Tav

On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 00:52 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
 following matter.
 
 Proposal:
 -
 Adopt Election Procedure version 3, as shown in Addendum for the
 Inkscape Board's official procedure for holding Board Elections.
 Diverging from this procedure is not allowed without board approval.
 
   [ ]  b. Accept Election Procedure v.3 (or later) as official election 
 procedure
   [ ]  c. Accept Election Procedure, if the following changes are done:
__
__
 [ ]  d. Do not accept Election Procedure
  
 Votes:
 --
 Bryce Harrington
 Tavmjong Bah  
 Josh Andler   
 Jon Cruz  
 Ted Gould 
 Johan Engelen b.
 MentalGuy
 
 Resolution:
 ---
 
 
 Background:
 ---
 The procedure detailed in the addendum derives from directions given in
 past elections, and incorporates ideas from X.org's recent board
 elections.  Notably, in the past we've elected single individuals, but
 this procedure covers electing several members at the same time.
 
 
 Change History
 --
 v.1   RFC Draft
 v.2   Clarify voting through the website
   Note pseudonyms are ok, but legal names will be needed
   Allow nominations
 v.3   Increase Candidacy signup to 2 weeks
   Post to both inkscape-announce and inkscape-devel.
   Drop mention of 'Enfranchised Accounts'.
   Clarify bits that will be specified per-election.
 
 Addendum:  election_procedure.txt
 -
 Inkscape is holding elections for ${NUM_SEATS} new Board Members.
 
   ${INTRODUCTION_TEXT}
 
 Typically the board votes on things such as project fund expenditures
 (travel, conferences, marketing materials for events, etc), trademark
 related issue, other legal issues that arise, etc.  The board does not
 have responsibility currently for technical decisions for the project,
 and does not handle social/community issues where there are no financial
 or legal aspects to the problem.
 
 Board membership requires a commitment of time: At a minimum you will be
 expected to participate in votes on the mailing list, which typically
 occur with a frequency of about 0 to 3 per month.  You are required to
 be on the board mailing list, which has a volume of about 30-50 emails
 per month; you're not required to participate in the discussions, but it
 is very strongly encouraged.  We also solicit volunteers from the board
 to serve as as event managers, team leaders, fundraising coordinators,
 etc. - Again, not a requirement, but we value board members who can
 shoulder such duties for the project.
 
 As specified in Section 6 or our charter we maintain a committee of
 seven project members. Section 6 reads as follows:
 
 6. Representation of the Project in the Conservancy. The Developers,
 each a signatory hereto, shall represent the Project in its official
 communication with the Conservancy. There shall be seven Developers
 (together, the Committee), elected by the community members of the
 Project listed in the Project's AUTHORS file (the Community
 Members). Each Developer shall continue to serve until he or she
 resigns from the position. The Developers may be removed from the
 position at any time by a majority vote of the Community Members. Upon
 the resignation or removal of a Developer, the Community Members shall
 elect a replacement Developer to serve on the Committee. The Committee
 will elect a single individual to communicate with the Conservancy
 (the Representative) and shall notify the Conservancy promptly
 following the election of a new Representative. The Representative
 will have the authority to instruct the Conservancy on the Project's
 behalf on all matters. This section may be modified by a vote of at
 least 3/4 of the Community Members, with the consent of the
 Conservancy, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. 
 
 Election Schedule
 =
  * Kickoff Announcement: ${date}
+ Post to inkscape-announce@
+ Publish news item to website
  * Candidacy period Start:   ${date}
  * Candidacy period End:   ${date + 2 weeks} (08:00 UTC)
  * Publication of Candidates
   start of Candidate QA: ${date + 2 weeks}
  * Election Start: ${date + 2 weeks}
  * Election End:   ${date + 2 weeks + 2 weeks} (08:00 UTC)
  * Results Posted: ${date + 2 weeks + 2 weeks + 2 days}
 
 
 Membership
 ==
 Inkscape developers listed in the AUTHORS file as of ${AUTHORS_DATE} are
 considered Official Members for purposes of this election, as per our
 Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy.
 Only Official Members may run for the board positions, and only Official
 Members may vote for them.
 
 In this election we will be using the Inkscape website

Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] LGM Sponsorship Amounts

[Tavmjong Bah]

I am leaning toward a. I would like to see our funds focused on those
who are also attending the hackfest. 

We previously discussed funding developers based on number of commits
and years of activity. I think this is a good approach.

BTW, if nobody else has volunteered to coordinate the event, I can do
it.

Tav


On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 22:30 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 Proposal:
 
   [ ] a. Cover travel and hotel expenses for Inkscape
  developers to participate in LGM 2015, maximum of $500
per developer, up to $5000 total.
   [ ] b. Cover travel and hotel expenses for Inkscape
  developers to participate in LGM 2015, maximum of $1000 per
developer, up to $5000 total.
   [ ] c. Either a or b would be fine.
   [ ] d. The budgeted funds for LGM should be used some other way:

 
 
 Background:
 
   LGM is an important meeting for the Libre graphics movement. We will
   be having a hackfest ahead of it, and should help hackfest attendees
   afford staying for LGM too. Having Inkscape developers get together is
   always a good thing. Having Inkscape developers talking with others in
   the Libre Graphics movement can even be better.
 
   We've budgeted $5000 for sponsoring LGM attendees.  (Note this is in
   addition to $5000 + donations for hackfest attendees.)  The question
   we need to decide in this vote is exactly how to split it up.
 
   Last year the board funded up to 5 developers, $500 each.  For people
   attending the hackfest, $500 will likely sufficiently cover the
   additional hotel expense for the additional 4 days, depending on where
   they're staying.  This would enable us to fund 10 developers.
 
   However, if we have some people attending LGM only, and not attending
   the hackfest, then they may have additional travel expenses and it may
   make sense to provide a higher allocation of $1000, but this may
   reduce the total number of developers we could sponsor.
 
 
 Last Year's Announcement:
 
 Interested in meeting up with fellow Inkscapers?  Thanks to generous
 donations to the project, we are able to provide funds to reimburse five
 developers up to $500 each for attendance at the Libre Graphics Meeting
 in Leipzig in April.
 
 Anyone in the AUTHORS file as of Feb 19th, 2014 is eligible to apply.
 To register, please email Tavmjong Bah, our coordinator for the event,
 by March 6th to get on the list.  He'll let you know what position you
 are in the list.  Then, register for the conference, enjoy your time,
 and save your receipts.  Afterwards email copies of the receipts to Tav,
 who will forward them along to SFC for reimbursement.  A maximum of $500
 US each will be reimbursed to five attendees for travel, hotel room, and
 food.
 
 Note that the LGM meeting may also give partial reimbursements, so if
 your total costs exceed $500 they may be able to help.
 
 In addition, the board is sponsoring Tavmjong Bah to attend both LGM as
 a speaker and as our event coordinator, and the co-located SVG Working
 Group Meeting.  Tav will be representing Inkscape's interests at the SVG
 meeting, and will be working with them on features including mesh
 gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text.
 
 Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Inkscape in the past.  Your
 funding has made these sponsorships possible.  We've found these
 face-to-face meetings invaluable both for sharing ideas and as general
 inspiration for advancement of the project.
 
 
 
 Last Year's Website Blurb:
 
 Thanks to generous donations from users, the Inkscape Project is pleased
 to pay for five developers to attend the Libre Graphics Meeting, to be
 held in Leipzig in April.  Tavmjong Bah will be presenting and is
 sponsored to go as Inkscape's event coordinator; please contact him if
 you are an Inkscape developer and would like added to the sponsorship
 list.
 
 Tav will also be sponsored to attend the co-located SVG Working Group
 Meeting.  Tav will be representing Inkscape's interests at the SVG
 meeting, and will be working with them on features including mesh
 gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text.
 
 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Budget for 2015

[Tavmjong Bah]

For the record, I vote b. with an allocation of $10,000 for the hackfest
and LGM combined.

Tav

On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 23:52 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 07:49:20PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
  On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 11:35:00PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
   A majority vote of the current board members is required for approving
   this budget.
   
   
   Proposal:
   
1.  Adoption of the Rev2 budget described below for use as guidance in
financial voting for 2015.
   
2.  Board chairman will document the budget on the Inkscape website,
and follow up with subsequent votes on individual expenses as
appropriate or as they come up.
   
[ ]  a.  Yes, adopt budget as described in Rev #2 (below)
[ ]  b.  Revise budget with the following changes recommended:
   _
   _
[ ]  c.  Do not establish a budget for 2015
  
 
 Final votes
  
 Ted Goulda.
 Josh Andler  a.
 Jon A. Cruz  a.
 Bryce Harrington a.
 Johan Engelen  a.
 Tavmjong Bah  
 MentalGuy 
 
 Resolution:
 
 Budget is adopted.
 
  
   Background:
   
   We have $31,000 in savings presently.  We typically get between $3,000
   and $8,000 in yearly donations, with a trend averaging at $7,000 in the
   last few years.  However, this year we are experimenting with allowing
   donors to earmark their donations to specific budget items
   (i.e. Hackfest).
   
   This is not intended to be a formal budget, but rather to serve as a
   planning aid and to inform decisionmaking.  The board must still vote on
   each specific expense, and in particular they are not restricted from
   voting larger or smaller amounts than is budgeted here.
   
   Item Amount
   ---
   SVG Working Group(*) $2,250
   LGM 2015  2,500 [1]
   Hackfest 2015 2,500 (+ sponsorship) [2]
   SCALE(*)250
   Other events500 [3]
   Funded Development  750 [4]
   Developer Education 500 [5]
   Grants (OSUOSL)($)250
   Contingency   500
   --   --
   Total   $10,000
   Reserve   $21,000
   Expected Income   $ 5,000 [6]
   
   
   Notes
   -
   (*):  Budget item already approved by board
   
   ($):  Budget item already paid out
   
   [1]:  With the hackfest co-located with LGM, we anticipate charging half
 of airfair costs against LGM, half against Hackfest.
   
   [2]:  The plan for the hackfest is to pay for it 100% through
 sponsorship and earmarked fundraising.  This budget item allocates
 $2,500 as contingency in case the hackfest fundraising does not
 raise its full amount.
   
   [3]:  This budget item covers material costs (buttons, stickers,
 banners, etc.) as well as travel sponsorship, for events where
 Inkscape will have a presence (e.g. booth, presentation,
 development discussion, etc.)
   
   [4]:  This is intended as seed money for three projects ($250 each),
 with earmarked fundraising used for further funding.
   
   [5]:  This amount covers books, training courses, and other expenses
 that result in improvements to our community's skills, knowledge,
 and abilities for research, development, QA, producing, and
 marketing the Inkscape software.
   
   [6]:  This budget item provides for donations to other non-profit
 organizations.
   
   [7]:  This is just a guess for how much will be donated to Inkscape's
 General Fund.  This assumes $2,000 less than 2014's ~$7,000 due to
 redirecting donors to the hackfest for the first few months of the
 year.
   
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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Election procedure

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote b.

Changes:

1. Post to both inkscape-announce and inkscape-devel.
2. Better explanation of Enfranchised Account.
3. I don't think SFC requires legal names, that should be checked.
4. Candidacy sign-up increased by one week (as Johan requested).

On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 02:57 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
 following matter.
 
 Proposal:
 -
 Adopt the Election Procedure shown in Addendum as the Inkscape Board's
 official procedure for holding Board Elections.  Diverging from this
 procedure is not allowed without board approval.
 
   [ ]  a. Accept Election Procedure v.2 as official election procedure
   [ ]  b. Accept Election Procedure, if the following changes are done:
__
__
 [ ]  c. Do not accept Election Procedure
 
 Votes:
 --
 Bryce Harrington
 Tavmjong Bah
 Josh Andler
 Jon Cruz
 Ted Gould
 Johan Engelen
 MentalGuy
 
 Resolution:
 ---
 
 
 Background:
 ---
 The procedure detailed in the addendum derives from directions given in
 past elections, and incorporates ideas from X.org's recent board
 elections.  Notably, in the past we've elected single individuals, but
 this procedure covers electing several members at the same time.
 
 
 
 Addendum:  election_procedure.txt
 -
 Inkscape is holding elections for ${NUM_SEATS} new Board Members.
 
 ${Introduction_Text}
 
 Typically the board votes on things such as project fund expenditures
 (travel, conferences, marketing materials for events, etc), trademark
 related issue, other legal issues that arise, etc.  The board does not
 have responsibility currently for technical decisions for the project,
 and does not handle social/community issues where there are no financial
 or legal aspects to the problem.
 
 Board membership requires a commitment of time: At a minimum you will be
 expected to participate in votes on the mailing list, which typically
 occur with a frequency of about 0 to 3 per month.  You are required to
 be on the board mailing list, which has a volume of about 30-50 emails
 per month; you're not required to participate in the discussions, but it
 is very strongly encouraged.  We also solicit volunteers from the board
 to serve as as event managers, team leaders, fundraising coordinators,
 etc. - Again, not a requirement, but we value board members who can
 shoulder such duties for the project.
 
 As specified in Section 6 or our charter we maintain a committee of
 seven project members. Section 6 reads as follows:
 
 6. Representation of the Project in the Conservancy. The Developers,
 each a signatory hereto, shall represent the Project in its official
 communication with the Conservancy. There shall be seven Developers
 (together, the Committee), elected by the community members of the
 Project listed in the Project's AUTHORS file (the Community
 Members). Each Developer shall continue to serve until he or she
 resigns from the position. The Developers may be removed from the
 position at any time by a majority vote of the Community Members. Upon
 the resignation or removal of a Developer, the Community Members shall
 elect a replacement Developer to serve on the Committee. The Committee
 will elect a single individual to communicate with the Conservancy
 (the Representative) and shall notify the Conservancy promptly
 following the election of a new Representative. The Representative
 will have the authority to instruct the Conservancy on the Project's
 behalf on all matters. This section may be modified by a vote of at
 least 3/4 of the Community Members, with the consent of the
 Conservancy, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. 
 
 Election Schedule
 =
  * Kickoff Announcement: ${date}
+ Post to inkscape-announce@
+ Publish news item to website
  * Candidacy period Start:   ${date}
  * Candidacy period End:   ${date + 1 week} (Midnight Pacific time)
  * Publication of Candidates
   start of Candidate QA: ${date + 1 week}
  * Election Start: ${date + 1 week}
  * Election End:   ${date + 1 week + 2 weeks} (Midnight 
 Pacific time)
  * Results Posted: ${date + 1 week + 2 weeks + 2 days}
 
 
 Membership
 ==
 Inkscape developers listed in the AUTHORS file as of ${AUTHORS_DATE} are
 considered Official Members for purposes of this election, as per our
 Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy.
 Only Official Members may run for the board positions, and only Official
 Members may vote for them.
 
 In this election we will be using an online system to conduct the
 voting.  To vote, you will need to register for an Enfranchised
 Account.
 
 
 Election Proctor
 
 The Inkscape Board elects by majority vote an Election Proctor who

Re: [Inkscape-board] Pre-approving projects for funding

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 22:46 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 03:40:27PM -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
  On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Tavmjong Bah tavmj...@free.fr wrote:
   SVG 2 features is a huge project that needs to be broken down into
   smaller parts. SVG 2 compliant flowed text is a great start and has the
   advantage that there is a natural SVG 1.1 fallback. It will be an
   implementation challenge as one needs to understand the current text
   code.
  
  I guess part my though with the SVG2 / Flowed Text project is that I
  considered a partial rewrite of some of the text code as something
  that would be needed to do it right. For me, it would make sense to
  include that in the scope of this project since it is paid work on a
  very important part of the codebase.
  
  Per Bryce's request, I'd be willing to start working on fleshing out a
  proposal for the SVG2 Text work... I will definitely need help
  refining it though. Either way, I think there has been enough
  discussion in the past for me to get together a good list of
  requirements. Tav, since you're the most familiar with the text code
  and proposed svg spec related to it, your input will be greatly
  helpful once I get to that point.
  
  Cheers,
  Josh
 
 Since Martin is hoping to get staging pushed live, I've done a rough
 sketch of a description for this project, although I don't know enough
 about flowed text in SVG2 to do it justice:
 
 
 SVG 1.1 Flowed Text allows arranging strings of text along arbitrary
 paths.  The text is fully editable and the glyphs individually
 formattable.  This is already implemented in Inkscape and you should
 first become familiar with the current text code that enables it.
 
 SVG2 adds new functionality including wrap margin and padding, inside
 and outside shapes, exclusions, and some whitespace control settings,
 pre-wrap and pre-line.  See http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/TEXT_FLOW/.
 
 This project aims to implement these new SVG2 flowed text features for
 Inkscape, and also providing logical fallback to SVG1.1 if the user
 saves the document in that format.
 
 
 View it here:
 http://staging.inkscape.org/en/project/svg2-compliant-flowed-text/
 
 You can edit the project here:
 http://staging.inkscape.org/en/admin/projects/project/3/
 
 Comments:
  * I couldn't find a formal list of exactly what SVG2 specifies, so the
second paragraph may be an incomplete list.  It should be made
complete.
  * The third paragraph just wishy-washy says implement me.  Really it
should give the developer more specific guidance, but I don't know
what.
  * The project system requires a logo of 150x150 and a banner of
120x920.  The former shows up at http://staging.inkscape.org/en/project/
and the latter at 
 http://staging.inkscape.org/en/project/svg2-compliant-flowed-text/
I dummied up a couple graphics but they're both crap so you should
create something better.
  * When you edit the project, you can see the completion criteria I
picked, which is all pretty generic.  You might add to it, such as
specifying rendering tests that should be passed, performance goals
to be achieved, tutorials to write, etc.

I don't have time to review this completely now. I'll do it when I get
back home next week.

The specification text for flowed text is found at:

https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/text.html

I will be revising this text over the next month in response to a very
useful discussion we had yesterday at the joint CSS/SVG meeting. I'll be
adding a property to dictate how text wrapping works when there are
holes in a shape as well as a method allow text to wrap into multiple
shapes.

Tav





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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Produce materials for SCALE 13x

[Tavmjong Bah]

I vote a.

The one question I have, is how does the banner get passed around?

Tav (from the Singapore airport)


On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 11:47 -0800, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
 A majority vote of the current board members is required for this
 matter.
 
 Proposal:
 
   Reimburse the cost of producing:
 
   * Up to $200 for a one-time expense to create an Inkscape stand-up
   banner for shows and conferences
 
   * Up to $80 for hand-out materials including mini-stickers and
   mini-cards with hackfest fundraising info.
 
   * Total limit of $250 for the one-time and hand-out expenses
   combined.
 
   Jon A. Cruz will coordinate acquisition of items and setup for the
   Inkscape booth at SCALE 13x.
 
   [ ]  a.  Yes, approve this funding proposal.
   [ ]  b.  I might vote yes for a more limited proposal
   [ ]  c.  No, do not provide funding for conference materials
 
 
 Background:
 
 Inkscape has participated in SCALE conferences for several years now.
 The exhibit floor reaches a wide audience including businessmen from
 various industries, students and educators, other open source projects
 and the general population.
 
 Some years back we used a generic Libre Graphics banner that had been
 provided by Andy Fitzsimon. It has gotten worn out over the years, but
 also was never Inkscape-specific. Currently as one project member noted
 Our barren booth at SCALE is kind of an embarrassment... we're a
 graphics app and we have the stock generic banner they provide us
 with.
 
 A non-retracting two-sided floor banner should be about $170 plus tax
 and shipping. This item should last several years, and can be shipped as
 needed to different conferences.
 
 The mini-card portion of the hand-out materials runs about $20 plus
 shipping and handling. It has been noted that them bringing in just a
 few small donations (perhaps 3-4) could more than make up for their
 expense. But at the least they can help raise awareness of Inkscape and
 appreciation for it in the general population.
 



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Re: [Inkscape-board] Proposed FY2015 Budget

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On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 20:14 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
 On 6-2-2015 21:35, Bryce Harrington wrote:
  On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
  Having money sitting in our account is not very useful. We have no real
  need for a contingency fund. We have no assets that might break suddenly
  and need replacing. I'm not advocating we spend it all in one year but I
  do think we can be a bit more aggressive in using what we have.
 
  My my, the money's really burning a hole in your pocket Tav!
 
  Seriously though, $10k is burning a full third of our savings, that
  seems plenty aggressive to me.
 
  Also note that we're directing people to donate directly to hackfest, so
  the kitty as you call it is not going to get refilled from donations
  this year.
 
 Thanks for bringing up the budget proposal Bryce and for the financial 
 overview.
 The budgeting of course becomes a sizable amount of work if fully 
 written out with income/budgeting done properly, which I don't think 
 need be done.
 
 Shouldn't we include the expect 'income' in this discussion ? In that 
 case, from the past years, we can expect ~$7k (plus perhaps some extra 
 if hackfest PR works). That means we'd expect to be spending ~3k of our 
 savings.
 Not saying we should spend much more, but wanted to give some counter to 
 spending 1/3 of our savings.
 
 I am not up-to-date on the Hackfest planning, but I assume 
 LGM+Hackfest=5k is enough? (the 5k would be total cost, regardless of 
 how the money is gathered (our savings or donations))

Assume we have 10 developers at the hackfest, half from North America,
half from Europe. We estimated the cost of a North American based
developer at between $600 (Boston) and $1150 (LA) so take $800 for an
average. We estimated the cost for a European based developer at $1200.
So the total cost (just for the hackfest) would be $1. See:

  http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015#Budget

 Perhaps we could include a small budget for items type of stuff? 
 Stickers or t-shirts? (even though we may expect/intend to sell the 
 items, it is still a cost initially)
 
 cheers,
Johan
 
 
 
 
  Bryce
 
  Tav
 
 
  On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 02:47 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
  For the past four years our annual donation income has been steady at
  about $7,000.  We have $31,000 saved from past years.  I'd like to
  propose we budget $10,000 for expenses in FY2015.
 
  For the $10,000 I'd further like to propose the following breakdown for
  categorization:
 
  Item   Budget
  -  --
  SVG Working Group  $2,500
  LGM 20152,500
  Hackfest 2015   2,500
  SCALE 250
  Other events  500
  Funded Development750
  Developer Education 1,000
  -- --
  Total $10,000
 
 
  The one caveat being that targeted fundraising can increase the
  available amounts.  For instance since $409 are raised specifically for
  the Hackfest, the actual amount spent could be $2,909.
 
  Before we vote on this, any questions or thoughts to consider?
 
  Bryce
 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] Proposed FY2015 Budget

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Bryce,

Thanks for sending the summary of current finances and starting the
process of developing a budget.

All,

I'm not going to have time to make detailed comments before I get back
from the Sydney WG meeting (I've got a lot of prep to do and having sick
kids isn't helping), but I do have one quick comment. I think the
amounts allocated to LGM and the Hackfest are too small. The hackfest is
vital for our future. Hopefully our campaign to raise money for it will
be enough to cover all the expenses but we won't know until after it is
over. We need to be able to ensure that all our active developers who
want to come can be there. People need to be able to plan far enough in
advance to get reasonably priced plane tickets, make work/family
arrangements, etc. (BTW, the delay in getting final approval for Sydney
ended up boosting the airfare $400.)

Having money sitting in our account is not very useful. We have no real
need for a contingency fund. We have no assets that might break suddenly
and need replacing. I'm not advocating we spend it all in one year but I
do think we can be a bit more aggressive in using what we have.

Tav


On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 02:47 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 For the past four years our annual donation income has been steady at
 about $7,000.  We have $31,000 saved from past years.  I'd like to
 propose we budget $10,000 for expenses in FY2015.
 
 For the $10,000 I'd further like to propose the following breakdown for
 categorization:
 
 Item   Budget
 -  --
 SVG Working Group  $2,500
 LGM 20152,500
 Hackfest 2015   2,500
 SCALE 250
 Other events  500
 Funded Development750
 Developer Education 1,000
 -- --
 Total $10,000
 
 
 The one caveat being that targeted fundraising can increase the
 available amounts.  For instance since $409 are raised specifically for
 the Hackfest, the actual amount spent could be $2,909.
 
 Before we vote on this, any questions or thoughts to consider?
 
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[Inkscape-board] GSoC 2015

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While I am thinking about it, the GSoC deadline for organization
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Re: [Inkscape-board] REFERENDUM: Sydney SVG WG Meeting

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Can anybody else vote on this? Airfares have risen $200 in the past
week. I can probably still keep to budget but not if they go up any
more.

Tav

On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 23:50 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
 I vote a.
 
 - Johan
 
 
 On 13-1-2015 11:45, Bryce Harrington wrote:
  A majority vote of the current board members is required for this
  matter.
 
  
  Tav would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next
  month.
 
  Proposal:
 
 [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Sydney SVG WG meeting as
outlined below, for a total of up to $2250.
 [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav.
 
 
  Background:
 
  I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Sydney SVG working group
  meeting, to be held February 11-14, 2015. The first day will
  be a joint meeting with the CSS working group.
 
  The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2
  specification into last call at which point no new features can be
  added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting
  to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape
  remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in
  the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr
  repository).
 
  The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous
  meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the
  importance of this meeting justifies it.
 
  Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on
  my blog:
 
 http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/
 
  At this meeting, the SVG working group plans on moving the SVG 2
  specification to Last Call. At this point the specification is
  essentially feature complete with no new features to be added and
  incomplete features removed. It is an important meeting to attend in
  person to make sure that features important to Inkscape such as mesh
  gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text are not dropped. It
  also is a last chance to add new features adopted like text-on-a-shape
  or resolve problems such as getting proper closing of paths. The
  meeting also is an opportunity to lobby the browsers to implement SVG
  2 features already supported by Inkscape such as the 'context-fill'
  and 'context-stroke' values for the 'fill' and 'stroke' properties
  which allows automatically matching marker fill color to path stroke
  color and the 'auto-reverse-start' value for the marker orientation
  which allows an arrow marker to be used both at the start and end of a
  path.
 
  There are typically a number of SVG meetings throughout the year.
  The total cost of these meetings may represent a non-trivial fraction of
  Inkscape's annual income, so it may be worthwhile to budget the
  proportion of Inkscape's income to go to these events.  If this is done,
  the amount approved for this trip will be included in the SVG meetings
  category.
 
 
 
  Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at:
 
 https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/
 
  My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at:
 
 http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/tpac_2014.html
 
  and a meeting report at:
 
 http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1154
 
 
  Approximate cost for Sydney
 
 Transportation: Paris to Syndey:$1500
 6 nights lodging/meals: $ 750
 
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Re: [Inkscape-board] Resignation

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On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 23:14 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
 Hi all,
I want to give you a heads-up that I am probably going to resign my 
 board membership soon.
 There are many reasons. Not worrying about Inkscape for the past few 
 weeks has been very nice, without any bad emotions behind the keyboard. 
 It is a pity, and I feel sorry about it.
 
 I'd like to stay on to finish the FSA thing, so that we get that done, 
 and then resign shortly after.
 

I'll be very sorry to see you go but I can understand that if you are
not getting satisfaction from working on Inkscape then it can only be
expected for you to shift your time and effort into something that does
give you satisfaction.

I am glad you will stay on at least till the FSA work is finished.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Sydney SVG WG Meeting

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On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 16:32 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:00:18PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
  
  Hi,
  
  I would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next
  month. The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2
  specification into last call at which point no new features can be
  added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting
  to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape
  remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in
  the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr
  repository).
  
  The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous
  meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the
  importance of this meeting justifies it.
  
  Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on
  my blog: 
  
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/
  
  Tav
 
 Hi Tav, thanks again for writing up the report on the effectiveness of
 the past meetings.  And thanks too for writing up this proposal.  As a
 reminder, votes need to be called by the committee chair to be official.
  
 Also, I have been thinking that since the SVG meetings are an ongoing
 item, really what we should be doing is establishing an overall budget
 for the year, with SVG meetings being a regular category in it.  I
 think that'd help make things more predictable for everyone, and would
 give you more freedom in determining which meeting(s) make the most
 sense for you to attend.
 

It would be a good idea to have a yearly budget. I've been lucky so far
that the SVG meetings have mostly coincided with other conferences (LGM,
SVG Open, GSoC Mentor's meeting) so it's kept down costs. I do need,
however, to get an answer rather quickly on Sydney as airfares will rise
as the date approaches. Can you call for a vote on this and leave the
topic of a yearly budget to a future discussion?

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Sydney SVG WG Meeting

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On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 09:13 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
 
 I vote for funding this, A. I think it is an important meeting, the
 idea of SVG2 at all delights me, it's been a long time coming.
 
 I'm a little worried that with the hackfest planned, but fund raising
 not in (not worried, but reality of situation), we might be slightly
 over committed. I think we should be conservative until that event is
 in the books (as it's our first), but this is important.

I agree we should be conservative but I do think we still have a fairly
large kitty in case our hackfest fund raising flops. Bryce, can you give
us our current account balance at SFC?

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[Inkscape-board] Sydney SVG WG Meeting

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Hi,

I would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next
month. The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2
specification into last call at which point no new features can be
added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting
to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape
remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in
the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr
repository).

The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous
meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the
importance of this meeting justifies it.

Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on
my blog: 

  http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/

Tav


Proposal:

  [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Sydney SVG WG meeting as
 outlined below, for a total of up to $2250.
  [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav.


Background:

I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Sydney SVG working group
meeting, to be held February 11-14, 2015. The first day will
be a joint meeting with the CSS working group.

At this meeting, the SVG working group plans on moving the SVG 2
specification to Last Call. At this point the specification is
essentially feature complete with no new features to be added and
incomplete features removed. It is an important meeting to attend in
person to make sure that features important to Inkscape such as mesh
gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text are not dropped. It
also is a last chance to add new features adopted like text-on-a-shape
or resolve problems such as getting proper closing of paths. The
meeting also is an opportunity to lobby the browsers to implement SVG
2 features already supported by Inkscape such as the 'context-fill'
and 'context-stroke' values for the 'fill' and 'stroke' properties
which allows automatically matching marker fill color to path stroke
color and the 'auto-reverse-start' value for the marker orientation
which allows an arrow marker to be used both at the start and end of a
path.


Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: 

  https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/

My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at:

  http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/tpac_2014.html

and a meeting report at:

  http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1154


Approximate cost for Sydney

  Transportation: Paris to Syndey:$1500
  6 nights lodging/meals: $ 750

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[Inkscape-board] Next Inkscape board meeting tomorrow: focus on Hackfest 2015 and fund raising

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Hi,

Our next IRC board meeting is schedule for Wednesday, November 19th,
20:00 UTC. The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at:
 
   wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
 
Everybody is welcome to join the discussion.

Last meeting we decide on a three day hackfest in Toronto directly
before LGM. We now have a suitable room reserved for our use.

This meeting we need to focus on soliciting funds to help cover the
hackfest costs. We need to approve the pitch and to look at a mock-up
of a donations page.

You can read more about the meet up at:

  http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015


If time permits, we will cover other topics including our upcoming fund
raising campaign.

See you Wednesday,

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Re: [Inkscape-board] FSA and board participation requirements (was Re: Regular meetings)

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On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 21:56 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 06:59:21PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
  Hi Bryce,
Thanks for splitting the discussion.
  
  We discussed a similar voting-count-system at the GSoC summit, but I
  think we decided for something stronger (the meetings). But now when
  I read your mail, I think what you propose is very good, because it
  tackles exactly the problem we want to fix.
 
 Did the new FSA get finalized?  If not, can you ask them to include a
 provision to achieve this?  If it did, then perhaps we should vote on
 it.

No, the FSA did not get finalized. We need to get back to them on the
vote-counting system.

  Rather than meeting attendance, I think voting history would be a better
  objective mechanism.  Say, out of the past N months if you cast votes in
  fewer than X% of the referendums.  Where N is like 3 or 6 months, and X
  is like 5 or 10.  My thinking is that while meeting attendance is really
  just a means to an end, but voting is the fundamental reason we were
  elected to these seats.

Fine with me.

In 2014 we have voted on:

13 Jan: Developer Education (Tav, Ted, and MentalGuy did not vote.)
19 Feb: Tav attending LGM and Leipzig SVG WG meetings. (Tav recused,
MentalGuy did not vote.)
19 Feb: Developer attendance at LGM (Tav and MentalGuy did not vote.)
23 Feb: Join OIN Network (Ted and MentalGuy did not vote.)
24 Feb: Moving email list to Launchpad (Bryce, Tav, MentalGuy did not
vote)
05 May: Fund raising (MentalGuy did not vote.)
15 Jun: GSoC Mentor's meeting (Jon and MentalGuy did not vote.)
26 Jul: Tav attending Santa Clara SVG WG meeting (Tav recused, Bryce and
MentalGuy did not vote.).
26 Jul: Tav attending London SVG WG meeting and The Graphical Web Conf.
(Tav recused, Bryce and MentalGuy did not vote.)
14 Aug: Trademark (MentalGuy did not vote.)
11 Oct: Pre-approving projects (MentalGuy did not vote.)

We had eleven votes

Missing votes: MentalGuy: 11, Bryce: 3, Ted: 2, Tav: 2, Jon: 1.

I know the votes I missed were either conflict of interest (Developer
Education) or the decision had already been made (Moving email to
LaunchPad). In retrospect, I think that even if there are enough votes
to decide a referendum, board members who haven't voted should for the
public record still cast their vote or explicitly note the conflict of
interest.

Given this data, I propose: 

If a person misses three or more votes in a row where multiple votes
within one calendar month are counted as one vote, their board position
is vacated.

(The multiple votes within one calendar month are counted as one vote
is to avoid a situation where a board member are removed if they are on
vacation for a couple of weeks during which multiple votes take place.)

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[Inkscape-board] Red Hat hacking session update

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Just a quick update before our meeting in less than an hour:

I've emailed a handful of selected developers who have been active in
the past year or so and who I think are good candidates for a hacking
session at Red Hat (intimate knowledge of our code base and/or worked on
GTK issues). I have had a pretty poor response. Only Krzysztof
responded, he's interested but may have a conflict with exams.

So here is a current list:

su_v:   Probably won't attend. (Hasn't actually said she wouldn't.)
LiamW:  Currently working on Mac OSX port. Cannot attend.
Johan:  Willing to help remotely with Mac OSX builds.
Jazzy Nico: Has done GTK work. Not responded to email.
Alex Valenis: Worked on GTK3 port. Not responded to email.
Krzysztof: Good knowledge of internal Inskcape code and event handling. 
Possibly can attend.
Jon Cruz: Good knowledge of internal code, Mac OSX development. Not responded 
to email.
Bulia: Good knowledge of internal code, working on Inkscape again. Not 
responded to email. 
Martin: Local coordinator. Can come.

I can probably attend. Can any other board members not listed above
attend?

As it stand now we have Martin, Krzysztof, and myself. I do think this
is an excellent chance to get some help with GTK issues and to get some
UX feedback. I would hate to lose it. We could move it to a later date
if that would help with attendance (we may not get as much Red Hat
support if it doesn't coincide with their Fedora design group meetup).

As for GTK issues, LiamW had filled in a wiki page for GTK issues. su_v
will add things as she finds them:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/GTK%2B_Issues

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Re: [Inkscape-board] SWAMP

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On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 00:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:11:13PM +0200, Johan Engelen wrote:
  Hi all,
Is this something we want to sign up to?
  https://continuousassurance.org/
  
  After a quick browse around their website, they seem to offer a platform 
  that runs static analysis tools. We can run them ourselves (and have 
  done so not so long ago), but it is nice to have a website do it for all 
  of us. (unfortunately, not many of us compile with clang; I gave up the 
  fight on Windows a while back, and will have to try again later)
 
 Perhaps you could drop them a line and see if they have special offers
 for open source / non-profit projects like us?  Coverity has done this
 for various projects.
 
 In any case, before forming an opinion on this I'd want to know the
 ballpark cost, and what the results/output looks like.

I just looked, it's free.

 From past experience I know that the trick with static analysis tools is
 less in the actual running of them, and more in following up on getting
 the discovered issues resolved, so another question would be if we have
 volunteers interested in working on those issues.

I think this looks quite interesting. I would help out.

 I also suspect that 90% of the benefit will be gained from the first
 run, since it'll flag a ton of issues.  Once we've addressed all those,
 the amount of new issues that crop up over time should be much smaller.
 So if it ends up being very expensive, we could consider signing up for
 the minimum amount of time just to get the raw list of issues.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Referendum] GSoC Reunion Travel Sponsorship

[Tavmjong Bah]

I signed up for the lottery so maybe I should not vote. (I would vote
A.)

Tav



On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 20:36 +0200, Johan Engelen wrote:
 I vote A too.
 -Johan
 
 
 On 15-6-2014 20:01, Josh Andler wrote:
  I vote A.
 
  Cheers,
  Josh
 
 
  On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Bryce Harrington
  br...@bryceharrington.org mailto:br...@bryceharrington.org wrote:
 
  A majority vote of the current board members is required for this
  matter.
 
  Proposal:
 
 Sponsor costs for GSoC participants to attend the GSoC Reunion
 according to the following schedule:
 
 * Up to $1500 each for GSoC admins who have served 2+ years
 
 * Up to $1000 each for GSoC mentors who have mentored for 2+
  years
 
 * Up to $500 each for students who successfully completed their
   mentorship, and who continued contributing outside GSoC.
 
 Josh Andler will act as event coordinator to provide a point of
 contact for attendees and to collect expense info for reimbursement.
 
 [ ]  a.  Yes, approve this funding proposal for whomever gets
  accepted
 [ ]  b.  I might vote yes for a more limited proposal
 [ ]  c.  No, do not provide GSoC sponsorship
 
 
  Background:
 
  Inkscape has participated in the Google Summer of Code Program for many
  years now.  We've got a lot of good code, several good developers, and
  a good bit of cash from this participation.
 
  Each year Google also has a yearly get together after the summer is
  done.  We've had on average 3 people interested in attending each year.
 
  This year is the 10th anniversary and Google is holding a special
  Mentor's Summit (Reunion).  Google will sponsor the usual 2 delegates we
  get to send, funding up to $1100 each in travel expenses and room costs.
  In addition, Google will hold a lottery for others to attend, but at
  their own expense.  Eligible participants for the lottery include
  admins, mentors, and students.
 
  We don't know how many lottery slots will be made available to us, but
  they estimate 220 total lottery winners covering a total of 190
  mentoring organizations.  So on average I guess we can expect something
  on the order of 1-3 people.
 
 
  
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Re: [Inkscape-board] GSoC Mentor Summit/Reunion

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On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 07:26 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
 Hello Board,
 
 
 TL;DR first: Does the board want to fund any additional delegates
 travel  room expenses for the reunion if we have anyone chosen by the
 lottery?

First, let me say that having attended the last two GSoC mentor summits
that they are worth attending for anyone who is going to be
administering or mentoring in future years. I am also interested in
attending this year as it might allow me to attend TPAC, the yearly
gathering of all W3C working groups including the SVG and CSS working
groups which is the week after in Santa Clara.

But if I weigh the value to Inkscape of sending developers to the GSoC
mentor summit or spending the money to send them to LGM or a hackfest,
the latter clearly win out. The GSoC summit is a whirlwind of activity,
you are in, attend sessions with other open source projects (many you
will never have heard of), eat lots of food, and then are gone. There is
no real time for anything else. The LGM is a more leisurely meeting with
plenty of time for discussions with other Inkscapers and with others
working on graphics software as well as a bit of hacking. A hackfest
would even be better. Combining LGM with a hackfest in Boston sounds
really good.

Tav

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Re: [Inkscape-board] GSoC Mentor Summit/Reunion

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On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 23:29 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
 On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 19:42 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
  Combining LGM with a hackfest in Boston sounds
  really good.
 
 This sounds very interesting, although I quite fancy a trip home (to
 London or wherever) if LGM will be in London.
 
 Not sure how this complicates things. Maybe I can clone myself ;-)
 
 Martin,

Next year's LGM is in Toronto... so a a hackfest in Boston just after
would mean those attending both from outside of North America would be
making one long distance trip. The 2016 LGM is in London.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [RESULTS] LGM Attendance 2014

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On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 17:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
 Hi Tav,
 
 Could you give us a debrief on how the funding went for people's travel?
 Who did we fund, by how much, and have they received their funds?

I have just submitted the reimbursement requests for everyone.

We funded Martin Owens, Joakim Verona, Krzysztof Kosiński, Cédric Gémy,
and myself. Martin, Joakim, and Cédric asked for the full $500
allocated; Krzysztof $471 (his airfare will be covered by LGM). I've
asked for the full $1400 allocated for my attendance of both LGM and the
SVG WG that followed.

I do have to say that it was a very productive meeting with a total of
nine Inkscaper's it attendance.

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