Leadership Committee Status Updates

Place and Time

We meet in #inkscape-devel on freenode.

Board meetings are typically the first Friday of each month.

Everybody in the Inkscape community is invited to participate.

Next meeting: Noon PDT/15:00 DMT (DoctorMonTime)/21:00 CEST, (click for world clock), Fri, June 2nd, 2017.

Meetings should be announced in advance on inkscape-devel and inkscape-board mailing lists.

Agenda

• Future Hackfests/Conferences
  • Hackfest Paris, June 27th-July 1st [tav]
  • GUADEC Manchester July 28th - August 2nd. (Gtk3). [tav]

• 2017 Budget

• Merchandise sales [bryce, Mc]
  • Spreadshirt account now ready to go
  • Self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc-]

• Followup to sponsorship level [bryce]
  • Need to add mention of the five levels onto the Sponsor page
  • c.f. https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34460338/

• Funded development [bryce]
  • Identify Manager/Reviewer/Second for each of the jobs
  • How should we advertise the jobs?

• GSoC 2017 (We have been accepted!) [tav]
  • When in the schedule do reviews and other next steps occur?
  • Projects accepted:
    • JavaScript "extensions"
    • Polyfills
    • Coordinate inversion
    • Remove dependence on garbage collector

• git migration

• Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting

• Other Business

Action Items

• Merchandise Sales
  • Get doctormo and prkos added as shopkeepers

• Future hackfests
  • Hackfest organizational tips (Need to document this someplace)
    • Process: Have folks propose options, and then trade off cost projections and benefits
    • Try to organize group lodging (same hotel, rented/air-bnb house, http://www.linuxhotel.de/community.en.html, etc.)
    • Send a scout ahead of time to help avoid slummy accommodations
    • Catered lunches help keep everyone focused (we're already reimbursing on lunches, so cost differential isn't huge, and it saves hassle all around)
    • Boots on the ground at a location can be a huge help if plans go awry
    • Prefer locations with local inkscape community on the ground

• Fundraising
  • Need to engage a few more fund raising efforts

• Credentials management for board members and administrators [bryce]
  • GPG keys
  • Policy on website credential access
  • List of administrators needing credential access
  • Setting up a shared project administrative account for various services
  • Check that our credentials escrow includes √twitter, facebook, Inkscape forum admin, and IRC moderation keys [bryce]

• Finalization of Budget 2016 [bryce]
  • Update the budget, see what $$ remains in the hackfest fund [bryce]
• Funded development [bryce]
• Add a C++-11 conversion project with tasks detailed to the Roadmap for 0.93 or later. [valavanisalex]
• Regularly check sponsor ads / sponsor mentions on the website (Advance Systems: added Dec 9th, 2016)

Blocked Action Items

• Privacy Policy [drmo] ~ Blocked waiting on time availability by SFC
• Amend CoC reporting section ~ Waiting until we have a dedicated email, e.g. abuse@inkscape.org

Minutes

• Meeting 2014-09-15: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/392/
• Meeting 2014-09-29: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/854/
• Meeting 2014-10-08: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/950/
• Meeting 2014-10-15: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1436/
• Meeting 2014-11-05: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/2204/
• Meeting 2014-11-12: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/2210/
• Meeting 2014-11-19: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/2216/
• Meeting 2014-11-26: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/2498/
• Meeting 2015-10-02: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/6701/
• Meeting 2015-11-06: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/6886/
• Meeting 2015-12-04: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/7056/
• Meeting 2016-01-08: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/7276/
• Meeting 2016-04-01: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9565/
• Meeting 2016-05-06: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9563/
• Meeting 2016-06-03: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9667/
• Meeting 2016-07-08: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9766/
• Meeting 2016-08-05: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9864/
• Meeting 2016-09-02: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9971/
• Meeting 2016-11-04: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10241/
• Meeting 2016-12-02: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10484/
• Meeting 2017-01-06: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10582/
• Meeting 2017-02-03: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10651/
• Meeting 2017-03-03: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10740/
• Meeting 2017-04-07: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10844/
• Meeting 2017-06-02: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/11064/

• Archive of all transcripts: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=pastebin/?q=meeting&order=-edited