Leadership Committee Status Updates

Place and Time

We meet in #inkscape-devel on freenode.

Everybody in the Inkscape community is invited to participate.

Next meeting: Noon PDT/15:00 DMT (DoctorMoTime)/21:00 CEST, (click for world clock), Fri, June 3rd, 2016.

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

Agenda

• Followup to sponsorship level [tweenk]
• Evaluation of merchandising for fundraising [Mc-]
• Future hackfest options
  • tedg will outline details for a Boston/MIT/GNOME [tedg]
  • scislac will outline details for a SCALE-associated event [scislac]
  • tav will outline details for a future 0.93-oriented hackfest [tav]
• Privacy Policy [doctormo]
  • doctormo to present a stock PP for us to use provisionally until an official one can be drafted
• GPLv2+ [tweenk]
  • tweenk will followup regarding resolution of remaining licensing issues
• Other Business

Action Items

• Spreadshirt/equivalent (self-serve merchandise) [Mc-]
• Verify large donation landed in our account, and then confirm and followup with Scislac for next steps on recognition, etc. [bryce]

• Future hackfests
  • Process: Have folks propose options, and then trade off cost projections and benefits
  • Boston / MIT / GNOME [tedg]
    • Focus could be on GTK+3 porting, as there are lots of GTK folks in Boston.
    • Allegedly, GNOME is holding a hackfest over Columbus Day at MIT (Oct 10, 2016) which might be worth aligning with. Need to verify.
    • Ted will contact GNOME to see what their plans are
  • 0.93 oriented hackfest [Tavmjong] HackfestGtk3 Hackfest_0.93
    • Location and time highly TBD
    • Tav will brainstorm on wiki about what it might look like
  • SCALE oriented event [scislac]
    • Maybe could include class on contributing/hacking on inkscape (JonCruz suggestion)
  • Hackfest organizational tips
    • 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, esp. with release as a goal
  • Merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc-]
    • Investigate how you setup where your money goes
    • Register an 'Inkscape Admin' account on the site (and add credentials to our credentials repo)
    • Need to define our designs (SVG). Maybe official "about" images, inkscape logo, etc. just to start
    • Maybe arrange thigns to give some cash back to original authors, esp. for about screen images
    • Upload a few designs
    • Decide on a price to set
    • Convince people to buy the items
    • Can set up a "shop" for your brand
    • Mc- will help work on getting this set up

• Forum
  • inkscapeforum is overwhelmed by moderation actions required (spam mostly), roughly 4000 new per month (50 spams per valid message), and lacks adequate active administrators
  • Contact inkscapeforum (deadline next Board meeting) [Scislac]
    • Maybe request database dump (and maybe site tarball).
    • If we can get a DB dump, consider feasibility of simply transplanting the phpBB
  • Establish an "Inkscape Forum Exploratory Committee" to lay groundwork in case we need to establish our own Inkscape-managed forum
    • Recruit 3-5 folks for this committee. Ask Brynn to chair. [Bryce]
    • Evaluate pros/cons of potential forum software candidates
      • Are there DJango forums plugins as functional as phpBB?
      • Consider benefits of tight/loose integration with our Django website vs. something standalone
      • Consider hosting requirements (OSUOSL or elsewhere??)
      • Consider administrative requirements for maintaining/upgrading software
    • Plan the chartering of a moderation team
    • Plan steps for curtailing spam. E.g. akismet, req. account to post; auto-ban spammer accounts; etc.
    • Plan steps for customizing the forum site design appearance / style
    • Present a recommended course of action

• 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

• Contact GIMP developers about licensing of GPLv3+ code included in Inkscape [tweenk]
• Rekindle release process for 0.91.1 [scislac]
• Finalization of Budget 2016 [bryce]
  • Update the budget, see what $$ remains in the hackfest fund [bryce]
• Funded development [bryce]
• Revise sponsorship levels doc based on the meeting discussion, to provide an effective thank-you for sponsors [tweenk]
• Check that our credentials escrow includes √twitter, facebook, Inkscape forum admin, and IRC moderation keys [bryce]
• Rekindle release process for 0.92. Need to complete cmake work, enter feature freeze, and announce timeline for finishing the release [bryce]
• Add a C++-11 conversion project with tasks detailed to the Roadmap for 0.93 or later. [valavanisalex]

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

Past Agenda Items

• √Make mention of the code of conduct on the mailing list and website [bryce]
• √Brainstorm future hackfests
  • Focused hackfests? Possible topics: 0.92 release, GTK3.
• √Followup to GPLv2+ licensing [tweenk]
• √Followup to CoC work
• √<a>Arrange vote on GPLv2+ board statement [bryce]
• √GSoC 2016 kickoff [scislac]
• √Debrief from Hackfest 2016: Leeds [valavanisalex]
• √New agenda for next month [bryce]
• √Post meeting minutes [scislac]
• √Arrange vote on Leeds hackfest proposal [bryce]
• √Identify who has not registered their GPG keys for credentials access, that should [bryce]
• √Prepare for GSoC 2016 project application
  • √Get Project Suggestions list ready for GSoC [bryce]
  • √Send bryce list of required details for Project Suggestions page [scislac]
  • √Submit mentoring application (opens Feb 8th, deadline Feb 19th) [scislac]
  • √Solicit mentors to be pre-assigned to project ideas (tweenk & tav already volunteered) [scislac]

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/9564/
• Meeting 2016-05-06: transcript https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9563/