Inkscape Summit 2025 Nuremberg

This page details the planning of Inkscape's 2025 summit in Nuremberg, Germany. The hackfest will take place on May 24–28, 2025. We are looking to bring together a group of 17 attendees. We are fully booked and the number of participants is final now.

This summit takes place directly before the 2025 Libre Graphics Meeting.

Previous events: Hackfest2023 Bensberg, Hackfest2019 Saarbrücken, Hackfest2019 SCALE, Hackfest2018 Kiel, Hackfest2018 LGM, Hackfest2018, Hackfest2017, Hackfest2016, Hackfest2015.

Agenda

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• Bug triaging
  • Issue filtering (useful application for AI?)
  • Feature requests: how to collect into actionable projects
• Development
  • LPE refactoring
  • 1.5
    • Selection cues
    • Status bar
  • 1.4.1 (1.4.2?)
    • Add Interface test cases (replay certain steps to create an artwork) to check for feature breakage
    • Canvas performance
• Documentation
  • Cleaning up documentation (wiki, dev docs, user docs, extension docs)
• Extensions
  • "Using Inkscape to make physical things"
    • Have a look at Hatch Embroidery (paid software that has a cool preview feature and thousands of advanced options that are hard to understand)
  • svgpie and inkex
    • Separation of concerns? (svgpie for SVG wrangling, inkex for an API to the Inkscape interface)
  • async extensions (new extension type in development, enables extensions to receive updated info from the document while running)
• Organization
  • Foundation/organization setup (what needs actions/help?)
  • Relationship between Inkscape and commercial actors (e.g. advertising companies / developers available for contract work, support contracts)
  • Grants program
  • Long-term goal setting
• UX
  • Charter & policy
  • Design discussion
    • Decide which improvements we want to land in 1.5 (high-level)
    • Object properties (for text, for multi-selection)
    • new settings (we have tools, but need all other categories)
    • LPEs and their panels
    • CMYK export workflow
    • Swatches dialog
    • Text tab of Text and Font dialog. What is it's purpose? Can spell-checking be moved completely on-canvas? (There is on-canvas spell checking via the Check Spelling dialog but misspelled words aren't shown unless this dialog is called.)
• Website
  • Website working group and charter
  • Infrastructure update (less 502s)
  • Library update (django 5)
  • Design/UX overhaul
  • Separate funding page? (Blender, Krita, Thunderbird and KDE have it)

Non-Inkscape stuff

Ideas for socializing and getting away from screens

• Movies
• Card games
• Pub
• Take a group picture
• ?