Vectors' Meeting March 2024

Time & Place

• March 2, 2024, 6PM-7PM UTC (See: https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/, Time Zone Converter)
• Rocket.Chat (https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors)

Vectors Meeting Agenda (1 Hour)

• Meta:
  • Introductions
  • Access grants
• Status reports:
  • Social Media
  • Inkscape Challenge ( @pacecraft )
  • Inkscape Artist promotion ( @pacecraft )
  • virtual contributor meeting ( @Moini @zigzagmlt )
  • Chat replacement
• Current items:
  • Michèle asked about updating the member list here: #200 (closed)
  • About Screen Contest:
    • start date
    • alpha?
    • social
    • slide show?
    • reviewer team & team meeting?
    • anything else?
  • LGM:
    • Board is planning for a contributors meeting in Rennes. There is a desire for the meeting to be more inclusive of all Inkscape contributors and not just developers.
      • What should meeting be called?
      • How should eligibility for travel support be determined?
    • apparently no talks by Inkscape members planned, except for Inkscape being part of a talk by Elisa (https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2024/program.html) - promote?
    • dates: 9-12 May, Rennes, France
  • any feedback on #282 ?
  • Do we have time to create at least a social post (or more?) for International Document Freedom Day? Would be a chance to elaborate what makes Inkscape's documents more future-proof vs. proprietary document formats (e.g. remember loss of color in Adobe products last year(?), and not being able to open files when subscription has run out or the company decides it cannot serve your country anymore) - https://digitalfreedoms.org/dfd
• Stale items (drop?):
  • Hackfest article
  • Contractor articles summary idea by @doctormo - @pono1 / @zigzagmlt
• Waiting for external parties:
  • T-Shirt Initiative: budget? First come first served? Who should get one? (Pending news from Project Leadership Committee - PLC)