19:01 < bryce_> == Board Meeting ==
19:01 < bryce_> Hi all!
19:01 < bryce_>  
19:01 < bryce_> Agenda:
19:01 < bryce_>   + Welcome new Board Members
19:01 < bryce_>   + Officer positions?
19:01 < bryce_>   + Board election debrief
19:01 < bryce_>   + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting
19:01 < bryce_>   + Sponsor acceptance policy
19:01 < tedg> HI BRYCE!
19:01 < bryce_>   + Preliminary preparations for 0.93
19:01 < bryce_>   + 2017 Budget
19:01 < bryce_>   + Merchandise sales
19:01 < bryce_>   + Funded development
19:01 < Lazur> Hey!
19:01 < bryce_>   + Hackfests - Boston, Spain/LGM
19:01 < bryce_>   + Other Business
19:01 < bryce_>  
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19:02 < bryce_> hi tedg!  glad you made it
19:02 -!- prkos [~mihaela@93-138-101-228.adsl.net.t-com.hr] has joined #inkscape-devel
19:02 < bryce_> do we have Mc and CRogers joining us today?
19:02 < tedg> Yeah, tried to come last month but couldn't get the wifi on the plane to work :-(
19:03 < bryce_> tedg, ah yeah I doubt I'd be able to get that working myself
19:04 < bryce_> so was hoping we could all welcome Mc and CRogers but maybe  they'll make an appearance later
19:04 < tedg> I've used it before, and it's been fine. But the captured portals are getting harder and harder to use as the browsers are upping the SSL standards they expect.
19:05 < tedg> We can welcome them in the minutes :-)
19:05 < bryce_> welcome Mc and CR!
19:05 < bryce_> it's good to have the board refilled, and I'm looking forward to what we'll be able to get done.
19:06 < bryce_> tedg, maybe it's just you and me today!
19:06 < bryce_> and Lazur :-)
19:06 < prkos> and /me lurking
19:06 < tedg> Yup, I vote we decide to move the entire project to Github if doctormon doesn't show up ;-)
19:06 < bryce_> oh, in scrollback Mc says he's coming in late due to work commute
19:06 < bryce_> haha
19:07 < bryce_> I'll jump forward a bit in the agenda
19:07 < bryce_> === Board election debrief ===
19:07 < bryce_> speaking of martin, I wanted to thank him for all the work he did on the new system
19:08 < bryce_> with the election done, we should gather people's thoughts on what went well, what could be done better, etc.
19:08 < bryce_> thoughts and comments?
19:09 < jabiertxof_> I just thinking the same 1 hour before
19:09 < tedg> I for one didn't realize we had to register in a new system... so I think we need to make sure announcements (and followups) go to the mailing list.
19:09 < tedg> I think the board elections are important enough for some spam.
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19:10 < bryce_> tedg, yeah true
19:12 < tedg> Something I'd like to figure out, and it's probably better a discussion at a hackfest is how we get non-developers to vote.
19:12 < Moini> +1
19:12 < tedg> We've got a simple system now, but I'd like to get the doc folks and the vectors team feeling like they're more part of it.
19:12 < bryce_> tedg, do you mean to vote, or to run for the board?
19:12 < tedg> Yes :-)
19:12 < bryce_> tedg, yeah agreed
19:13 < bryce_> getting more nominations in, etc.
19:13 < bryce_> tedg, do you happen to remember how long our nomination period was last time?
19:13 < tedg> Not off hand.
19:14 < bryce_> hmm
19:14 < tedg> Isn't that in the doc you wrote?
19:14 < bryce_> ah I should check
19:15 < tedg> Oh, we should move the board stuff to Gitlab :-)
19:15 < Moini> (Voting was 2 weeks.)
19:15 < bryce_> Election Schedule
19:15 < bryce_> =================
19:15 < bryce_>  * Kickoff Announcement:           ${date}
19:15 < bryce_>    + Post to inkscape-announce@
19:15 < bryce_>    + Publish news item to website
19:15 < bryce_>  * Candidacy period Start:         ${date}
19:15 < bryce_>  * Candidacy period End:           ${date + 2 weeks} (08:00 UTC)
19:15 < bryce_>  * Publication of Candidates
19:15 < bryce_>      & start of Candidate Q&A:     ${date + 2 weeks}
19:15 < bryce_>  * Election Start:                 ${date + 2 weeks}
19:15 < bryce_>  * Election End:                   ${date + 2 weeks + 2 weeks} (08:00 UTC)
19:15 < bryce_>  * Results Posted:                 ${date + 2 weeks + 2 weeks + 2 days}
19:16 < tedg> We really need some intermediate variables there.
19:16 < bryce_> haha
19:16 < Moini> Nominations were until Aug, 15th last time
19:16 < Moini> 18th, sorry
19:17 < bryce_> well I'm wondering if increasing the nomination period might enable us to solicit a broader range of people, I know people need time to mull things over before accepting nominations too
19:18 < tedg> Or perhaps an: "Announcement of current nominations" at ${date + 1wk}
19:18 < tedg> Just to make people see there is no one running and/or someone they don't want to win as the only candidate :-)
19:19 < Moini> call for candidates was August 5th.
19:20 < bryce_> Moini, ok cool, so it was the required period, good
19:20 < bryce_> maybe because I was out of town for a week it felt shorter.
19:21 < bryce_> reading my procedure, I notice it says, "Alternatively, any Official Member may nominate another Official Member." but that leaves it ambiguous whether someone can nominate multiple people, or just one nomination per 
                person.
19:21 < tedg> Feel free to hotfix that
19:22 < Moini> We had allowed for multiple invitations last time (but there weren't so many, either)
19:22 < tedg> We need to make being on the Inkscape board more glamorous.
19:23 < bryce_> tedg, would you mind reading through the election_procedure.txt yourself and see if you spot any other stuff like that, that we should clarify?  I'd like to capture whatever edits we can make to improve it and do a vote 
                on revving it
19:23  * Mc is here
19:23 < Mc> sorry for the delay
19:23 < tedg> bryce_: Sure I can do that.
19:23 < bryce_> hopefully it'll be a long time until the next board election, but would be nice to capture our good ideas based on this one
19:23 < tedg> What do you think about moving all that to Gitlab?
19:23 < bryce_> tedg, thanks
19:23 < tedg> Then we can do it as a PR.
19:23 < bryce_> tedg, definitely good idea, yes
19:23 < bryce_> Mc, welcome!
19:24 < tedg> Might be nice to switch to markdown as well...
19:24 < bryce_> Mc, and welcome to the board!  Looking forward to your involvement.  :-)
19:24 < bryce_> tedg, agreed
19:24 < Mc> thanks :)
19:24 < bryce_> tedg, in fact if you feel a gumption to reformat any of the stuff there, go right ahead, that's been on my todo list for ages
19:25 < tedg> I'll migrate first, we'll see how excited I get.
19:25 < bryce_> nothing depends on the current text formatting, so nothing is gonna break
19:25 < bryce_> ok cool, moving on
19:25 < bryce_> === Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting ===
19:25  * tedg wonders if bryce_ would break having to do markdown ;-)
19:25 < bryce_> I am going to be sending out a request for hosting sponsorship
19:26 < bryce_> tedg, nah I do markdown for plenty of other stuff, I'm good
19:27 < bryce_> tedg, I've wanted to get the visibility of our votes improved, and having them in markdown gives some options for achieving that :-)
19:27 < tedg> Haha, okay. We can use unicode ✅ too!
19:28 < Mc> 👍
19:28 < bryce_> anyway, on topic of hosting, I'm pretty much ready to send out the solicitation but wondered if you guys think I should solicit more input first?
19:29 < tedg> No, I think it's good.
19:29 < bryce_> alright, thanks.  I'll try and push it out this weekend then.
19:30 < bryce_> I debated about posting to inkscape-devel@ but it feels like something too easily bikeshedded
19:30 < bryce_> ok, jumping ahead a bit more in the agenda...
19:30 < bryce_> === 2017 Budget ===
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19:31 < bryce_> I >finally< got around to this, worked on it all night last night in fact