A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter.
Voting is needed on the following items:
assigning Jonathan Neuhauser, Réne de Hesselle, Marc Jeanmougin and one SFC staff member (to be determined) as hiring team (with Martin Owens as stand-in if one of the other members become unavailable), who will also perform the midterm evaluation and decide whether the project should be extended,
allocating a total of USD 21,000 for the project, of which $600 are allocated as a management stipend, $400 as a stipend for the hiring team, and $10,000 as compensation for the candidate for the first part of the project,
authorizing the hiring team to decide, in consultation with the Dev Team, whether the project should be extended (i.e. another $10,000 for compensation of the candidate).
Details on the process are lined out in the attached document.
| Board Member | 1. |
|---|---|
| Josh Andler | a |
| Tavmjong Bah | - |
| Ted Gould | a |
| Martin Owens | a |
| Marc Jeanmougin | a |
| Chris Rogers | a |
Resolution passes
Jonathan Neuhauser (@joneuhauser at Gitlab and chat.inkscape.org) is submitting a proposal to hire a freelance contributor to write an importer for AI files as a Python extension. For one, this is a highly requested feature Twitter link, and its boundary conditions make it perfect as a “test balloon” for contracting out work, in general.
The complete proposal can be found here; the first 2 pages are the “job description”, while pages 3-5 contain information on the hiring process, license, milestones, financials and what has already been prepared code-wise.
