The broader Inkscape community is expanding

Recent times has seen rapid expansion of the broader Inkscape community and resources (way beyond the "official" channels of the mailing list, wiki and website). Many individuals are now publishing and participating in blogs, tutorials, forums and other online community groups that are focused on Inkscape and it's use. Below is a quick wrap up of the multitude of resources makes up the broader Inkcape Community:

• Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
• The Inkscape Tutorials Blog
• Nicu's Howto
• screencasters.heathenx.org
• Inkscape Tutorials at pixel2life

• Inkscape Forum
• German Inkscape Forum
• Inkscape Brasil Forum
• French Inkscape Forum

• Inkscape Facebook Group
• Inkscape Mugshot Group
• a Inkscape DeviantArt Group
• another Inkscape DeviantArt Group

Inkscape Switches to Launchpad Bug Tracker

We've been talking about upgrading our bug tracker capabilities for some time now, and last night the switch was finally made. We are now using Launchpad for tracking Inkscape bugs, patches, and feature requests.

If you'd like to help Inkscape, you are welcome to join the Inkscape Bugs Team. Being on the team gives you added capabilities for managing Inkscape bugs.

Another great way to help Inkscape, even if you're not a technical person, is to participate in bug triaging. It's easy - just review bugs that people have posted, and move them from state 'New' to 'Incomplete', 'Confirmed', or 'Invalid' (or mark as dupes) as appropriate.

Inkscape was SourceForge.net's Project of the Month!

A complete oversight on our part... we forgot to mention that Inkscape was chosen by SourceForge as the Project of the Month in August! A big congratulations and thanks to all who have contributed over the years. Cheers!

Translation Statistics

Luca Bruno notes, "After a quite long and intense work on 0.45+devel, localization are quite behind. Here below recent stats against make-updated po. (please note that current SVN may contain fewer strings, run make update-po on your own to check)."