Hackfest2019 at SCALE 17x in California, March 4-6, 2019

Jan. 15, 2019, 11:52 a.m.

Volunteer developers working on the Inkscape project benefit from several hackfest events each year when team members get together to collaborate on planning future updates and solving challenges. Donating to Inkscape Hackfests directly supports discussions and coding sessions focused on the project.

This year’s hackfest circuit will begin with a three-day working session in Pasadena, California, from March 4-6, on campus at Pasadena City College.

“We'll be meeting at the college for three days, and then participating in SCALE 17x, especially the Libre Graphics Day there,” said Inkscape developer Ted Gould, who is organizing the session.
The 17th annual Southern California Linux Expo – SCALE 17 will take place from March 7-10 at the Pasadena Convention Center. It is the largest volunteer-run Linux conference held in North America. Watch for the Inkscape booth and come say hello!

Some of the specialized topics being addressed by presenters at the SCALE 17x event include open source in enterprises, open data, security and Libre Graphics, along with others on free / open source software (FOSS). See who will be presenting this year at SCALE here.

Curious about SCALE? Catch Inkscape Vectors Team Organizer Ryan Gorley’s presentation at SCALE 16x last year here to inspire you! Or check out a number of videos from last year’s edition, including Ryan’s, here. Once again this year, Ryan will be presenting as part of the Libre Graphics track.

In addition to coding during the SCALE 17x Hackfest, participating Inkscape developers will share their knowledge with students in exchange for rental space on campus.

“We got connected with the school through Innovate Pasadena,  which is an organization that tries to bring and support innovation-based initiatives in Pasadena. They connected us to the college for a possible location for the event,” explained Gould. “The college itself is interested in helping out Innovate Pasadena, but also to have software engineers on-site to possibly answer questions and work with their computer club,” he added.

The first standalone Inkscape Hackfest took place in 2015 in Toronto, Canada, when seven Inkscape developers met in person, worked on coding and making decisions on the future of Inkscape. The result was an agreed-upon Roadmap for the project. More recently, Inkscape developers and Vectors Team Members got together in Kiel, Germany, in 2018 to plan upcoming releases of the project.

Inkscape developers' next opportunity to continue essential work on the project in person will be prior to the annual spring Linux conference in California.

Help support this Hackfest by sending your donation to Inkscape’s financial and infrastructural home, the Software Freedom Conservancy, here.

Thank you! Your donation will help ensure that Inkscape remains a free, professional vector graphics program for everyone.