News for 2016
Bug testing roadshow hits Inkscape
This is a guest article written by Buovjaga (from the LibreOffice quality assurance team). He's visiting the bug trackers of several FOSS projects, and encouraging project users to participate in bug management. His first article was done for Kate editor.
Read moreAbout Screen Contest 0.92 Winner!
Congratulations to artelnjeru01! In the first round of voting, out of 56 entries submitted to the contest, Inkscape users chose the top 4 images to be promoted to the developers' voting round. After the developers' vote was tallied, the image titled "About 0.92 2 Good" by artelnjeru01, came out on top.
Read moreMesh Gradients Test with Inkscape 0.92pre3 Pre-Release
The 0.92pre3 source package has been published, and the corresponding Windows builds along with it. 0.92pre3 comes with improved support for mesh gradients, a feature that may be added to the stable Inkscape 0.92, depending upon your feedback.
Read moreVote for your favorite About Screen!
Voting for the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 0.92 is open now! Everyone in the Inkscape Community (you, too!) is invited to select their favorite among 56 fantastic and imaginative pieces of art.
Read more5 days left to Submit Your Ideas!
You can still submit your entry for the Inkscape About Screen Contest! The prize: Your image in Inkscape 0.92, installed with every single Inkscape copy out there in the wild. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 12th 2016, at 23:59 (times in UTC). Grab a copy of the new prerelease and start experimenting - or if you're curious, let yourself be inspired by all the current entries first!
Read moreAbout Screen Contest for 0.92 Started!
For each Inkscape version, we traditionally invite all Inkscape artists to submit a proposal for the About Screen in Inkscape. The Contest for 0.92 has just started and we're looking forward to your submissions!
Read morePreview version for Inkscape 0.92: Windows builds available!
As our developers' team is in the process of refining and preparing their routines for building Inkscape for the various systems, we have now a couple of builds for Windows in our gallery.
Read moreInkscape 0.92 Beta available for testers!
The much-awaited next Inkscape release is getting closer and closer! Today, the source code for Inkscape-0.92pre2 (beta) was made available for testers on our website. There are many new features to discover and many bugs that have been fixed.
Read moreInkscape Forums
The Inkscape Project is considering to establish a project-managed forum for Inkscape. For this purpose, the Inkscape board has decided to setup a Forum Committee, which will explore the options.
Read moreInkscape Website Privacy Policy
As the Inkscape website collects user data to be able to provide services like email notification, contests and display of user profiles and user galleries to you, the Inkscape Project has published a privacy policy for this website. The document explains how your user data will be handled. Please review the policy before you continue to use the website.
Read moreWhat Happened at Hackfest 2016
This year's Inkscape hackfest was held at the Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, in the UK. The meeting space was a grand old set of buildings, which was a beautiful setting to hack on Inkscape.
Inkscape Hackfest 2016 in Leeds, UK
Inkscape developers will meet in April 2016 for a hackfest in Leeds, UK, to discuss and work on Inkscape in person. For this, we need your help - please support our efforts by making a donation.
Read moreFOSSASIA and Openclipart T-shirt Design Contest
FOSSASIA and Openclipart are launching a contest for International students, artists and designers to design a T-shirt graphic representing “The Internet of Things for Me.” 1st place winner of the contest will win a FiftyThree Pencil and final design placement on the official FOSSASIA 2016 T-shirt. Second and third place winners’ graphics will be used as design elements at the conference main party on the second day of the event.
Read moreNew Website Features to bring the Community together
The software of the Inkscape website was recently updated to version 1.4 with a host of new features and critical updates for the website framework itself.
Read moreInkscape 2016 Executive Report
The Inkscape board met and decided on some key areas for the project's 2016 goals: a budget for expenditures and W3C participation, the hackfest organisation in Leeds, UK, and the confirmation of the licensing intent.
Read moreConservancy Supporter Fundraiser
The non-profit home of Inkscape, Software Freedom Conservancy, is in urgent need of your immediate support! Conservancy must move to a Supporter-driven organization so it can focus on critical free software issues that nobody else is tackling. Inkscape relies on Conservancy and we ask you to donate today: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
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