Inkscape Community¶
In addition to being a program, Inkscape is also a worldwide community of users, developers, designers, documentation authors, bug triagers, infrastructure managers and the like. Internally we are organized as teams. You can find a list of teams on the Inkscape website. Everyone are welcome to join the community.
Getting Support¶
You can get support from Inkscape users on the following channels:
The official forum.
The inkscape_users chat on our self-hosted RocketChat instance.
In addition to the official channels, there are also the following unofficial channels managed by users:
The Inkscape Discord server.
The subreddit.
Development¶
Being a Free and Open Source project, we welcome development from volunteers. Communication between developers mostly happen in the following channels:
The development chat (team_devel) on RocketChat. Most discussions happen here.
The #inkscape-devel IRC channel on Libera.Chat. This channel is mirrored with the development chat above.
The inkscape-devel mailing list, where notes from weekly meetings are posted.
If you’re interested in development, see the Developing Inkscape page on the website.
Chat¶
For real-time discussions, we run a self-hosted chat server at chat.inkscape.org. We have a chatroom for each team:
inkscape_user for users.
team_devel for developers.
team_vectors for Vectors, the mane we call the Inkscape marketing and community maangement team.
team_testing for bug triagers and testers.
team_translation for translators.
team_ux for UI/UX designers of Inkscape.
There is also an offtopic channel for discussions unrelated to Inkscape.
Social Media¶
The Vectors (marketing) team currently manage the following social media channels:
Mastodon
X (Twitter)
Facebook
DeviantArt
Instagram
You can freely tag Inkscape on these channels if you post something related to Inkscape.