Hi Friends,
I told spaventapasseri about this last week, but forgot to make a posting here.  So sorry for the delay.

Inkscape Community is mostly about tutorials.  I've made a page with links to all of what I think are the best tutorials for Inkscape.  It will be kept current -- i.e. outdated tutorials removed, new tutorials added, if a tutorial is found to missing its illustrations, I'll remove it, etc.

While that page contains links to existing tutorials, there is also a way for members to write new tutorials which would be hosted there.  In the case of video tutorials, at least for now, you'd have to use vimeo to host it.  Once I figure out how to host videos, I hope I can host them as well as the text tutorials.

Members whom I know from either InkscapeForum.com or whom spaventapasseri recommends from this forum (since I don't keep up here, on a daily basis) can be promoted, and begin writing tutorials right away.

Also, there is a forum.  In light of so many other Inkscape forums, such as this, and InkscapeForum.com, I expect it won't be very busy.  At least not until I can build my search engine ranking. 

And finally, I'll be adding a gallery, asap.  Surprisingly, gallery software makers don't feel it's relevant to advertise which image file types they support.  They don't list them as Features  :o So I may need to install them and attempt to upload an SVG, just to find out.  But it seems that not many gallery softwares can support SVG.  The good news though, is that most of the ones I've looked at offer many different languages.

I've tried to make the forum using multiple different languages, but there are still some mysteries about that, for me.  So it may not be working properly yet.  But the gallery will have separate files  (its own files) for languages, so the gallery will be international from the start, whether or not the forum is.  (As far as I can tell  ;D )

Anyway, if you read English, or, lol, want to find out whether you can see the forum in Italian (I actually don't know, although I'm guessing it's not working) please feel free to stop by and look around!

Hi Friends,
I've been participating at InkscapeForum.com for....well, almost 5 years now, almost since it was created.  From there, I've met spaventapasseri and RM.  And possibly marydonata?

I would call myself an intermediate Inkscape user (not beginner, not advanced).  I tend to prefer drawing realistic images, but try to expand my skills as an artist.....although I hesitate to call myself an artist, I suppose anyone who creates original images could be called an artist.

I registered soon after you installed the translation feature.  Alas, I speak, read, write, only English.  I thought I would provide a little feedback about this feature, because it is an interesting experience using it. 

When I click on any link, I first see the page in Italian, and wait sometimes maybe 5 seconds, then the page reloads in English.  While I appreciate being able to read the forum, it's a bit laborious.  Many times I still can't understand a message, even though the words are English.  I suspect it might be because of misspellings (words aren't spelled right) that they aren't translated properly.  Or maybe it has something to do with grammar?  I'm hoping that you'll have a little bit of what I experience, if you use the translation feature to read this message, so you can understand what I mean.  Although I tend to fix spelling problems before posting, so maybe you won't notice any problems?

(I'm somewhat familiar with these SMF forum softwares.  It's possible that there is a forum mod for translation, which might work better than the Google one.  I don't know, but there might be?  I do know that SMF has some of the best security and spam control mods available.  So when the time comes that the spammers find this forum, I can recommend some of the mods.)

So I've visited off and on, since registering, but I only just now saw your "Competitions" subforum.  For some reason, it's not translated, even though all the other subforums' titles are translated.  It says "Confrontiamoci on ..."  So I had not looked at it yet.

Now that I've seen it, I'm inspired and excited to participate.  (There is a similar subforum on the English Inkscape forum.)  Will it be ok to post an image in an older topic.  For example, the last one in the index is Draw Your Breakfast.  May I post images to old ones like that?

I look forward to meeting and getting to know you all here!

All best  :)
brynn

PS - The message Preview has no formatting.  I've typed in several paragraphs, but they all run together in the Preview.  I'm not sure why.  We'll see what happens when I post the message.