Inkscape Turned 21, Happy Birthday!
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Inkscape is a professional solution for creating beautiful and scalable vector graphics. The best part is that it’s completely free, open-source software that gives you the tools to design all sorts of visuals—logos, illustrations, icons, maps, and more—without needing to spend a dime on expensive software.
Today marks the incredible 21st anniversary of this amazing software, and we can’t miss out. But before we go any further, we’d like to introduce our readers to the story behind its creation briefly.
Inkscape’s journey began in 2003, sparked by the vision of a small group of developers passionate about creating a free and open-source alternative to proprietary vector graphics software. The idea behind Inkscape was simple yet ambitious: to build a powerful, user-friendly, and entirely free vector graphics tool that could empower anyone, anywhere, to create.
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November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4.
Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones: Bringing contributors from around the world together in real time online
Looking back over the past year, our 20th anniversary got off to an active start with an online anniversary party in November 2023, where users and contributors gathered over the span of several time zones to welcome guests who shared their passion for Inkscape, their art, and discussed how and why they contribute to the project. The world showed up to hang out and filled us all with pride to be part of this open source community.
From there, things moved quickly with preparations for version 1.4 and all the elements that come together before the annual version release.
Inkscape’s 20th Anniversary | Inkscape
The anniversary celebration was an online get-together of Inkscape users and contributors.
This was an initiative by the Vectors team and the intention was to bring Inkscape users and contributors together to celebrate 20 years of Inkscape.
Inkscape is used by people around the world. To accommodate that, two sessions were organized in different time zones. The first session was scheduled at 12:00 UTC for folks from regions like Eastern North America, Europe, India, & Indonesia. The second session started at 18:00 UTC for other regions, including Oceania.
The attendees were invited to share their approximate location in the world so that we could “map” the Inkscape community that came together to celebrate the anniversary. The interactive map can be viewed online. It is a beautiful souvenir of Inkscape’s global reach.