[ScislaC]

Just so you know, there are tutorials in Inkscape's Help menu as well to help with a lot of the basics. If you ever run into any issues, feel free to pop in our IRC channel and ask away. Also, if you tweet anything containing "inkscape" in the message, chances are one of us will respond in less than 12 hours (most of the time).

For the record, since you're a "dev and not an artist", we have people in our community that will contribute art in exchange for your time if you were to contribute code to Inkscape.

[SpriteAttack]

I tried getting onto the irc channel to talk a bit about the tutorials but the channel wouldn't let me send - neither with the web tool nor with trillian... ;(

[ScislaC]

Unfortunately there is a registration requirement. I will check with JonCruz to see if freenode ever gave him admin status and if he'd be kind enough to remove that restriction (that is if it's on our end with the channel and not the server's).