I couldn't find an intro thread, so I hope this will do. Please move if it isn't!
Well hey I'm new here, and new to Inkscape as well. I worked with Illustrator for a long while, then my love for open-source came along and I found The Gimp. I've been working with Gimp for a couple years now and am actually a moderator over at the Gimper.net forums. I also run a Gimp tutorial blog, SGlider12's Blog, that' pretty successful.

Well, I've always liked vector graphics and needed an alternative to Illustrator seeing as I can't afford it, and found Inkscape. I'm actually trying to get into it more and what better way than to join a forum, right? Well, hope to learn a few things here!

Welcome sglider!

I'm actually trying to get into it more and what better way than to join a forum, right? Well, hope to learn a few things here!

No better way, imo. I joined this forum a little over a year ago, and could never have learned as much on my own, as I've learned here.

I have to say this is a rather an "all business" kind of forum. Not a lot of personal or social interaction, sadly. But who knows, maybe the right personalities just haven't joined yet?

I'm kind of a perpetual newbie with Inkscape. I have absolutely no graphic arts or even just art background and just started to learn it for fun....to nurture my inner artist, I guess, lol So to me, Inkscape is buggy and crashes a lot. But more experienced users don't seem to have much of a problem with this. I'm not quite sure why, maybe it's just one's perspective. In any case, with your experience, I'm sure you'll do just fine

I hope you enjoy your time here.
All best.

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Welcome to the forum, you'll love it here

Welcome! glad you found us
Nice looking blog you have there. Look forward to seeing what you can do with inkscape once you get up to speed.
If you have Qs ask away, we'll do our best to help, 2 resources you may find invaluable tho if you havent already found em are
the Inkscape Guide

and

http://screencasters.heathenx.org/

brynm, wrt the buggyness, if I find repeatable bugs in my workflow I do 3 things:
1) Make sure its in the tracker
2) Dig in the code a bit and try and fix it (not something everyones gonna do obviously...)
3) See if theres an easy workround.

if your repeatedly crashing it in the same way, please make sure you do at least #1, we cant fix what we dont know is wrong...

Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Can't wait to learn a bit from everyone!

edit: I think I'm beginning to like Mr. Green

So your a "GIMP" person...
I only just looked into that yesterday...I was pitching an idea to these doods about a little palette reduction process im working on and i was thinking about shooting you guys a copy....i'm still working on my UI graphics....i'll ask for some expert comments from you when i get it done...if you don't mind that is...
by the way welcome.