On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:00:18PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next > month. The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2 > specification into "last call" at which point no new features can be > added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting > to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape > remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in > the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr > repository). > > The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous > meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the > importance of this meeting justifies it. > > Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on > my blog: > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/ > > Tav
Hi Tav, thanks again for writing up the report on the effectiveness of the past meetings. And thanks too for writing up this proposal. As a reminder, votes need to be called by the committee chair to be official. Also, I have been thinking that since the SVG meetings are an ongoing item, really what we should be doing is establishing an overall budget for the year, with SVG meetings being a regular category in it. I think that'd help make things more predictable for everyone, and would give you more freedom in determining which meeting(s) make the most sense for you to attend. Bryce > Proposal: > > [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Sydney SVG WG meeting as > outlined below, for a total of up to $2250. > [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. > > > Background: > > I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Sydney SVG working group > meeting, to be held February 11-14, 2015. The first day will > be a joint meeting with the CSS working group. > > At this meeting, the SVG working group plans on moving the SVG 2 > specification to "Last Call". At this point the specification is > essentially feature complete with no new features to be added and > incomplete features removed. It is an important meeting to attend in > person to make sure that features important to Inkscape such as mesh > gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text are not dropped. It > also is a last chance to add new features adopted like text-on-a-shape > or resolve problems such as getting proper closing of paths. The > meeting also is an opportunity to lobby the browsers to implement SVG > 2 features already supported by Inkscape such as the 'context-fill' > and 'context-stroke' values for the 'fill' and 'stroke' properties > which allows automatically matching marker fill color to path stroke > color and the 'auto-reverse-start' value for the marker orientation > which allows an arrow marker to be used both at the start and end of a > path. > > > Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: > > https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/ > > My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at: > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/tpac_2014.html > > and a meeting report at: > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1154 > > > Approximate cost for Sydney > > Transportation: Paris to Syndey: $1500 > 6 nights lodging/meals: $ 750 > > Tavmjong Bah > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
