Votes:
Josh Andler a.
Jon A. Cruz a.
Johan Engelen a.
Bryce Harrington a.
Ted Gould (a.)
Tavmjong Bah (recused)
Resolution:
The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Sydney SVG WG
meeting for a total of up to $2250.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 02:45:46AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> A majority vote of the current board members is required for this
> matter.
>
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> Tav would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next
> month.
>
> 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.
>
> 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/
>
> 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.
>
> There are typically a number of SVG meetings throughout the year.
> The total cost of these meetings may represent a non-trivial fraction of
> Inkscape's annual income, so it may be worthwhile to budget the
> proportion of Inkscape's income to go to these events. If this is done,
> the amount approved for this trip will be included in the SVG meetings
> category.
>
>
>
> 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
>
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