I vote a. +1 to what Bryce said.
Cheers, Josh On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Bryce Harrington <br...@bryceharrington.org> wrote: > Proposal: > > [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Linkoping SVG WG meeting as > outlined below, for a total of up to $900. > [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. > > > Votes: > > Josh Andler > Jon A. Cruz > Bryce Harrington > Ted Gould > Tavmjong Bah (recused) > > Resolution: > > The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG > meeting for a total of up to $900. > > > Background: > > I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Linkoping SVG working group > meeting, to be held June 9-12, 2015. > > The SVG working group is working through remaining issues in the SVG 2 > specification. The specification is essentially feature complete. At > this point incomplete features without a champion are being removed or > moved into separate specifications (as happened with some new stroke > and marker properties at the Sydney meeting). It would be good for me > to be present in person to make sure that features important to > Inkscape like mesh gradients, hatched fills, auto-flowed text are not > dropped. Motions to drop features can arrive quickly and without > warning as evidenced by the recent removal of SMIL animation from the > SVG 2 specification. > > Attending in person can be very fruitful. At the Sydney meeting I was > able to get text on a shape, auto-closing of paths, and smoothing in > gradients into the SVG 2 specification. The major browser vendors are > represented so it is a chance to lobby them to add these features > quickly to the their browsers. > > > 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/sydney_2015.html > > and a meeting report at: > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1226 > > Approximate cost for Linkoping > > Transportation: Paris to Linkoping: $450 > 5 nights lodging/meals: $450 > > > BTW, here is what Inkscape spent on my attending SVG WG meetings in 2015 > and 2014 (additional funding to that for attending LGM and GSoC mentor's > meeting): > > 2015: Sydney $2250 > > 2014: Leipzig $900 (Just after LGM) > London $757 (Transportation paid for by SVG Open) > Santa Clara $616 (Just after GSoC mentor's meeting) > > > Tavmjong Bah > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
