On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:09:25PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney
> at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG
> Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system
> is not yet functional
Ah hang on, I think there might be some misunderstanding of what the
funded development tool is for - it's not a fundraising tool, it's more
just a way for targeting already-raised funds to specific development
projects. So, like you'd run a kickstarter or whatever to generate the
funds, then dole the cash out to N different coding tasks that are
defined in the system. It's not intended for doing anything with
conference travel or anything like that. You don't need any specific
tool for that - or, really, we already sorted out the tooling needed for
that when we did the hackfest fundraising.
So, really all you need to do is set up a paypal page like we did for
the hackfest, but reword the text to showcase the importance of the SVG
WG work you're doing. What you've written below makes a great start.
The hackfest donation page is not live but it's still in Django:
https://inkscape.org/en/hackfest/?edit
Make a copy of that page, replace the text and photo, and have Karen or
Bradley generate a new Paypal widget thingee with its own category
"svg-wg" or whatever. Once you have the page prototyped I can lend a
hand requesting the paypal link if you want - basically karen just needs
to log into the paypal interface and push a few buttons I think.
Then put out a call for funds via blogs and other social media, like we
did for the hackfest. I think a *lot* of people care about SVG, and if
the hackfest fundraising is anything to judge you may well raise a LOT
of donations - which will then be earmarked for your SVG WG trips going
forward. My hope is that this'll get you enough funding that it'll
never have to be a question in the future.
Anyway, that's all I really had in mind when I was suggesting this. If
you've been blocked waiting for the funded dev tools, oops sorry about
that.
By the way, I also created a wiki page with a bunch more fundraising
ideas. I suspect just a plain old direct ask approach will be more than
sufficient but if you want some more creative ways to beat the bushes,
this might give some inspiration:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fundraising_Ideas
Bryce
> (and as we've been quite successful in raising
> funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel
> about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting.
>
> The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still
> needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need
> to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which
> are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need
> addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting
> with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people
> is the best way of making progress.
>
> I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some
> help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down
> his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely
> the last meeting he'll attend.
>
> I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the
> same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last
> year).
>
> Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective.
> One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502 This
> year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's
> as we try to get the spec out the door.
>
> BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text
> rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well
> as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text-
> orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of
> SVG 2.0 wrapped text.
>
> Tav
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