On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:15:28AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Proposal: > > Approve SVG Working Group Meeting Sydney 2016 attendance by Tavmjong > Bah, up to $2,536.54 from the SVG WG funds pool. > > [ ] Yes. > [ ] No.
I'm voting: Yes > Votes: > > Resolution: > > Background: > > Tavmjong Bah is our official Inkscape representative to the W3C SVG > Working Group Meetings, and his attendance has been instrumental in the > past for ensuring the standard is developed with Inkscape's needs in > mind. > > The next Face-to-Face meeting is in Sydney, Australia, Feb 4-6. We have > budgeted $2,250 for this meeting, and allocated that amount from the > general fund to a new "SVG WG funds pool". We have dedicated > fundraising for these meetings that feeds into this pool, and eighteen > donors have currently (as of Jan 10, 2016) contributed $286.54. Thus > there is currently $2536.54 available, to cover airfare, hotel, and > other associated travel expenses. > > Some years there are multiple SVG WG meetings scheduled. From their > website I don't see any others listed. However if the fundraising > continues to go well then we could afford to send Tav to those as well, > at his discretion. > > (As an aside, I am enquiring with SFC if given our new setup, whether we > need to continue holding a vote for each individual SVG WG meeting, or > if there's some way we can approve the attendance as a routine ongoing > expense. If we can, I'll post a vote for that. If we can't, then we'll > need to continue to do individual votes for each meeting.) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For reference, here is the referendum background for the last meeting > that was in Sydney: > > """ > 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 > """ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
