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.
>
>
>
Votes:
Bryce Harrington Yes
Josh Andler Yes
Tavmjong Bah
Jon A. Cruz
Ted Gould
Krzysztof Kosiński Yes
Martin Owens Yes
Resolution:
Attendance at SVG Working Group Meeting in Sydney in 2016 is approved
for Tavmjong Bah, up to the proposed limits.
> 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.)
>
>
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> 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
> """
>
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