Many of you remember the SVG Interest Group (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/ ) and its child: Planet SVG (http://planetsvg.com/ ) . I'm sure there were lots of things before and since.
A certain frenzy of activity was put into both, though, in the long run, not enough activity to make either sustainable. Some have told me various different reasons for the gradual demise of the SVG Interest Group, but one reason that seems to reemerge is the W3C patent policy. Some folks whose names are known in the SVG Community didn't join because of the perception that there was too much bureaucratic overhead. But nonetheless, I keep hearing of projects (like the flags-of-the-nations project or tessellations-of-the-world) where having a place where SVG enthusiasts could gather their thoughts on various matters SVG-ish might be quite handy. The SVG IG has the advantage that there is a wiki there, and threaded discussions may be maintained. Svg-developers leaves historical footprints but who ever tries to search the archives. And it's not really threaded. Nor can we collaborate. I know some of you may have tired of this discussion from the last time it emerged, but perhaps technologies have changed in the past two years. Might there be some wiki-ish space that the SVG community could camp in and set up tents and exhibits and tables with wares and perhaps the occasional live entertainment, and which would leave legacy footprints with semi-permanent URL's? It would be nice to have a place other than svg-developers in which to accumulate flags of the world, best practices, cool filter effects, up-your-acid tests (acid wasn't good enough for some), word puns, galleries of accessible clip-art, new proposals for SVG 3 (since some of the proposals for SVG2 might not make the cut), faq's and the like. Something that doesn't require constant vigilance or time-measured metrics of success, but which nevertheless will still be there and searchable in a few years even if no one has any energy to maintain at the moment. Does Google docs provide free wiki space? Is there some other free, no-hassles flexible wiki-space in which multiple hands can scribble with some sense of archival longevity? The W3C has used Moodle for its instructional outreach and I must say that Moodle seems to be pretty easy to install and maintain. Ideas? In the meantime, I suppose we'll just keep broadcasting and reverberating ideas here, in hopes that an occasional one resonates. cheers David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
