Hey all,
I'm asking on behalf of Tavmjong Bah for funding for him to be able to attend "The Graphical Web" (used to be SVG Open) conference, the partial cost of hotel coverage, and the cost of a train ride to attend the W3 meeting taking place afterwards.
Here is a summary from him describing everything...
"I am asking for support to attend the SVG Working Group meeting being held after the Graphical Web conference (formerly SVG Open) in Zurich. Topics that I will push at the meeting include mesh gradients, marker clipping, marker color matching stroke color, extrapolated join style, screening filter primitive, hatchings, and flowed text. Some of these items have been discussed on my blog at:
I can also present any other issues that Inkscapers feel are important.
The Working Group meeting will be held at a mountain hotel near Lucerne. I am asking for $680 ($80 for train fare, 4 nights at $150 per night for the hotel). The hotel will actually be more than I am requesting but the extra will be covered by the organizers of the conference if they have a surplus (otherwise I will cover the difference). My attendance at the conference will be supported by the conference organizers.
The SVG Working Group has been very receptive to my input informed by my work on Inkscape as it represents a unique viewpoint (in a group dominated by browser vendors)."
I will outright say I support it and that Tav is our sole influence within the SVG WG and also contributes the code to help us back him up on what our users want... Mesh gradients for example.
One "Aye" vote on funding... others?
Cheers, Josh