I vote for funding this, A. I think it is an important meeting, the idea of SVG2 at all delights me, it's been a long time coming.

I'm a little worried that with the hackfest planned, but fund raising not in (not worried, but reality of situation), we might be slightly over committed. I think we should be conservative until that event is in the books (as it's our first), but this is important.

Ted

On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 14:00 +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote: 
Hi,

I would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next
month. The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2
specification into "last call" at which point no new features can be
added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting
to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape
remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in
the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr
repository).

The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous
meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the
importance of this meeting justifies it.

Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on
my blog: 

  http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/

Tav


Proposal:

  [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Sydney SVG WG meeting as
         outlined below, for a total of up to $2250.
  [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav.


Background:

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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