On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 16:32 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:00:18PM +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:
Tav
Hi Tav, thanks again for writing up the report on the effectiveness of the past meetings. And thanks too for writing up this proposal. As a reminder, votes need to be called by the committee chair to be official.
Also, I have been thinking that since the SVG meetings are an ongoing item, really what we should be doing is establishing an overall budget for the year, with SVG meetings being a regular category in it. I think that'd help make things more predictable for everyone, and would give you more freedom in determining which meeting(s) make the most sense for you to attend.
It would be a good idea to have a yearly budget. I've been lucky so far that the SVG meetings have mostly coincided with other conferences (LGM, SVG Open, GSoC Mentor's meeting) so it's kept down costs. I do need, however, to get an answer rather quickly on Sydney as airfares will rise as the date approaches. Can you call for a vote on this and leave the topic of a yearly budget to a future discussion?
Thanks,
Tav