Proposal:
[ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Linkoping SVG WG meeting as outlined below, for a total of up to $900. [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav.
Votes:
Josh Andler Jon A. Cruz Bryce Harrington Ted Gould Tavmjong Bah (recused)
Resolution:
The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG meeting for a total of up to $900.
Background:
I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Linkoping SVG working group meeting, to be held June 9-12, 2015.
The SVG working group is working through remaining issues in the SVG 2 specification. The specification is essentially feature complete. At this point incomplete features without a champion are being removed or moved into separate specifications (as happened with some new stroke and marker properties at the Sydney meeting). It would be good for me to be present in person to make sure that features important to Inkscape like mesh gradients, hatched fills, auto-flowed text are not dropped. Motions to drop features can arrive quickly and without warning as evidenced by the recent removal of SMIL animation from the SVG 2 specification.
Attending in person can be very fruitful. At the Sydney meeting I was able to get text on a shape, auto-closing of paths, and smoothing in gradients into the SVG 2 specification. The major browser vendors are represented so it is a chance to lobby them to add these features quickly to the their browsers.
Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at:
My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/sydney_2015.html
and a meeting report at:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1226
Approximate cost for Linkoping
Transportation: Paris to Linkoping: $450 5 nights lodging/meals: $450
BTW, here is what Inkscape spent on my attending SVG WG meetings in 2015 and 2014 (additional funding to that for attending LGM and GSoC mentor's meeting):
2015: Sydney $2250
2014: Leipzig $900 (Just after LGM) London $757 (Transportation paid for by SVG Open) Santa Clara $616 (Just after GSoC mentor's meeting)
Tavmjong Bah