On Sat, 2014-01-11 at 17:52 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hi all,
We've got several proposals in various states of discussion, which I think would be good to bring to a vote over the coming month.
In general do you guys prefer having a bunch of different things to vote on in one go, or to have them spaced out time-wise to permit deliberation?
Vote when a topic is ready.
Here's the topics I'm thinking we should vote on:
a. 2013 Developer Education Book Campaign
b. Funded Development Procedure
c. Job Exceptions for Priority Projects
d. Move Inkscape Board mailing list from SourceForge to Launchpad
Anything else that'll need votes?
1. SVG Working group meetings.
I would like funding to attend two SVG working group meetings. There are plans to hold one meeting before/after LGM (April 2-5, 2014 in Leipzig) and one before/after The Graphical Web/SVGOpen (August 27-30, 2014 in Winchester, England). This is a critical time for SVG 2. The new features I am responsible for include mesh gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text. The move to "CSS based" text layout which brings in auto-flowed text requires a lot of work which is easiest to do face-to-face. I anticipate that I will get some funding support from the organizers of the conferences.
A report from the Tokyo WG meeting can be found at:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=979
2. LGM
I would like funding to cover a hotel at LGM. At the moment, I plan on giving an SVG 2 update, demoing the hidden SVG 2 festures in Inkscape.
I believe that nobody has stepped up to give an Inkscape talk at LGM. Should the board be more pro-active in recruiting someone to go? It may not be obvious to most developers that they can ask the board for funding.
3. Hack session
I would like to organize a hack session focused on adding a framework to Inkscape to handle SVG 2. Inkscape needs to be able to handle converting between SVG 1.1 and SVG 2 on read-in and write-out. This should be added in a generalized way.
SVG 2 offers quite a bit of new features to Inkscape. It is important that we show an interest in implementing these features if we want them to remain in SVG 2 and if we want others to support them. This is discussed in more detail on a Wiki page for this topic:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SVG2
We would need to agree on a date, a place, who will/can participate, what expenses would be covered.
Here are some possible sites:
* At LGM (there is a place we can use before/after LGM). * At a Redhat office, Boston or Brno (Ted suggested this might be possible) * Chez moi, outside Paris.
4. Bug tracking recognition
We have just discussed books for developers, which not only should help the level of code in Inkscape but also can be seen as a token reward for our most active developers. I really would like to do something to recognize how much ~suv had contributed to Inkscape through her work on keeping our bug-tracker in order (and answering questions on IRC).
Tav