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
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:
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