Re: [Inkscape-board] REFERENDUM: Sydney SVG WG Meeting

19 Jan 2015

      On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
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Can anybody else vote on this? Airfares have risen $200 in the past
week. I can probably still keep to budget but not if they go up any
more.
Tav
I'll cast a +1 to finalize the vote.  Sorry, meant to do that earlier
but got distracted by release stuff.
Bryce
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On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 23:50 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
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I vote a.

Johan

On 13-1-2015 11:45, Bryce Harrington wrote:
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A majority vote of the current board members is required for this
matter.

Tav would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next
month.
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.
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/
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.
There are typically a number of SVG meetings throughout the year.
The total cost of these meetings may represent a non-trivial fraction of
Inkscape's annual income, so it may be worthwhile to budget the
proportion of Inkscape's income to go to these events.  If this is done,
the amount approved for this trip will be included in the SVG meetings
category.
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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