Hey Board,
Short and sweet email... I met Bradley Kuhn at SCaLE this weekend and we talked about a number of things. From talking with him I came away with the following question, how does the board feel about fundraising for getting people to conferences? Aside from a donation drive, we could obviously do promotional good like T-shirts and such to help raise funds. Thoughts? Obviously I'm in favor of it. :)
Cheers, Josh
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:23 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Short and sweet email... I met Bradley Kuhn at SCaLE this weekend and we talked about a number of things. From talking with him I came away with the following question, how does the board feel about fundraising for getting people to conferences? Aside from a donation drive, we could obviously do promotional good like T-shirts and such to help raise funds. Thoughts? Obviously I'm in favor of it. :)
I'm not against it, but I think we should start with some goals. For instance:
1 dev to SVG WG 2 devs to SCALE 1 dev to SIGraph
Those type of things. Then we can set reasonable targets. Do we have a good idea where we should be thinking?
--Ted
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ted Gould <ted@...1...> wrote:
I'm not against it, but I think we should start with some goals. For instance:
1 dev to SVG WG 2 devs to SCALE 1 dev to SIGraph
Those type of things. Then we can set reasonable targets. Do we have a good idea where we should be thinking?
Honestly, you hit 3 of the four I had in mind for a first year goal...
SVG Open SVG WG (at least one f2f meeting they have) SCALE SIGGRAPH
There are also a handful of other Linux conferences that we may want to entertain targeting eventually, but I'm not sure how much value there is for that unless there is a planned Inkscape hackfest that corresponds (even 2 people hacking could be worthwhile).
The SVG related events merit trying for 2 devs imho as Tavmjong & Jasper went to SVG Open last year and it sounded like it was very beneficial for them. Also, Tav specifically brought that to my attention that being able to attend more WG meetings would good in moving 2.0 forward. For those who don't know, Tavmjong is an Invited Expert to the SVG WG and has written portions of the spec for 2.0 in the interest of our users and is currently working on implementing gradient meshes in an inkscape branch.
On top of this, I would also want to push for funding of a larger hackfest probably surrounding a conference as has been discussed previously. The difference there is we discussed using existing funds rather than trying to raise any. I'm most apprehensive about the hackfest thing and fundraising because of financial contributors possible expectations of what would come of it, but still wanted to mention it as a potential future goal as well.
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Josh Andler wrote:
Honestly, you hit 3 of the four I had in mind for a first year goal...
SVG Open SVG WG (at least one f2f meeting they have) SCALE SIGGRAPH
What about Eurographics?
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
+1 from me, sounds like some good ideas
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:42:12PM -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:23 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Short and sweet email... I met Bradley Kuhn at SCaLE this weekend and we talked about a number of things. From talking with him I came away with the following question, how does the board feel about fundraising for getting people to conferences? Aside from a donation drive, we could obviously do promotional good like T-shirts and such to help raise funds. Thoughts? Obviously I'm in favor of it. :)
I'm not against it, but I think we should start with some goals. For instance:
1 dev to SVG WG 2 devs to SCALE 1 dev to SIGraph
Those type of things. Then we can set reasonable targets. Do we have a good idea where we should be thinking?
--Ted
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