Hi,
The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system is not yet functional (and as we've been quite successful in raising funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting.
The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people is the best way of making progress.
I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely the last meeting he'll attend.
I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last year).
Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective. One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502%C2%A0 This year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's as we try to get the spec out the door.
BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text- orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of SVG 2.0 wrapped text.
Tav
I feel this is a very good use of our funds - SVG is very important to us and also we as a project are important for SVG. This is an opportunity to get features we care about into the spec that may not reoccur for several years. I fully support funding Tav's travel to this meeting.
Best regards, Krzysztof On 3 Dec 2015 14:09, "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...47...> wrote:
Hi,
The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system is not yet functional (and as we've been quite successful in raising funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting.
The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people is the best way of making progress.
I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely the last meeting he'll attend.
I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last year).
Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective. One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502 This year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's as we try to get the spec out the door.
BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text- orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of SVG 2.0 wrapped text.
Tav
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:09:25PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Hi,
The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system is not yet functional
Ah hang on, I think there might be some misunderstanding of what the funded development tool is for - it's not a fundraising tool, it's more just a way for targeting already-raised funds to specific development projects. So, like you'd run a kickstarter or whatever to generate the funds, then dole the cash out to N different coding tasks that are defined in the system. It's not intended for doing anything with conference travel or anything like that. You don't need any specific tool for that - or, really, we already sorted out the tooling needed for that when we did the hackfest fundraising.
So, really all you need to do is set up a paypal page like we did for the hackfest, but reword the text to showcase the importance of the SVG WG work you're doing. What you've written below makes a great start. The hackfest donation page is not live but it's still in Django:
https://inkscape.org/en/hackfest/?edit
Make a copy of that page, replace the text and photo, and have Karen or Bradley generate a new Paypal widget thingee with its own category "svg-wg" or whatever. Once you have the page prototyped I can lend a hand requesting the paypal link if you want - basically karen just needs to log into the paypal interface and push a few buttons I think.
Then put out a call for funds via blogs and other social media, like we did for the hackfest. I think a *lot* of people care about SVG, and if the hackfest fundraising is anything to judge you may well raise a LOT of donations - which will then be earmarked for your SVG WG trips going forward. My hope is that this'll get you enough funding that it'll never have to be a question in the future.
Anyway, that's all I really had in mind when I was suggesting this. If you've been blocked waiting for the funded dev tools, oops sorry about that.
By the way, I also created a wiki page with a bunch more fundraising ideas. I suspect just a plain old direct ask approach will be more than sufficient but if you want some more creative ways to beat the bushes, this might give some inspiration:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fundraising_Ideas
Bryce
(and as we've been quite successful in raising funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting.
The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people is the best way of making progress.
I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely the last meeting he'll attend.
I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last year).
Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective. One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502%C2%A0 This year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's as we try to get the spec out the door.
BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text- orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of SVG 2.0 wrapped text.
Tav
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On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 00:41 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:09:25PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Hi,
The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system is not yet functional
Ah hang on, I think there might be some misunderstanding of what the funded development tool is for - it's not a fundraising tool, it's more just a way for targeting already-raised funds to specific development projects. So, like you'd run a kickstarter or whatever to generate the funds, then dole the cash out to N different coding tasks that are defined in the system. It's not intended for doing anything with conference travel or anything like that.
Yes, I have misunderstood the funded development tool. I thought it was specifically so we could raise funds directly without needing to rely on an external entity that would be taking a cut of the raised funds. I specifically recall us discussing if it were possible to tag PayPal donations automatically so we could track donations for different development projects.
Raising funds through Kickstarter means having two entities taking a percentage of the donations. Would donations still be tax deductible as they are if directly given to SFC? Who is legally liable for the use of the funds? The "Funded Development" page has a lot of rules/regulations that would be hard to enforce if funding is raised through an outside organization like Kickstarter.
You don't need any specific tool for that - or, really, we already sorted out the tooling needed for that when we did the hackfest fundraising.
It was my impression that the tool we used for Hackfest fund raising was put in place as a stop-gap measure until we had our own system in place. Having said that, the tool worked well so I don't see a problem with reusing it.
So, really all you need to do is set up a paypal page like we did for the hackfest, but reword the text to showcase the importance of the SVG WG work you're doing. What you've written below makes a great start. The hackfest donation page is not live but it's still in Django:
https://inkscape.org/en/hackfest/?edit
Make a copy of that page, replace the text and photo, and have Karen or Bradley generate a new Paypal widget thingee with its own category "svg-wg" or whatever. Once you have the page prototyped I can lend a hand requesting the paypal link if you want - basically karen just needs to log into the paypal interface and push a few buttons I think.
I have created a page (need Martin for a few tweeks to add an image or two):
https://inkscape.org/en/svg_working_group/
It might be better if you (Bryce) ask Karen about a PayPal link since your our official contact.
Then put out a call for funds via blogs and other social media, like we did for the hackfest. I think a *lot* of people care about SVG, and if the hackfest fundraising is anything to judge you may well raise a LOT of donations - which will then be earmarked for your SVG WG trips going forward. My hope is that this'll get you enough funding that it'll never have to be a question in the future.
Let's hope so...
Anyway, that's all I really had in mind when I was suggesting this. If you've been blocked waiting for the funded dev tools, oops sorry about that.
Yes, that was blocking me...
In the case that this fund-raising effort doesn't payoff in time for purchasing a ticket to Sydney, I would still like the board's opinion of proving back-up funding.
Tav
By the way, I also created a wiki page with a bunch more fundraising ideas. I suspect just a plain old direct ask approach will be more than sufficient but if you want some more creative ways to beat the bushes, this might give some inspiration:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fundraising_Ideas
Bryce
(and as we've been quite successful in raising funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting.
The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people is the best way of making progress.
I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely the last meeting he'll attend.
I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last year).
Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective. One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502%C2%A0; This year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's as we try to get the spec out the door.
BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text- orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of SVG 2.0 wrapped text.
Tav
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 04:54:44PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 00:41 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:09:25PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Hi,
The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system is not yet functional
Ah hang on, I think there might be some misunderstanding of what the funded development tool is for - it's not a fundraising tool, it's more just a way for targeting already-raised funds to specific development projects. So, like you'd run a kickstarter or whatever to generate the funds, then dole the cash out to N different coding tasks that are defined in the system. It's not intended for doing anything with conference travel or anything like that.
Yes, I have misunderstood the funded development tool. I thought it was specifically so we could raise funds directly without needing to rely on an external entity that would be taking a cut of the raised funds. I specifically recall us discussing if it were possible to tag PayPal donations automatically so we could track donations for different development projects.
It would be great to have something other than Paypal but that's a whole other issue.
This system will be connected to the Ledger accounting tools rather than to Paypal directly. So theoretically we could use any payment provider, or even hand-written checks or whatever. The only requirement is that the donations be tagged per-fundraiser in Ledger in a way that lets us mechanically identify and tally them up (so we know how much $$ has come in for each fundraiser).
The system will then let the person who organizes the fundraiser split the funds up to specific development projects.
Raising funds through Kickstarter means having two entities taking a percentage of the donations. Would donations still be tax deductible as they are if directly given to SFC? Who is legally liable for the use of the funds? The "Funded Development" page has a lot of rules/regulations that would be hard to enforce if funding is raised through an outside organization like Kickstarter.
Yeah potentially depending on how things are set up, there could be a lot of intermediaries taking a dip of the proceeds. :-/
Again though, the payment processing end is entirely external to this system. We care only about what amounts actually are in our account in the end, and that they're tagged so we can find them. Taxes, fees, etc. all come out ahead of that.
It's left to whomever sets up the fundraiser to decide whether to minimize the cuts, or to minimize the time they have to invest into organizing it, or into making the fundraiser snazzy, or whatever makes the most sense.
You don't need any specific tool for that - or, really, we already sorted out the tooling needed for that when we did the hackfest fundraising.
It was my impression that the tool we used for Hackfest fund raising was put in place as a stop-gap measure until we had our own system in place. Having said that, the tool worked well so I don't see a problem with reusing it.
Oh hmm. I do remember early on in the research for that noticing that there were a couple different ways to interface to paypal, and we did opt for the simpler of the two. My memory is a bit fuzzy on that though, but perhaps that was what caused the confusion?
So, really all you need to do is set up a paypal page like we did for the hackfest, but reword the text to showcase the importance of the SVG WG work you're doing. What you've written below makes a great start. The hackfest donation page is not live but it's still in Django:
https://inkscape.org/en/hackfest/?edit
Make a copy of that page, replace the text and photo, and have Karen or Bradley generate a new Paypal widget thingee with its own category "svg-wg" or whatever. Once you have the page prototyped I can lend a hand requesting the paypal link if you want - basically karen just needs to log into the paypal interface and push a few buttons I think.
I have created a page (need Martin for a few tweeks to add an image or two):
https://inkscape.org/en/svg_working_group/
It might be better if you (Bryce) ask Karen about a PayPal link since your our official contact.
Ok will do.
Then put out a call for funds via blogs and other social media, like we did for the hackfest. I think a *lot* of people care about SVG, and if the hackfest fundraising is anything to judge you may well raise a LOT of donations - which will then be earmarked for your SVG WG trips going forward. My hope is that this'll get you enough funding that it'll never have to be a question in the future.
Let's hope so...
Anyway, that's all I really had in mind when I was suggesting this. If you've been blocked waiting for the funded dev tools, oops sorry about that.
Yes, that was blocking me...
In the case that this fund-raising effort doesn't payoff in time for purchasing a ticket to Sydney, I would still like the board's opinion of proving back-up funding.
Certainly, I'll work on that too.
Bryce
By the way, I also created a wiki page with a bunch more fundraising ideas. I suspect just a plain old direct ask approach will be more than sufficient but if you want some more creative ways to beat the bushes, this might give some inspiration:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fundraising_Ideas
Bryce
(and as we've been quite successful in raising funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting.
The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people is the best way of making progress.
I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely the last meeting he'll attend.
I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last year).
Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective. One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502%C2%A0; This year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's as we try to get the spec out the door.
BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text- orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of SVG 2.0 wrapped text.
Tav
participants (3)
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Bryce Harrington -
Krzysztof Kosiński -
Tavmjong Bah