It may be best to break these out into separate projects,

and seek some corporate funding (best submitted before Dec. 31)

for #1 & #2.

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer@...400...> wrote:

Summarization of Nathan's suggestions:

1. Improve connector & layout tools (required_before_further_SMIL_development/biggest_result_for_least_effort)

Question: Does this need to be done, independent of adding SMIL functionality?

2. Rewrite rendering pipeline

Question: Does this need to be done, independent of adding SMIL functionality?

3. Determine if there is an appropriate existing timeline-based animation tool to incorporate code

More details here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Animation-(Timeline)#User_interface_for_timeline-based_animation

4. Develop animation feature list (required_before_GUI design/requires_SMIL_spec_review)
More details here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Animation-(Timeline)#User_interface_for_timeline-based_animation

5. Develop detailed, consistent GUI design
More details here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Animation-(Timeline)#User_interface_for_timeline-based_animation