Hi Martin, It's in the planning state. So no web page yet. Previous meeting has a page: https://govirtual.com.au/SVG-AU#NextMeeting

Announcement will be via the meetup group, IRC, mailing lists.

Skill level is entry, newbie or above. Any platform. (Mac, Win, Lin)... any others?

Are you in Sydney?

MarkT

On 22/06/17 11:30, Martin Owens wrote:

This would be good to get publicised more. Do you have a website or link that can be shared for the event?

What are you installing at the fest? Just Inskcape or more?

What's the skill level you expect people? What platforms?

Pardon my ignorance of this, but is it a compile-fest? Does just installing Inkscape need a "fest"? :) Just curious. Wondering if people find it hard enough to install inkscape as to need any sort of help... or is it teaching new users how to use Inkscape as well?

-C

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:

On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 11:36 +1000, MarkT wrote:

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lists. Skill level is entry, newbie or above. Any platform. (Mac, Win, Lin)... any others?

Are you in Sydney?

Unfortunately I'm in Boston, USA at the moment.

I was thinking that the event could be put to the G+ and twitter outputs, because people in Sydney are going to be rarer I think.

But I'll wait for the webpage and then try and help you spread the word.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

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No, it wouldn't. :) There are quite enough things to fix in desktop Inkscape right now.

-C

On 22 Jun 2017 18:37, "Jean-François Paquin" < jean-francois.paquin@...3319...> wrote:

Hi,

Wouldn't be time for Inkscape (in lighter version) to open directly in a web browser (HTML5) like some other SVG design tools ? Ex. : https://app.designer.io/ http://www.clker.com/inc/svgedit/svg-editor.html https://boxy-svg.com/main.html#demo

Thanks

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2017-06-22 12:22 GMT-04:00 C R <cajhne@...155...>:

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Pardon my ignorance of this, but is it a compile-fest? Does just installing Inkscape need a "fest"? :) Just curious. Wondering if people find it hard enough to install inkscape as to need any sort of help... or is it teaching new users how to use Inkscape as well?

-C

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:

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On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 11:36 +1000, MarkT wrote:

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lists. Skill level is entry, newbie or above. Any platform. (Mac, Win, Lin)... any others?

Are you in Sydney?

Unfortunately I'm in Boston, USA at the moment.

I was thinking that the event could be put to the G+ and twitter outputs, because people in Sydney are going to be rarer I think.

But I'll wait for the webpage and then try and help you spread the word.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Hi, The SVG meetup group has around one hundred members. SVG has had a slow burn-in to the web developers palette. It is often used for icons and authoring logo's. More significant graphics have been in the domain of Illustrator.

From what I can gather many of the group's members are

development-technically oriented, plenty busy. SVG is a occasionally encountered by them. Though as it's availability and use rises, a path of learning is useful. It's easy to assume they will have Inkscape installed, being so useful and easy to install. Though SVG is a big learn. So to festivalize the install hopefully humanizes the experience. As the install is so easy I expect there to be time enough to do some ice-breaker sessions on functions of Inkscape. The aim is to significantly raise the percentage of installs and use in the group.

MarkT

On 23/06/17 04:17, brynn wrote:

I'm curious what is an "installfest"?

Thanks, brynn

-----Original Message----- From: C R Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 10:22 AM To: Inkscape User Community Cc: paradisaeidae@...155... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape InstallFest, Sydney, late July.

Pardon my ignorance of this, but is it a compile-fest? Does just installing Inkscape need a "fest"? :) Just curious. Wondering if people find it hard enough to install inkscape as to need any sort of help... or is it teaching new users how to use Inkscape as well?

A few quick thoughts:

Considering your target audience (web devs/designers), you probably need to do these things to make sure they are happy with their Inkscape experience:

1. Make sure they know the benefits of SVG - A presentation showing why vector graphics are better to use for logos, illustrations, etc. in today's ever-incresingly high-res world (show the difference on high-res devices with pinch-zoom - most people can do this on thier phones, just direct them to a web page you have set up with a raster and vector logo side by side). Show them how svgs can be scripted for advanced users (some animated demonstration is probably enough, and a mention that SVG is an XML based file format) 2. Make sure they know the limitations of the current browser implementations of SVG - What works, what doesn't, and the workarounds. 3. Make sure they know the benefits of Inkscape vs Illustrator regarding the above - If most of your folks are coming from illustrator, any new software package may be a hard sell due to the different interface, and time to learn - make sure you have some walk-throughs that show how fast and easy Inkscape is vs Illustrator. 4. Be ready to answer any questions that your presentation brings up - get some of the group in in advance to ask questions, and have answers prepared for the main group. 5. Obviously make sure that you've successfully installed Inkscape on MacOS and Windows 7, 8 and 10. If you spend most of the time struggling with install issues, it will convince people that it's not worth the effort, and they will go back to Illustrator.

If you have questions, feel free to message me. I can probably help with guidance, and some graphics for your presentations.

Maybe call it SVGFest or something. Looking around Installfests are usually for things that take a lot of setup. Inkscape is already set up (except for XQuarts on Mac, can be a little tricky).

My 2p. -C

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 2:57 AM, brynn <brynn@...3089...> wrote:

Ok, thanks :-)

-----Original Message----- From: MarkT Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 7:17 PM To: Inkscape User Community Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape InstallFest, Sydney, late July. Hi, The SVG meetup group has around one hundred members. SVG has had a slow burn-in to the web developers palette. It is often used for icons and authoring logo's. More significant graphics have been in the domain of Illustrator. From what I can gather many of the group's members are development-technically oriented, plenty busy. SVG is a occasionally encountered by them. Though as it's availability and use rises, a path of learning is useful. It's easy to assume they will have Inkscape installed, being so useful and easy to install. Though SVG is a big learn. So to festivalize the install hopefully humanizes the experience. As the install is so easy I expect there to be time enough to do some ice-breaker sessions on functions of Inkscape. The aim is to significantly raise the percentage of installs and use in the group.

MarkT

On 23/06/17 04:17, brynn wrote:

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I'm curious what is an "installfest"?

Thanks, brynn

-----Original Message----- From: C R Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 10:22 AM To: Inkscape User Community Cc: paradisaeidae@...155... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape InstallFest, Sydney, late July.

Pardon my ignorance of this, but is it a compile-fest? Does just installing Inkscape need a "fest"? :) Just curious. Wondering if people find it hard enough to install inkscape as to need any sort of help... or is it teaching new users how to use Inkscape as well?

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Hi Mark. I suppose I don't quite understand your SVG group user base. :) Is it possible to be in web development/design and not be familiar with software tools to create graphics? At any rate, the presentation should be good for newbies as well as artists who are switching. I suppose you could cater more to newcomers - Everyone should know the difference between raster and vector graphics, and this is a good way of spreading that awareness too.

Both groups would benefit from seeing some simple walk-throughs and probably the beginners guide Elisa, Maren, and others in the Inkscape docs team are polishing up at the moment.

Real time chat will be difficult for me the next few days mainly because I'm scrambling about trying to prepare things for the Inkscape Hackfest which is only days away now.

At any rate, I'd start by posting a checklist of what you would like to show/teach in your SVGfest. Installing is a good first presentation, and especially useful for people on Macs, where there are extra steps. How many team members do you have to help people at the fest?

Are you thinking of doing any fund-raising activities, or is this just for information? Might be a good opportunity to raise a bit of money for the project with inkscape stickers etc. If you are interested in this, let me know. I'll see about getting some to you.

Thanks for your hard work to promote SVG and Inkscape!

-C

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:10 AM, MarkT <paradisaeidae@...155...> wrote:

Hi Chris, Naming it an Inkscape Install-fest may imply difficulty. Inkscape is astonishingly easy to install. And let me say here that I've noticed Inkscape's reliability go to rock solid in the recent years. Is there a colour called 'impressed'?

So I'll adjust it to SVG Tooling Festival. So far the graphics savvy mob are not appearing in SVG groups AFAIK. They gravitate towards those with 'creative' in the description. Looks like you're in the UK? This is hazardous to real-time chats?

Cya, MarkT

On 23/06/17 17:12, C R wrote:

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A few quick thoughts: