I vote A. On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 00:33 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Board members, your vote is needed on this matter: > > > Proposal: > > [ ] a. Approve funding of up to $900 for Tav to attend the Santa Clara > SVG WG meeting as outlined below. > [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. > > > Background: > > I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Santa Clara SVG working group > meeting, held as part of the annual W3C "TPAC" meeting October 27-31 > just after the GSoC mentor's meeting. I am already schedule to attend > the GSoC mentor's meeting with Inkscape funding (see GSoC > resolution). This request is for the additional cost of staying for > the SVG WG meeting. (Santa Clara is next to San Jose, where the GSoC > meeting is taking place. > > This is a critical time for SVG 2. The new features I am responsible > for include mesh gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text. The > move to "CSS based" text layout which brings in auto-flowed text (with > a natural SVG 1.1 fallback) requires a lot of work which is easiest to > do face-to-face. Critical decisions are made at these meetings > (i.e. dropping SVG fonts). It is important to have Inkscape interests > represented. Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: > > https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/ > > Approximate cost for Santa Clara > > 6 nights lodging/meals $900 > > The W3C organizers have waived the conference fee for me. > > Note: The SVG WG is meeting the last two days of TPAC. I will either > attend the CSS WG meeting the first two day or I will visit a friend > during that time. In the latter case, I will use only half the > requested amount. > > Tavmjong Bah > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
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