I vote a. - Johan
On 13-1-2015 11:45, Bryce Harrington wrote: > A majority vote of the current board members is required for this > matter. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tav would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next > month. > > Proposal: > > [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Sydney SVG WG meeting as > outlined below, for a total of up to $2250. > [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. > > > Background: > > I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Sydney SVG working group > meeting, to be held February 11-14, 2015. The first day will > be a joint meeting with the CSS working group. > > The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2 > specification into "last call" at which point no new features can be > added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting > to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape > remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in > the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr > repository). > > The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous > meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the > importance of this meeting justifies it. > > Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on > my blog: > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/ > > At this meeting, the SVG working group plans on moving the SVG 2 > specification to "Last Call". At this point the specification is > essentially feature complete with no new features to be added and > incomplete features removed. It is an important meeting to attend in > person to make sure that features important to Inkscape such as mesh > gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text are not dropped. It > also is a last chance to add new features adopted like text-on-a-shape > or resolve problems such as getting proper closing of paths. The > meeting also is an opportunity to lobby the browsers to implement SVG > 2 features already supported by Inkscape such as the 'context-fill' > and 'context-stroke' values for the 'fill' and 'stroke' properties > which allows automatically matching marker fill color to path stroke > color and the 'auto-reverse-start' value for the marker orientation > which allows an arrow marker to be used both at the start and end of a > path. > > There are typically a number of SVG meetings throughout the year. > The total cost of these meetings may represent a non-trivial fraction of > Inkscape's annual income, so it may be worthwhile to budget the > proportion of Inkscape's income to go to these events. If this is done, > the amount approved for this trip will be included in the SVG meetings > category. > > > > Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: > > https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/ > > My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at: > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/tpac_2014.html > > and a meeting report at: > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1154 > > > Approximate cost for Sydney > > Transportation: Paris to Syndey: $1500 > 6 nights lodging/meals: $ 750 > > Tavmjong Bah > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. > GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. > Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. > Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
