On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 01:18 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:22:35AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Proposal: > > > > [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Linkoping SVG WG meeting as > > outlined below, for a total of up to $900. > > [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. > > > > > > Votes: > > > > Josh Andler > > Jon A. Cruz > > Bryce Harrington > > Ted Gould > > Tavmjong Bah (recused) > > > > Resolution: > > > > The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG > > meeting for a total of up to $900. > > > > > > Background: > > > > I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Linkoping SVG working group > > meeting, to be held June 9-12, 2015. > > > > The SVG working group is working through remaining issues in the SVG 2 > > specification. The specification is essentially feature complete. At > > this point incomplete features without a champion are being removed or > > moved into separate specifications (as happened with some new stroke > > and marker properties at the Sydney meeting). It would be good for me > > to be present in person to make sure that features important to > > Inkscape like mesh gradients, hatched fills, auto-flowed text are not > > dropped. Motions to drop features can arrive quickly and without > > warning as evidenced by the recent removal of SMIL animation from the > > SVG 2 specification. > > > > Attending in person can be very fruitful. At the Sydney meeting I was > > able to get text on a shape, auto-closing of paths, and smoothing in > > gradients into the SVG 2 specification. The major browser vendors are > > represented so it is a chance to lobby them to add these features > > quickly to the their browsers. > > > > > > 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/sydney_2015.html > > > > and a meeting report at: > > > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1226 > > > > Approximate cost for Linkoping > > > > Transportation: Paris to Linkoping: $450 > > 5 nights lodging/meals: $450 > > > > > > BTW, here is what Inkscape spent on my attending SVG WG meetings in 2015 > > and 2014 (additional funding to that for attending LGM and GSoC mentor's > > meeting): > > > > 2015: Sydney $2250 > > > > 2014: Leipzig $900 (Just after LGM) > > London $757 (Transportation paid for by SVG Open) > > Santa Clara $616 (Just after GSoC mentor's meeting) > > > > > > Tavmjong Bah > > Hi Tav, > > Thanks again for attending these SVG meetings and fighting for the Open > Source side. I especially liked how you put the pieces together for me > in how Inkscape enabled good visuals on Wikipedia, and how this resulted > in the SVG standard remaining relevant to today. I feel your attendance > at these meetings has been invaluable and in our small way has made the > world a little bit better than it would otherwise. I think it's a good > use of our donors' monies. > > That said, we've invested a lot of money in these meetings so far. > Linkoping puts us over $5500... roughly the equivalent of a hackfest. > Money well spent if you ask me, but certainly one of our bigger ticket > items to date. > > Like you point out, at the moment we're at a good financial spot, flush > with fundraised cash, and affording this particular event shouldn't be > a problem. > > Going forward though, I'd like to get you into a situation where the > funding is more under your control, so these things can be more > predictable both for you and for us. To do this I'd like to get you set > up with a regular Inkscape fundraiser that earmarks money specifically > to send you to SVG meetings. We now have all the infrastructure sorted > out to do this, it'll just be a matter of you setting up a page our our > site with the ask, and beating the bushes a little to get donors there. > My bet is that this would allow us to pull in funding for you from more > than just Inkscape users, since this format is vital for so much beyond > just vector artwork. How does this sound to you? > > Bryce
It sounds like a good idea. I'll set up a page after things get a bit more settled. Tav ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
