Vote A.
Ted
On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 00:22 -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
>
>
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