The Inkscape Board has voted in favor of reimbursing up to $1400 in travel, hotel, and meal expenses for Tavmjong Bah to attend the Leipzig SVG WG meeting and Libre Graphics Meeting.
I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Leipzig SVG working group meeting, held April 7-10 (after LGM April 2-5, 2014).
Here, I am asking for funding to attend both LGM and the Leipzig SVG meeting. (Note there is also another SVG meeting held in Winchester in August, but I will submit a separate funding request for that later; potentially I may get some funding from the conference organizer.)
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.
The Leipzig meeting is being held in conjunction with LGM. I will be giving a talk on SVG at LGM. I may receive some travel support from the LGM organizers but it is not sure at the moment, so I have included transportation costs.
Approximate costs for Leipzig,
A report from the Tokyo WG meeting can be found at:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=979
Tavmjong Bah
| Board Member | Vote |
|---|---|
| Josh Andler | a |
| Ted Gould | a |
| Johan Engelen | a |
| Bryce Harrington | a |
| Jon Cruz | a |
| MentalGuy | |
| Tavmjong Bah | (recused) |
