The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Sydney SVG WG meeting for a total of up to $2250.
| Board Member | Vote |
|---|---|
| Josh Andler | a. |
| Jon A. Cruz | a. |
| Johan Engelen | a. |
| Bryce Harrington | a. |
| Ted Gould | (a.) |
| Tavmjong Bah | (recused) |
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.
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.
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
Tavmjong Bah
