Inkscape

On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:23 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
> Short and sweet email... I met Bradley Kuhn at SCaLE this weekend and
> we talked about a number of things. From talking with him I came away
> with the following question, how does the board feel about fundraising
> for getting people to conferences? Aside from a donation drive, we
> could obviously do promotional good like T-shirts and such to help
> raise funds. Thoughts? Obviously I'm in favor of it. :)

I'm not against it, but I think we should start with some goals.  For
instance:

  1 dev to SVG WG
  2 devs to SCALE
  1 dev to SIGraph

Those type of things.  Then we can set reasonable targets.  Do we have a
good idea where we should be thinking?

		--Ted

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ted Gould <ted@...> wrote:
> I'm not against it, but I think we should start with some goals.  For
> instance:
>
>  1 dev to SVG WG
>  2 devs to SCALE
>  1 dev to SIGraph
>
> Those type of things.  Then we can set reasonable targets.  Do we have a
> good idea where we should be thinking?

Honestly, you hit 3 of the four I had in mind for a first year goal...

SVG Open
SVG WG (at least one f2f meeting they have)
SCALE
SIGGRAPH

There are also a handful of other Linux conferences that we may want
to entertain targeting eventually, but I'm not sure how much value
there is for that unless there is a planned Inkscape hackfest that
corresponds (even 2 people hacking could be worthwhile).

The SVG related events merit trying for 2 devs imho as Tavmjong &
Jasper went to SVG Open last year and it sounded like it was very
beneficial for them. Also, Tav specifically brought that to my
attention that being able to attend more WG meetings would good in
moving 2.0 forward. For those who don't know, Tavmjong is an Invited
Expert to the SVG WG and has written portions of the spec for 2.0 in
the interest of our users and is currently working on implementing
gradient meshes in an inkscape branch.

On top of this, I would also want to push for funding of a larger
hackfest probably surrounding a conference as has been discussed
previously. The difference there is we discussed using existing funds
rather than trying to raise any. I'm most apprehensive about the
hackfest thing and fundraising because of financial contributors
possible expectations of what would come of it, but still wanted to
mention it as a potential future goal as well.

Cheers,
Josh

+1 from me, sounds like some good ideas

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:42:12PM -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:23 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
> > Short and sweet email... I met Bradley Kuhn at SCaLE this weekend and
> > we talked about a number of things. From talking with him I came away
> > with the following question, how does the board feel about fundraising
> > for getting people to conferences? Aside from a donation drive, we
> > could obviously do promotional good like T-shirts and such to help
> > raise funds. Thoughts? Obviously I'm in favor of it. :)
> 
> I'm not against it, but I think we should start with some goals.  For
> instance:
> 
>   1 dev to SVG WG
>   2 devs to SCALE
>   1 dev to SIGraph
> 
> Those type of things.  Then we can set reasonable targets.  Do we have a
> good idea where we should be thinking?
> 
> 		--Ted
> 



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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Josh Andler wrote:

> Honestly, you hit 3 of the four I had in mind for a first year goal...
>
> SVG Open
> SVG WG (at least one f2f meeting they have)
> SCALE
> SIGGRAPH

What about Eurographics?

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org