Introducing myself

Hi,

Chaals has just nominated me for the SVG-IG.  I'd just like to  
introduce myself and say a little bit about what I can bring to the  
table.

I've worked at Opera Software for around about 3 1/4 years now, in  
what we call Open the Web, and then the Developer Relations team.  Our  
main aim is to evangelise web standards and the open web, and to  
improve compatibility between web sites and standards compliant  
browsers (with a focus on Opera, naturally).  I've also worked at CERN.

What I don’t bring to the table is massive SVG knowledge.  I've been  
teaching myself from the spec, as I've been building a iTunes  
interface using HTML, CSS and SVG. I'm writing a SVG 101/Primer  
article to get people into the basics of SVG as I learn.  That is  
almost finished.  My main interest in SVG at the moment is using it  
through CSS background images, to enable easy to hand author scalable  
backgrounds (gradients, etc) and icons.  I'd like to see better  
integration between (X)HTML, CSS and SVG.

What I do bring to the table is over 3 years evangelism work, and  
talking to regular web developers, from well known designers (some of  
which we've even hired), to regular 9-5 developers that would never go  
to a web conference, never mind a SVG focused conference.  I also have  
contacts through major companies and JS libraries.  I also have some  
writing and blogging experience.

Thanks,

David Storey

Chief Web Opener / Product Manager, Opera Presto / Product Manager,  
Opera Dragonfly
W3C WG:  Mobile Web Best Practices / SVG Interest Group

Opera Software ASA, Oslo, Norway
Mobile: +47 94 22 02 32

Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:21:28 UTC