Minutes of SVG IG Conf Call: Thurs Aug 6th

Despite best intentions, it doesn't look like the minutes were
published.  I'm pasting the IRC transcript here:

<an> Scribe: Andreas Neumann
<an> Topic: SVG Open
<an> Jeff: we formed an LLC, opened bank account and paypal account
<an> Andreas will work on registration
<an> testing works with Paypal sandbox
<an> Rob offers to help testing with sandbox
<an> Jeff: opened a repository for the webpage
<an> Jeff: sponsoring: sent Samsung more information - will follow up
on IBM as well
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<an> Jeff: we have online access to the bank account
<DavePorter> Andreas if you need a guinea pig to send $1 into the
Paypal / SVGOpen page, I volunteer to help.
<DavePorter> mailto:David.a.Porter@boeing.com
<an> thanks, Dave!
<an> Ruud: people should review the schedule
<an> Jeff: have to buy a business licence in Mountain View
<an> Ruud: should send reminder to preregistered persons about final
registration
<an> TOPIC: SVG IG FTF meeting
<an> SVG WG is currently working on making DOM access easier and leaner
<an> WG is interested to see what DOM methods are useful or not
<an> Other topic would be general documentation
<an> e.g. book
<an> Jeff: can we have the F2F on Thursday before the conference?
<DavePorter> Would there be some way to send robots out to look for
what DOM methods are in use, as-built out there in the universe of
SVG?
<DavePorter> Some empirical data would be interesting
<an> Jeff: any ideas about future SVG IG calls/presentations?
<codedread> http://anomaly.org/wade/projects/sparkline_presentation/
<an> TOPIC: presentation of G. Wade
<an> Sparkline
<an> G. Wade: sparklines are influenced by Tufte - supposed to be very small
<an> some examples on the second slide: line graphs, bar graphs, whisker graphs
<an> a lot of perl modules exist for graphs
<an> many don't do SVG
<an> the module GD::Graph::sparklines is focused
<an> slide 4 shows sample code
<an> slide 5 shows sparkline sample in text - temperature data from Houston
<an> lot of information in a very small space
<an> gallery with different variations at
http://anomaly.org/wade/projects/svgSparklines/
<an> http://anomaly.org/wade/projects/svgSparklines/line_gallery.html
shows different options/variations
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<an> with bar graphs you see the effect of positive or negative only
<an> range graph results in area graphs - very dense information
<an> issues with printing
<an> printers have higher resolution (advantage)
<DavePorter> Wade, what are some good sources for open-source graphing
modules for SVG, like "big charts" you mentioned, with all the options
like axes or labels?  Realizing this is off your topic, but you
probably have some experience here.
<codedread> fyi, launchpad.net has added sparklines recently
(implemented in Canvas): https://code.launchpad.net/scour (takes some
time to load)
<an> Jeff: how easy/tough is it to integrate in a webpage
<an> G. Wade: maybe I'll offer a CGI version later ...
<an> AN: would be cool to see little temperature curves in Google
Earth (in the bubbles)
<an> AN: maybe use tooltips to show min/max/mean or verbal description
on how to interpret
<an> Jeff: also ask the accessibility guys what they think about
sparklines in general
<an> Edward Tufte also proposes to put sparklines in tables for quick overviews
<an> Rob: accessibility is also the responsibility of the author - at
a higher level
<codedread> Jeff: challenge is that the data might not be known by the
author (pulled from a live service, like stock quotes)
<Zakim> -Jeff
<Zakim> -Porter
<Zakim> -Rob
<Zakim> -gwadej
<Zakim> -Andreas_Neumann
<Zakim> Team_(svgig)13:53Z has ended
<Zakim> Attendees were +1.253.657.aaaa, +1.312.228.aabb, Jeff, Porter,
+1.713.851.aacc, gwadej, +1.519.967.aadd, Rob, +31.74.349.aaee, stelt,
Andreas_Neumann
<an> rrsagent, make logs member
<an> zakim, bye
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<an> rrsagent, make minutes

Received on Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:06:14 UTC