Re: tasks at hand

Hello all,

I'm sorry I haven't been very active here for quite awhile - and that I
couldn't attend the conference this year.  Lots of you know that I started a
new job and moved the family across the country.

Things are starting to settle in a bit more now, but my own bandwidth is
still rather tight.  For this reason, I'd like to keep the main tasks the IG
take on to a minimum and do a couple things right instead of scattered into
a "million directions".

Certainly things like updating the Wikipedia page are good tasks to take on,
but I personally don't think that needs to be an official SVG IG activity.
 This is actually something that a single individual could do and simply
report progress here if they feel so inclined (Wikipedia actually encourages
aggressive editing after all).  I really encourage this type of evangelism,
but not sure if I want to help manage them all within the IG.

What do you all think?  What are the most important tasks that we, as a
group, can accomplish?

Last year we had decided upon two:
  * SVG Torture Tests
  * SVG WG Book

Do we, as a group, still feel these are the highest priority items?

I also think it's fair to say that our experiment with building a community
at PlanetSVG was unsuccessful.  I think it would be good for us to admit
this and move on - does anyone have suggestions as to what should be done
about that site and domain?

Jeff


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ruud Steltenpool <svg@steltenpower.com>wrote:

> 1. Since SVG support in IE is around the corner, isn’t it time to
>> rewrite the SVG article on Wikipedia to include interactivity, script,
>> animation, etc.? Wikipedia has a huge repository of SVG imagery already
>> and it might make sense to use that forum to showcase some of the cooler
>> features of this language that will soon become a lingua franca for
>> people speaking vector graphics.
>>
>
> I'm sure the Wikipedia page on SVG is not fully up-to-date and improving
> the situation is a good investment.
> A small thing i'll begin with: execute on the ideas i have for the icon:
> http://www.planetsvg.com/blog/17174/help-improving-svg-image-wikipedia
>
>
>  Other ideas?
>>
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> A lot of SVG content on the web is not very semantic and not very
> re-usable. I think improving on this situation would significantly increase
> the use of SVG.
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> Last news from WG looks good: http://twitter.com/svgwg
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