- From: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:11:19 +1000
- To: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@free.fr>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, SVG WG <public-svg-wg@w3.org>
Hi Tavmjong, Welcome, I am excited to see more direct involvement from the Inkscape community, especially as I think you all have a very user focussed perspective that the group can learn from. Alex --Original Message--: >Hi all, > >On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 13:04 +0100, Doug Schepers wrote: > >> Folks, please join me in welcoming Tavmjong Bah to the SVG WG! > >Thanks for the welcome! > >> Tav, thanks for volunteering to represent the Inkscape open source >> project within the SVG WG as an Invited Expert. We look forward to >> collaborating with you. Would you like to introduce yourself. > >Oooh, a self-introduction. Reminds me of when I worked in Japan. OK, >I'll give it a go. > > Yes, I've volunteered to represent Inkscape. Inkscape is developed by a >rather loose group of people so I am not sure anyone can truly represent >it but I'll do my best. My involvement with Inkscape began with writing >documentation about five or six years ago. (It can be found on the web >at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE as well as in print; see the links >on the website.) Later, I started to contribute to the code, focusing on >areas where I thought Inkscape really needed improvement like fixing >bugs the PDF and PostScript export. More recently, I rewrote the Text >toolbar, adding numeric control for letter-spacing, word-spacing, etc., >as well as superscript and subscript support (via baseline-shift values >super and sub). This will appear in the soon to-be-released new version. > > Here are some areas of the SVG standard that are of interest to >Inkscape developers and users: > >1. Multipage document support. >2. Standardizing layers. >3. Patterns along paths, vector effects, "power strokes", etc. >4. Diffusion curves, gradient meshes, etc. >5. SVG fonts. >6. Filters: > A. Increasing bit depth to reduce artifacts. > B. Margins. > > I look forward to contributing to the group! > > Tav > >PS. Tavmjong Bah is a nom-de-plume. It's an Nso (a Cameroonian ethnic >group) traditional title I received while teaching physics at a high >school in Kumbo, Cameroon. "Tavmjong" or more properly Tav Manjong >translates roughly as "leader in the warrior society". > > > > > > > > >
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