Re: Welcome, Tavmjong Bah

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,
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>On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 13:04 +0100, Doug Schepers wrote:
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>> Folks, please join me in welcoming Tavmjong Bah to the SVG WG!
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>Thanks for the welcome!
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>> 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.
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>Oooh, a self-introduction. Reminds me of when I worked in Japan. OK,
>I'll give it a go.
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>	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.
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>	Here are some areas of the SVG standard that are of interest to
>Inkscape developers and users:
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>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.
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>	I look forward to contributing to the group!
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>						Tav
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>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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Received on Monday, 14 June 2010 10:13:01 UTC