User talk:Pfctdayelise/Inkscape booksprint
Hello Briana, I noticed your email and will, I had leave a message to other French, English, and German graphists since I don't know clearly who live where. The German wikigraphists should also be contacted. They also make a great SVG work, even if they usually upload PNG versions on commons. They plan to have a Wikigraphist-meeting in October, in Nuremberg. Some of them may be interested to come to your Paris' meeting.
- Question
Who will be the leading redactor/contributor ? (the « General ») Out of the Wikigraphists, have you a team of redactors ready who will come to Paris ? I means, wikigraphists are not experts, if some come, they will be helpful but not enough and will need a "teacher-leader" with [at least] experience in writing manuals.
I understand that "Adam" will be the leader, but what are his abilities ? (SVG expert ? Inkscape lover ? Just a manager ?)
- My suggestions for the SVG Manual
From my experience on the Graphic Labs SVG work and needs, I suggest to developpe the following ideas, I also make some proposal for -in my POV- the list of the best autors available from commons. If you can get them involved, that would be great ;)
| Section's title proposal | Summary | Best contributor available from commons |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | what SVG, what are the basic drawing tools of Inkscape? Should I buy a graphic tablette ? (which price ?), etc. | the full team. |
| First Drawing | Draw basic things like a 3 years old child | every graphist. |
| Best colors for the Web and other recommendations | Choice good colors, usage of palettes, usage of set of icones, keep an SVG text file human-friendly (readable), give good label's name to each path, naming conventions for series of svg, etc | LadyOfHats, + a wikigraphist |
| Make a Sheme | the very job of Inkscape : make great attractive Schemes !! | LadyOfHats & Al2 are the bests. |
| Trace a bitmap | a really important tools with many unclear parametres to choices and difficult to use. Create too many noddles. | ? one graphist volunter to study this issue need. |
| Make a SVG maps | SVG is also a good choice for maps | MapMaster (unable to come to Paris), and the french-deutsh wiki-cartographers should be able to do this. NB: the French cartographer team is currently working on a Global recommandations for wikimedia SVG maps, which will probably (80%) be ready in August only. |
| Animated SVG and Interactive SVG | The future of the SVG, and seems really fun | Yug (I have some few basis for this), in any case : one graphist volunter to study this issue need. |
| SVG and Scripts: how to use data and script to produce SVG accordingly | All the interest of SVG is that graphix become text based and editable by script (most of time in Python) | fr:user:Emmanuel.boutet (pseudo:Supermanu) and en:Slashme have some basis for this and may be interesting to learn more and write it down. In any case : one graphist volunter to study this issue need. |
| FAQ for SVG display trouble on the net | SVG display trouble, on wikipedia or on the net are REALLY commons | the French already have a large and really complete page for this which can be translate an improve. |
Yug 14:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)