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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)

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