[Kochi-pm] Potential SVG Hackathon-type events

[Varghese Chacko]

Someone from Houston.pm pointed out that I had left out an explanation
of what SVG is. So, here's a quick overview.

SVG is an XML-based 2D vector graphics format. It supports scripting
(through ecmascript) and declarative animation (through SMIL). It also
supports somewhat advanced filtering features which can produce some
really spectacular effects.

It is currently supported natively in Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and the
Webkit-based browsers. There are plugins for IE. The currently plugins
have not been updated for a while, but new ones are on the horizon.

SVG is currently used quite a bit in the GIS and cartography fields.
It is also getting strong support in the mobile phone area. KDE also
uses SVG extensively in it's newer versions.

For more information, you can check http://planetsvg.com/. It is a new
site maintained by the SVG Interest Group.

There's an SVG developers group on Yahoo, which serves as a gathering
place for people developing with SVG.
(http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/)

The SVG Wiki is located at http://wiki.svg.org/Main_Page.

There's an Apache project, Batik. It is a java library for working with
SVG. There are also a few libraries on CPAN.

I hope that gives a bit more background and generates a bit more
interest.

G. Wade

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:30:53 -0600
"G. Wade Johnson" <wade at anomaly.org> wrote:

> The SVG Interest Group is considering helping to coordinate with
> programming groups to do some form of SVG hackathon. The idea would be
> to help with any project using SVG and to help familiarize group
> members with this image format.
> 
> I'm sending this around so to ask various group leaders to find out if
> anyone would be interested in one of these events, either as a
> standalone event for their group or as an addition to other events
> that they plan to run.
> 
> I have, personally, been using SVG as an output graphics format from
> Perl for many years. I suspect that others may have an interest as
> well.


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