rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

Well, seems that one avenue for funding for svgopen 2005 has just been denied! I dunno, I’m kind of discouraged from going. I’m going to shoot a barrage of emails trying to find some academic gigs and other things in the area to get me there, but if I can’t find anything by the end of the month, then maybe one of you OCAL’ers in the area could do the Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library presentation for me. Who lives closest? Tobias? Nicu?

I don’t think I’m going to focus on specific technical conferences like svgopen anymore. I think it is kind of like preaching to the choir. It would be a better use of time to go to places where SVG is a new concept and where people have not used Inkscape or the Open Clip Art Library. Also, it would probably be better to go to conferences that provide funding and focus on interesting ideas. Generally, the academic in me looks at anything one has to pay for as having to pay to get one’s work out there rather than earning a spot for discussing ideas because they are interesting. I’ve learned that many industry conferences charge a lot of money!!!

This has been a crazy week for me, so this time in Ottawa is going to be good to refocus and think about how excellent is Canada. I’m speaking at Desktop Developers’ Conference 2005 on Monday about the Open Clip Art Library. Molson time!