Hack-a-thon, barcamp, meetup, any way we can do it.

Everyone at Planet SVG is interested in SVG - that's a given. There are a lot of mature projects out there where developers are talking about new features and integrating new code every day. Many of those projects touch on SVG or have problems that are best solved using SVG.

The hackathon idea is all about contributing to existing projects. This is small-scale work with an informal get-together of people who are interested in other projects.

Examples:

• a few hours of a few people fixing browser bugs or writing tutorials
• spending a day with developers documenting existing SVG features
• triaging bugs related to SVG in a project

Basically, if you can get 10 people together to spend 3-5 hours doing something with getting SVG working better in an application, that's a success. If you get 50 people that each do a little work that'd be amazing. This is about improving and maintaining, not starting something new.

It'd be good for us to branch out into other user groups and communities that are already out there doing good work and contribute some of our SVG expertise and enthusiasm to them. A great way to get more support for SVG without the IG doing all the work would be to talk to people in successful user groups for projects, platforms and languages that we like. A user group is likely to already have its own venue and people who are used to coming to their meetings. On a project-by-project basis, we can find ways to get some time and effort directed towards building SVG support. This is about improving and maintaining, not starting something new.

That's pretty generic but the intention is to have multiple small gatherings that work with established projects. Having gatherings works well in larger cities. If you're a member in a large city or suburb, find some other people nearby and spend an evening hacking on bugs, creating SVG clipart or documenting an SVG library.

• Possibilities for languages
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • Java
• Platforms, frameworks and web applications
  • Wordpress
  • Drupal
  • Wikimedia
  • CakePHP
  • Django
  • YUI
  • Dojo
  • jQuery
• Renderers:
  • WebKit
  • Mozilla
  • Batik
• Editors:
  • Inkscape