latest impact:

http://shtetl.koshergate.org/tmp/svgdraw-pixel/index.xhtml

saved as hillel.jpg


web:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/568136/svg-vs-canvas-where-is-the-web-world-going-towards/2177599#2177599

http://ajaxian.com/archives/todataurl-canvas-and-svg

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/10/03/Four-Credits

http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/flash.html

http://www.html5.jp/blog/2009/10/06/svg-vs-canvas/
translated: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kujeresearch/4140685712/

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/canvas-and-svg-which-should-i-use-when


Mailinglists:

http://lists.d.umn.edu/pipermail/webdev/2009q4/000218.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg09403.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-ig/2009OctDec/0004.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2009Oct/0003.html


twitter:

http://twitter.com/migerh/status/4582500518



summary of the conference:

Here are some facts: we had 125 participants from the following countries:

Australia: 5
Austria: 1
Canada: 8
Finland: 2
France: 5
Germany: 10
Italy: 2
Japan: 3
Luxembourg: 3
Netherlands: 6
Norway: 2
Sweden: 4
Switzerland: 2
UK: 5
USA: 67

We had almost all browser developers present: Opera, Firefox, Google Chrome,

Furthermore we had representatives from the following projects:
* dojo.gfx
* Raphael
* AmpleSDK
* SVGWeb Project
* Wikipedia
* OpenStreetmap
* Inkscape
* JSXGraph

Many well-known companies presented or attended, such as Oracle, 4D, Vodafone,
IBM, Microsoft, Samsung, Ericsson, Siemens, RIM, Qualcomm, Cisco, Canon,
Eurostat, some universities, etc.

One major topic at the conference was the missing SVG support in IE and possible
workarounds: Ajax libraries, the SVGWeb Project, Google Frame, etc. Microsoft
employees were present at the conference but obviously couldn't make any
statements about unreleased products. They stated, however, that they are "here
for a reason" and acknowledged market demand for SVG. They also said they are
here for "listening and learning".

As usual we had panel sessions with implementors and the SVG working group. The
WG presented it's current work and progress and people from the audience made
productive comments regarding potential improvements and extensions. Doug
Schepers presented the SVG Parameters spec, Chris Lilley presented the Vector
Effects specification.

In one of the keynotes, Google employee Brad Neuberg highlighted where Google is
using SVG (Google maps, Google Docs, Visualization Toolkits, etc.) and why it
likes SVG. Google supports SVG through the JS/Flash-based shim (SVGWeb) and
through the IE plugin Google Chrome Frame. The other keynote from Sam Ruby (IBM,
HTML WG co-chair) highlighted some of the problem areas that SVG will likely
face when it is getting more popular along with other HTML5 technologies.

We also had a nice dinner event at the Computer History Museum where we had a
demo of the mechanical computer "Babbage Engine", a computer designed 150 years
ago, and only recently built at the beginning of the 1990ies according the
engineer drawings made 150 years ago!

Finally: here you can find some links to press related to the conference and
Google's efforts regarding SVG in IE:

https://www.svgopen.org/2009/news.shtml

You will also find that there was an increasing activity on Twitter related to
SVG and SVG Open during the conference.

Videos from the keynotes exist at Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca0HmNkHKq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7ILwrFwQY