So you want to design some Free graphical objects, and turn them lose in the community. Wonderful. But what do you use to design them with? There are numerous packages out there for 2D, 3D and even 4D use - but which one is appropriate for your task? Not only for your personal use, but being an awesome person you're placing them in the hands of the community - so you'd better get your choice of tools and file formats right or people will find it hard to develop your objects further.

Die Flash Die: SVG for web designers with Inkscape!

Ding dong!, you know the rest... And what a great time to be working on the web!
Internet explorer is rapidly losing market share, modern browsers have outstandingly faster javascript engines and most importantly! all webkit, gecko and opera based browsers near fully support the scalable vector graphics format SVG booyah everybody!.

My tutorials in the past have focused publishing and desktop artwork but now it's time to take on the web!

I’m not sure what would best suit the attendees or what others are covering, so I’d be happy to cover one (or more if I can do a 40-min talk) of the following:

• icon design with a HowTo or demonstration of how to design and icon [1];
• website design — setting up a grid, laying down the various page elements for a graphical mockup of a website [2];
• web app mockups — designing web applications mockups [3];
• clip art — doing it, dissecting an existing clip art piece and submitting it to OpenClipArt.com [4].

Example pieces that might work for each presentation: