Somehow, these meetings keep happening while I'm on a plane. Could you email the lists a summary of the discussions please? Also, maybe a litle more advance notice on when these discussion will take place would be nice in order to garner wider participation.
Jon Phillips Open Font Library Creative Commons On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:31 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > Dear All, > I would like to announce that there will be an IRC meeting on Tuesday, 1st > August 2006, to > discuss issues about fonts for free and open-source software. > > The agenda includes > 1. discussion on availability of free & open-source fonts for different > scripts/languages. > 2. discussion on free & open-source font licenses; importance to converge to > a common license. > 3. consult users from Asia for the local preference of fonts. > > The meeting takes place on Tuesday, 1st August 2006, at 12:00 UTC (GMT/Zulu). > This is morning for the US, early in the afternoon for Europe and > afternoon/evening for Asia/Australia. > Visit > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=8&day=1&hour=12&min=0&sec=0 > to view the exact time for your area. > > The meeting takes place on IRC, at the Freenode network, on channel ##fonts. > Notice the channel name, it is "##fonts", with two pound signs. > Unfortunatelly, > the channel with one pound sign has already been registered for non-free font > discussions. > > If you have not used IRC before, you can use the IRC client "XChat" > that is provided with your Linux distribution. You can also install XChat for > Windows. > XChat is also available from http://www.xchat.org/ > > For more, please see > http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fFonts_2fConfiguration > > The discussion logs will be made available after the meeting, at > http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fFonts_2fConfiguration > > Fonts are very important to distributions, desktop environments (GNOME, KDE, > etc), > as well as to individual cross-platform applications. The end-user > would typically blame the application if the fonts do not appear well. > At the same time, the process of choosing suitable fonts for different > languages and scripts is complex enough for a single project to handle. > > At the same time I would like to announce that there is interest > to have more regular discussions on IRC on issues pertaining to fonts. > Therefore, if you would like to discuss free and open-source fonts, > feel free to pop by ##fonts on Freenode. > > Feel free to forward this announcement to other relevant lists. > > Thanks, > Simos > > > _______________________________________________ > Openfontlibrary mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
