Re: [Openfontlibrary] Proposal for open font-related sessions/workshops at LGM08
On 9/28/07, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: ... - Future plans We wanted to make a fonts digitizing session this year, but this wasn't planned beforehand, so it didn't happen. I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early 1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole cyrillic and ukrainian glyph sets and numerals, but no latin. If we do organize such session next year, that would be a good start to actually using our SVN :) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Proposal for open font-related sessions/workshops at LGM08
On 9/28/07, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: We wanted to make a fonts digitizing session this year, but this wasn't planned beforehand, so it didn't happen. I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early 1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole cyrillic and ukrainian glyph sets and numerals, but no latin. If we do organize such session next year, that would be a good start to actually using our SVN :) Sorry, Open Font Library people: I stripped an important part from Nicolas's mail, where he suggests various font-related talks and activities during Libre Graphics Meeting 2008. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Proposal for open font-related sessions/workshops at LGM08
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:59 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On 9/28/07, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: ... - Future plans We wanted to make a fonts digitizing session this year, but this wasn't planned beforehand, so it didn't happen. I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early 1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole cyrillic and ukrainian glyph sets and numerals, but no latin. If we do organize such session next year, that would be a good start to actually using our SVN :) Since font creation is harder then clipart creation, this idea of converting old pd fonts is brilliant to jumpstart the free fonts movement...we could just have a big requests queue on open font library and encourage people to process them and create the best free and open fonts...this sounds brilliant! Jon Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org 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] Please note: the contents of this email are not intended to be legal advice nor should they be relied upon as or represented to be legal advice. Jon Phillips does not represent any organization through this email address. ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
