[OpenFontLibrary] Fwd: [CREATE] LGM 2009 — Budget and Accommodation — URGENT REQUEST
Sorry for forward. I need updated numbers from all three projects, namely: 1.) NAME OF PERSON ATTENDING 2.) ESTIMATED COST FOR TRAVEL Then, at the event we will sort out more details about reimbursement. If you want reimbursement, please get me this in the next 24 hours. Inkscapers, is there someone handling this? Dave/OFLB, you put this together before right? Jon -- Forwarded message -- From: Louis Desjardins Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:25 PM Subject: [CREATE] LGM 2009 — Budget and Accommodation — URGENT REQUEST To: Create ML To all LGM teams, including LGM people who maybe not member of a team "officially" but who do contribute to LGM's projects, putting oil in the bearings and who qualify for a reimbursement of their travel expanses by the LGM org. Action 1) Please forward asap (now) the estimated cost for travelling to Montreal for each member of your team who is going to attend. This can be done through a google.doc one contact person from each team can then share with me. Hurry up, please. :-) Action 2) Please try to evaluate with a reasonable degree of accuracy how many rooms you're going to need at the student residence. This is also urgent. Reasons for asking: 1) We need to establish the budget with more accuracy than a wild guess. The efforts of quite a few people will then be needed to pump the money in... So we better know the real needs quick. 2) This year, the authorities at the uni residence are ready to give us the same price as 2 years ago, for the same services, which is great, I think. But they ask for a security deposit based on the number of rooms we're going to actually take. I can cope with the deposit but I cannot cope with a loss. So, the closer we are to the reality, the better. For the record, in 2007 I reserved 50 rooms and we ended up renting 47, which was great. If we can be as close to the estimates this year as we were in 2007, we won't lose the deposit. But if we reserve 50 and we rent 30 rooms in the end, we're in for a few hundred bucks of loss which I don't want to spend so stupidly. They are not asking for the moon but their rules have been tightened and it's a reality we have to accept. So please, act now! Cheers! Louis -- Louis Desjardins Organisateur principal / Main organiser Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 - Montréal www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009 +1 514 934 1353 HAE / EDT GMT -5 ___ CREATE mailing list cre...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86 132-6817-8381 (china) Sent from Beijing, 11, China
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] font linking bandwidth issues
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 18:05 +0100, James Weiner wrote: [...] > size of the two weights of the font is ~600Kb which is far too much to > expect people to download (even with broadband as fast download time > is crucial for text). Something up to 100Kb would be OK. Does anyone > know any way of sub-setting a font easily? It's a commercial font and > I have a license covering its use on the web but I can't edit the font > files directly The Microsoft "weft' tool will make a subset of a font and save it in a compressed format (EOT) that works with Internet Explorer; if you can't edit the font files, next step is to compress with gzip -9, or to use the apache mod_deflate; this may work fairly well, depending on the font format, although generally not as well as EOT. So I'd consider using 2 separate files for each font -- one in EOT, and one a compressed font with gzip for other browsers. You could also make a subsetted version with fontforge, although I don't know if your end user licence agreement allows that; it sounds like it might not. You could always ask the font vendor how much they would charge to make a subsetted version. Having said that, remember that if you have web forms, and want those to use your font, you have to support the full character set that people might type. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
[OpenFontLibrary] font linking bandwidth issues
Hello fellow OFLBers, I have a little problem you might like to mull over, one that could apply to any font using font linking on the web. I'm currently working on a web site that uses a common font, but the font is not common enough that I can rely on the font stack (which depends on people having it installed), so I was wanting to use font linking to pull it into the site. The only problem is that the total size of the two weights of the font is ~600Kb which is far too much to expect people to download (even with broadband as fast download time is crucial for text). Something up to 100Kb would be OK. Does anyone know any way of sub-setting a font easily? It's a commercial font and I have a license covering its use on the web but I can't edit the font files directly. Any help appreciated! Cheers, James -- James Weiner +44 7713 005 056 Unicorn Creative | http://unicorncreative.com
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFLB at LGM2009?
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > 2009/4/7 Dave Crossland : >> >> I've been putting off my LGM2009 flights/room bookings, and am now at >> the point where I have to say I really doubt I will be able to go. > > I have had a change of fortune and am now going to attend! :) A fortune in small change, possibly? Great! Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Matthew Carter on type revivals
2009/4/27 Ben Weiner : > > Erm, Matthew Carter wasn't keen for a recording to be made publicly > available*. I could vest a recording at St Bride if it were to be made. Any > enthusiasm on the list for that? Would be better than nowt! :)
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Matthew Carter on type revivals
Hi, Dave Crossland wrote: Will it be recorded? :) Erm, Matthew Carter wasn't keen for a recording to be made publicly available*. I could vest a recording at St Bride if it were to be made. Any enthusiasm on the list for that? Cheers, Ben * I'm quite sympathetic to this, not least for the reason that there is a significant 'halo' benefit to actually being there, but I do completely understand the counter argument that this is a missed opportunity in a wired world. Speaking as a Friends of St Bride Library committee member, I think it is fair to say that while we cannot move St Bride Library, we do what we can to reach out. That's what libraries should be about, right? -- Ben Weiner | http://readingtype.org.uk/about/contact.html
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Matthew Carter on type revivals
Will it be recorded? :)
[OpenFontLibrary] Matthew Carter on type revivals
Hi there, This talk may be of interest to anyone in range of London. http://stbride.org/events?show=genuineimitations It's free-as-in-beer [but a donation to St Bride Library afterwards will help offset the venue costs ;-)] Cheers, Ben -- Ben Weiner | http://readingtype.org.uk/about/contact.html
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFLB at LGM2009?
2009/4/26 Nicolas Spalinger : > Dave Crossland wrote: >> 2009/4/7 Dave Crossland : >>> I've been putting off my LGM2009 flights/room bookings, and am now at >>> the point where I have to say I really doubt I will be able to go. >> >> I have had a change of fortune and am now going to attend! :) > > Great news :-) > > Hopefully there's still room on the flight from Paris. I'm flying cheapo with BMI from London. Hopefully this swine flu thing doesn't turn ugly.
