Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 11 mai 2007 à 01:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > chasd wrote: > >> http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/ > > > > Excellent news. > > Should Fedora web sites, promotional documents, presentations, and > > documentations use these fonts ? > > These are just mean

Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
chasd wrote: http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/ Excellent news. Should Fedora web sites, promotional documents, presentations, and documentations use these fonts ? These are just meant for compatibility with existent content that uses some of the popular Microsoft font

Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread chasd
http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/ Excellent news. Should Fedora web sites, promotional documents, presentations, and documentations use these fonts ? Is it a guideline that marketing materials only contain / use freely licensed fonts ? If Fedora decides to ship these

Re: Distrowatch dot com judgment of Fedora's relation with the "community"

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 5/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ladislav Bodnar wrote: > Also, I'd prefer if > any particular complaint/suggestion came directly from the user > community, not from people who have a redhat.com or fedoraproject.org > in their email addresses, since you are likely to be biased

Distrowatch dot com judgment of Fedora's relation with the "community"

2007-05-10 Thread rerushg
>Herman writes... >Or is there (still) some truth in his statement? Yes, there is truth in it, still. I wrote about this to this group a month or so ago. I won't regurgitate all that here. >"Cons: Less community-oriented than other major distributions." That's what Distrowatch said. I'd be cur

Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I think core fonts are a highly user-visible part of the distribution, and it would be better if the people @rh behind this project presented it on fedora-devel before people learn of it through a press release. This development is probably positive but the communication

Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 10 mai 2007 11:13, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le Jeu 10 mai 2007 00:34, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : >>> Hi >> >> Hi Rahul, >> >>> The initial font sets include Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters >>> and >>> lacks hinting. The next update is planned to have hinting a

Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Jeu 10 mai 2007 00:34, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : Hi Hi Rahul, The initial font sets include Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters and lacks hinting. The next update is planned to have hinting and support for other locales. This calls for many questions: [I am not

Re: Distrowatch dot com judgment of Fedora's relation with the "community"

2007-05-10 Thread Herman Meester
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Herman Meester wrote: > > > > >> If mass spam is what will convince you that can surely be arranged too > >> ;-). > > > > I'm not sure if that is where we want to go. (?) > > It is true this mailing list has a 'biased' objective, but le

Re: Distrowatch dot com judgment of Fedora's relation with the "community"

2007-05-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Herman Meester wrote: If mass spam is what will convince you that can surely be arranged too ;-). I'm not sure if that is where we want to go. (?) It is true this mailing list has a 'biased' objective, but let's do the convincing thing by means of quality, not quantity. Oh come on. Don't p

Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: This calls for many questions: 2. Does Red Hat intend to morph it in a community project (with the usual wiki+bugzilla+open SCM infrastructure) or will contributions be restricted to the contracted foundry (ie will it need a fork like Vera before joining community space ?

Re: Liberations fonts from Red Hat

2007-05-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 10 mai 2007 00:34, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi Hi Rahul, > The initial font sets include Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters and > lacks hinting. The next update is planned to have hinting and support > for other locales. This calls for many questions: 1. Is this a long-term Red Hat

Re: Distrowatch dot com judgment of Fedora's relation with the "community"

2007-05-10 Thread Herman Meester
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Ladislav Bodnar wrote: > > I wish you guys complained earlier, when we were having a discussion > > about each distro's description. I did ask for input, but as far as I > > can remember, there were no complaints about that particular point