On 02/02/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Freedesktop.org wants to send us some fonts so we can maintain them, but
haven't followed that yet...I believe its in our bug tracker.
I think this is Nicolas Spalinger requesting Gentium go into the X.org
distribution, and X.org people
Hi,
Will anyone here be attending the Libre Graphics Meeting 2?
I just saw that the www.libregraphicsmeeting.org website has been
updated with a great new look.
Would anyone be interested in working on a presentation of the OFLB
there with me?
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On 13/02/07, Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also looking into attending LGM2, and I'd love to help preparing a
OFLB presentation and font BoF.
Sounds like there's going to be a good crowd :-)
We should start a wiki page on the Conference wiki -
On 13/02/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We should start a wiki page on the Conference wiki
Okay, its now back for me and I've updated it with:
Dave Crossland and others: Opportunities for several talks about the
various aspects of the Free Font Movement, including Open Font
On 13/02/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/LGM2
There are 4 main types of talks:
* 1 Free Software for Typeface Design
o 1.1 FontForge
o 1.2 Spiro
* 2 The Open Font Library
* 3 Open Font License
Sorry
On 22/02/07, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=183
Good find, Gustavo!
The free font movement (at least in my mind) has little to do with
this, however.
I want to see knowledge systems/resources/sites like typosium.org and
scriptsource.org and
Hi Gustavo!
Top links! I met Brook a few times last year as he was a student at
Reading's MA Typeface Design programme and he's a really good guy :-)
I'd seen his blog ages ago but not been following it, I'll do that
though.
On 15/03/07, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16/03/07, ryan lerch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i think this whould be included in the contest. it was a submission in
the old contest before it was started in cchost. I did try to get
hold of him before, but i did not have is email addy.
I did add it, along with all the other old entries.
On 05/04/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, andy, alex and I have gotten the decision down to the concept of a
book and some typography. We are reworking a few of the selections for
the final...more on that in a bit...
Thanks for keeping us posted! :-)
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On 05/04/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did these get into the contest? Found on google image search:
http://rusmafia.org/linux/node/551
Yes I uploaded them
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On 13/04/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the things worth doing at the LGM2 in Montréal is expanding the
fontconfig snippets to mention the open fonts we know about and then
posting them to fontconfig upstream.
Yes, I agree...we should throw up on a wiki about a bof for
On 17/04/07, Denis Jacquerye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They're only auctioning exclusivity for 12 months.
So you don't think you'd be allowed to OFL it? ;p
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On 17/04/07, Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Greek Font Society has released nearly all their fonts under the OFL
now, according to their web pages.
Great news! I knew they had OFLd a bunch of stuff, but not everything :-)
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On 24/04/07, Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There will be a fair few type nuts* about, naming no names, so you
should be able to discuss and promote the things that /are/
legitimate topics on this list with other delegates if you go along.
I'll be there!
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On 02/05/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
646 879 2493
OMG How embarrasing, I typod the number!
Its 646 897 2493!
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On 03/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 02/05/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
646 879 2493
OMG How embarrasing, I typod the number! Its 646 897 2493!
Well that's torn it. You've created a derivative work without
On 05/05/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you all see the first Open Font Licensed font on the site?
http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/media/view/media/fonts
Aww, I thought I was going to break that story in the presentation tomorrow :-)
Nicolas and I have been working hard on
Hi,
Before the LGM, I heard that there was the possibility of travel
expenses being paid for speakers, but haven't since heard anything,
and totally forgot about it while I was there. Is there a procedure to
recoup?
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On 12/05/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, looks like we are getting our own server and admins, so that is
good...more on this hopefully in a few hours
Wow - Excellent!
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Hi,
Open Source Publishing (Design Tools For Designers) recently did an
interview with George Williams, developer of FontForge, at the
www.libregraphicsmeeting.org and have posted MP3s at
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=221 :-)
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On 04/06/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yahoo This is good news!!!
Wow - thanks for keeping us all updated over the last week :-)
My impression is that buying a custom server now would be a bit
overkill for the OCLs given their load at the moment, and we'll get
more
Hi,
I wrote this small introduction to Free Fonts, comments please :-)
- - - 8 - - -
The Master Plan for free fonts? Licensing, Community, Tools, Know-How.
Licensing? The Open Font License is a free license written
specifically for the needs of fonts and type designers.
Community? The Open
On 06/06/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, and trust me, I've been pushing on this one from behind the scenes
for some time...
Awesome! :-)
looks like CC is not recommend by RMS again!
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html is where he explained
this, and
Hi Jon!
On 02/06/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After this move, we will have root on our own box, and more bandwidth to
add more developers and get some more admins, so this type of downtime
never ever happens again.
Wow :-)
3.) Donate money to osuosl:
On 03/06/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cool, I noticed that http://openclipart.org/wiki/edit/User:Zfiles8
translated our main page into Italian.
Similarly, Eimai has made a dutch translation of the OFLB homepage,
http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Hoofdpagina_Nederlands
Cool trivia :-)
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From: John Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28-Jun-2007 04:34
Subject: [ATypI] First US design patent
To: ATypI member discussion list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This week I chanced to obtain a copy of the first US design patent
application, filed by
Hi all,
I went to despam the wiki, by visiting the recent changes page (which
seems to have lost all the old metadata :-( and opening each page's
history part and rolling back to the last good version and then saving
that. Eg, go to http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/edit/Blogs?oldid=2112
and just
On 08/07/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heya, OSUOSL wants a button for their site:
http://www.lucazappa.com/brilliantMaker/buttonImage.php
We also need one for openfontlibrary.org
Hows the attached?
From that site, I did:
Outer border: #66
Inner border: #ff
Pixels
Actually, a small edit to even up the white space...
http://www.lucazappa.com/brilliantMaker/buttonImage.php
Outer border: #66
Inner border: #ff
Pixels from the left of bar position (from 0 to 80):43
Font: Silkscreen
LEFT BOX
Text: OPEN
Background: #6a539b
Text color:
Hi,
Here's a OFL button too :-)
Perhaps instead of the green/purple, the OFLB should be the same
#336699/#66 blue/grey as the OFL to further promote their synergy?
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Hi All,
Interesting to see the proprietary font world pushing harder and
harder in the wrong direction :-)
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Date: 11-Jul-2007 00:00
Subject: [ATypI] Disallowing Font Modification
To: ATypI List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/07/07, Adam Twardoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do think that serializing fonts or storing electronic license
abstracts would be very useful for INFORMATIONAL purposes. Software such
as font managers or font editors could display information about the
licensing terms in a clear way
On 11/07/07, Adam Twardoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do think that serializing fonts or storing electronic license
abstracts would be very useful for INFORMATIONAL purposes. Software such
as font managers or font editors could display information about the
licensing terms in a clear way
Hi Gustavo!
On 11/07/07, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can you please elaborate why trying to have your rights respected is
pushing harder and harder in the wrong direction?
Sure!
By pushing harder and harder, I mean, not only saying in the EULA
you can't modify fonts, but also
:-)
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Date: 11-Jul-2007 19:57
Subject: Re: [ATypI] Disallowing Font Modification
To: ATypI member discussion list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All,
I have to emphasize that Fontlab is not interested in DRM nor in
policing font licenses.
On 12/07/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is why OSUOSL is hot! I asked for the upgrade of our mysql to 5 a
couple of hours ago, and its already planned.
Great :-)
Will this fix the broken OFLB wiki?
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the
On 16/07/07, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe all working now. Please try!
Sadly still seems broken :-(
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Hi,
Wow! Just came across Constructor, a typeface design tool based on
the calligraphic models of Noordzij, and therefore similar to the
proprietary Kalliculator tool for Mac OS X.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=esu=http://re-type.com/notaweblog/%3Fp%3D71
This will be
On 29/08/2007, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexandre! Looks like openfontlibrary.org has been jacked or needs to be
renewed! Can you do this asap!!!
Seems jacked:
Domain Name:OPENFONTLIBRARY.ORG
Created On:22-Aug-2005 10:35:15 UTC
Last Updated On:25-Aug-2007 23:15:22 UTC
On 12/09/2007, Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just curious to know whether anyone apart from Dave C has made it to
the ATypI conference this year.
In fact I didn't make it myself :-(
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Hi,
Gustavo Ferreira just pointed out
http://www.creationonthefly.com/blog/14
to me, and http://www.sephiroth.it/test/flex/2/fontreader/bin/FontRenderer.html
Looks like web-app-ish font editors are a-coming!
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Hi Raph!
On 03/10/2007, Raph Levien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been moving. For one, the darcs repo at
levien.com/garden/ppedit now has
fixes for some instability bugs for G2 continuity points. This makes
the code vastly more usable for just picking up a mouse and drawing.
Awesome!
On 03/10/2007, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ps: i see this little online font editor as one more proof-of-concept
- it's not really a useful tool.
Yes, since I'm only using free software, I can't see it live until I
happen across someone else's computer as Gnash won't run it, but
On 08/11/2007, Pedro Amado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My blog post is here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2007/11/web_fonts_1.html
I already posted a comment, to which TP responded inline, at
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2007/11/web_fonts_1.html#c647109
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On 15/11/2007, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it seems like the plattform is going to be free software – but not
the fonts?
The 5 page PDF type specimen PDF -
http://www.ascendercorp.com/pdf/Droid_fonts.pdf - from the Ascender
website has the following introductory text:
The Droid
On 15/11/2007, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ps: i wonder why this has not been annouced here?
Well, you just announced it :-)
This is good news - I didn't think this would be out until next year :-)
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From: Ira Despam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Nov 2007 18:19
Subject: Droid fonts
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave,
Thanks for your e-mail.
Ascender built the Droid fonts and it is our expectation that the OHA
will release them as part of the
On 21/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone interested in going to
http://www.aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation ?
...
Its not possible to
get a passport reissued within 7 days any more, so I'm not going.
I got a same-day passport service when I went
On 24/11/2007, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007 à 22:07 +, Dave Crossland a écrit :
The first GPLv3 font? :-)
Has the GPLv3 fixed the embedding-in-pdf problems of GPLv2?
No
I don't see the embedding exception Red Hat had to add to its Liberation
:)
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From: Pierre Marchand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Nov 2007 16:57
Subject: [Scribus] Font management, a new application
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I'm glad to announce to you a release of a new font manager for Linux called
Fontmatrix. It comes today
From: Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02/01/2008, at 07:53, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
And notice how font sources (FontLab) and the build script are also
released. A very good sign :)
yes, it is important to note that designers don't need to work
exclusively with free tools to
On 02 Jan 2008 19:34:21 -0800, George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 19:03, Dave Crossland wrote:
FontLab VFBs are _not_ free formats. There are two I know of,
UFO and SFD.
There are also ttf, otf, pfb, etc.
Since posting on list I've made a longer blog post
On 03 Jan 2008 11:42:54 -0800, George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A year and a half since its inception, the openfontlibrary still does
not look to me as though it were designed with fonts in mind. I find
this distressing.
Well... The domain was registered, hosting was set up, ccHost
On 04/01/2008, Erik van Blokland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We weren't sure about the way to store the features (abstract? feature
text?) and didn't want the UFO spec to be too dependent on the way
FontLab handles things early on. So far storing it in the lib has
worked fine.
Do you have an
On 05/01/2008, Victor Gaultney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please pardon the brief and somewhat edgy reply, as it is Saturday night :-)
Before I reply to the technical details, I want to say clearly that
I'm sorry if you took a little offense to my post.
I wanted to break down the issue
On 06/01/2008, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Op zaterdag 05-01-2008 om 09:15 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Stephen
Hartke:
Maybe a solution is to release the source code under the GPL and the
font file under the OFL, though I'm not sure this can legally be done
(as the GPL usually
Hi,
http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/linux/UbuntuTitle_0706252006.zip
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From: Victor Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Jan 2008 13:28
Subject: [Cctools-cchost] beta 5 status for 1/26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think it's safe to say that ccHost 5 is officially 'behind schedule'
by at least a few weeks. The
On 11/03/2008, Andrey V. Panov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
License of the font has been changed to OFL 1.1. The whole font excepting two
alternative forms is instructed now. It is available at
ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/edrip/ .
Wow - that is great work! :-)
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On 30/03/2008, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very cool! You are going to go, right? Any others from OFLB? My guess is
its a bit expensive for most :)
I might go, not sure what I'll be doing at that time of year as we're
selling out house at the moment - UK housing market is repeating
On 12/04/2008, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WHOA
WOW
Looking forward to LGM! :_)
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Hi,
Just thought I'd mention Fontshop's proprietary Flash font constructor:
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/news/2008/4/22/the-first-three-weeks
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2008/5/21 Femke Snelting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thomas Phinney, product Manager Fonts @ Adobe left this comment on our
blogpost on the possible re-licensing of Utopia:
I'm open to the possibility of using OFL on the four basic faces
of Utopia, as long as The Lawyers are okay with it.
2008/5/20 Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* then, group outlined in the license adobe provides, TEX user group,
would need to make another license, preferably OFL which respects
adobe's first license
IANAL but AIUI sublicense is a legal term that means license to
someone else under these
2008/5/21 George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I know I sound like a broken record, but I will say this once again.
I agree that this is the #1 missing feature.
I have been waiting for ccHost 5 to be released; the beta was
published at the start of this week, and I hope to set it up on a
testing
2008/7/4 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
I await ccHost 5 :-)
Me too.
So is the OFL site's relevance to the rest of the world - the things it
provides, the views it promotes - going to stand or fall depending on
somebody else's software launch
2008/7/5 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ace. I didn't grasp this, although thinking back over what I have read *on
this list* it makes sense. I don't think I have seen it mentioned on the
site.
Probably not, no - the site hasn't been updated in like, years.
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2008/7/13 George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
To me having a license WITHIN the font is far cleaner, far better than
having separate files. I strongly dislike the idea of separate files
because I feel it is too easy for a license file to be misplaced, but a
license within the font will only be
2008/7/24 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dave Crossland wrote:
They say that EOT will be a W3C specification.
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2008/01/
Microsoft can submit whatever they want to the W3C, that doesn't mean
it WILL become a specification.
Adobe are supporting this as well
2008/7/24 Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
Somebody pointed me in an IRC channel about this font not being free.
And I received the following answer:
Thanks for doing this Nicu!
Thank you for your email. I might release them as OFL in the future,
but for now I would
2008/7/24 George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd vote against unclear PD,
Um... given that there are already a bunch of fonts released under PD
isn't it a bit late to remove it?
I guess we'll just have to have an American resubmit those fonts with
a globally-valid no-terms license ;-)
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2008/8/2 Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Victor Gaultney wrote:
I'll be going, and I've put in a proposal to do a talk on Fonts for
Every Language. I did a similar one at ICTVC in Greece. It includes
info on open font dev efforts. I hope they like my idea. :-)
Looks like a talk by
2008/8/7 Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Are any of you guys using identi.ca (open service def. compliant)
http://identi.ca/davelab6
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2008/8/7 Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 03:11 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
Deafening silence anticipated...
Did this get sorted out?
I don't think so, no.
Cheers,
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2008/8/10 Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
ccHost trunk doesn't seem maintained stably enough for use like that.
Its pretty stable. Its running on ccmixter right now and Greg and I from
cc have been poking at it. I'm gonna do an export and import into cchost
5 on test site and see what is up.
2008/8/16 craig harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi, I have a Linux based Qt application that I want ship a true type font
with. I'm looking for a free version of something that looks similar to
Arial. Any suggestions?
Red Hat Liberation Sans is intended to be metrically identical to Arial.
2008/8/25 Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Alexandre, what happened to openfontlibrary.org domain name?
Looks like the DNS info is screwy? What's up? Please update the dns!!!
Someone must be cybersquatting...
Can you please fix this asap and lock the domain or transfer to me or
someone else
Looks promising...
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Date: 2008/8/26
Subject: [Cctools-cchost] Wordpress music blogs as Sample Pools
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: John Keston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been working with John Keston over at
2008/8/28 Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Everything's back. Advices on better places for managing dns and stuff
welcome :)
I use everydns.net which is no-charge and has a very nice web app to
control things.
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Hi John!
2008/9/21 John [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I need clarification on what fonts can be uploaded to the library. My
personal collection is rather large and I'm sure that I can contribute but
need to know what, other than copyrighted (commercial) or restricted
licencing fonts, are not allowed.
2008/9/24 Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm not sure we should offer all licenses...do we really want to support
license proliferation?
I think the site IA can strongly encourage the top 3 licenses (I
suggest: public domain/CC-0 non-copyleft, OFL weak-copyleft, and
GPL+FE strong-copyleft)
2008/9/26 Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
Heya all, we are getting massive wiki spam. Alexandre, didn't you
install some spam plugins to help?
No, because OSUOSL ignores me and my new ssh key
I disabled the blacklist that I
2008/10/2 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
can you tell me the degree to
which cchost 4 was hacked (ie, the through-the-web interface
was not used) to set it up for OFL? I'm really struggling, in
the absence of docs, to get my head around cchost 5.
AFAIK the only significant delta between
2008/10/6 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If I upload a zip file I get a nice listing of the contents. Should I
also get one if I upload a tarball (.tar.gz)? I don't get that behaviour
on my install and would like it.
I agree that .zip and .tar.gz (and .tgz, or even other zip formats
like .7zip
Hi Open Font Library Community!
I've raised some funds in the free software business community to hire
Ben Weiner to work full time on the Open Font Library for this
calendar month. As part of the development work, we are moving the
website's ccHost content management system to version 5, and
2008/10/16 Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
No idea...within 1-3 years ;)
One of the things I've learnt to tell with any projects is it's in
time whenever it's ready :)
I meant, when did that interview take place; it mentions Red
2008/10/16 Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Brendan Ferguson wrote:
As for recommendations of the structure of the font tarball itsefl
there's a template here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fonts/open-font-design-resources/foo-o
pen-font-sources/files
Will the
2008/10/17 H [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
how can i add the font?
I suggest you submit it as public domain but make plenty of notice in
the description text that it is V3, and the Zip file you upload
contains a copy of the GPLv3+FE, SFD, and TTF.
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2008/10/18 Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd say we should encourage having [file] extensions.
Yes! :-)
AIUI upper case text files without extensions are a throwback to
ancient UNIX and the MIT ITS system, and its only still around because
the GNU project uses it - eg GNU Emacs has
2008/10/17 Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I *do recognize* it's a bit
exhaustive and takes into account many file formats but it's only a
template. Not all font projects will have all that but it's good to
indicate somewhere that it exists and can be useful.
I agree - despite being
2008/10/19 George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
and VAX and UNIX had no uniform way ... I think.
VAX/VMS has always had file extensions and always used them to mark file
types. It was (is) not possible to have a file without a . in it. As I
recall you could have about 30 characters before the
2008/10/26 Brendan Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
After dong a little investigating, ccHost does allow you to see the
contents of a zip file. I installed ccHost and then uploaded a zip
file. The contents were there.
Am I on the same page as you guys?
Yes; what it won't do is look inside .tar.gz
2008/10/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've signed up for a wiki account before, it's said I have an account, but
it's never worked, I've never been able to edit the openfontlibrary wiki.
(Maybe I should ask those spammers how they manage to get their junk on
there.)
Perhaps you didn't confirm the
2008/10/28 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We have quite a lot of fonts-related material in the Fedora wiki. You
may want to reference some of it
(for example
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts )
That's great! I've added a link to this, but I can't tell what the
2008/10/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Some domain speculators have been sending me emails, trying to sell me
openfontlibrary.com, so...
I've just bought the .com version of the openfontlibrary domain name,
pointing it to openfontlibrary.org.
(I own the .net, that's why they've been offering it to
Hi,
I asked for htpasswd hashes a while back, and have only had them from
Ben Weiner and Nicolas Spalinger so far.
Anyone who wants developer access to OFLB, please send me a htpasswd hash.
To do this, go to http://aspirine.org/htpasswd_en.html and pop in the
username and password you want, and
2008/10/30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The best would be for you to update the DNS on them to be the same
Name Server:NS1.AUTH.OSUOSL.ORG
Name Server:NS2.AUTH.OSUOSL.ORG
why in frame for the .com?
It just works that way!...(assuming the .org site is working)
I've had the .net one pointing to the
2008/10/31 Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:33 +, Dave Crossland wrote:
http://typeface.neocracy.org/
I think it would be great for OFLB to support this once day, as a
'fallback' for browsers without @font-face linking support :-)
Even better would be to see
2008/11/1 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:33 +, Dave Crossland wrote:
http://typeface.neocracy.org/
I think it would be great for OFLB to support this once day, as a
'fallback' for browsers without @font-face linking support :-)
What we need is proper
2008/11/1 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there any real reason for there to be a zip? Would it make sense to
decompress any compressed file and not store the say zip at all?
Yes. It would. Zip makes a great upload and download arrangement but is
useless for @font-face hosting which OFLB
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