[Openfontlibrary] Re: Free Software Font Design Community Roadmap

[Dave Crossland]

On 10/08/06, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd like to know more about the project. E.g. how many
> people are involved or what license they have picked for their fonts.

I've forwarded Pedro your post, so I hope he'll join the list and the
discussion :-)

> If our goals are common, I think there is a way we could join efforts
> and make a significant impact together. For example, OFL could be a
> pure SVN/fonts hosting and library part of the union, while TypeForge
> could be the place where all development happens.

Yes, TypeForge already contained a few Typeface Design tutorials.

There is a clear use-case split between development resources for
typeface designers, and archive resource for font users.

The unifont.org project by Ed Trager is already doing a lot of great
work towards the latter too, btw :-)

> I'm looking forward to hearing from Pedro and other people involved in
> the project. We need some common place to talk. SInce Open Font
> License initiators are already in this list [1], I suggest staying
> here for further discussion. What do other people think?

Sure :-)

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Regards,
Dave