[OpenFontLibrary] Libre Graphics Meeting 2014: Call For Paper

[Ed Trager]

Hi, Dave!

I just submitted a proposal for a 20 minute presentation for the upcoming
Libre Graphics Meeting on the development of my Tai Tham font.

I think there is a fairly interesting story that is being driven by the
synergies of unmet needs and unfolding at the intersection of technology
and design.  There is a lot of interest in Southeast Asia and
internationally to preserve and make palm leaf manuscripts available to
scholars and the wider public online. Collaborations between organizations
in the West and in Southeast Asia are already making palm leaf manuscripts
available online (e.g.: l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in France
and  Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) in Bangkok; and also the National
Library of Laos along with the University of Passau and the
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Germany) --- but at
the same time high-quality Unicode-based Tai Tham fonts and input methods
are not yet available. Of course I'm working on a Tai Tham font; and
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan in Thailand is working on Tai Tham input methods
that will automatically perform normalisation of the input sequence
(normalisation issues could easily be a whole talk by itself!). On my end,
working on a Tai Tham font, collaboration with the HarfBuzz OpenType layout
engine community is proving critical to getting things done.

I don't know if the LibreGraphics folks are interested, but just thought
I'd let you know.

I'm now making good progress on some of the technical OpenType hurdles in
Hariphunchai. Hopefully I will be submitting an invoice to Google quite
soon :-)

Best Wishes -- Ed






On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/?p=199
>
> The Call for Participation has now been published!
>
> For this year we are especially interested in presentations that
> showcase how the gap between technical and design development can be
> bridged.
>
> We are looking for:
>
> In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies
> Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools
> New projects in this area to meet the wider community
> Reports, use-cases, best practices
> New emerging media; breaking free from analog constraints
> Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards
>
> Available formats are:
>
> Lightning talk (10 minutes, selected at the event unconference style)
> Presentations (20 minutes extendable to 40 minutes)
> Entry for State of the Libre Graphics Union (1-2 slides)
> Workshops (2 hours or more)
> Birds Of a Feather (BOF), discussion meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs or more)
>
> The 2014 Libre Graphics Meeting will be held April 2 – 5 in Leipzig,
> Germany at Universität Leipzig.
>
> Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2014
>
> Selection notifications by: 25 January 2014 at the latest.
>
> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/?page_id=165
>
>
> The Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 will take place 2. – 5. April 2014 in
> Leipzig, Germany.
> This yearly event is an occasion for projects and individual
> contributors/artists from all over the world to work together, to
> share experiences and to hear about new ideas.
>
> By Libre Graphics we mean Free, Libre and Open Source tools for
> design, illustration, photography, typography, art, graphics, page
> layout, publishing, cartography, animation, video, interactive media,
> generative graphics and visual live-coding. The Libre Graphics Meeting
> is not just about software, but extends to standards, file formats and
> actual use of these in creative work.
> We are looking for:
>
> In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies
> Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools
> New projects in this area to meet the wider community
> Reports, use-cases, best practices
> New emerging media; breaking free from analog constraints
> Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards
>
> Available formats (including questions):
>
> Lightning talk (10 minutes, selected at the event unconference style)
> Presentations (20 minutes extendable to 40 minutes)
> Entry for State of the Libre Graphics Union (1-2 slides)
> Workshops (2 hours or more)
> Birds Of a Feather (BOF), discussion meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs or more)
>
> State of the Libre Graphics Union:
> We will kick off this year’s event with a joint session that sums up
> all things that have happened in our wide landscape over the last
> year. Instead of slots in the schedule for general updates on each and
> every libre graphics project, we invite you to submit a maximum of two
> slides, show-casing new abilities and/or text enumerating the leaps
> forward that your project made.
>
> Special focus:
> For the 2014 edition of LGM, we are specifically interested in
> presentations that showcase how the gap between technical and design
> development can be bridged. We are looking for contributions on
> computational and generative media; examples of projects where design
> decisions and experimentation is done directly with logic and code or
> indirectly with the end user providing constraints/selection of good
> results. We are interested in projects where design and development
> are considered necessary ingredients in a collaborative process done
> by peers of technological artists, using and pushing the constraints
> of creative work.
> Practical Details:
>
> Call opens Monday 25. November 2014
>
> Deadline: 15. January 2014. We will let you know if your presentation
> is selected by 25. January 2014 latest.
>
> In the context of the meeting, we prefer short and concise presentations.
>
> For each BOF or meeting that will be on the public schedule, we ask
> you to provide a report, to be made available to the Libre Graphics
> Community afterwards.
>
> If you propose a workshop, let us know what you expect participants to
> bring, in terms of both prior experience and required items
> (sketchbook, laptop with which applications installed, etc.)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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