[CREATE] LGM 2007 report

[Jon Phillips]

Heya Louis, here is a quick paragraph that Dave Crossland and I
constructed to briefly represent what happened at LGM 2007 for Open Clip
Art Library and Open Font Library...there are a ton of blog posts that
get into more details. Those should be copied IMO.

Cheers again!

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Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library Post-LGM 2007 Report

The Open Clip Art Library is a large library of clip art placed in the
public domain through Creative Commons licensing. The Open Font
Library is a new repository for fonts available under the SIL Open
Font License, a free software license written specifically for fonts.

This year the LGM brought together several key developers to discuss
plans for the next year. Through some interesting circumstances, Keith
Packard and Jon Phillips made plans for Open Clip Art Library and Open
Font Library to have a dedicated server infrastructure to meet the
growing demand. Jon Phillips presented on the overall plan for both
Open Font Library and Open Clip Art Library, while trying to open up
discussion about how others can get involved in the future.

The Open Font Library community ran an informal "Birds of a Feather"
session, three times larger than the one last year, and presented the
significant events in the free software font community since last
year: An improved version of the SIL Open Font License was released,
and integrated into both the free software font editor, FontForge, and
the Open Font Library itself. Finally, the LGM was chosen by Raph
Levien as the most suitable conference to publicly demonstrate for the
first time his innovative new font curve technology, Spiro.


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Jon
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