[LGM] some personal observations - day 2

[Dave Crossland]

Amazing job! Thanks Greg!!

On 1 May 2015 at 09:10, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> Thursday
>
> Accessible Graphics on the Web - Amelia Bellamy-Royds
>         This was not so much a how-to on the topic, but an introduction to
> the
> developing guidelines for accessibility, considering the various issues
> web users have, whether that be vision, hearing, or some other
> impairment, but also language issues. There are particular problems with
> graphics, such as how do you make them accessible to the visually impaired?
>
> Designing websites with constraints using GSS - Carl Chouinard
>         GSS is something of an intelligent CSS (not that CSS isn't
> intelligent), or one might say adaptable. Rather than making hard
> specifications for sizing and positioning of objects on a page,
> constraints are set which depend on display size and relationship to
> other objects on the page.
>
> Creating realtime collaborative web applications with Derby.js and
> Meteor.js - Eric Schrijver
>         This is pretty impressive at least as far as the ability to do
> collaborative editing in realtime. Perhaps we can hear from OSP in the
> future about what sorts of creative work this provides the greatest
> benefit of the realtime feature.
>
> The State of Color Management - Chris Murphy
>         Although one might think that by now the various OSes would have
> implemented all they "should" be doing in regard to color management,
> both on screen and in print, it turns out they haven't, so Chris
> enlightened us on the good, bad, and ugly. Later he gave a lightning
> talk to add comments about Android and iOS.
>
> Pushing open source UX design - how we do it in ownCloud - Jan-Christoph
> Borchardt
>         If nothing else, Jan-Christoph showed us the benefit of
> incorporating
> designers into a projects team, working with developers to make sure
> that the public face of web sites and GUI of the software are both
> pleasing to the eye and not so confusing to the users.
>
> Natron: compositing with Blender integration - Alexandre Gauthier-Foichat
>         A bit over my head, but Natron is an up and coming project for open
> source video compositing, and progressing rapidly in its capabilities,
> especially its interactions with Blender.
>
> html2print - Stéphanie Vilayphiou,
>         Anyone who tries to convert documents made for print publishing to
> html
> or vice versa knows the major issues one immediately comes up against,
> and we all know the limitations of PDFs on the web. OSP has decided to
> tackle the task of transforming an html document to high quality
> printable material, along the way dealing with font and the various
> layout issues. The work they've done looks impressive.
>
> Libre fonts for Tamil - (apologies for not having the name of the
> substitute presenter)
>         Worldwide, Tamil is an important language considering the numbers
> of
> people who understand and use it. There are a number of issues with
> creating fonts for Tamil, not the least of which is encouraging adoption
> of new fonts by those who use them, in particular Tamil-language
> newspapers. There seems to be various elements of cultural resistance to
> adoption of new font styles which might solve problems like word-spacing
> and the absence of a hyphenation framework.
>
> Towards Open Textile and Garment Production - Hong Phuc Dang
>         It's pretty safe to say that Hong Phuc caught fire with Susan
> Spencer's
> presentations about open source garment design, and is working
> strenuously to try to bring the idea of scaled-down garment production
> to Asia. Currently this is dominated by large, high production
> enterprises, but it seems that this will eventually change, based on
> what she had to show us about recent developments.
>
> SPECIMEN - designing fonts (hi)story(ies) - Loraine Furter
>         SPECIMEN is a new web-based repository of information about fonts,
> not
> just the data typically included in the font files, but also their
> histories, such as what they may have been based on or where their
> inspiration came from.
>
> Stroke fonts - Colm O'Neill, Ludi Loiseau, Gijs de Heij, Pierre Huyghebaert
>         More information about how OSP keeps expanding the number of ways
> and
> the number tools it uses to develop fonts for particular purposes,
> especially those that achieve for their clients some creative graphical
> style beyond the transmission of textual information.
>
> Thrilling Developments From the Field of Boring Font Utilities - Nathan
> Willis
>         This was a showpiece of Nate's creation of some tools for analysis
> of
> various informational files associated with fonts, using some schemas he
> created for Emacs. Also, a utility for building fonts for easy
> installation.
>
> Goodbye FontForge - Dave Crossland
>         A combination of personal odyssey in regard to font creation over
> the
> years, along with his involvement with FontForge. Some new approaches to
> font creation and editing were described, finally with some
> demonstration of the new, still in development Metapolator, a web-based
> font editor. The comments from the audience at the end highlighted
> concern about Dave's "abandonment" of FontForge.
>
> Greg
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Cheers
Dave
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