[LGM] finances

[Tavmjong Bah]

On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 16:13 -0500, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi
> I think Google Fonts may be interested in this sponsorship, with a
> focus on bringing people together to do focused work on Variable Font
> support in all libre graphics applications. 
> 
> Felipe Sanches was working on Inkscape support and got stuck, so if
> he can attend and meet Inkscape core devs to make progress towards
> being ready to ship, that would be great. 

The major problem was a lack of support in Pango/harfbuzz/fontconfig
which I believe has been fixed or is close to being fixed.
I am thinking about attending LGM this year and it would be great if I
could meet Felipe there. (I did the font-variant support in Inkscape.)
> What were the total budgets for lgms in the past?
> 
> On Nov 18, 2017 10:38 AM, "Gregory Pittman" <gpittman at iglou.com>
> wrote:
> > On 11/18/2017 10:01 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> > 
> > > hi
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > so, if i understand it correctly, the current status is that we
> > will
> > 
> > > not have any "official" reimbursement of travel costs from the
> > global
> > 
> > > lgm for 2018.
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > if anybody is not comfortable with this, please step up before
> > the next
> > 
> > > lgm meeting and let us discuss it!
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > (for reference: it has also been suggested that we should get
> > (and
> > 
> > > help...) the teams to collect their own money).
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I think another way to look at this is to try to see it from the
> > 
> > outside. Why would or should some outside organization donate to
> > this
> > 
> > meeting? What's in it for them? We know it doesn't have to be some
> > 
> > monetary return for some corporation, but still, of the various
> > meetings
> > 
> > and organizations that are out there, why donate to LGM?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > We have to try to begin to answer this question.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Having said this, I have put out a feeler to Red Hat, and so far
> > the
> > 
> > response has been rather feeble.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
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