[LGM] finances

[Gregory Pittman]

On 11/18/2017 04:46 PM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> 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.)
> 

As you probably already know, Scribus has had the excellent addition of
support for right-to-left languages and also some OTF features. It would
be great to build on this in other LGM projects, and perhaps is an angle
for some monetary support.

Greg