[LGM] finances

[Felipe Sanches]

Hey, Tav!
I would indeed love to chat in-person about Variable Fonts !

cheers,
Felipe Sanches

2017-11-18 19:46 GMT-02:00 Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong at free.fr>:

> 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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