<html><head></head><body><div>On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 16:13 -0500, Dave Crossland wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The major problem was a lack of support in Pango/harfbuzz/fontconfig which I believe has been fixed or is close to being fixed.</div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">What were the total budgets for lgms in the past?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 18, 2017 10:38 AM, "Gregory Pittman" <<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com">gpittman@iglou.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/18/2017 10:01 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:<br>
> hi<br>
><br>
> so, if i understand it correctly, the current status is that we will<br>
> not have any "official" reimbursement of travel costs from the global<br>
> lgm for 2018.<br>
><br>
> if anybody is not comfortable with this, please step up before the next<br>
> lgm meeting and let us discuss it!<br>
><br>
> (for reference: it has also been suggested that we should get (and<br>
> help...) the teams to collect their own money).<br>
><br>
<br>
I think another way to look at this is to try to see it from the<br>
outside. Why would or should some outside organization donate to this<br>
meeting? What's in it for them? We know it doesn't have to be some<br>
monetary return for some corporation, but still, of the various meetings<br>
and organizations that are out there, why donate to LGM?<br>
<br>
We have to try to begin to answer this question.<br>
<br>
Having said this, I have put out a feeler to Red Hat, and so far the<br>
response has been rather feeble.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
<br>
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