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</style></head><body><div>Hi Maria,</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for reaching out. I had contact to some SUSE employees at the recent openSUSE conference. They where open about a possible sponsoring. You can write me directly to talk about more specifics.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the venue, I'm currently waiting for a response from one of the universities (Ohm Technische Hochschule Nürnberg), I also have ideas for other possible venues, but nothing is fixed yet. I'm travelling until September, but I can answer mails and be available for calls.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way I gave a talk at the openSUSE conference, the recording is available here: <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/4718-rebooting-the-libre-graphics-meeting-in-nuremberg-2025">https://media.ccc.de/v/4718-rebooting-the-libre-graphics-meeting-in-nuremberg-2025</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best, Lasse</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2024-08-14 at 08:29 -0500, María Leandro wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey all!<div><br></div><div>I have a friend working at Suse and they are interested in the venue and probably some sponsorship if LGM happens at Nuremberg next year. Who should I contact to get more details and help with coordination?</div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 19 jun 2024 a las 0:05, Dave Crossland (<<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>Just to clarify, this year, the sole sponsor was the Font Bureau, a major client of Strong Type Systems (Lasse); not Google.</div><div><br></div><div>While I work as an employee for Google on the Google Fonts team (and Google, via the GF team, has been a direct sponsor of LGM in the past), Google was not involved in the sponsorship of LGM 2024. I helped flag the opportunity to the Font Bureau. </div><div><br></div><div>Why did the Font Bureau sponsor LGM? First, it had the fortunate ability to do so: It is hardly a secret that the Font Bureau has had major deals and earned good money from both Google and Monotype in recent years, and has released a number of libre (typo)graphics software projects (mostly <a href="http://github.com/fontbureau" target="_blank">github.com/fontbureau</a> with some at <a href="http://github.com/googlefonts" target="_blank">github.com/googlefonts</a>), including a medium sized web app for testing WIP fonts that Strong Type Systems (Lasse) has developed, "TypeRoof", in addition to libre fonts commissioned by Google (Roboto Flex, Amstelvar). I believe the development of Variable Fonts support within app graphics apps, including Libre Graphics apps, is important strategically for Font Bureau, and I understand Lasse, Liam, Nate and others discussed advancing such Variable Fonts support during the LGM. Also, since the principal at Font Bureau, David Berlow, was unable to attend events outside the USA this year, having the videos online is a direct benefit for FB too – so, similar to previous years with Google's sponsorship for this purpose, since the videos were enabled by the sponsorship, the descriptions credit Font Bureau.</div><div><br></div><div>For me, next year is harder to predict, as Font Bureau may be winding up, with David's upcoming retirement; and Google has many headlines about its cost-cutting efforts starting with layoffs. Still I will be sure to flag the opportunity to anyone I think may be interested. If Google is not interested, similar to Font Bureau this year, perhaps one or a few folks working on various projects for Google Fonts may be in a position to sponsor directly.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Dave</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">tatica<br>Maria Gracia Leandro<br><a href="http://www.estudiotap.com" target="_blank">www.estudiotap.com</a><br>---<br>Blog: <a href="http://tatica.org" target="_blank">http://tatica.org</a><div>LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>