[Openfontlibrary] Re: Free Design Software Community Roadmap

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 4/18/06, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> > What I would like to avoid is having a crowd of newbies who know
> > basics only and do just simple stuff. And we don't want mediocre
> > fonts, right? Thus we need to find some ways to make an accent on
> > collaborative work, to let people know that it will be much better
> > having one polished font instead of 10 so-so. consistent.
>
> I am not sure about that: nobody is born with this knowledge and have to
> start learning in some place. Part of the newbies will learn, grow their
> skills and one day become experienced enough to create quality work.

Either my point wasn't explained well enough, or you misunderstood me.
What I am talking about is people who learn basic things and stop
there without moving further. It's not about having both experienced
and not experienced people at the sa me time which cannot be avoided
ever. It's about having experienced people at all.

Alexandre