[Openfontlibrary] FOSS and the Commercial Print World

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:41 +1000, Ryan wrote:
> Ill put my hand up to do the existing ones on OFLib at the moment...
> 
> Consider it added to my to do list.. 

That's the right attitude!

Jon


> :P
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ryanlerch
> ryanlerch at gmail.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfontlibrary-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> [mailto:openfontlibrary-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jon
> Phillips
> Sent: Saturday, 3 February 2007 11:09 AM
> To: Karl Berry
> Cc: openfontlibrary at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Openfontlibrary] FOSS and the Commercial Print World
> 
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:05 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> >     We should include these on the site,  
> > 
> > I added some of these links to the wiki (a while back).
> > 
> >     possibly the wiki for the time being...however, it would be great to
> >     collect content to put on our site when it has been ok'd by the
> >     original author and/or legally is permissive.
> > 
> > As I mentioned before, virtually all of the fonts referred to on those
> > pages are libre or almost-libre, so legally there's no problem.
> > 
> > Whether it makes sense to try to maintain a separate copy on olib (many
> > are still actively maintained) is another question.  www.ctan.org holds
> > (usually) the canonical sources.
> > 
> > Best,
> > karl
> 
> I would recommend if this interests anyone, that we should try to
> consolidate resources with other projects. Ideally though we need to get
> thumbnailing code to work and have more services sorted so that we could
> absorb pre-existing projects :)
> 
> Oh, one thought we could do is allow for people to create their own font
> thumbnails when they submit their font. ccHost allows this at present.
> Obviously this is not ideal, but is doable right now.
> 
> Would anyone like to help wit this immediate step? I think 128 px x 128
> px would be ideal for a quick thumbnail. Then, you can upload to your
> previous uploads and any bitmap will show up as a thumbnail...cool?
> 
> Jon
> 
-- 
Jon Phillips

San Francisco, CA
USA PH 510.499.0894
jon at rejon.org
http://www.rejon.org

MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto
Jabber Chat: rejon at gristle.org
IRC: rejon at irc.freenode.net