[Openfontlibrary] Libre Graphics Meeting 2, 4-5-6 May 2007, in Montreal

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 20:52 +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> >> http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/LGM2
> >>
> >> There are 4 main types of talks:
> >>
> >>     * 1 Free Software for Typeface Design
> >>           o 1.1 FontForge
> >>           o 1.2 Spiro
> >>     * 2 "The Open Font Library"
> >>     * 3 Open Font License
> >
> > Sorry Nicolas, I forgot to say, I think an talk on the OFL itself
> > could be worthwhile, especially if 1.1 is out by May - what do you
> > think?
> 
> Yep, a presentation of the OFL would certainly be very useful. Some kind
> of status report on how it has helped us build bridges between FLOSS and
> type communities and an overview of the various font families now freed
> as a result.
> 
> We could also list the range of tools/scripts available complementing
> the font editors. (I have plans for a metapackage to pull in all the
> "open font design toolkit").
> 
> I'll get in touch with the Dejavu font designers and see if they can
> come to LGM2 as well. It would be great to have them onboard.
> 
> This is going to be a great milestone for our community :-)
> 

Yes, it would be a great place to make some good announcements, like the
new version, cc-style metadata around it, etc :) I'm you all can think
up more solid ones :)

Jon

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