[Openfontlibrary] Fwd: [ATypI] ScriptSource Community Site

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:40 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> :-)


What are you thinking about this with relationship to this community?

Jon


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Victor Gaultney <vtype at gaultney.org>
> Date: 23-Feb-2007 12:58
> Subject: [ATypI] ScriptSource Community Site
> To: ATypI member discussion list <members at atypi.org>
> 
> 
> Dear ATypI friends,
> 
> In Lisbon we announced our interest in creating a comprehensive site for
> information on alphabets and writing systems - ScriptSource. Our hope was
> that ScriptSource would be built and managed by a community of people and
> institutions.
> 
> We are now ready to unveil our dreams in a public way - through a new
> ScriptSource Community web site. This site gives information on both the
> ScriptSource vision (including technical papers and a user interaction
> prototype) and the Community we hope will create and manage the site in the
> long-term. Find out more at:
> 
>     http://www.scriptsource.org/
> 
> We are looking for two types of partners to become part of the active
> ScriptSource Community:
> 
> - 3-5 institutions or companies that could join with us and make a
> significant investment of time and effort to establish and manage the site.
> 
> - a few key individuals who are either experts in specific scripts or have
> other expertise to offer.
> 
> ScriptSource is not a commercial venture, so it is important that many of us
> work together to make it happen. Although we are initiating the effort, and
> will provide initial technical and administrative support, we do hope it
> will become a community effort.
> 
> (BTW - we're not intending for ScriptSource to compete with or replace other
> sites with script information, such as decodeunicode. See the site for
> information on how ScriptSource could make such sites even stronger.)
> 
> Please look at what we're thinking and give us feedback. We've set up three
> mailing lists you can subscribe to: a general list for info on ScriptSource,
> one for Community announcements, and one for discussion within the active
> Community members.
> 
> If you are interested in being part of the ScriptSource effort, and helping
> us discover the best methods for gathering and presenting script
> information, let us know by writing to me at
> 
>     victor_gaultney /at/ scriptsource /dot/ org
> 
> Victor Gaultney
> SIL International
> 
> 
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