[Openfontlibrary] [Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape at LGM 2007 Montreal]

[Dave Crossland]

On 21/03/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > meeting 1: overview and general getting people plugged in
> > > meeting 2: hacking session on infrastructure of OFLB
> > > meeting 3: making a font for OFLB
> > >
> > > This is probably too many meeting, but could have all three
> > > concurrently...

Also, I'd prefer to have them not concurrent, so I can do them all, haha :-)

> > #2 and #3 are likely to be BOF style meetings, while #1 would be a
> > presentation on the main stage? So not too many, I don't think.
> >
> > My presentation on FontForge, Spiro, and the various free font
> > movement websites, could be merged with #1.
>
> I think best to do a quick overview of the landscape and primarily focus
> on OpenFontLibrary.org
>
> I agree, yes, meeting 1 should be rolled into your presentation...just
> want to focus that presentation on plugging ppl. into the meetings and
> practical work and not primarily a philosophical discussion ;)

I'll definitely end with a call for people to join the "libre font
meetings" :-)

The contents of the presentation, and the ratio of
philosophy:tools:websites isn't set, because until I'm in San
Francisco, I won't know about the tools, really. And on IRC yesterday
it was suggested that there'll be a lot of graphic design oriented
people, not just free software hackers, and so the philosophy stuff is
quite important. Not just the free software philosophy in itself, but
the nature of fonts - are they program software or data? Is there a
difference? Can fonts be functional _or_ artistic? Or are they always
both, at the same time? etc etc

-- 
Regards,
Dave