What is the correct place to ask about...

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:25:06AM -0900, Eben Sorkin wrote:
>> What is the correct place to ask about Ubuntu & fonts? I don't want  
>> to complain about rendering or anything. I am a font developer and I  
>> would like to know who in the Ubuntu community I might talk to about  
>> making fonts for the Ubuntu community and optimized for Ubuntu/Linux  
>> users.
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone in the Ubuntu community who is specifically focused
> on fonts at the moment, though a few developers have touched on this area as
> necessary over the years.  Perhaps you can tell us more about what you have
> in mind, so that we can discuss it further?

I'll quickly point out that there are a number of specs related to fonts
in Ubuntu underway like for example:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/open-fonts
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/font-management
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/font-design-toolkit

And a fonts team:
https://launchpad.net/~fonts

There's hasn't been an enormous amount of visible activity recently but
things are nicely coming together: we have mainly focused on the Open
Font License, on the Open Font Library, on documenting a open font
design toolkit and on packaging existing open fonts.

There's good work happening with Debian upstream via the pkg-fonts
Alioth team (check svn there: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts).

Open fonts and related subjects will also be discussed at the upcoming
2nd Libre Graphics Meeting and Debconf 7:
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org
https://debconf7.debconf.org/

A campaign - coordinated by unifont.org - to encourage designers to
release fonts under the Open Font License is about to be officially
launched:
http://unifont.org/go_for_ofl/


Feedback and contributions in the area of open fonts is welcome from
anyone in the Ubuntu community: devs, designers, etc...


Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Spalinger
http://scripts.sil.org
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-fonts
https://launchpad.net/~fonts

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