dc7 - 1.0
DebConf7
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Nicolas Spalinger |
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| Day | 9 |
| Room | Upper BoF Room |
| Start time | 16:30 |
| Duration | 01:30 |
| Info | |
| ID | 67 |
| Event type | Open discussion (BoF) |
| Track | DebConf |
| Language | English |
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Open fonts in Debian
The Open Font License and the pkg-fonts Alioth project for collaborative maintainership of fonts and related software
This BoF is about getting the folks interested in open fonts together, working on a font packaging policy to serve as the reference document for the work of pkg-fonts Alioth project and encouraging more font designers to contribute to Debian by bringing together the relevants tools and tutorials.
Discussion subjects of this open fonts BoF will include:
- looking at the community timeline with regards to open fonts: where we were then, where we are now and what's around the corner
- report from the Ubuntu Summit on BoFs and font-related specs
- report from the Libre Graphics Meeting BoF on the subject of font design
- report from GUADEC and font-related talks and BoFs
- IRC meetings and confcalls within freedesktop.org around open fonts
- report from the OOocon (OpenOffice.org Conference)
- report from community the TexLayout summit in Boston last October
- report from the AtypI conference (keynote about open fonts)
- the need for a common set of fonts, for the web, for print and for interop across the distros, the various OSes
- fontconfig features are improving
- font management tools are getting there
- Ed Trager's font playground
- plans for building a community of designers via the Open Font Library
- improvements on the open font design toolkit
- an OFL button added to fontforge
- the GNOME logo is now based on an open font
- amazing work by the Dejavu team
- more and more fonts released under OFL by various organisations
- smart fonts and the rest of the "stack": opentype, scim, Graphite, kmfl
- Go for OFL campaign via unifont.org with support from Freedesktop.org, SIL International, the GNOME Foundation, KDE e.V, Free Standards Group and the Free Software Foundation.