Dear All, I would like to announce an IRC meeting that will take place tomorrow Friday, 14th July 2006, at 20:00 GMT, at #freedesktop on Freenode (IRC). To find the exact local time for your country, see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=7&day=14&hour=20&min=0&sec=0 For example, if you are in Paris, the meeting is on Friday at 10:00pm. If you are in Asia/Australia, it will probably be inconvenient. Please mail me about it. If there is enough interest (>5 e-mails), we can arrange a repeat meeting. Tell me what time is suitable for you. This is particularly important for Indic/CJK/etc font issues. The expected duration is 1 hour. Based on interest and support, we may arrange extra sessions. The agenda includes: 1. discussion on basic issues on fonts; font licenses; 2. building a list of 'desirable' FLOSS fonts for each language/script; tell us your preference; promote your preference 3. build an 'optimal' fonts.conf file (+ suggest snippets for fonts.d/); LSB common font repository 4. discuss the proposed fontconfig patch for granular font selection, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-June/002332.html 5. discuss on writing a patch for fontconfig to disregard glyphs from fonts in a very low level (as if the font did not have those glyphs in the first place) The webpage of this discussion is at http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fFonts_2fConfiguration The discussion (irclog) will be saved at the above URL as well. Extra reading 1. Call to test the DejaVu fonts http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts/DejavuFeedbackCall 2. The Open Font License (OFL) by SIL International http://scripts.sil.org/OFL 3. Fonts page on the Freedesktop Wiki http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fFonts 4. OpenFonts page on the Ubuntu Wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenFonts 5. Fonts management https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FontManagement 6. Font issues across distros http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts/FontMusings 7. Enhancing pango/fontconfig to help solve font issues http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=18518811 8. re: fontconfig support to exclude glyphs from fonts http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-June/002332.html 9. Open source casts new mold for type design (recent font article) http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-6092398.html?tag=st.util.print A similar IRC meeting took place last week, on input methods and multilingual writing support in Xorg; the discussion is available at http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/KeyboardInputDiscussion Please forward this announcement where you feel appropriate. Hope to see you tomorrow, Simos _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
