[Kde-l10n-kn] Fwd: IRC Meeting (#freedesktop at Freenode) tomorrow Friday, 14Jul06, 20:00 GMT: Fonts; choosing fonts; fonts.conf; fontconfig

[Umesh RS]

Please read the below mail. Also, note the mention of Indic languages.
Please see if you can give any inputs to this meeting.
Regards,
Umesh

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: umesh rudrapatna <urudrapatna at yahoo.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: Fwd: IRC Meeting (#freedesktop at Freenode) tomorrow Friday, 14Jul06,
20:00 GMT: Fonts; choosing fonts; fonts.conf; fontconfig
To: umeshrs at gmail.com



--- Simos Xenitellis <simos74 at gmx.net> wrote:

> From: Simos Xenitellis <simos74 at gmx.net>
> To: Fedora Translation Project List
> <fedora-trans-list at redhat.com>,
>       Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>,
>       DejaVu-Fonts mailing list
> <dejavu-fonts at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:49:28 +0100
> CC: Daniel Glassey <wdg at debian.org>,
>       GNOME I18n <gnome-i18n at gnome.org>,
> fontconfig at fontconfig.org,
>       Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger at sil.org>,
>       GNOME Desktop Hackers
> <desktop-devel-list at gnome.org>,
>       linux-utf8 at nl.linux.org
> Subject: IRC Meeting (#freedesktop at Freenode)
> tomorrow Friday, 14Jul06,
>       20:00 GMT: Fonts; choosing fonts; fonts.conf;
> fontconfig
>
> 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
>
>
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