After a work session on the ICE leaving Leipzig, here’s a current list of possible material (to follow up):
Confirmed contributions
- Julien Deswaef: Computational fonts for the web – on obscure webfont methods without webfonts
- Frank Adebiaye has sent several proposals:
- a) Atlas of type foundries (could be a poster!)
- b) Essay – yes! with examples of fonts (not only VTF ones)
- Loraine Furter : “gorgeous libre fonts that you (probably) never heard about”.
Unconfirmed contributions
Listed in random order:
- Pippin:
- a) on Kernagic (semi-automatic tool for spacing fonts, began at LGM 2013)
- b) The 0xA000 font family and the modular font editor – for showcase, with images
- Alexei Vanyashin – subject matter to be defined (libre type in the cyrillic world? adding cyrillic to a latin font?)
- Nathan Willis – possible topic: undone / unfinished type projects
- Eric Schrijver – something regarding the experimental Etherpad project and the browser-to-print CSS hacks by OSP.
- Sol Matas – the argentinian libre type scene – history, background, …
- Juraj Sukop (maker of flat/even): typism, a type design tool
- Simon Egli – on Metapolator (talked only to Nicolas, must contact #ASAP). this could be an article that also places Metapolator in the context of metafont and previous interpolation tools (Erik van Blokland’s Superpolator, Pablo Impallari’s Simplepolator…)
- Dave Crossland – not defined or confirmed yet (contact #ASAP). possible contributions:
- visual: a graphic map of the libre software infrastructure (similar to the scribbling on napkin and drawing board)?
- on the upcoming indic fonts project?
- also: the new OFL, font bakery
Visual showcase
Possible contributions
- GlitchText artwork by Benjamin Berg
- Pippin’s 0xA000 font + editor, see above
- Screenless Office, presented by Brendan Howell at LGM 2014
- map of libre foundries, proposed by F. Adebiaye, see above
An overview of Libre Type Design Software
Could be a special feature, on 2 or 4 pages, presented as a sort of graphic schematic (close to Dave’s drawing).
- ttfautohint
- Kernagic
- Font Bakery (font compiler + checker)
- fontforge
- …
Other possibilities
- Chris Lilley: Colored Glyphs in OTF (pushing libre software to implement this!)
- The League of Moveable Type
- Victor Gaultney (SIL): on collaborative projects (topic of his ATypI 2013 presentation)
- Eben Sorkin
- Vernon Adams
- Ale Rimoldi: on Impagina, editorial workflows.
For “Small and Useful”
For “Notebook”
- what happened at LGM
- ask Gijs ?
- ask Myriam Cea ?
Manuel is discussing.
Manuel 12:48 pm on April 10, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
gingercoons on IRC:
“both the editing and layout phases in that timeline seem a little short. you’d have to check with A&R on how long it normally takes them to do layout, but I can at least say that doing full edits on an entire magazine of texts takes closer to two weeks than to one”
Manuel 6:56 pm on April 10, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
From Ana:
“I would propose that we change the date for receiving texts and
contributions from the 18th of May to the 11th of May.
ginger what do you think about this?
This change will also allow us to start the layout before 26-30 may.
That’s convenient because me and Ricardo will be off during that week.
We’ll be participating in the Open Data Legislative Camp in Paris so
it’s best not to count with us during that time.”