Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OpenID = Let the spam roll in like crazy.

2010-03-10 Thread Ed Trager
Hi, Dave and Everyone, Spammers have become a seriously problem for web sites of all stripes and sizes. Note especially that the big sites like Google, Yahoo, MySpace, and Facebook have tons of spam accounts because they are, by definition, sites that allow everyone to sign up for an account.

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Barry Schwartz
Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Dave? Ben? Jon? What about the new site? I'm holding my breath for a functional GNU hurd on which I'll run LaTeX3 using final STIX fonts downloaded from the new OFLB website. If I

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:14:36AM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Dave? Ben? Jon? What about the new site? I'm holding my breath for a functional GNU hurd on which I'll run

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] upload requirement: correct licence meta information

2010-03-10 Thread Jon Phillips
its a hard one. The ideal scenario is to have humans help review. Jon 2010/3/9 Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com: On 9 March 2010 21:44, Robert Martinez m...@mray.de wrote: Is it possible to reliably check for licence meta information in the font files? I think we do check this pretty well. Ben

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

2010-03-10 Thread Jon Phillips
aiki 2010/3/8 Robert Martinez m...@mray.de: On 03/08/2010 04:47 PM, Ed Trager wrote: Hi, everyone, On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com  wrote: On 3/8/10, Dave Crossland wrote: Ed thinks about replacing ccHost with a custom webapp.

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] upload requirement: correct licence meta information

2010-03-10 Thread Iwan Gabovitch
On http://opengameart.org (drupal-based freely-licensed community game art site), the moderators get notified via email about a new submission. Any of the moderators must then 'edit' the node/submission and check publish this item for the art to be visible by non-moderators. There is no great

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
[...] I can't but agree with you on the chronic deficiency of good, typographically aware free software, apart from the 30 years old TeX, in fact the only way to utilize goodies of OpenType fonts is by using some variant of TeX (LuaTeX is my preferred). The free DTP application can't even do

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:24:58PM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: [...] I can't but agree with you on the chronic deficiency of good, typographically aware free software, apart from the 30 years old TeX, in fact the only way to utilize goodies of OpenType fonts is by using some variant

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Christoph Schäfer
Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:56:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: But how OFLB is going to fix this, I don't think you are suggesting that we (OFLB community, whatever it means) rewrite

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:00:57PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: Well, things are changing now with the advent of LuaTeX, thanks to its backward compatibility, it is taking slowly over TeX world (see ConTeXt for example, which is being rewritten in

[OpenFontLibrary] FontConf - the unconference on @font-face and web fonts.

2010-03-10 Thread Garrick Van Buren
I'm organizing an unconference on web fonts @font-face use - http://fontconf.com If you're passing through St. Paul, MN this summer - I'd love to have someone lead a session on the OFLB and the OFL (and related licenses). Details @ http://fontconf.com Thanks. ---

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] FontConf - the unconference on @font-face and web fonts.

2010-03-10 Thread Jon Phillips
Very cool! It might be able to be arranged :) On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Garrick Van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote: I'm organizing an unconference on web fonts @font-face use - http://fontconf.com If you're passing through St. Paul, MN this summer - I'd love to have someone lead a

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:38:43PM +0100, Christoph Schäfer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:56:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: But how OFLB is going to fix this, I don't think you

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Christoph Schäfer
Hi Khaled, Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 06:23:51 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:38:43PM +0100, Christoph Schäfer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:56:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny