Re: [OpenFontLibrary] AdBard?

2009-06-04 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Dave Crossland wrote: Hi, How do people feel about AdBard adverts of the OFLB site to raise money for development? Well, I'd personally much rather see resources coming from another round of funding by interested patrons like we discussed earlier and setting up a goodies (t-shirts, etc)

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] AdBard?

2009-06-03 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/3 Christopher Fynn cf...@gmx.net: but on the marketing idea, I'd prefer to see that low-key and *not* try and compete against the 100's of free fonts sites. I think we can take several approaches. Is OFL aiming to be a libre alternative to those sites or a libre alternative to

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] AdBard?

2009-06-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Is OFL aiming to be a libre alternative to those sites or a libre alternative to Monotype, Linotype, Adobe etc? IMHO the main objective of OFLB is to teach designers to license clearly their work and teach users to actually check those licenses. dafont, myfont, etc would be fine if they

[OpenFontLibrary] AdBard?

2009-06-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, How do people feel about AdBard adverts of the OFLB site to raise money for development? -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Brown pet...@fsf.org Date: 2009/6/2 Subject: [FSF] FSF welcomes AdBard network for free software advertising To: info-...@gnu.org      

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] AdBard?

2009-06-02 Thread Ed Trager
Seems reasonable to me. The adBard ads don't look too bad. - Ed Trager On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: Hi, How do people feel about AdBard adverts of the OFLB site to raise money for development? -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] AdBard?

2009-06-02 Thread Raph Levien
I have no objections. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Ed Trager ed.tra...@gmail.com wrote: Seems reasonable to me. The adBard ads don't look too bad. - Ed Trager On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: Hi, How do people feel about AdBard adverts of the

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] AdBard?

2009-06-02 Thread Jon Phillips
Go for it...but seems slightly ironic somehow that ads are still ads unless they have free software friendly advertisers. More resources, means more work done ... Jon Phillips +1.415.830.3884 (global) +86.132.6817.8381 (beijing) j...@rejon.org On Jun 3, 2009 8:59 AM, Raph Levien