Femke Snelting wrote: > Hello / Bonjour! > > This week we were contacted by the Institut de la Francophonie numérique > (IFN/OIF) and they offer support for translation costs EN/FR plus travel > + lodging for 10 participants in LGM 2010 from countries connected to > the OIF network. > > It means you could present your project in French without losing your > Anglophone audience and vice versa ;-) but it is also a great > opportunity to expand the network of developers involved in LGM
Sounds like an good opportunity for more francophones to benefit from contributing to the libre graphics community. Here's one possibility I can think of: In 2009 I've been in touch with various people living in Vietnam and interested in working on improving the availability and quality of open fonts for Vietnamese. Last I heard, the plan was to review and contribute Vietnamese support to existing open font families but possibly also to design/commission/release a new open font family made from scratch and then get the resulting software distributed, included in the various libre projects throughout Vietnam (liveCDs for example, office suite bundles, etc) and promoted instead of restricted fonts. They are based in Hanoi, Vietnam and affiliated to Hanoilug and CNF: http://blog.hanoilug.org/ http://www.auf.org/regions/asie-pacifique/implantations/campus-hanoi/fiche.html Seems to fit the criteria. What do you think? I will ping them about this possibility to come to LGM. Maybe people working with ANLoc could also benefit from the opportunity: http://www.africanlocalisation.net/en/fonts > I roughly translated; see below for more precise criteria in French. It > is going to be a bit of an administrative hassle to make this work so I > hope you trust us with drawing up the final list. > > Just to be extra clear: we seem to be doing more or less doing ok with > finding money for LGM -- those 10 participants coming in through > Francophonie will not replace anyone that would normally be supported > for his/her participation in LGM. > > more on practical things (hotels, venue, signing up) after this weekend. > > > Femke Thanks for all the organisation efforts. Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
