The DejaVu Fonts project would like to hear the view of the community on some subjects. That's why an IRC meeting is organized next Thursday September 28, at 18:00 UTC on the #dejavu channel on Freenode.
Topics will include: 1) Future license of DejaVu: What if Bitstream releases Vera under OFL? Should we follow as OFL seems to become the standard free font license? Do we keep our additions in public domain? 2) Future development process of the project: The project is heading for full Unicode coverage, but how will we approach that goal? What should be done to make sure DejaVu doesn't become a mismatch of glyphs? Should development be altered to maintain quality? 3) LGC and other derivatives of DejaVu: We currently ship the LGC derivative including only Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs. Should we keep that one? Should we have other derivatives with glyph subsets? Is creating subsets a good idea? Fedora ships with DejaVu LGC, why? It has been said a few times that DejaVu should ship as a set of lots of different fonts for each script; do we want that; do we want to rely on FontConfig for correct font rendering? The DejaVu project is growing rapidly and DejaVu Fonts became the default font in many Linux distributions. We need to hear your views on the topics above, as they will be crucial in the future of the project. Feel free to send the message to other relevant mailing lists. Greetings, Ben and Denis *********************************** DejaVu IRC meeting September 28, 2006 18:00 UTC channel #dejavu on Freenode network *********************************** _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
