Hi Good talk. Lgm record everything so will be available to a wide audience. and they pay travel! Likely I can host you in an apartment if you come too.
Actually it would be good to send the invoice asap so I can close that po. We may do more with non Latin this year, so may get you more cash Cheers Dave On 14 Jan 2014 13:11, "Ed Trager" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Dave! > > I just submitted a proposal for a 20 minute presentation for the upcoming > Libre Graphics Meeting on the development of my Tai Tham font. > > I think there is a fairly interesting story that is being driven by the > synergies of unmet needs and unfolding at the intersection of technology > and design. There is a lot of interest in Southeast Asia and > internationally to preserve and make palm leaf manuscripts available to > scholars and the wider public online. Collaborations between organizations > in the West and in Southeast Asia are already making palm leaf manuscripts > available online (e.g.: l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in > France and Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) in Bangkok; and also the > National > Library of Laos along with the University of Passau and the > Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Germany) --- but > at the same time high-quality Unicode-based Tai Tham fonts and input > methods are not yet available. Of course I'm working on a Tai Tham font; > and Theppitak Karoonboonyanan in Thailand is working on Tai Tham input > methods that will automatically perform normalisation of the input sequence > (normalisation issues could easily be a whole talk by itself!). On my end, > working on a Tai Tham font, collaboration with the HarfBuzz OpenType layout > engine community is proving critical to getting things done. > > I don't know if the LibreGraphics folks are interested, but just thought > I'd let you know. > > I'm now making good progress on some of the technical OpenType hurdles in > Hariphunchai. Hopefully I will be submitting an invoice to Google quite > soon :-) > > Best Wishes -- Ed > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/?p=199 >> >> The Call for Participation has now been published! >> >> For this year we are especially interested in presentations that >> showcase how the gap between technical and design development can be >> bridged. >> >> We are looking for: >> >> In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies >> Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools >> New projects in this area to meet the wider community >> Reports, use-cases, best practices >> New emerging media; breaking free from analog constraints >> Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards >> >> Available formats are: >> >> Lightning talk (10 minutes, selected at the event unconference style) >> Presentations (20 minutes extendable to 40 minutes) >> Entry for State of the Libre Graphics Union (1-2 slides) >> Workshops (2 hours or more) >> Birds Of a Feather (BOF), discussion meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs or >> more) >> >> The 2014 Libre Graphics Meeting will be held April 2 – 5 in Leipzig, >> Germany at Universität Leipzig. >> >> Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2014 >> >> Selection notifications by: 25 January 2014 at the latest. >> >> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/?page_id=165 >> >> >> The Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 will take place 2. – 5. April 2014 in >> Leipzig, Germany. >> This yearly event is an occasion for projects and individual >> contributors/artists from all over the world to work together, to >> share experiences and to hear about new ideas. >> >> By Libre Graphics we mean Free, Libre and Open Source tools for >> design, illustration, photography, typography, art, graphics, page >> layout, publishing, cartography, animation, video, interactive media, >> generative graphics and visual live-coding. The Libre Graphics Meeting >> is not just about software, but extends to standards, file formats and >> actual use of these in creative work. >> We are looking for: >> >> In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies >> Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools >> New projects in this area to meet the wider community >> Reports, use-cases, best practices >> New emerging media; breaking free from analog constraints >> Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards >> >> Available formats (including questions): >> >> Lightning talk (10 minutes, selected at the event unconference style) >> Presentations (20 minutes extendable to 40 minutes) >> Entry for State of the Libre Graphics Union (1-2 slides) >> Workshops (2 hours or more) >> Birds Of a Feather (BOF), discussion meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs or >> more) >> >> State of the Libre Graphics Union: >> We will kick off this year’s event with a joint session that sums up >> all things that have happened in our wide landscape over the last >> year. Instead of slots in the schedule for general updates on each and >> every libre graphics project, we invite you to submit a maximum of two >> slides, show-casing new abilities and/or text enumerating the leaps >> forward that your project made. >> >> Special focus: >> For the 2014 edition of LGM, we are specifically interested in >> presentations that showcase how the gap between technical and design >> development can be bridged. We are looking for contributions on >> computational and generative media; examples of projects where design >> decisions and experimentation is done directly with logic and code or >> indirectly with the end user providing constraints/selection of good >> results. We are interested in projects where design and development >> are considered necessary ingredients in a collaborative process done >> by peers of technological artists, using and pushing the constraints >> of creative work. >> Practical Details: >> >> Call opens Monday 25. November 2014 >> >> Deadline: 15. January 2014. We will let you know if your presentation >> is selected by 25. January 2014 latest. >> >> In the context of the meeting, we prefer short and concise presentations. >> >> For each BOF or meeting that will be on the public schedule, we ask >> you to provide a report, to be made available to the Libre Graphics >> Community afterwards. >> >> If you propose a workshop, let us know what you expect participants to >> bring, in terms of both prior experience and required items >> (sketchbook, laptop with which applications installed, etc.) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers >> Dave >> > >
