On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:52:12 +0530 LinuxLingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi fred, > > thanks for pumping up the volume on that font contest am trying to > bring alive in schools. > > thankfully, the gnulinux community has shown encouraging response, > and is helping out with several issues. > > would be fabulous if indic font-design contests are held more > regularly, and more widely, across indian schools and colleges. > plus, among the hardcore coding community, if indian language coding > solutions could be encouraged through friendly contests and > competitions through inter-school and inter-college contests. > > there's lots to be done, and we need to catch up on lost decades. > > of course, all the work needs to be done on free and freedom-based > tools, and published under the gnu gpl, and gnu fdl license. > > do please spread the word. > > secondly, if u know indian font designers, who appreciate unicode, > opentype, have a sensitive and expert eye on those bezier curves, > and know how to flourish a brush in calligraphy, do please forward > us some names. we need such people to mentor and evaluate the font > designs. > I know couple of them. Ravi Pande <panravi at yahoo dot com>, freelancer based in Pune , Was working with CDAC doing most of their fonts with experience in Opentype also. K S Rohilla <ksrohilla at hotmail dot com>, based in Gurgaon, Working for Summit India. Has exp. with Unicode fonts. Regards, Karunakar
