Revision as of 11:02, 15 June 2008

Activities

The Fonts Special Interest Group is an informal group of Fedora Linux contributors. It is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in the distribution and its other Linux derivatives.

Join us and help:

Fonts SIG activities

Activity	OS Developer	Translator	Content Writer	Designer	People Person
find the best fonts to include, to please artists, identify font creation tools needing packaging, create and improve Fedora fonts,
find the best fonts to include, for internationalization reasons, document the preferred fonts for your locale, improve the way a font supports your script by identifying problems and proposing ameliorations,
package new fonts and font tools, review font packages before Fedora inclusion, fix font or text problems in applications and libraries,
propose good Fedora fonts defaults,
identify font or text problems in applications and libraries, improve font package descriptions and summaries to help users choose the right fonts for their needs,
convince foundries to release fonts under a free/libre Fedora-friendly license, recruit possible free/libre font authors, recruit new SIG members, get font or text problems fixed, improve the SIG visibility by getting it linked and quoted everywhere,
document font creation tasks, document free/libre font release best practices, document free/libre font packaging, clarify, complete and improve our wiki, identify interesting third-party material, and link it here, convert wiki information to other document formats.

Any font or text-related activity can be tackled, as long as the result is free/libre and compatible with the Fedora objectives.

The current SIG task list is published here.

Contacts

Mailing lists

Fonts SIG mailing lists

Mailing list name	Intended use	Web archives
		Source	Gmane	MarkMail	The mail archive
fonts	Main SIG coordination channel, for human discussions. Post your questions and proposals there.	Archives	Archives	Archives	Archives
fonts-bugs	Automated tracking of font and text issues. Consult it to follow new problem reports and fixes, CC it in issue trackers. Read only archiving list: do not post messages there, use the other list you can follow this archive via digests, internet archives, etc	Archives	Archives	Archives	Archives

IRC

We do not have a dedicated IRC channel right now; the general low-traffic ##fonts channel on irc.freenode.net should be used instead. It is shared by all the FLOSS font groups and is distribution-agnostic.

SIG members

The following Fedora members contribute on a permanent or semi-permanent basis to this SIG:

• MairinDuffy
• BehdadEsfahbod
• KevinFenzi
• DimitrisGlezos
• NicolasMailhot
• HansUlrichNiedermann
• JensPetersen
• RahulSundaram
• SimosXenitellis

External references

• The freedesktop.org text layout working group regularly publishes materials on present and future state of text rendering on FLOSS desktops. They're all a must-read.

• Ed Trager maintains the very complete unifont web site.

• The Open Font Library is an effort to host open fonts, though all may not be free enough for Fedora.

• Other distributions have fonts packaging projects, notably Debian and Ubuntu .