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Revision as of 21:32, 11 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
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- 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,
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- package new fonts and font tools,
- review font packages before Fedora inclusion,
- fix font or text problems in applications and libraries,
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- propose good Fedora fonts defaults,
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- 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.
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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
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 .
Subcategories
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Pages in category "Fonts SIG"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.