Group: Manchester/2008-09-16
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Dave Crossland discusses fonts and free software in his talk: 'Free as in profit (fonts and software freedom)'
Links, by Dave Crossland, from the slides (with corrections):
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Spiro Inkscape search on youtube
- Specifically this Inkscape + Spiro video on youtube
- Inkscape, a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) editor.
- Fontforge, an outline font editor.
- Spiro, a toolkit for curve design, especially font design, created by Raph Levien.
- Open Font Library, a library for free software fonts.
- Shoebot, a pure Python graphics robot.
- Lettersoup, an effort to come up with an alternative model for type design.
- PledgeBank, a site to help people get things done, especially things that require several people.
- TeX Users Group (TUG) - donating. "The TeX Users Group (TUG) was founded in 1980 to provide an organization for people who are interested in typography and font design, and/or are users of the TeX typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth."
Some other 'Free as in profit' related links posted to Free Software Business mailing list:
- 101 Ways to Make Money off Open Source. Some ideas for making money, though many of them are not freedom loving. Posted by David Kaufman.
- How To Get Paid For Copyleft Art. Some/all can be translated to software. Posted by Dave Crossland.
- Location: Manchester Digital Development Agency
- Start time: 19:00
- Finish time: 20:30
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