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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):

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.

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 * [http://www.pledgebank.com/ PledgeBank], a site to help people get things done, especially things that require several people.
 * [http://www.tug.org/donate.html 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 [http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ Donald Knuth]."
+Some other 'Free as in profit' related links posted to [http://www.crynwr.com/fsb/ Free Software Business mailing list]:
+* [http://www.manageability.org/blog/archive/20030611%23101_ways_to_make_money1 101 Ways to Make Money off Open Source]. Some ideas for making money, though many of them are not freedom loving. Posted by [http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?msp:11943 David Kaufman].
+* [http://www.robmyers.org/wiki/index.php/How_To_Get_Paid_For_Copyleft_Art How To Get Paid For Copyleft Art]. Some/all can be translated to software. Posted by [http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?mss:11943 Dave Crossland].