Group: Manchester/2008-09-16

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.

• Location: Manchester Digital Development Agency
• Start time: 19:00
• Finish time: 20:30

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