During our current Scribus renderframe experiments day, Ivan shows us a customised Wordpress template with a gorgeous index page in Unicode for the Circular Facts website.
Articles by OSP
The first months of 2011
What the first half of the new OSP-year looks like from here:
January
Start with a bang: Monday January 3 all OSPs gather for a Scribus experiment. You'll hear more about once we get there! Antoine from l'École Estienne, Paris joins us for an internship of three months. We have …Use Cases and Affordances
Enjoying the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine First Flight too? In the mean time, the editorial team started working on a brand new one! The theme for the upcoming magazine is Use Cases and Affordances:
Our software tools, in their affordances and potential use cases, define for us, to …
Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine
Imagine ((This Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine describes the sophisticated new text-engine that the Scribus team is preparing us at this very moment)) a paragraph in Scribus. The first word consists of three vowels and a consonant. The Scribus text-engine receives this cluster of characters as a first …
Scribus Re-loaded
Fresh news from Paris:
Since a few months the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie supports the Scribus team. The goal is to make the program ready for new developers and users from Asia and Africa and this is *very* good news for the rest of us too!
The project goes …
We are not here to be correct
Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente from Manufactura Independente have made PropCourier Sans, the display and identity font for Libre Graphics Magazine ... a super derivative of our own NotCourierSans ("We are not here to be polite")!
Download hopefully available *soon* :-)Via: http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html
Infiltrating culture in a positive way
The opening talk therefore sounds like a manifest, asking to valorize Free Software, in order to "infiltrate culture in a positive way". Pierre Marchand, member of the OSP collective, presenting a collaborative ornamental font, supports this proposal totally: "In our domain, the freedom of software is the single tool to …
la bouche de la reine
Courtesy: Inkscape parallel-stroke hatching
Fund Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1!
We're very excited about the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine coming up soon. A place for discussion on the use and development of Libre Graphics seems more relevant than ever. With ginger coons, Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente on the editorial team, support from the Mardigrafe printing house and …
Open Sauces
Just out: The fOam Open Sauces book + insert!
The book contains essays, recipes and images documenting Open Sauces:
"a sequence of experimental courses, matched with drinks, improvised music and esteemed guests. While savouring the foods, the guests will be engaged in table conversations, sharing experiences, recipes and ingredients needed to …