Chris Lilley writes: "W3C is collecting ideas for work related to downloadable fonts on the Web. This email summarizes the current situation, and asks for feedback on a draft charter for a future W3C Font working group or interest group. Please send feedback on the charter to the publicly archived …
Even when you are done, you are not done
A conversation with Chris Lilley
Almost a year ago at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008, OSP sat down with Chris Lilley on a small patch of grass in front of the Technical University in Wroclaw, Poland. Warmed up by the early May sun, we talked about the way standards are …
Jeffrey Zeldman on Open Source and the web
Under the ambitious title 'Jeffrey Zeldman Discusses the Future of Open Source' (filed under: 'The Internet'), the CSS guru compares the use of Open Source Content Management Systems to what webstandards did for the web. Looking forward to hear more... and will he mention SVG?
Excerpt from a longer interview …
parallel publishing II
the workshop's first publication is ready. every participant has created a fictional petites annonces for it. some pictures of making, collating and distributing.
we're also on irc at #crying_room on irc.freenode.org :)
parallel publishing I
Tales of Interrogated Type (Parallel Publishing)
OSP is preparing for a long drive: Pierre, Yi, Ivan and Femke leave Brussels Tuesday morning to be later joined by another Pierre (our special guest), Harrisson and Ludivine (now in Paris producing a tape/vinyl version of their worldmap for Cinéma du Réel), in Bordeaux. There …
Edit: Norms, formats and supports
5 to 7 March, Bordeaux
We're preparing a journey to Bordeaux, France where OSP will contribute to the conference Edit: Norms, formats and supports with a workshop and a lecture.
From the conference description:"Signs and pictograms which organize the flow of movement in cities and towns according to graphic …
Accessibility
(a postcard from Vienna)
Wishing you (OpenOffice, Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Debian, Scribus, Creative Commons, One Laptop per Child, Open Clip Art, DejaVu project, Open Font Library or any other F/LOSS or Open Content project) were here, at the European Ministerial e-Inclusion Conference ...
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Interesting questions
Ever considered applying as researcher for the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL)?
Extrastatecraft, a project led by Keller Easterling asks interesting questions about the relation between protocol and practice. The JvE offers great facilities (including financial support) for extra-academic research and with the appointment of Florian Schneider as …
DIN 4
Pandora's Standardised Box
Kommando OSP Pierre and Harrisson spent a few days this February in Berlin to explore the DIN project further.
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=10
The starting point was that we wanted to design an open format DIN font, based on the …
