In the summer of 1997, the NLNet Foundation sold its commercialized internet provision activities to UUNET (the internet subsidiary of WorldCom). This created a fund from which the foundation now supports activities that provide network technology to the community and keep outcomes in the "public domain". NLnet has picked Identity …
FOSDEM 2008
This weekend the annual meeting of Free and Open Source Developers (FOSDEM) takes place in Brussels. As usual, the ULB fills up with developers from all over Europe, discussing large scale projects such as Gnome desktop, Mozilla, Xorg and PHP. Unfortunately none of the talks addressed our usual working tools …UniConvertor!
A late announcement for an ultra useful tool: Igor Novikov and Valek Philippov have released UniConvertor, a universal vector graphics translator. It uses the sK1 engine to convert one format into another.
With UniConvertor you can now convert files from: CorelDRAW ver.7-X3 (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX), Adobe Illustrator …
Open Printing Summit
The Linux Foundation OpenPrinting work group, organises a get-together 24-27 September in Montreal.
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontrealAs stated on their site, the printing activities of the Linux Foundation revolve around a few focal points:
- For printer manufacturers, we want to make it easier to produce drivers …
DIN - Das Ist Norm - III
Schablonenschrift A - Din1451 - August 1949
Inkscape drawing.
Le grec, c'est du chinois
Conversation avec Pierre-Luc Auclair (Déjàvu) et Nicolas Spalinger (OFL)
SIL_deja_vu.mp3 (27 mn - 25 Mb)Extrait d'une conversation avec Pierre Luc Auclair, graphiste et collaborateur dans le projet de police Déjà vu, et Nicolas Spalinger, bénévole de la SIL, équipe fontes libres Debian et Ubuntu, OFLB.
En français dans le …The double aspect of code
"Neurath's pictograms owe much to the Modernist belief that reality may be modified by being codified – standardised, easy-to-grasp templates as a revolution in human affairs. But the templates themselves, or the code, may end up in their turn aestheticised, reified, in need of a further round of de-cryption, a paradigm …
Further Liberation.
If we check the font infos of Liberation font, on Fontforge, for example, here is what we find:
Copyright Ascender Corp...
and a trademark: "Liberation is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and certain other jurisdictions.". In the license text of the …DIN - Das Ist Norm - II
"FE-Schrift or fälschungserschwerende Schrift (falsification-hindering script) has been the only typeface used on new vehicle registration plates in Germany since November, 2000. It was designed for the German government in the late 1970s in the light of Red Army Fraction terrorist activities, when it was discovered that with the then …
Who's Afraid of Adobe? - Not me, says the Mozilla foundation.
As we already mentioned in this blog, Adobe owns many of the (proprietary) tools used by designers nowadays: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and after having acquired Macromedia, it also owns Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, etc. Monopoly rhymes with monoculture.
However, Adobe has not always been the enemy of free formats. A recent …