{"id":486,"date":"2008-05-10T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=486"},"modified":"2009-11-16T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:01:10","slug":"a-postcard-from-lgm-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/news\/a-postcard-from-lgm-2008","title":{"rendered":"A postcard from LGM 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/?level=picture&#038;id=666\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/plog-content\/thumbs\/snapshots\/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw\/large\/666-a-dsc02271.JPG\" alt=\"yi\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/?level=picture&#038;id=679\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/plog-content\/thumbs\/snapshots\/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw\/large\/679-p5080070.JPG\" alt=\"talk\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/?level=picture&#038;id=689\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/plog-content\/thumbs\/snapshots\/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw\/large\/689-p1050928.JPG\" alt=\"dave\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The end of our participation in the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 is in sight&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days we have seen many intriguing, surprising and interesting talks; we discovered new tools, rediscovered &#8216;old&#8217; ones and made connections with developers, users and standards-officials &#8212; LGM has been again an inspiring adventure.<\/p>\n<p>We interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/understandinglimited.com\">Dave Crossland<\/a> about the history of font editing software, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.sus.mcgill.ca\/~moyogo\/\">Denis Jacquerye<\/a> about internationalized typography, <a href=\"http:\/\/people.xiph.org\/~giles\/\">Ralph Giles<\/a> about the story of Nimbus and Courrier, Michael Terry about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingimp.org\/\">Ingimp<\/a> and usability development in Open Source and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/People\/chris\/\">Chris Lilley<\/a> about W3C standardizing processes and the way it facilitates (or not) interaction between developers and designers. All this we will make available at some point on this weblog.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.le-radar.com\/\">Cedric G\u00e9my<\/a> has initiated a Free Software user group for graphic design professionals (most certainly needs a better name), we started packaging our first open font for distribution via the <a href=\"http:\/\/openfontlibrary.org\/\">Open Font Library<\/a> and thought of dozens of new projects to work on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/?level=album&#038;id=19\">http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/image\/?level=album&#038;id=19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will take us days, weeks, months to process all this material so please be patient \ud83d\ude42 In the mean time, a big thank you to everyone and enjoy the growing collection of images as we upload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of our participation in the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 is in sight&#8230; Over the last few days we have seen many intriguing, surprising and interesting talks; we discovered new tools, rediscovered &#8216;old&#8217; ones and made connections with developers, users and standards-officials &#8212; LGM has been again an inspiring adventure. We interviewed Dave Crossland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,1,38],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}