india November 2007

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A New Malayalam Free Software Font Project
by Dave Crossland 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hi, I'm a student at The University of Reading, UK, on the Masters degree in Typeface Design - http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/ - and am working on free software fonts. A significant part of the course is developing our typeface into a family with a complex script complement, and full OpenType features. I am considering designing an original Malayalam typeface designed for reading long passages of text on screen, that will be wholly created with and released as free software. I thought I'd drop this mailing list a line to ask if anyone here would like to be involved in my project - giving me feedback and supporting information and perhaps doing some testing for me next year :-) Initially I'm interested in the technical limitations around supporting Indic languages including Malayalam in the most common free rendering systems, both on screen (Pango/freetype) and for printing (Firefox, scribus, TeX, OpenOffice.org) Also, if anyone who has made any Indic fonts with free software is on this list, I hope you'll also get in contact with me :-) -- Regards, Dave

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Re: Finding Indian mirrors for Fedora
by Saurabh Jain (सौरभ जैन) 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi folks My first post on this list. Wanted to add to one of the topics in the archives. IIT Madras has maintained a public mirror of Fedora for a long time. It's not very up-to-date, but it's got ISOs, and usually gives good throughput. ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/fedora/ Mirroring Fedora is very easy, and I think we need to promote the concept of local mirrors in colleges and organisations. I maintain one at home on ftp://home.saurabh.org.in/, and using reposync, it is a piece of cake to schedule a daily cron job to synchronise. Gone are the days when one had to rsync to download.fedora.redhat.com. It would be great if a large Linux mirror is hosted in India at NIXI. Charges are stiff http://nixi.in/fee.php, but donations can be raised. I know people who know people at NIXI, so I should probably take the initiative of going and meeting them once. Another interesting option is to host India-specific ISO torrents, though the efficacy of that is debatable. Happy to see a Fedora India list. Easier to join a list than to get PGP signatures and join the Fedora Project wiki. Cheers! Saurabh -- http://saurabh.org.in

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[Fwd: [FOSS.IN-Speakers] Reminder: Last day for slide submission is November 3rd 23:59 GMT+0530]
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [FOSS.IN-Speakers] Reminder: Last day for slide submission is November 3rd 23:59 GMT+0530 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:07:51 +0530 From: Shreyas Srinivasan <sshreyas(a)gmail.com> To: Speakers2007(a)foss.in Hey, Just a gentle nudge to all you folks out there who haven't submitted their slides yet, please do it at the earliest as it will help us release the final list asap. We do understand inspiration in "Last minute panic" but for once lets get all the slides in before the last hour! Cheers, Shreyas - -- CelAbrate your flaws F O S S . I N / 2 0 0 7 India's Premier FOSS Conference December 4-8, 2007 Bangalore, India http://foss.in -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHKsZzXQZpNTcrCzMRAjAKAJ9UQABHtqo6ZcF2Ns1okLSo0nHDiACgpHKU LVi8earrcEoq18Sw2zXAYis= =1V4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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