> Dear Debian Font Task Force, > > I'd like to draw your attention to > http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279 > and hope that you can, please, give some assistance in > getting further free fonts into Debian [Edu] that are valuable for educative > usage (schools using Skolelinux e.g.). > > There are many comments on this RFP bug, and probably I should file a similar > report to bugs.debian.org. For now (being short of time), I leave it with a > short summary here: > > Debian using schools need educative fonts. I'm in contact with a free font > designer who commited a lot of work to a free version of different > handwriting/script fonts - including German "Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift" > which is used in most primary schools here. Those fonts are under free > license, and to be released soon; for Debian Edu/Skolelinux, having these > fonts in Debian, is a preposition for deploying these fonts with the upcoming, > edge based version of Skolelinux. Thanks a lot for your very useful advocacy efforts around open fonts for education! I would like to help you (as time permits) to get these fonts packaged and maintained for the benefit of the Skolelinux / Debian-edu users (and the rest of the Debian family too). Please let me know when a release is available. > Thank you for any assistance, > Regards > Ralf, teaching FOSS activist > > P.S.: Of course, we could provide Fontforge's source format - I might even > have an SVN account on Alioth - but it would take some time until I'd achieve > commitments there. Yes, the more extended font sources you can provide the better. > P.S.: Also check for http://wiki.skolelinux.de/FreieSchriftarten You may want to add the following cursive fonts to this page: http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-ecolier-court http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-ecolier-lignes-court http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-rufscript Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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