Open Font Library Logo Competition Launched

Updated February 28, 2007 @ 10:24 pm

OMG, I forgot to blog that we launched the Open Font Library Logo Competition yesterday. Blog it! Digg it! See the announcement below:

The Open Font Library (OFL.o, www.openfontlibrary.org) is proud to
announce the commencement of the Open Font Library Logo competition
today, February 26, 2007. Artists and designers of all ranges are
invited to make a logo to help identify the project. Judging will take
place by contributors to the project, Alex Roberts (bovinity),
Liftarn, and Zeimusu, who will select the winning logo. The last
chance to submit submissions is March 14, 2007 at 11:59 PM PST. After
that, the judges will select a logo within five days from the
submission closing date.

Other guidelines on the contest include that all submissions must be
dedicated to the public domain in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
format which may be edited in all major drawing application, like the
free SVG editor Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). Also, contributors may
upload as many submissions as they would like and optionally submit
bitmap graphics showing how their logo might look on the site. The
project is not wed to the current green color on the site, so please
feel free to think of how the site should be colored around your
submission.

The Open Font Library encourages all participants to join the Open
Font Library mailing list to discuss this competition and to
participate in the project. Also, for the time being, discussion about
this project is happening on channel #openclipart on irc.freenode.net
for any interested parties. While this competition is about creating a
great logo, the project hopes to interest hopeful font designers and
software developers in building up this project.

Join Mailing List

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary

About Open Font Library

The Open Font Library’s (www.openfontlibrary.org) major goal is to
create an archive of freely usable fonts for anyone to download. If
this sounds familiar, its because it is newborn sister project to the
Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org). While the OFL.o’s site is
fresh, with few fonts, the goal is to build it up so that it can be
useful to the free and open source communities (and world).

For More Information:

Please see http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/OFLBLogo for details
about this contest. It closes March 14 at 11:59 PM PST.

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links for 2007-03-01

Updated February 28, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
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Backup Setup Advice + I Need Another Computer

Updated February 28, 2007 @ 6:59 pm

In my continuing series of lazyweb posts, I’m seeking the best and easiest backup option for my house. What I want to do and what I should do is probably two different things.

So, I’ve got my home setup on a big APS power backup, purchased a couple of 200 GB ide hard drives, and need one final component, a cheap computer with lots of storage bays. My goal is to slap these hard drives (and more in the future) into a new-old box, and start running Dirvish to backup my main desktop (workbox), my main laptop (lifebook), and my gf’s G5 (deerbox).

Is this is sane approach? Also, where is the best place to get a cheap computer. I really don’t want to have to buy one at all, and thought I would just come across some cheap/free computer over the last couple of months, but am afraid of going into Frys and other tech stores (to be honest).

(BTW: I backup my computers by syncing the home folders between them, so that they have the same good stuff. Also, I have a portable drive I’ve been backup up my home folders up to, but have been bad in not doing a full system backup…)

The other approach I’m considering is to just to do encrypted backups to my webhost, Dreamhost. I have 200Gb of storage on there, sooooo, why not just store it there past the inital burst of the first rsync ;)

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