Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 from Nathan Willis Press + Open Font Library

The most complete article I’ve seen recounting LGM2009 comes from Nathan Willis’ great reporting.

Here is the motherload of reviews and notes about LGM2009 from the LGM website:

• Alexander Prokoudine (Magic glue between developers):
• LGM 09 aftermath,
• Cédric Gémy (Création Libre):
• lgm-j1,
• lgm-j2,
• lgm-j3
• Jon Phillips (Rejon):
• Creating in the Cloud Presentation at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 and the related presentation,
• More Reviews and The Ultra Wide Views Exhibition at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
• Open Source Publishing:
• Reportage : day 2,
• lgm top nine,
• New work on Fonts at W3C,
• interview at the airport,
• Nathan Willis:
• Libre Graphics Meeting 2009: Visions of the Future,
• Open fonts at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
• Yuval Levy:
• LGM Day 1,
• LGM Day 2,
• LGM Day 3, Day 4, Follow Up,
• Exhibition Video,
• LGM 2009: Conclusions

One of the gems Nathan Willis also covered in a separate article, “Open Fonts at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009,” is the LGM2009 discussion around the Open Font Library, the larger Open Font movement, and what is surely to be quite important, web font linking. The basics are that up until this point, fonts on the Internet have been limited to literally 4-6 generic fonts. With the upcoming release of Firefox 3.5, this will change as fonts can be linked like many resources, downloaded and rendered.

Nathan’s article I’m not doing justice right now, so please go read up on his report about the importance of Open Fonts, and the upcoming relaunch of the Open Font Library in sync with the release of Firefox 3.5.