Re: [sinhala-technical] Typography Meetup CMB

[Pathum E. <pa...@mo...>]

Hi!

Thanks Harshula! I would like to post some details of this effort.

  The event was a huge success! We had 54 registrations (all privately
invited, this email was the only public invite) and 35 turned up. A well
balanced turn up with a good balance of   gender, interest and background.
We had designers, typographers, lettering artists, web devs, a few Sinhala
bloggers as well!

There will be a detailed write-up of the event soon.

We had 4 presentations.
- Pushapanda Ekanayake presented his upcoming fonts.

- Thareeq Azeez presented the Tamil fonts commissioned by Google Fonts
proejct.

- Dr Sumanthri Samarawickrama did a roundup of her PhD in Sinhala
typography and the process

- Kosala Senevitathne presented on Typography of Sinhala Numerals. Covering
design challenges of adding Sinhala Numerals to fonts.

NEXT

Idea is to setup a sustainable community platform for all things type,
fonts and language and Lang tech related. We need more involvement from the
technology side. Let's see. We have a group of 8 people in the core team
helping orgnising.

Priamary proejct in hand is this meeting and sustaining the meeting. We
setup a rotating hosting system for the event. This event was funded and
organised by Mooniak. Next event is hosted by Sumanthri. We already have
another team for the June event! For the expenses we will find free or
cheaper locations to host. And collect like LKR 100 for tea and
refreshments at the event. And we already have a few people who expressed
interest in bigger contributions.

TASKS
Cureently this effort is in early stages. However if you are interested we
can identify some of the key technical tasks.

Packaging Sinhala fonts for Debian
- We have a bunch of lcense compatible open fonts from Mooniak that can be
packaged. I discussed this with Danishka a while ago. If someone from the
community can please help us setup a system for us to do this.

- ASCCI to Unicode document conversion
We need a tool that can directly convert old FM Abhay or other ASCII like
encoded documents (doc, xlx, docx, odf) to Unicode.

If you are interested get in touch.

Will keep you posted about this.

Cheers,
Pathum



On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, 15:40 Harshula, <har...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Pathum,
>
> That's great! I'm unable to attend, however, it would be great to hear a
> summary of what was discussed and any tasks that need to be completed.
>
> cya,
> #
>
> On 03/04/18 21:07, Pathum Egodawatta wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If you are in Colombo this week, we are organising a small meetup for
> > type, typography and font enthusiasts. Please register and join us.
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *Typography Meet CMB #001
> > *
> > *Sat 7, April 2018 | 5–8 PM
> > @ RCU Skills Centre, Rajakeeya Mawatha, Colombo
> > *
> > *Sinhala / English
> > *
> > *
> > More info and free registration:
> > *
> > *events.typography.lk <https://pretix.eu/akuru/typography-meetup/>*
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pathum
> >
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