Funding for open/libre font creation

[प्रविण सातपुते]

On 14 March 2010 16:19, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One of the recurrent questions about open/libre font creation is where
> to get some funding. For people not aware of it:
>
> 1. The Mozilla Fundation has indicated in the past it is ready to
> sponsor initiatives to improve open/libre fonts (and indeed the OFLB has
> benefited from some funds).
>
> 2. The Internet Society has a grants program that includes this year «
> Enabling Access for Under-served Communities (including people that use
> non-Latin language scripts) », up to 10 000 $ per project
>
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/mission/initiative/access.shtml
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/projects/
>
> Both of them are primarily interested in fonts as an access enabler. So
> as I read it they are unlikely to sponsor the creation of new fonts from
> scratch (because they are unlikely to get the level of distribution that
> would have an effect on access). However, a proposal to extend of fix
> non-latin support in one of the existing and widely-used open/libre
> fonts, is likely to meet the funding requirements.
>
>
This really a good news,
but there is really need funding for creating new font as Unicode is adding
new script and we need some open source fonts for it, i was thinking to meet
here (India/Pune) some Art. Institute for glyphs designing, or may be for
creating new style for some existing scripts.
having some budget for it will really help in motivating/improving
contribution.

Thanks,
Pravin S
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