Details on Campaign, about Binayak Sen

http://www.binayaksen.net/posters/ for poster in orginal size

Designed using Inkscape and GIMP.

Basic Concept : K P Sasi

Thanks : Anivar, Satya

The Window to Freedom event conducted by FSUGTSR, become a grand success. I was there, as a speaker to provide an introduction to free software ethics. More details at here, here, here and here.

2. A Trip to Vagamon. We Rocked.

vagamon

3. Free Software, Free Society

Fsfs.in2008

4. Marathon Poster Designing. 30 posters in 10 hours

That was the best part for FSFS from my side. I was there at SPACE office a day before and in 10 hours I designed nearly 30 posters for the need of poster exhibition. Some posters were about the free software replacements of commonly used software and some were based on FCI’s If You Are Page. They are released here under CC BY-SA license. They are available here.

and 5. Laptop battery is dead. Lap now works on AC only

A one day event containing a collection of talks, pretty suited for beginner to intermediate level of free software users – Window to Freedom, conducted by FSUGTSR. On 4th of December 2008 at Sahithya Academy Hall, Thrissur. Details Here and here

When The program was planned, some one put the poster designing to my head. And it result to this. The idea is similar to the one I had designed for Banglore SFD 2008 Designed using Inkscape. Perizia is the font.

Note : One heavy designing is going on

Why Black?

Black is beautiful. My slide rarely contains sentences, instead it contains  collection of words or phrases. For those cases, attention is the best thing required, and the black white contrast is able to make it. And, when background is black – it won’t matter what the screen/wall colour is

Download [Zip contains template, images in png, svg format along with license]

I would have loved to release the coin under the GPL, which could maybe solve the financial crisis. However for obvious reasons I was not allowed to do that.

Hats off to the wonderful designer!!

Partial Screen Shot of gnu.org with rufscript as font, in firefox. For more screen shots see here.

Making a font from others handwriting is more to experiment than fun. And what it made so thrill is that, all the glyphs for making of the font are captured from her note book, without her knowledge. My K750 worked as the capturing machine. The font is licensed under GNU GPL version 3 + Font Exception.

Here is the font as ttf and here is its source sfd.

The font is compiled and designed in the latest stable version of fontforge, (20080927, available as tarball at sourceforge).I remember Steve of freefont saying that the sfd created by new version fontforge is  unreadable to its older versions.

Specifications :

Font Name – Rufscript
Emsize – 2048
Acent : Decent value – 1639 : 409
Contains – Unicode Rage Basic Latin [95/95]
Tools used – Fontforge, Inkscape, GIMP, gedit

Thanks list :

• Lithu, whose handwriting is now turned into this font, for writing notes in class hours.
• Hussain K H and Suresh P, who made me a font designer.
• Classmates specially Kiran, Sheen, Lalu and Chinnu who were so eager to see the font completed.
• To friends in FOSS, specially anivar, who used the alpha version rufscript to design his blog.
• IRC channels mates at  #smc-project, #fedora-art, ##fonts (all in freenode).
• Niyam, Rahul Bhalerao who loved this work and suggested many modifications.
• To Sony Ericsson for providing a wonderful mobile camera and DELL for the laptop I am using.

Wanna your handwriting to decorate your computer – for very hadwritting font contact me!

PS : I love to make the deb / rpm package of it, should I or will someone?