Random thoughts and serendipity

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Archive for March 13th, 2007

Moving towards an Open Audit voting system for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors elections

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During the last meeting of the Membership Committee, we had Ben Adida talking about using cryptographic methods for the elections. Mind you, the current method of holding the elections sure needs an overhaul and as proposed in the minutes, Ben has written out his proposal to the Foundation List. He’s also put up a wiki. So make sure that you put in your feedback. The next stage of course is the implementation of the theory.

Written by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

March 13th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

The woes of using custom fonts

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আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা uses its own fonts with custom look up tables and even with Padma this is what one ends up with. Sad.

Written by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

March 13th, 2007 at 10:55 am