XSF Communications Team - 2025-05-02

Benson, great!

That link is broken though. I can see Eurostile Extended Bold in other font search results but couldn't make out what the license was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostile

Looks like this is a series with some history!

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostile/

I found Librestile which is OFL-licenced and it may be close enough? https://github.com/ocelothe/Librestile

SVG versions of each letter here for a quick preview: https://github.com/ocelothe/Librestile/tree/main/sources/LibrestileBoldExtended-Glyphs

Specifically, the "M" comes all the way down the same way it does in the XMPP logo, which is good (a lot of similar looking fonts didn't have that feature; Archivo was another one that did which I found earlier)

https://www.myfonts.com/products/bold-extended-2-63893-eurostile-lt-356389/licenses

By the way, is there a place in the newsletter for "upcoming" news? I'm thinking about how Dino and Kaidan have got NLnet funding to work on certain things

I'm not sure if it'll fit under "server news" because so far that's more for releases/stuff that has actually been done, rather than just plans/stuff that's been funded

Would it make sense to have a section about fundraising where we can highlight projects that have got or are looking for funds? The two NLnet items and Monocles' campaign could go there (and there's also a Prav campaign I could add if such a section existed)

> Would it make sense to have a section about fundraising where we can highlight projects that have got or are looking for funds? The two NLnet items and Monocles' campaign could go there (and there's also a Prav campaign I could add if such a section existed) 👍 ↺

It's a good fit for Software News

This section doesn't need to be about releases necessarily

Hmm okay let me add that then

On a related note, I filled out the description of the Monal release but then realised it's just a beta build (pre-release)

Maybe it should be removed until an actual release comes out?

(Highlighting now since the current newsletter is due to go out on 5th May which is about three days away)

> It's a good fit for Software News I've included the info about Dino's funding in the existing Dino update, and created a new entry to talk about Kaidan ↺

I thought of having a separate "NLnet" bullet point but figured we're more interested in what the clients are doing than where they're getting their funding from

("we" as in newsletter readers; the "we" as in "members of an underfunded organisation" may prioritise it the other way 😉)

> I've included the info about Dino's funding in the existing Dino update, and created a new entry to talk about Kaidan Is this a bug because Dino is saying "badrihippo reacted to" this message. I wouldn't have reacted to my own message ↺

(I did just now in an attempt to un-react; it added a second reaction as "you reacted" which I then removed)

badrihippo: I did react to that message. Maybe a question for the Dino chat

Ah, so it's displaying my name instead of your name. Maybe because it's your reaction to my reply to your message? Anyway, will take this to the Dino chat as you suggested