Disclosure of interest

Hello all,

 In my W3C registration form I declared that I had no significant 
employment interest. This is true, but I just wanted to clarify it for 
the sake of full disclosure and for the avoidance of potential 
appearance of conflicts of interest.

 I'm currently working as a self-employed font engineer and consultant, 
operating under the name of Corvel Software. For the next sixteen 
months, Corvel's primary client is Google Fonts, for whom I am working 
on a couple of font projects, as well as developing tooling 
infrastructure and documentation. One of those documentation projects 
will be a review of the OpenType features registry; this will be funded 
through the Google contract.

 Separately to the above, I am working on a documentation project called 
CommonType, which aims to provide clear and up-to-date documentation of 
the font format itself. I am also participating in the discussions of 
this group and other related groups.[*] In both of these areas, I am 
contributing in my personal capacity as an open source developer; these 
are not projects funded by Google, and I have made it clear to Google 
that any discussions of specifications or formats is my work done on my 
own time, not theirs.

 I think it is only proper to disclose the significant interest from 
Google, even though my contributions here are independent from Google. 
If you ever suspect that a contribution I make may be unduly influenced 
by this interest, please do question this. I will not be offended.

Thanks,
Simon

[*] UFO font format round-table, ISO MPEG OFF AHG.

Received on Monday, 31 August 2020 09:43:57 UTC