Re: Conference call agenda for Wed. April 10th

Hello Vlad and WebFonts WG,

Here are some preliminary results that we could begin reviewing together in
today's meeting.  For the open source collection of fonts that are being
served via Google Fonts, we are seeing a 26% compression improvement over
gzip (on average).

*WOFF 2.0 Compression w/ Google Fonts*
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvcH1ZzSrGMGdGl6MGRhdVRzYjN3T1NZSTBLM0ZUMnc#gid=0

The compression improvements vary quite a bit by font.  For example, for
smaller latin fonts such as Pacifico the improvement less (at 12%).  While
for larger fonts such as the Korean Nanum Brush Script font, the
improvement is larger (at 52%).

Without a doubt, we have a lot more to do on our end to aid in the
evaluation -- refining the tools further, gathering data over additional
font collections, understanding and quantifying the improvements better,
etc.

Thank you,
David


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com> wrote:

>  Hello WebFonts WG,****
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> I am really pleased to say that after a long period of inactivity we will
> have our first conference call of 2013 tomorrow, Wednesday April 10th at
> our regularly scheduled slot:****
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> US West Coast - 13:00****
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> US East Coast - 16:00****
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> Central Europe - 22:00****
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> Japan - 05:00 (next day)****
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> Zakim telephone bridge:****
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> +1.617.761.6200 (Boston)****
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> or****
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> From your SIP phone: zakim@voip.w3.org****
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> with conference code 3668 ("FONT") followed by ‘#’ sign.****
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> (Instructions on how to connect using SIP: ****
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>      http://www.w3.org/2006/tools/wiki/Zakim-SIP)****
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> IRC channel is #webfonts, irc://irc.w3.org:6665/webfonts****
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> or http://irc.w3.org/?channels=webfonts****
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> We now know that  what may have seemed like a period of inactivity was in
> fact the time when a lot of things happened and a lot of progress has been
> made. Thanks to the efforts of our fellow Google members we now have an
> updated reference code, a completely new Java LZMA implementation and a set
> of new features being developed and implemented into Google Chrome. This is
> really impressive accomplishment and I would like once again to thank
> David, Raph and all of their colleagues who have been involved in making
> this happen. The only Item I would like to propose for tomorrow’s telcon
> agenda is to discuss the preliminary results on the evaluation tools and to
> outline the next steps. Please feel free to bring up any other issues you
> would like to discuss.****
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> Looking forward to hearing from you all tomorrow,****
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> Vladimir****
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