Comment 5 for bug 610934

That may even make sense. I just wanted to try to point out that the »most talented members of the community to make key decisions« might exist outside of the echo chamber that is the inner circle because they are not comfortable with being part of a cabbal, even if they wholeheartedly agree with the community ideals themselves and want to see Ubuntu succeed.

But of course you’re understandably wary of letting the masses have a say in the actual font design itself. That cannot possibly work.

Only, after the design is finished and you have released the final version, I’m sure that the community at large might be able to improve it further. There are some talented people doing this already. DejaVu was enhanced a lot after the Vera family was donated by Bitstream. Mostly in terms of international script support. The same happened with Computer Modern, designed by Don Knuth, that some Polish group brought up to date and expanded greatly in the Latin Modern project. Unicode is constantly getting additions. I’m sure there will be talented people in the community that could add new glyphs in Unicode to the font, or even add entire scripts not covered yet, by taking the established design and following it. High Unicode coverage is essential in a system font. Let the community help you.

You should consider putting the font sources into Launchpad and form a project around it once Dalton Maag has released all the deliverables. Maybe after the first Ubuntu release that includes the final font.