Saluton!

The Modular Font Editor K Foundation Inc., № 0450797197, d/b/a the MFEK Foundation, is a New Jersey non-profit headquartered in Atlantic City.

Its current chairman is Fredrick R. Brennan <copypaste@kittens.ph>.

Among its assets are the domain mfek.org.

The Foundation plans to spend $100,000 in 2022 on fonts-related software. Please check back for grant announcements—this website is under construction.

All Foundation-sponsored software is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Foundation-sponsored fonts are dual-licensed Apache 2.0 and SIL Open Font License.

Grants

Below are all grants the foundation has given out in the service of free software. If you have an idea you want funded send proposals to Fred. Proposals may not be accepted; proposals having nothing to do with libre fonts software will be ignored.

In the below list, a grant is considered reassigned if it originally had one author but was not completed. A grant is considered revoked if the Foundation's chairman (Fred) does the work himself.

To refer to one of our grants use the style «MFEK Foundation Grant № X, Series of YYYY». Grant numbers are immutable.

If a grant's index is preceded by modifier letter small b, U+1D47 ‹ᵇ›, it means that the grant was awarded via bounty, not traditional bid/counterbid negotiation.

Series of 2021 (pre-Foundation)

  1. MFEKstroke (completed)
    Awardee: Matthew Blanchard

Series of 2022

  1. CUDA Vanity Monero Address Generator (completed)
    Awardee: Sergey Chernykh (Сергей Черных) / @sech1 (Libera IRC)
  2. MFEK Serif Font (in progress)
    Awardee: Indestructible Type
  3. macOS Code Signing (at least for MFEKglif) (in progress)
    Awardee: Seth / @Subject38 (GitHub)
  4. libspiro port (in progress)
    Awardee: Seth / @Subject38 (GitHub)
  5. Bézier Simplification for MFEKpathops (failed—pending reassignment or revocation)
  6. SILE Variable Fonts Support (in progress; check link for details & discussion)
  7. Visual TrueType Rewrite (open for bids)
  8. SILE OpenType FeatureVariations Support (in progress; check link for details & discussion)

GnuPG keys

So far there is only one GnuPG key in use, for signing certain grants and bounty proposals—

Grants department

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