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+title = "Linebender in October 2024: resvg Adoption"
+authors = ["Daniel McNab"]
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+Linebender is an informal open-source organization working on various projects to advance the state of the art in GUI for [the Rust programming language](https://rust-lang.org).
+
+This month's update is very significant, featuring several crate releases and the adoption of resvg.
+
+## Resvg
+
+We would like to thank [Yevhenii Reizner (RazrFalcon)](https://github.com/RazrFalcon) for all their work on resvg.
+The project is...
+
+The biggest update from this month is that .
+
+### Relicense
+
+We are in the process of relicensing the resvg crate from their current MPL-2.0.
+This allows us to more easily integrate existing Linebender code, and enables greater compatibility.
+This was inspired by a similar move made by wgpu (TODO: Link).
+This process can be followed at [resvg#838][].
+
+### Plans
+
+We have no immediate plans for changes in resvg or tiny skia.
+We are currently serving.
+
+---
+
+<p></p>
+
+Alongside the work on resvg, we have been continuing work on our existing projects.
+
+## Xilem
+
+Xilem is our flagship GUI project, inspired by SwiftUI.
+It lets you build user interfaces declaratively by composing lightweight views together, and will diff them to provide minimal updates to a retained layer.
+
+<figure>
+
+<!-- <img style="height: auto" src="http_cats.png" alt="A list of HTTP status codes, with 'Select' buttons. HTTP code 418 'I'm a teapot' is selected, with a picture of a kitten hiding in a teapot." height="962" width="600"> -->
+
+<figcaption>
+
+<!-- The HTTP cats example. -->
+
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+## Masonry
+
+Masonry is the widget system used by Xilem.
+It provides a non-opinionated retained widget tree, designed as a base layer for high-level GUI frameworks.
+
+<!-- - [xilem#515][]: Removes unimplemented functionality from our text handling code. -->
+
+## Vello
+
+Vello is our GPU vector renderer.
+It can draw large 2D scenes with high performance, using GPU compute shaders for most of the work.
+
+The main update is the release of version 0.3.0...
+
+## Parley
+
+Parley is a text layout library.
+It handles text layout, mostly at the level of line breaking and resolving glyph positions.
+
+Editor things?
+
+## Druid/Piet
+
+We are working towards a final release of Druid.
+
+We are also planning on relicensing Druid from its current license of Apache 2.0 only to the Rust ecosystem standard Apache 2.0 OR MIT dual license.
+This will greatly improve cross-compatibility will the rest of the ecosystem, allowing two-way movement of code between most Linebender projects.
+This will also apply to Xilem, Masonry and the (archived) Glazier.
+
+## Others
+
+- Daniel and Olivier's "office hours" appointments can still be booked by anyone for open-ended discussion of the ecosystem.
+  - [See Daniel's schedule here](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ32eQYJ9DtZ_wJaYNtT36YioETiloZDIdImFpBFRo5-XsqGzpikgkg47LPsiHhpiwiQ1orOwwW2).
+  - [See Olivier's schedule here](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ2t767ZRETD_TkRI_VxK2ZTG0VrO9OZ4l7HvTxefhtJcg85iK0ZN7zWNnAEZtH0Dn7C1GKxrmYM).
+
+<!-- [xilem#515]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/515 -->