[Openfontlibrary] fonts

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:02 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > On 9/19/05, Nicu Buculei <nicu at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> > 
> >>Open Font Library Project has now available a solid infrastructure:
> >>mailing list, wiki, but it lack the most important ingredient: fonts.
> >>Is true we have so far just only one font (Benji's Tribal -
> >>http://ocal.bensuz.com/wp-content/TribalBenji_pfb_ttf_svg_final.zip) but
> >>I think we must put it on the page.
> >>Being just only one font, this may look a silly question, but how we
> >>store fonts? In a CVS module? As attachments to the wiki? Copied with
> >>scp to the fd.o server?
> > 
> > We want to make it look just like openclipart.org. The infrastructure
> > just isn't there yet. We are working on it. If you feel motivated to
> > help with setup, please do ;-)
> 
> Sure, in the end we will use the OCAL DMS, but this will take quite some 
> time. Until then we have an empty library and an unused font, I think it 
> make sense to put the font in the library, this way the library is not 
> empty anymore and the font is published somewhere.
> 
> And for the part with "If you feel motivated to help with setup", why do 
> you think I asked for access rights? ;-)

Cool, I will file the request with fd.o.

I don't think this project will scale up for awhile, so I propose that
we simply turn on the basic upload script for people to submit fonts
like the one I first installed on OCAL (and that we use somewhat
still...although it is a hybrid beast now).

However, the real approach is to get DMS done and use that as the core
for the Open Font Library.

In the meantime, collecting resources, finding fonts, and thinking about
procedures will be good as a background process.

Jon

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