[OpenFontLibrary] Open Font Library v3: Drupal?

[Christopher Adams]

The evident success of the Open Clipart Library would speak well to the
prospect of deploying OFLB the same way. I know that more sites are coming
online using aikiframework. The system has good momentum and the developers
are hungry for more projects.

+1 for Aiki

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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de> wrote:

> I have *some* experience with drupal.
> I strongly believe that OFLB can benefit from it since drupal really has
> its focus on communitites and is pretty mature and established (already in
> V6 imho).
>
> I have no information about Aiki and cannot compare it to drupal in terms
> of features or technical details.
> But there is one thing that in my eyes makes a huge diffrerence; by using
> drupal we offer lots of other people to easiliy participate in a familiar
> system.
>
> So all I want to note here is:
>
> +1 for drupal
>
>
>
> On 06/30/2010 07:23 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When the site gets broken, the error message asks people to email me
>> about it so I fix it.
>>
>> When I do this, I email people back and ask them if they are PHP
>> developers and would like to help contribute. One of the kind souls
>> who replied to this is Ron Williams of www.lithicmedia.com who is a
>> PHP website developer who has volunteered on the Drupal core codebase.
>>
>> I spoke to him on the phone yesterday for about an hour and a half
>> about the OFLB and his ideas for a new version based on Drupal. Ron
>> showed me some of his work, which I like -
>> http://www.tmgcustommedia.com/ http://codyfisher.com/ - and explained
>> how he's hoping to contribute to projects with a long term impact, and
>> he believes web fonts will become increasingly important in the next
>> few years, so he'd like to join the OFLB effort.
>>
>> I took a look at what's coming with Drupal 7.x -
>> http://drupal.org/node/774926 - and the new file_load(), file_save(),
>> and file_validate() functions and hooks sound ideal for us. The
>> built-in version control of nodes looks good too, and jQuery UI is
>> baked in. The "drush" shell program also looks good, allowing us to
>> script the bulk import of fonts into the site. I'm actually surprised
>> at how much Drupal has evolved in recent years, I last used it in 2004
>> and heard earlier this year it still had a bad reputation. I also see
>> the Software Freedom Law Center is supporting the core team.
>>
>> Since Jon Philips has withdrawn from OFLB, we've kinda lost the link
>> to Aiki, and I'm happy to use Drupal.
>>
>> Thoughts? :-)
>>
>>
>>
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