[OpenFontLibrary] Open Font Library v3: Drupal?

[Jon Phillips]

I am just adding a vote of confidence here. Aiki conversion of
openclipart created all the scripts and techniques for converting a
ccHost based site to Aiki, like OCAL. Bassel and others from OCAL can
help with that, make it solid.

I will make sure that an Aiki conversion happens, if that is selected
as the driection, since I'm focusing on AikiFramework.org now.

I think that swapping everything out for yet-another-cms like drupal
would be a waste of time, when there are devs who would help, and
pieces already ready for the conversion. We only stopped working on
this when it appeared that the ccHost site was 90% complete pre-LGM.

Let us know. Let's get it done for realidad.

Jon

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Christopher Adams <chris at raysend.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> - -
> christopher adams
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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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