[OpenFontLibrary] Open Font Library v3: Drupal?

[Liam R E Quin]

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 19:53 +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:

> I wonder if it's possible to go a little bit further and write the OFLB 
> software from scratch, given that almost all of the functionality needs to be 
> written anyway.

It would be possible, but the right question is, what resources do we
have available, what people with what skills, and how do we choose an
infrastructure that's likely to continue to be easy to find new people
to support.

Drupal or Wordpress (they don't have to look like blogs) are widely used
enough I think it's a good choice.

It's clear OLFB has not attracted a large community of programmers, and,
given the content, perhaps won't.

What's needed is something functional, internationalizable, accessible,
and reasonably secure and spam-proofed.

Better to have fewer features and everything heavily tested and working
well than lots of incomplete features - Dave is a visionary, which is
great, but the vision is larger than the reality right now :-) and I
actually hope that continues - we need visionaries, and people who don't
think of things that are not already there are no visionaries - but in
addition to Alexander the Great laying out the broad visoin for the city

Liam

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