[OpenFontLibrary] OFLB 0.5 Goals

[Dave Crossland]

Hi!

Here are the 5 goals I want to meet for 0.5:

1. Alice is a web user who visits
http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/alegreya and sees that the foundry
link points to "http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/www.huertatipografica.com.ar"
which is an obvious 404 error. She looks for a link to report a
problem with that page, finds it easily because it is near the content
with an error, and she clicks it. She is taken to a page that explains
how to report a problem and how long it will typically take.

2. Ellen is a web user in Spain who wants to translate 100% of the
Open Font Library into Spanish. She visits the site and sees a clear
invitation to start contribution translations. She is taken to a
guidebook page that explains the process, and she follows the
instructions. In the 0.6 release 100% of the site is translated into
Spanish thanks to Ellen, and she is clearly credited on the site and
in the Press Release/Announcement information.

3. Bob is a skilled professional PHP+MYSQL web developer who has never
heard of Aiki before. He visits Open Font Library and sees on every
page an invitation to contribute to the next release. He clicks the
invitation and is taken to a page in the guidebook that clearly
explains how to get a copy of the current site's source code running
on his local machine, how to stay in sync with other developers, and
how to contribute his patches so that they ship in the next release.
Where to meet and chat to other developers online is clear. Where bugs
and features requests are tracked is clear. Bob follows the
instructions, and his patch is included in the 0.6 release.

4. Charlie is a type designer in Turkey who wants to contribute
Turkish glyphs to fonts in OFLB that need them. He visits the font
page of his favorite families and finds a character map section that
tells him what language coverage is like for various scripts, and
which characters are missing to bring the font up to 100% coverage of
languages it has begun supporting. He doesn't know what to do next,
but sees an invitation to contribute to the font family. He clicks the
link and is taken to a guidebook page that explains how to find the
designer's contract information on a font family page and how to start
a collaboration effort with a designer.

5. Daniela is a graphic designer who attended a lecture about libre
fonts and has made her first font that she wants to share with the
world. She doesn't know anything about licensing or what is required
to make a public release of a libre font. She visits OFLB and sees an
invitation to upload and share a font. She clicks the invitation and
is taken to a guidebook page that clearly explains the whole process,
how long it will take, what she will need to do to prepare the upload,
and then ends with a clear link taking her to the upload process start
page. She uploads her font. At the end of the upload process she is
taken to a guidebook page that explains how to make updates to her
font.

I've hired Fabricators to develop the Aiki-based OFLB site to make
these stories become true :-)

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Cheers
Dave