[OpenFontLibrary] OFLB 0.5 Goals

[Jon Phillips]

Dreams can come true! Thanks Dave for continuing to work with us. And,
look forward to the momentum continuing this month.

Jon

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave



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