<div>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.</div>
<div><br></div>+1 for Aiki<br><div id="WISESTAMP_SIG"><span style="color:black;">
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</span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Robert Martinez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@mray.de">mail@mray.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have *some* experience with drupal.<br>
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).<br>
<br>
I have no information about Aiki and cannot compare it to drupal in terms of features or technical details.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
So all I want to note here is:<br>
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+1 for drupal<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 06/30/2010 07:23 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
When the site gets broken, the error message asks people to email me<br>
about it so I fix it.<br>
<br>
When I do this, I email people back and ask them if they are PHP<br>
developers and would like to help contribute. One of the kind souls<br>
who replied to this is Ron Williams of <a href="http://www.lithicmedia.com" target="_blank">www.lithicmedia.com</a> who is a<br>
PHP website developer who has volunteered on the Drupal core codebase.<br>
<br>
I spoke to him on the phone yesterday for about an hour and a half<br>
about the OFLB and his ideas for a new version based on Drupal. Ron<br>
showed me some of his work, which I like -<br>
<a href="http://www.tmgcustommedia.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tmgcustommedia.com/</a> <a href="http://codyfisher.com/" target="_blank">http://codyfisher.com/</a> - and explained<br>
how he's hoping to contribute to projects with a long term impact, and<br>
he believes web fonts will become increasingly important in the next<br>
few years, so he'd like to join the OFLB effort.<br>
<br>
I took a look at what's coming with Drupal 7.x -<br>
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/774926" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/774926</a> - and the new file_load(), file_save(),<br>
and file_validate() functions and hooks sound ideal for us. The<br>
built-in version control of nodes looks good too, and jQuery UI is<br>
baked in. The "drush" shell program also looks good, allowing us to<br>
script the bulk import of fonts into the site. I'm actually surprised<br>
at how much Drupal has evolved in recent years, I last used it in 2004<br>
and heard earlier this year it still had a bad reputation. I also see<br>
the Software Freedom Law Center is supporting the core team.<br>
<br>
Since Jon Philips has withdrawn from OFLB, we've kinda lost the link<br>
to Aiki, and I'm happy to use Drupal.<br>
<br>
Thoughts? :-)<br>
<br>
<br>
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