[OpenFontLibrary] Open Font Library v3: Drupal?

[Robert Martinez]

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 Since Jon Philips has withdrawn from OFLB, we've kinda lost the link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? :-)
>
>