[OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

[Jon Phillips]

Dudes, we are relaunching OCAL 2.0 monday PST, and we are getting huge
traffic and making great strides. Aiki is awesome, and we could easily port
current awesome design, and ccHost, since we know how to do it, and get the
same response IMO.

My company has been doing the work, Fabricatorz.com, with Bassel running the
whole thing.

So, IMO, cchost is over and done, long live aiki.

At this point its about doing the work, and we are in a configuration to do
this, access ready, and system in place.

Soooo, the best thing we could get to make this real is support, filing
bugs, and compensation for ronaldo and bassel's time, if we want to
accelerate this. Of course, compensation is not a blocker, just nice icing.

At the end of the day, i think we could turn around OFLB in 2 weeks, and get
the same work burst, same look, and all the features desired of the current
site.

I would scrap any new new features for now, and push towards having OCAL 2.0
and OFLB 2.0 done by LGM2010 so we can stop talking talking and doing doing
what we want, making great fonts and community.

Anyway, let's get it done....of course, open to discussion about it.

I don't really see any other viable timely options. ccHost dev is dead.
Writing a new webapp is a death sentence for OFLB. The best option is to
copy what we did for ocal, open up launchpad for oflb, and unite behind aiki
as the core, since we know how and built aiki to handle just this type of
content site.

Cheers and I'm excited!!!
Jon

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> On 8 March 2010 04:26, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/7/10, Dave Crossland wrote:
> >
> >> Ed thinks about replacing ccHost with a custom webapp.
> >
> > Ed suggests just talking about OFLB v2 again for the 4th time at LGM?
>
> Ed is offering to cut the code for this, so, don't be mean to him. :-)
>



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