[OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

[Jon Phillips]

We are in a productive mode these days, and I think making conversion to
aiki is going to be faster and better longer term than working on a dead
codebase, with a system that requires limited access to our main server. The
point with Aiki is to allow various levels of access from the web to enable
people rather than lock out with arcane codebase and limited server access.

Jon

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Schrijver <eric at authoritism.net> wrote:

> But I don’t understand what is holding back just launching the ccHost
> version—why did I see a functioning prototype a year ago?
> Are there some hurdles that are proving difficult, and that could be
> overcome by scrapping it for a different system?
>
> Jon I admire your spirit and I think it is great you are willing to do
> this;
> (and congrats on the OCAL launch!)
> the thing I am a bit scared of is that in shifting systems you will run
> into unforeseen delays all over again; and right now the site just needs to
> be up, no?
>
> Eric
>
> Op 8 mrt 2010, om 10:46 heeft Jon Phillips het volgende geschreven:
>
> 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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> Jon Phillips
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