[OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

[Garrick van Buren]

The original Kernest.com font directory was built on Ruby-on-Rails, not a direction that I'd do again. Lately, on both the personal and professional side, I've been exploring MediaWiki as an application platform, combined w/ the use of the SemanticMediaWiki extension - it provides a lot of capabilities (versioning, reverting, account model/permissons, discussion, omature and popular framework). Additionally, the interwiki links and ability to upload to Commons.Wikimedia.org feel like a strong opportunity for the persistence of OFLB content. The downside is that mediawikis theme-ing isn't as straightforward as other CMSs.  

As an example of this kind of wiki, over the past year, I've been working on 
	http://wiki.planetkubb.com

Of specific interest to the robustness that MediaWiki supports, check out a Game.
	http://wiki.planetkubb.com/wiki/US_Nationals_2012,_Finals,_Knockerheads_v._Kubbsicles,_July_15_(Game_2)

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Garrick van Buren
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On Dec 3, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Dave Crossland's recent email reply has indicated that OFLB (and Aiki) is no longer being actively developed, and he has suggested Django or Drupal as a basis for future development.  I am not only an amateur font designer but also a senior Drupal developer.  I've led teams in development of dot-gov Drupal sites as well as in the private sector.  I'd be willing to take the development lead in getting this project off the ground if there's sufficient community interest and support.  Any takers?
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel