Dreams can come true! Thanks Dave for continuing to work with us. And, look forward to the momentum continuing this month.
Jon On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Here are the 5 goals I want to meet for 0.5: > > 1. Alice is a web user who visits > http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/alegreya and sees that the foundry > link points to > "http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/www.huertatipografica.com.ar" > which is an obvious 404 error. She looks for a link to report a > problem with that page, finds it easily because it is near the content > with an error, and she clicks it. She is taken to a page that explains > how to report a problem and how long it will typically take. > > 2. Ellen is a web user in Spain who wants to translate 100% of the > Open Font Library into Spanish. She visits the site and sees a clear > invitation to start contribution translations. She is taken to a > guidebook page that explains the process, and she follows the > instructions. In the 0.6 release 100% of the site is translated into > Spanish thanks to Ellen, and she is clearly credited on the site and > in the Press Release/Announcement information. > > 3. Bob is a skilled professional PHP+MYSQL web developer who has never > heard of Aiki before. He visits Open Font Library and sees on every > page an invitation to contribute to the next release. He clicks the > invitation and is taken to a page in the guidebook that clearly > explains how to get a copy of the current site's source code running > on his local machine, how to stay in sync with other developers, and > how to contribute his patches so that they ship in the next release. > Where to meet and chat to other developers online is clear. Where bugs > and features requests are tracked is clear. Bob follows the > instructions, and his patch is included in the 0.6 release. > > 4. Charlie is a type designer in Turkey who wants to contribute > Turkish glyphs to fonts in OFLB that need them. He visits the font > page of his favorite families and finds a character map section that > tells him what language coverage is like for various scripts, and > which characters are missing to bring the font up to 100% coverage of > languages it has begun supporting. He doesn't know what to do next, > but sees an invitation to contribute to the font family. He clicks the > link and is taken to a guidebook page that explains how to find the > designer's contract information on a font family page and how to start > a collaboration effort with a designer. > > 5. Daniela is a graphic designer who attended a lecture about libre > fonts and has made her first font that she wants to share with the > world. She doesn't know anything about licensing or what is required > to make a public release of a libre font. She visits OFLB and sees an > invitation to upload and share a font. She clicks the invitation and > is taken to a guidebook page that clearly explains the whole process, > how long it will take, what she will need to do to prepare the upload, > and then ends with a clear link taking her to the upload process start > page. She uploads her font. At the end of the upload process she is > taken to a guidebook page that explains how to make updates to her > font. > > I've hired Fabricators to develop the Aiki-based OFLB site to make > these stories become true :-) > > -- > Cheers > Dave -- Jon Phillips 王✳爻气 http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)