Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 March 2010 04:26, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@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

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

2010-03-08 Thread 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,

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

2010-03-08 Thread Schrijver
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

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

2010-03-08 Thread 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

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

2010-03-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 3/8/10, 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. :-) What's the point of being mean when I can be nasty? :)

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] How much does a new typeface cost?

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 March 2010 05:56, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: I'm doing my libre, high quality Arabic revival for $2,000 Oh wow, cool! Can you reveal any details about who and how this funding happened? :-) the extensive OpenType programming I'm doing Have you written anything describing

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

2010-03-08 Thread Ed Trager
Hi, everyone, On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/10, Dave Crossland wrote: Ed thinks about replacing ccHost with a custom webapp. To set the record straight, like many of you I've been wondering all these months what the holdup