Blueprint changed by rejon: Whiteboard changed: http://develop.github.com/ Fonts on Gitorious: http://gitorious.org/search?q=font Fonts on Github: * https://github.com/klepas/open-baskerville * https://github.com/antonxheight/Arvo http://files.korkork.com/index.php?/fonts/arvo/ * https://github.com/khaledhosny/euler-otf * https://github.com/khaledhosny/punk-otf * https://github.com/rbrito/urw-garamond * https://github.com/ambethia/droid-fonts * https://github.com/rojkov/ttf-paratype-sans Notes: The initial inspiration for looking at Github as a font repository was the excellent work that the Open Baskerville Project has done, plus the fact that the current OFLB developers use git as standard practice. The advantage of Github is that it combines reliable upload service with perfect version control. File upload is unfortunately a non-trivial technology especially if you want to support it across many browsers. There are some good JavaScript libraries available, but consider the fact that Flash uploaders used to be the lingua franca of file uploads and you have a view into the problem. What the Open Font Library will work with is a directory of files, which includes OTFs or TTFs as well as a FONTLOG.txt and other data. Whether these files originate from a git repo or .zip file is immaterial to the functioning of the site. The main considerations are: a) can we reliably support a robust file upload system in the short term? b) are there gains to be made by having the entire history of the font readily available through a 'git pull'? c) will any reliance on a third-party like Github be a detriment to converting real designers to using the Font Library, even in the short term? (Even though the Font Library will be agnostic to which git repo is used) d) can we use external git repos as a very effective stopgap while we ensure the integrity of a homegrown file upload solution? + + + ### + + I had to change the ingest...I was getting grossed out reading about it + and thinking about rod stewart - Jon
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