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
