I’m trying to figure out what to do with Type Library (
http://type-library.com/). I don’t have the skills to build a better version of the site by myself. I’d also like Type Library to get updated often, to include content from other authors, and to cover languages besides English. Is anybody interested in collaborating on something bigger and better?
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AFAIK Github can host both, the source code and the live website, for free.
http://designwithfontforge.com is managed that way.
https://github.com/fontforge/designwithfontforge.com
I don't think the original goal should change, and I'd love to de-duplicate my own books list pages scattered about and just point to this site
The users who want to contribute directly will edit raw MarkDown files. That can be done on a desktop OS by forking the website's git repo to your username, cloning it to your machine and editing files, pushing your changes to your repo, and making a pull request. Or it can be done via the web through the Github web interface. For those with direct access to the website repo, they can edit it via the Github web interface in a way which is absolutely wiki style.
Examples:
http://designwithfontforge.com - https://github.com/fontforge/designwithfontforge.com
http://fontforge.github.io - https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.github.io
This is all explained in full in https://pages.github.com
This stuff should live online, and only online, and we shouldn't have to clone the site to our computer, etc. That's just wacky for this type of project.
Don't get me wrong. I have been pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use Github. But it's just not right for this project given its typical/likely contributors.