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Freedomsponsors.org link does not work #229

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alfredoheights opened this issue May 3, 2022 · 2 comments
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Freedomsponsors.org link does not work #229

alfredoheights opened this issue May 3, 2022 · 2 comments

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@alfredoheights
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alfredoheights commented May 3, 2022 •
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The When Things Go Wrong With FontForge Itself page has a link out to the freedomsponsors.org page for FontForge, but it does not work. In fact, the actual homepage for Freedom Sponsors appears to have been abandoned and picked up by a sketchy gambling company. They've had an open issue on their repo since February 2021.

Is there an actual resource we should be using if we want to support for a specific issue? (I am not actually planning on sponsoring issues, I just want to make sure the documentation is right.) I would just remove the link to the FreedomSponsors page in a PR, but I would like to know if there's a preferred alternative to support in the meantime.

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It appears there was never much activity in the Freedom Sponsors page, this archive.org snapshot shows that there was one issue paid for by 2017. I suggest removing any reference to it entirely, and suggesting instead that people bring their issues to the github repo.
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That's a good idea.

@frank-trampe may want to write about the TeX grant FontForge got.

Or his own 501(c)(3), FontForge LLC I think? Please don't quote me on that, haha.

Maybe some day could link to my Modular Font Editor K Foundation, Inc. as an aside if I end up giving out grants/bounties for work that helps FontForge. Still undecided on that.

JoesCat added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 30, 2024
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Test-out jekyll after doing huge merges of pt-BR and de-DE
141a2a9 
pt-BR needed to have many pages updated due to renaming of images to use
undelines instead of spaces, so there is a big gap in testing not done
in the last few days. Time to check fixes, and good time to try jekyll.
Have pt-BR pages more or less sync upto General_UI_Introduction now.

Some updates to README.md concerning jekyll and (currently) Ubuntu 24.04.

Noted that de-DE pages keep redirecting to English using jekyll, so need
to first fix _config.yml de-DE/index.html, and other related files. Made
additional fixes and alignments to all other index.html for consistency.
Only a small number of de-DE pages are translated, therefore relatively
quick to check links.

Sync footer and header-masthead html files, get alignments to match.
Sync bookpage and homepage html files, get alignments to match.

Resolved issue concerning FreedomSponsor by using descriptions that can
suggest more up-to-date sites. This makes it a less specific, but more
resilient to sites disappearing as time goes on. Closes issue #229.

Synced When_things_Go_Wrong, plus included upgrades to pages.

ja-JP had excellent suggestions on highlighting books, therefore made
similar changes across all equivalent language pages.
Synced Further_Reading, plus included upgrades to pages.
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JoesCat commented Jun 30, 2024

Updated the page concerning the FreedomSponsors to be a little more resilient to sites appearing and disappearing.
I think this may be a solution.

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