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Sad indeed, thank you for all the work Erik! |
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Weather Icons is a great project, it surprising that nobody is stepping up to claim it! |
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One think people have to remember is the art. There are about a few dozen
requests for new icons that need smart, clear, iconic art. Maintaining the
code and build isn't the hard part, it's drawing icons that rock. Maybe I
can still do that I'd someone can make a bog-standard build that mimics
Font Awesome??
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I'm Interested in taking care of the project, There is some issues on the
front end that needs to be taken care of. This is a great project ; I would
be glad to help. I'm based in Austin,TX. You can reach me at
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Lukas did the first 60 or so, basically the cloud shapes. Everything after
that I did, so all the stuff that isn’t cloud shapes would be my style,
which is a copy of his style, which someone else would copy.
I am happy to talk more over a realtime chat tool like Hangouts.
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I have a UX / Front-End background and work with some talented designers
from Dell and The Home Depot. They would be able to mimic the current style
of Lukas Bischoff and Font-Awesome. This is truly a great project and no
need to mention the great portfolio opportunity.
Bastien.
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One think people have to remember is the art. There are about a few dozen
requests for new icons that need smart, clear, iconic art. Maintaining the
code and build isn't the hard part, it's drawing icons that rock. Maybe I
can still do that I'd someone can make a bog-standard build that mimics
Font Awesome??
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There have been quite a few responses. One thing I should add is that part of maintaining the project is drawing the icons, which requires a lot of artistic ability, the ability to find strong metaphors with weird abstract requests people have, and also build the font itself (the OTF file) with the artwork as requests come in. I am talking to a few people about it. If you still want to do both the code part, as well as the artwork, perhaps one can fork the project and experiment and take some of the open issues for artwork requests and see how the icons look. That is truly the hard part - the icon metaphors and style. Once a build is improved, that can sort of be on autopilot. It's the constant requests for new art that kills me. |
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Cool. Is there a Wiki page that lists the icons needed or some proposed icon roadmap? Also, has there been any thought to contacting FontAwesome to see if they'd absorb this project's icons? |
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I'd be happy to help out with the dev / admin side (frontend, build, triaging issues, reviewing PRs etc.). |
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Hello! I'm a graphic and webdesigner based in Brazil and I do some ocasional front-end developing. I've designed icons for many projects that I've worked on over the last couple of years. Feel free to send me an e-mail anytime: [email protected]. Cheers! |
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Dear Erik, We get in touch because we are interested in continuing the Weather Icons project that you started a while ago. We are the creators and developers of Weathercloud, a free global weather network with currently over 10,000 weather stations reporting data in real time. Weathercloud was launched 3 years ago and is already one of the most popular weather networks in the world. The platform is open to anyone who has a weather station and wants to share his data with other people all around the globe. The network is also open to users without a weather station, who use it to check the current conditions online. Based in Barcelona, our team is currently made up of 4 people, a graphic designer and 3 programmers with extensive knowledge of different programming languages. We have created all the materials included in the network ourselves. Our site features a simple and clean design so the Weather Icons would fit perfectly on it. Our idea is to use them in the present weather and forecast sections, which are displayed on the profile page of each of the stations of the network, and then keep developing new icons and supporting users using them. We look forward to comply with your expectations and be able to keep developing Weather Icons. We remain at your disposal for anything you may need from us. Regards, The Weathercloud team |
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Hi Erik, I would be very interested in contributing and/or maintaining the UX and Front-end of this. I have a colleague well versed in the icon font side of things that would also be very interested in this as well. |
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Hi Erik, To be honest this project fits perfectly with our own project. Unfortunately I cant tell much out in the open but can we talk more privately. The project will remain fully as it is and will be maintained. free for anyone to use. Let me know if its still there for us to discuss. //Dirk |
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@Mistermay @Weathercloud @alexvickers The author doesn't seem to be active anymore on GitHub. |
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Actually yes and we are going live under: weatherfont.com |
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What about adding to Font Awesome? |
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I like to keep the project free and open for any one to use. FA is not fully free to use. |
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Sorry answering with my other account. But we are launching under; weatherfont.com So if you like to contribute let me know. We have already added some Fonts of our own. |
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Awesome, thank you for your replies. No hard feeling if you forget 😄 |
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Hi, can I ask if there is an official fork of this project? I've been following this project for a while, so if no one has picked this up, I would be keen to maintain but also refresh the project. Background-wise, I'm a full-time UI/UX designer but also have a history in frontend implementation, icon design, font development and style kit documentation. In essence, my goal would be to refresh the whole project, updating the documentation and website to a more up to date design and framework with helpful instant search features rolled in (I'm thinking something like https://ionicons.com/), and developing new custom icons based on requests. At the same time, I'll be keeping to the same vein in respect to platform support and maintaining the pipeline's current implementation, but also taking on any improvements to this from the community (Webpack would be awesome...?). Licensing and attribution would stay the same of course. |
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There is no official fork. I'd be happy to support anyone who wants to take it up. If someone did fork this repo and gave it a revamp, I'd be happy to support it. The icons account for like 25% of the work, the other 75% is around maintaining requests, trying to find build systems and other techniques that most people will be able to understand use, innovate on what is already here to keep things fresh and competitive, etc. And given that I know very little about modern OSS projects, how to make packages, grunts, nodes, etc, until someone forks it and gives it a "3.0" overhaul, I am not much help. The whole repo is public and forkable, and the licensing of the icons I think is pretty much anything goes other than selling the icons or making money from them through a membership or whatever. So, if you have an inclination to make a fork, please do. My whole process and build system were so convoluted and ad-hoc, I don't even really remember what it all was. The project just passed 5 years old. Anyways - if you (or anyone else) wants to actually fork it and follow through to a "3.0" version, I am happy to answer questions and support the project if it's going to be maintained, updated, etc. Thanks for the interest, I hope it sparks someone's motivation 👍 |
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@erikflowers I'll fork and start reviewing what there is and see if it's in enough demand from others to roadmap a future. I won't bother you too much as I'm sure you're busy! but I'll come back to you if I make any progress and decide to pick it up. Thanks! |
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Font Awesome 5 now has some weather icons as well. It is still not nearly as plentiful as Weather Icons. |
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@dirkrmeij Link down for weatherfont.com ? 😞 |
This is a bust. |
To be honest Ive been so busy that I did not had time to start with it. Ill look in to it so we can proceed with it and keep it alive for the public to use. Sorry all for my disappointment towards you guys. |
Erik, I can create a fully new website fot weatherfont.com but I'd rather build upon the one you already have created. Is there a possibility I can get hold of the theming that you have on: http://weathericons.io Id like to have the official fork going :) //Dirk |
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@Mistermay That would be awesome. Thanks for keeping us updated 👍 |
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The website is finally up and running. I am busy with the 3.0 Icons. If you would support https://github.com/Weatherfonts/weather-font as the official fork so we can keep the project alive and future proof this would be awesome. @erikflowers I can take over http://weathericons.io/ If you want. Just DM me so we can discuss it further. For all others like to help develop en maintain the new https://weatherfont.com/ you are most welcome to send a DM so we can see how we can help each other. |
I think it might be wise to restore the git history in that repo before asking for support. In its current state, it is missing the original 159 commits... |
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Hi @dirkrmeij and @Potherca, I am a developer and not a graphic designer so I can manage everything but I cannot intervene much in the modification / insertion of new icons. Any kind of collaboration is welcome. Thanks |
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If I grok it all correctly:
I agree combatting fragmentation is a good start. Part of the problem is that it is all a bit of a black box right now. There isn't any place where the ongoing collaboration is documented. No idea who is talking to whom. And this thread does not really seem the most effective place for all of this 😞 If there are any concrete plans, I don't mind helping out. If there aren't any concrete plans, I can help form them. I've got experience from maintaining and contributong to other FOSS projects. |
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Hi @Potherca, What do you suggest using to coordinate the project so you can start somewhere? Maybe Slack? Or something else? |
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I as a user am willing to help with issue wrangling and such, but agree that this is getting confusing. |
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Hi all, To be clear from our side: weatherfonts.com will be our new design site for our new 3.0 designs that we are making. Like we said if the decision is made that the official fork is elsewhere that is fine for us. We will move forward with this website in any case. |
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@erikflowers We never got a response from you so we decided to move forward with it. |
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Hi @dirkrmeij, |
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Hey, Nerd Fonts creator here. I'm very late to the news here but sad to see this is no longer maintained, I was in the process of updating licensing for Nerd Fonts but see you didn't have a LICENSE/OFL file so I'm creating one in our project next to the weather icons ttf file. Anyway all the best. Thanks for the work here and especially the glyphs (Lukas Bischoff?). 👍🏻 |
Sad to say, Weather Icons is no longer maintained or updated here. the project is currently looking for a new owner who wants to bear the responsibility. Feel free to let me know.
Perhaps someone wants to be an official fork, or just rolled into another project. I will be seeking out some parties who might be a good fit to maintain it. Feel free to suggest below.
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