I've been thinking about creating a font management service similar to traditional software package managers (e.g. Debian Aptitude, NPM, etc.)
The basic idea is this:
- There's a main repository of fonts that are free (as in free to distribute) that the working group hosts
- There's a small program that serves as the "manager", to be used or installed on client systems
- The "manager" can be configured to operate with multiple repositories