Distributing work of adding icons via PR?
Right now, the process for adding new icons is to create an issue and submit an SVG of the requested glyph and wait to see whether @jpswalsh wants to add it when he has time in his busy life.

Is there a way this project could be adapted to allow users to do more of the work ourselves: convert the SVG into the appropriate format to add to the `.eot`, `.ttf`, `.svg`, and `.woff` font files, and then submit a PR, as opposed to needing one person to do all the work alone?

For instance, I'd be willing to do work to speed up adding the SSRN logo (#42) and The Conversation (#56) to academicicons if there were a clear process for doing so.

Part of the challenge is that git is not good at merging different versions of binary files like `academicicons.ttf`, so a process like this would only work well if there were a toolchain to automate building the main font files `(academicicons.ttf`, `.eot`, `.svg`, and `.woff`) from .svg files for the individual glyphs (or from a master `.svg` for the whole font, since that's a textual XML-based format), and adapting this project to that way of working might be a lot more trouble than it's worth.