Merging with Commons is not such a terrible idea, except that they also are not that good at search. Commons is more about archiving stuff like a museum I would really like to see us build a community of artists, where people enjoy contributing, where there are comments and tagging to help with search. I'll try messing around with cchost on my local server, but so far that does not look promising (keeps complaining about getid3 library, which is there...) I suppose I will go join their mailing list. -Brian <div>On 9/22/07, Jon Phillips <<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 01:08 +0200, Tobias Jakobs wrote: > Am Freitag, den 21.09.2007, 10:20 -0400 schrieb Axiom X11: > > I have been watching this project for a couple of years now, and still > > there in no way to visually browse the collection online. > > > > Who is working on this? > > Nobody is working on thumbnail view. I can help you and anyone else to get started on this code-wise in ccHost <a href="http://creativecommons.org/projects/cchost"> http://creativecommons.org/projects/cchost</a> > > What is needed? > > At least someone who know PHP and is interested in helping. Yep, I'm working to setup the test site right now at: <a href="http://test.openclipart.org">http://test.openclipart.org</a> I'm trying to lower the barrier for helping out on the site...and so we can mess with things on this test site before moving to the live site...I think its too much burden on developers to setup their own test site now, but that is possible too... > > Is there something I can do to help? > > Sure, if you know PHP your help is very much needed. What are you > interested in? > > > Just generating PNG thumbnails from SVGs shouldn't be that difficult, > > although it will probably take some work to get galleries looking the > > way we want them to in ccHost. > > Any kind of a gallery is better then none. If you can help please do. > > Regards, > Tobias Yes, this is one approach, although I think generating thumbnails on upload or using ones provided is preferred, and then also, having a way to comb through the whole site and making new thumbnails should be an option too...although, I'm sure the easiest solution will be done first :) Lets do it! Jon > _______________________________________________ > clipart mailing list > <a href="mailto:clipart@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart </a> -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 <a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a> <a href="http://www.rejon.org">http://www.rejon.org</a> MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: <a href="mailto:rejon@gristle.org">rejon@gristle.org</a> IRC: <a href="mailto:rejon@irc.freenode.net">rejon@irc.freenode.net</a> Please note: the contents of this email are not intended to be legal advice nor should they be relied upon as or represented to be legal advice. Jon Phillips does not represent any organization through this email address. </blockquote></div>