[Clipart] Clip Art Requests Page is Growing!

[Jon Phillips]

Man, this Clip Art Requests page 
(http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ClipartRequests) is really growing. To 
go through this list and make graphics, submit them to openclipart.org and then 
put them at the bottom of that page as a "Fulfilled Request" would be great 
first tasks for people who would like to contribute to the project.

My goal is to make a place on the main site that shows current requests for clip 
  art. I really think that this should become an integral part of the project in 
having people complete requests.

Really, these are non-technical feature requests from the project, right?

Any thoughts on implementation? If we just wanna do basic, then we should have 
something akin to the "Submit Screenshot" page, however if we want to get more 
technical we could get a bugzilla account from freedesktop.org and have a Clip 
Art Request category and have a direct link to this for people to submit their 
requests. That way we could track new requests, and when they are completed.

My fear though about this solution is that it would be too technical. I think 
that something more friendly that doesn't leave the comfort of the site-design 
and is very basic like:


Clip Art Request

Topic: [could reuse current topic choices]

Contact Name: required handle or name

Contact E-mail: required email

Title: short summary

Description: longer textarea for summary

Deadline: possibly if a deadline is needed...also a disclaimer stating that 
there is not guarantee that the clip art will be completed by this time, but if 
urgent, please make those intentions known and possibly mail the mailing list.

I made this wiki page with this idea if anyone would like to massage these ideas 
a bit: http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Feature_Requests


If this grows (like I think it might), we might have to make another mailing 
list for clip art requests. Immediately though this

Also, since we no longer use mantis for bug tracking, I created this wiki page 
to track feature requests and also for people to flesh out their ideas for 
features so that others can help: 
http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Feature_Requests

Jon



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