[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Thu Sep 13 10:50:31 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 06:14 -0700, John Olsen wrote:
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:14:10 -0700
> > From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] helping out
> > To: Adam Pearson <munmorah at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Clipart <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>, momo
> > 	<momo at lumenstudio.net>
> > Message-ID: <1189656850.10596.207.camel at localhost>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 00:05 +1000, Adam Pearson wrote:
> >> Hi Guys
> >>
> >> I am a retired guy with a bit of time, I like computer work and using
> >> Inkscape (and many other programs), could do a bit of simple stuff  
> >> for
> >> you if need be eg reviewing submissions for format, tidiness etc -  
> >> let
> >> me know if I can help and if so how ...
> >>
> >> regards
> >>
> >> Adam
> >
> > Heya Adam, this is great! Ryan and Momo have really been leading up
> > these efforts and are best at advising you on this...
> >
> > Have you looked through our wiki? It has good information to get
> > started :) Please aska  lot of questions and check this out:
> >
> > http://openclipart.org/wiki/HOWTO_Help
> >
> > Cheers! And welcome to the team!
> >
> > Jon
> >
> 
> I initially talked with Adam about helping with cleanup, tagging and  
> review.  Especially in regards to the upcoming transfer of all the  
> old clipart files.  The main cleanup issue is bad bounding boxes,  
> usually way too big but sometimes cutting off the graphic.  Lots of  
> people not seeming to understand that page defines the border in  
> Inkscape.  Sometimes live fonts need to be converted to paths.  Also  
> many of the files have minimal tags at best, so just adding some  
> descriptive tags to ones that come up wanting in this area would be  
> good.
> 
> John Olsen
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Cool, John, could you give Adam editor access through the admin
interface? That would be brilliant!

Also, the chat channel #openclipart on irc.freenode.net is getting
quiet...you guys should hop in there and lets chat more!!!

Jon

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