[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 47, Issue 6

[John Olsen]

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Build a better mousetrap.  Someone has shown a way to take the content  
and improve on it - make it more user friendly and accessible.   
Challenge, inspiration or motivation for those here to improve our  
site?  I hope.  I guess it depends on whether one feels the work we do  
here should have it's own recognition or if we are happy with it being  
the back-end to other sites.  My only concerns would be A) someone  
selling the stuff that can be had for free, with little or no value- 
added, but I guess that's buyer beware B) if we don't at least begin  
to implement some of the refinements of a site like clker.com then our  
site will be less and less relevant and we'll lose volunteers.  We are  
pretty scarce on volunteers in a lot of areas as it is.  Submissions  
great, librarians keeping up with their job, but bug fixing and new  
features (or even features we HAD under the old host) are non-starters  
here.

Inspired to help anyone?

Johnny Automatic



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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:59:31 -0500
> From: Mohamed Ibrahim <mibrahim at mibrahim.net>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] clker.com - part 3
> To: peileppe at free.fr
> Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Message-ID: <47A8B213.8010102 at mibrahim.net>
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> Hello,
>
> I've been working with clker.com from time to time as a hack to help  
> me
> search for images. I also wanted to make RESTful api's to integrate  
> the
> clipart with openoffice in an easy way. I've did some work on that,  
> did
> some work on making automated categories and wanted to add the
> categories code in ccMixter, just I didn't have any time lately. The
> last blog post was Nov.30, that's basically the last time I touched  
> the
> code.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mohamed Ibrahim
>
> noreply at openclipart.org wrote:
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