[Clipart] Thoughts on what Clipart needs for Project Management

[Jon Phillips]

Yeah, I'm starting to think we are going to need to build custom PHP
systems to support this project. Bryce, I agree with your assessment. We
should discuss this in realtime!

I think our main goal is to lower the barriers enough so that many users
can use the system. Hopefully during our meeting we can discuss this.

I think we should stick with our current time MONDAY night for our
meeting. If anyone objects then please suggest a better time and change
the wiki, otherwise, lets stay with our current:

Monday 3-May, 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific (02:00 UTC Tue) in #openclipart
on irc.freenode.net

Jon


On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 18:08, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> I've been getting the feeling that none of the tools I've looked at so
> far are precisely what I think we need.  I've tried to keep an eye out
> for something "close" in the hopes that if we had to customize it, it
> wouldn't be hard to do so, but I don't feel like I found the best
> choice.  
> 
> While dotProject has a lot of the features we need, I think I actually
> like netoffice's "bones" better - it's set up to be ultra-easy to
> install and the look and feel is quite nice.  I've also looked at
> several other things such as GForge and Savane (both derived from
> SourceForge), but they're a bit more involved to set up, requiring root
> for install, etc.
> 
> Here's my thoughts about what Open Clipart could really make use of:
> 
> 1.  Clipart Submission.  Allows uploading individual or sets of clipart
>     files.
> 2.  Metadata Editing.  Allows editing the metadata associated with a
>     given piece of clipart.
> 3.  Clipart Searching.  Users can search the collection based on various
>     criteria such as submission date, status, artist name, category...
>     Should also include automatically generated previews.
> 4.  Packaging & Downloads.  Allows automatic creation of a package of
>     clipart for download and installation.  User can specify the
>     criteria for the type of package to be put together.
> 5.  Feedback Tracking.  Users can post 'bugs' against packages or pieces of
>     clipart that they're having trouble with, or provide thankyou's or
>     whatnot. 
> 6.  Clipart Requests.  Users that want some piece of clipart not
>     currently available can post a request.  Artists looking for ideas
>     of things to make could browse this list and use it as a source of
>     ideas. 
> 7.  Package Task Management.  Each package has its own todo list
>     associated with it that includes things that the package maintainer
>     feels they need to do for each release.
> 8.  User Management.  
> 9.  Package News.  For posting release notices, etc.
> 10. Statistics.  So we can see how many people are downloading the
>     packages. 
> 
> Anything missing?  Anyone have an idea how we could best go about
> achieving this?  Should we just use whatever we can get that's "close
> enough" or should we put some effort into customizing something to
> provide a good solution?  Anyone know of anything better than the
> options I've posted so far?
> 
> Bryce
> 
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