[Clipart] Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library

[Nicu Buculei]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> Also, I need general checking of the info in the writing to make sure
> its accurate.
> 
> Here is the info on the article: http://rejon.org/?p=68#comments

Indeed, the text is pretty long, it desperately needs to be spiced-up 
with formatting (not sure if pictures are appropriate).

When writing such a long document is useful to create it right from the 
start, for example using headings instead of bold for chapter titles 
(just like in HTML + CSS) it will help you to generate the Table of 
Contents, change styles on the fly etc.


I think about a chapter about high profile users, but the Known Uses 
page on the Wiki does not have such impressive cases.

> http://rejon.org/writings/svgopen2005/paper.sxw
> 
> http://rejon.org/writings/svgopen2005/paper.pdf

"The project is open because of its affiliation with the Open Source 
software and cultural movement" - I would expect here something also 
about Open Standards

"various Red Hat RPM packagers" - as in the Wikipedia page you mentioned 
in the page footer: <<RPM Package Manager (or RPM, originally called 
"Red Hat Package Manager">>, so leave it as "various RPM packagers" 
(SuSe and Mandriva are NOT "Red Hat RPM packagers")

"However, using the standard software licenses like Gnu Public License 
(GPL) and Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL) did not make sense to use for 
artwork, as including the previous source of all artworks in a 
composition is not always possible and the developers did not
want to exclude a user from making money" - I don't think is about 
money, is perfectly legal to sell a CD with SVG images licensed as GPL, 
is all about of the need to opensource the larger work including clipart 
(in the case of GPL, not for LGPL) and the license being designed for 
code so not suitable very well art.

"What is hidden by this form is the script 'upload_svg.cgi' which parses 
a submission and checks to make sure" - is really necessary to expose 
the internals like this? is useful for the reader to know how the script 
is named? maybe "is a script which parses" is enough.

"Thanks to the Google's Summer of Code, there is funding to
support a new developer" - I guess this also deserve a subsol note with 
a link about SoC

"Another primary push that needs to happen is further interoperability 
with OpenOffice.org (OO.o)" - the usual short name is OOo (without the dot)

"Daniel Carrera, donated the domain name www.openclipart.org to the 
project" - in fact Chad Smith was the one who donated the domain. Chad 
is an OOo *supporter*, but he was never really active on OCAL.

"As the Open Clip Art Library lists as its motto, 'Put your clip art 
into circulation today' at http://www.openclipart.org/" - this is our 
motto? then it should be listed on the page instead of "Share Your 
Vector Graphics" :D

minor misspellings: "cd-rom" should be "CD-ROM" and Fedora is "Fedora 
Core", not "Fedora Corea". also you keep misspelling my name :p

-- 
nicu