[Clipart] Proposal: Merging Open Clipart Library into Inkscape

[Alan Horkan]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 15:21:38 -0700
> From: Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.org>
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: inkscape-devel at lists.sf.net
> Subject: [Clipart] Proposal:  Merging Open Clipart Library into Inkscape
>
> Hi all,
>
> This past year, the Open Clip Art Library has been both very successful,

> The idea has been floated to merge OCAL back into Inkscape.  OCAL was
> originally a spin-off from Inkscape, with the hope that we'd gain
> participation from other projects like OpenOffice, Sodipodi, KDE, etc.
> Unfortunately, that never really turned out, and it's mainly just been a
> few of us Inkscapers plus people not really associated with drawing
> program projects.

The remerge certainly sounds like a good idea, to bring the two projects
closer together again.

However I do hope OpenClipart.org will continue to use "Plain SVG" and
keep any non-standard application specific markup (be it Inkscape,
Sodipodi, Adobe or any other) to a minimum.  Promoting the SVG standard is
an important part of OpenClipart.org and I expect that will not change.

-- 
Alan H.