[Clipart] idea for clipart requests and implementation

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 08:50 -0600, Gerald Ganson wrote:
> I've been thinking for quite some time now that we should encourage
> people to upload bitmaps of their clipart that they wish to donate to
> public domain. There are probably a lot of artists out there who work in
> bitmaps, or draw on paper and then scan.

This is true...I think though that if we take these, we should have a
limit on what they can send in terms of size, that its a request and not
a full submission to our system, and the idea is for them or someone
else to remake it as a vector graphic.

> We could include more of these folks in the project, and encourage them,
> by having a method and location to submit these. Knowing that not
> everyone will always be made into a vector for the collection, but many
> may be. I think it would be fun, and productive too.

Yep, I really think we have to keep our goal of being an SVG collection
in focus and that allowing bitmaps is for requests and ideas ONLY and
nothing more. We don't have the resources to support bitmap uploads nor
will distros include our overly bloated packages with bitmap as well.

> I have done this with a few already, where I downloaded a PNG from
> ABIclip, and vectorized, added colour, cleaned up, and edited to my
> tastes, then re-uploaded to OpenClipart in SVG.  I claim credit only for
> the SVG, and the original illustrator as the artist. (ABI in this case)

Awesome, we just have to be sure that everything is in public domain. 

> Perhaps there is a way to formalize this credit process too.
> Illustration by..., and vectorization by... 

Cool...I think that ccHost really sorts this out and by showing the
lineage of a piece of art. I think there are enough tools in place to
support this type of tagging, etc. Maybe when vectorization happens, we
should include the tags: vectorize, trace

And if its an illustration, tag as illustration.

Jon

> 
> Gerald G.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> [mailto:clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jon Phillips
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:31 AM
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> Subject: [Clipart] idea for clipart requests and implementation
> 
> RyanLerch and I were brainstorming on the mailing list about how to deal
> with the nice contribution of images from worldlabel.com. Basically,
> they donated to us and the public domain images they commissioned to be
> made. Unfortunately, these images are in bitmap formats.
> 
> Well, I started to think how we could put these on the site and get
> others to create vector versions and I realized that all we needed to do
> is to allow for people to upload descriptions and basic ideas/sketches
> for others to remix and create newer versions of the same file.
> 
> Thus, I uploaded the new worldlabel bitmaps as "requests" so that others
> may take these, redo them as vector (while possibly improving them) and
> then re-uploading them as a remix and then attach that new image to the
> old one. The genealogy then will be tracked from the request/original to
> the new vector version.
> 
> So, what we still need is the ability for this submission type being a
> URL and only text. After we have this, then we can start moving over our
> clipart requests to the website! This is very very cool and simple
> solution to an issue that seemed like we needed to code a mountains
> worth.
> 
> Does it all make sense?
> 
> I went ahead and created the "request" submission type:
> 
> http://openclipart.org/cchost/media/submit/request
> 
> Thus, if anyone wants to go ahead and start uploading basic sketches for
> the requests from the wiki, this would be awesome. Then, we should file
> a feature request for cchost to add this URL/only-text submission type.
> Cool? Could someone else do this so I can keep coding :)
> 
> I'm pretty excited!
> 
> Please notice I added the requests tab to the top of the site:
> 
> http://openclipart.org/cchost
> 
> Also, this is where it links to:
> 
> http://openclipart.org/cchost/media/view/media/requests
> 
> So, all uploads that are tagged with request, idea, need, then it will
> show up on this page.
> 
> I went ahead and uploaded the first batch of images from worldlabel.com,
> all the files in the Borders collection. Would someone else help by
> uploading the other other images? They can be found here: 
> 
> http://openclipart.org/worldlabelgift/
> 
> NOTE: Cool, this is a simple solution along the lines of when we
> realized we could put SVG files as Inkscape's help menu...cool!
> 
> Jon
> 
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