[Clipart] broken link for Sodipodi

[Alan Horkan]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 14:41:40 -0700
> From: Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.org>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana at maths.tcd.ie>
> Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] broken link for Sodipodi
>
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:27:40PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Florent Monnier wrote:
> > > This message is for the webmaster, if he doesn't read this mailing-list,
> > > please forward this to to him.
> > >
> > > The link to Sodipodi in the footer should be changed
> > > from  http://www.sodipodi.com/
> > > to   http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3
> >
> > The link should not be changed in that way.  A website is fundamentally
> > misconfigured website if http://www.sodipodi.com/ does not work.
> >
> > It might be time to consider removing the link

[the footer link appearing on every page]

> > entirely if Sodipodi is not
> > a particularly active project anymore, it has been over 2 years since the
> > last release.  (I cannot access their mailing list archives, just get a
> > 500 error.)

I'd also be inclined to remove the link to OpenOffice too since their SVG
support has - to put it politely - not progressed as much as we might have
hoped over these past few years.

> This is a good point.  In fact, we probably ought to encourage use of
> inkscape a bit more; I've run into a lot of people who know of OCAL but
> yet have still never heard of inkscape.

We would still of course give a lot of credit to Sodipodi for help to make
this all possible.  Both by maintaining Sodipodi and encouraging the
SVG Flag Collection.


Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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