[Clipart] Re: Migration of old clipart to the cchost site.

[ryan lerch]

Im still a bit torn between two thoughts when it comes to allowing
people to delete and change their clip art uploads, on one hand you
have the people like Gerald that alter their clipart to remove excess
tags, reduce the size of the file, but not neccecarily change the
visual image.
On the other hand, if we allow everyone to remove and alter their
images whenever they want, we may lose a fair amount of good images,
just because the artist is in a bad mood with themsleves and removes
the artwork....
If they want to improve on an image, they can always remix their own
image and reupload it, that way everyone can see the artist's
development of the image...

anyhoo, thats my 2 cents.

ry

On 9/21/06, Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca> wrote:
> <<SNIP>>
> Also, I think that it would be great  to go through all the cliparts and
> check them for quality (remove the Illustrator tags to decrease the size
> of the files, clean the cliparts by optimizing the curves or delete the
> cliparts containing bitmaps for example) and only then move them to
> CCHSOT.
> I understand that it is a trikcy task, but it will increase the overall
> quality of Openclipart. I you will need help with that, I am willing to
> do it during my free time (mainly during weekends), but I'll need some
> kind of admin rights to have access to the cliparts.
> <</SNIP>>
>
> I intend to help keep this type of stuff up to date on any clips I have
> submitted. I know I have improved in ability to know about adobe tags,
> and have improved some of my submissions, but on the old site the only
> option was to send a new file and hope the release process replaced the
> old one. Since this did not work very well, duplicates exist for some of
> mine.
>
> Once I have the ability to edit and upkeep my own submissions, I intend
> to do just that.
>
> I only write this to bring up the point that there may be other
> submitters as well as myself who have plans to keep up their own files.
> This might make the numbers of files for admins somewhat less.
>
> I'd start re-uploading now to cchost, but I'm afraid that when the
> content is migrated, I will just have created myself a bunch more
> duplicates to deal with.
>
> If the move is going to be manual like this, it may be easier for some
> contributers like myself to just start uploading from source files on my
> computer.
>
> Gerald G.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> [mailto:clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of momo
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:59 PM
> To: ryan lerch
> Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Migration of old clipart to the cchost site.
>
> Hello,
>
> I think that creating an anonymous account and dropping in all the
> clipart is a good idea since there is no garantee that people that
> submitted the old cliparts will ever create an account in CCHOST and
> will therefore want their cliparts to be listed under their account. If
> this happens, the user can write a mail to the list and tell what pieces
> of clipart he wants to place under his new account. It's then up to
> admins to move the clipart under the selected account.
>
> Personally I have several cliparts in the old repository submitted under
> different names (mo, molumen, lumen design studio and maybe a couple of
> others) so I can do it in 2 different ways: 1) resubmit them, or 2)
> request them to be moved under my account in CCHOST (molumen).
>
> Also, I think that it would be great  to go through all the cliparts and
> check them for quality (remove the Illustrator tags to decrease the size
> of the files, clean the cliparts by optimizing the curves or delete the
> cliparts containing bitmaps for example) and only then move them to
> CCHSOT.
> I understand that it is a trikcy task, but it will increase the overall
> quality of Openclipart. I you will need help with that, I am willing to
> do it during my free time (mainly during weekends), but I'll need some
> kind of admin rights to have access to the cliparts.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Molumen
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ryan lerch" <ryanlerch at gmail.com>
> To: <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:45 AM
> Subject: [Clipart] Migration of old clipart to the cchost site.
>
>
> > What do you think is the best way to transfer all the old clipart to
> > the new cchost site?
> >
> > The biggest problem is the fact that we dont have email addresses for
> > most of the artists that are currently in the collection. Therefore,
> > we cant really create accounts for them.
> >
> > rejon and I were brainstorming ideas (by this i mean jon had all the
> > ideas, and i kept saying that i liked them :) ) and we came up with
> > the idea to put all the old clipart into an anon account, and then let
> > people take ownership of particular clipart according to the Artist
> > name in the SVG metadata.
> >
> > please, any ideas on ways to achieve this will be appreciated!!
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