Fwd: [Clipart] dead or alive

[Jon Phillips]

Heya all, is there need for any new motivation :) Our project is running
well and our new system is lively! We are getting 100 registrations a
day now! Woohoo!

Jon


On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 01:56 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Thanks for forwarding this, Theresa!
> 
> Hi Elliott, openclipart needs a LOT of help in a lot of different areas,
> so don't worry about having the wrong background - it just means you'll
> need to explore a bit to see what you would be most interested and able
> to work on.
> 
> It may be challenging to find well defined "work packets" in a project
> like this, but perhaps the best approach would be to watch this mailing
> list for specific requests.  For instance, today rejon asked for someone
> to do news postings - I don't know if that's something you'd be
> interested in, but it's quite specific and clear...  It's likely that
> other such tasks will appear.
> 
> Rejon, can you follow up with additional ideas of little projects that
> OCAL needs?  Elliot or others might be able to grab one of these tasks
> if it strikes their fancy.
> 
> Bryce
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:36:59AM +0100, Theresa Knott wrote:
> > I'm forwarding this because he sent it direct to me rather than to the list
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Elliott.Bignell at t-online.de <Elliott.Bignell at t-online.de>
> > Date: Jul 4, 2006 3:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] dead or alive
> > To: Theresa Knott <theresaknott at gmail.com>
> > 
> > 
> > I do, and I want to help, but I'm from the wrong background and can't
> > even find time to help with Inkscape just yet. I'm a Windows/C++
> > applications developer. If someone could provide small and specific
> > packets of work and clear instructions on how to deliver the work, I
> > might be able to contribute - if it doesn't create more work than I
> > can take up!
> > 
> > Cheers...
> > Elliott
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Tue,  4 Jul 2006 16:26:46 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] dead or alive
> > From: "Theresa Knott" <theresaknott at gmail.com>
> > To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > 
> > On 7/4/06, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) <nicu at apsro.com> wrote:
> > >Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form wrote:
> > .
> > >
> > >Usually in the Open Source world is believed there are a lot of
> > >programmers and not enough artists. I think we proved this wrong: we
> > >have a lot of artists contributing, but not enough programmers.
> > 
> > It's a real shame, this project is truly worthwhile, and could easily
> > grow to huge proportions. Is there anyway to put out a general
> > distress call. Do programmers actually know that this project is in
> > desperate need of their help?
> > 
> > Theresa
> > _______________________________________________
> > clipart mailing list
> > clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart
> > 
> > Elliott
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Tue,  4 Jul 2006 16:26:46 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] dead or alive
> > From: "Theresa Knott" <theresaknott at gmail.com>
> > To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > 
> > On 7/4/06, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) <nicu at apsro.com> wrote:
> > >Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form wrote:
> > .
> > >
> > >Usually in the Open Source world is believed there are a lot of
> > >programmers and not enough artists. I think we proved this wrong: we
> > >have a lot of artists contributing, but not enough programmers.
> > 
> > It's a real shame, this project is truly worthwhile, and could easily
> > grow to huge proportions. Is there anyway to put out a general
> > distress call. Do programmers actually know that this project is in
> > desperate need of their help?
> > 
> > Theresa
> > _______________________________________________
> > clipart mailing list
> > clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart
> > 
> > 
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