[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] frustration

[Alan]

I think everyone is looking at things right now and saying "Wow, that's 
kind of rough!" It's difficult to see something you like have a rough 
time time of it. OpenClipart is going through a bit of a rough time 
right now. Everyone is busy and everyone is willing to help in their 
spare time, but you've gotta ask how much spare time people have. What 
level of commitment do you have to seeing OpenClipart succeed? This is a 
question each of us must ask ourselves.

OpenClipart is brilliant. What do we need to do to get it working as 
well as we want it working? Perhaps let's go right back to the roots of 
what we want. What exactly do we expect of OpenClipart? Once we've 
listed exactly what we want, let's look at what we have. As we look at 
each item of what we have, let's ask ourselves the question "Does this 
particular item or way of doing things provide us with a big step in the 
right direction towards what we want? Long-term, is this going to be the 
best way of doing this?

Perhaps everything needs to be reworked from the ground up to make 
OpenClipart robust, workable and a successful long-term project. Do we 
have the resources to do that?

What about corporate sponsership? Is this a project that could be taken 
under the wing of Sun or IBM or Google as an idea which strongly assists 
the open source movement?

I think we're all a little depressed over the problems we've been 
having. Does this mean we give up? Do we want to give up? Sometimes that 
is a good thing. If the time and place is wrong, the best ideas will 
struggle. Nobody wants to be associated with a project they feel has 
little chance of success.

On the other hand, if you've got a dream; if you've got a vision and you 
can see what this is going to be and you're willing to help it be 
everything it can be...................

God help us, it will be wonderful! A person with a dream and a desire 
and a backbone to see it come true; a person who KNOWS what the future 
holds when it comes to this one thing. Often all it takes is a person 
with a backbone and a vision to change the world. A person with a desire 
to pour the very substance of their being into their dream, to bring it 
to concrete 3-dimensional reality, here, where we live.

But each of you is already an artist in your own way. You take what's in 
your mind and you put it to digital image or screen or code. Energy 
becoming matter in front of your eyes. The universe expressing itself 
through you.

OK. It's still early. I'm going to go have breakfast. I'm being way too 
philosophical....... 8-)

A.

noreply at openclipart.org wrote:
> hello
>
> i used to be an avid user of the open clip art database, but the changes and shifting of the site have made finding useable clip art near impossible.  there are no thumbnails associated with the lists of clip art, which requires the user to make three additional clicks before they can see an image, to see if they even would like to use it.
>
> searching for works is just as useless because there are no thumbnails. neither safari 3, camino 1.5, nor the latest firefox can display svgs but none render your embedded thumbnails. tagging needs hierarchy with over 1000 terms.
>
> i used the clipart here to make my net neutrality video on youtube, before the site migrated and became unusable.  i’d like to use the community created clipart again. 
>
> if there are search capabilities or thumbnail features that i'm missing, please let me know, i'd really appreciate it.  sorry for the rant, i hope it can be taken as a critique to help users of your site.
>
> thank you,
> alex curtis
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