[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13

[John Olsen]

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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:14:10 -0700
> From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] helping out
> To: Adam Pearson <munmorah at gmail.com>
> Cc: Clipart <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>, momo
> 	<momo at lumenstudio.net>
> Message-ID: <1189656850.10596.207.camel at localhost>
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> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 00:05 +1000, Adam Pearson wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I am a retired guy with a bit of time, I like computer work and using
>> Inkscape (and many other programs), could do a bit of simple stuff  
>> for
>> you if need be eg reviewing submissions for format, tidiness etc -  
>> let
>> me know if I can help and if so how ...
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Adam
>
> Heya Adam, this is great! Ryan and Momo have really been leading up
> these efforts and are best at advising you on this...
>
> Have you looked through our wiki? It has good information to get
> started :) Please aska  lot of questions and check this out:
>
> http://openclipart.org/wiki/HOWTO_Help
>
> Cheers! And welcome to the team!
>
> Jon
>

I initially talked with Adam about helping with cleanup, tagging and  
review.  Especially in regards to the upcoming transfer of all the  
old clipart files.  The main cleanup issue is bad bounding boxes,  
usually way too big but sometimes cutting off the graphic.  Lots of  
people not seeming to understand that page defines the border in  
Inkscape.  Sometimes live fonts need to be converted to paths.  Also  
many of the files have minimal tags at best, so just adding some  
descriptive tags to ones that come up wanting in this area would be  
good.

John Olsen