[Clipart] Thumbnails for browsing

[Axiom X11]

Never mind on the getid3 library for cchost, I got it to work (path issue).
Now for some hacking.

-Brian

On 9/25/07, Axiom X11 <axiomx11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Merging with Commons is not such a terrible idea, except that they also
> are not that good at search.
>
> Commons is more about archiving stuff like a museum
>
> I would really like to see us build a community of artists, where people
> enjoy contributing, where there are comments and tagging to help with
> search.
>
> I'll try messing around with cchost on my local server, but so far that
> does not look promising (keeps complaining about getid3 library, which is
> there...)  I suppose I will go join their mailing list.
>
> -Brian
>
>
>
> On 9/22/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 01:08 +0200, Tobias Jakobs wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, den 21.09.2007, 10:20 -0400 schrieb Axiom X11:
> > > > I have been watching this project for a couple of years now, and
> > still
> > > > there in no way to visually browse the collection online.
> > > >
> > > > Who is working on this?
> > >
> > > Nobody is working on thumbnail view.
> >
> > I can help you and anyone else to get started on this code-wise in
> > ccHost http://creativecommons.org/projects/cchost
> >
> > > >   What is needed?
> > >
> > > At least someone who know PHP and is interested in helping.
> >
> > Yep, I'm working to setup the test site right now at:
> > http://test.openclipart.org
> >
> > I'm trying to lower the barrier for helping out on the site...and so we
> > can mess with things on this test site before moving to the live
> > site...I think its too much burden on developers to setup their own test
> > site now, but that is possible too...
> >
> > > >  Is there something I can do to help?
> > >
> > > Sure, if you know PHP your help is very much needed. What are you
> > > interested in?
> > >
> > > > Just generating PNG thumbnails from SVGs shouldn't be that
> > difficult,
> > > > although it will probably take some work to get galleries looking
> > the
> > > > way we want them to in ccHost.
> > >
> > > Any kind of a gallery is better then none. If you can help please do.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tobias
> >
> > Yes, this is one approach, although I think generating thumbnails on
> > upload or using ones provided is preferred, and then also, having a way
> > to comb through the whole site and making new thumbnails should be an
> > option too...although, I'm sure the easiest solution will be done
> > first :)
> >
> > Lets do it!
> >
> > Jon
> >
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> >
> >
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