[Clipart] leechers and pirates

[eric.lemerdy]

I feel that I am in the target of people :
"just a little code that they knew they could write, but never got around to doing it."

For our defense, the framework stack to reach real ocal code is VERY discouraging. I remember how motivated I was to contribute Ocal until I checkout the code and suddenly became shameful that I was not able to understand a single line of code in this framework unless spending days on it. That's where I join ckler when he says that such a site can be written in a day or so but FROM SCRATCH.

But a I am not a talentuous programmer mysefl and I know this is again to defend myself for doing nothing about ocal todo list... I practice SDD (Shame Driven Developpement) which leads to self-frustration and nothing concrete !

> Message du 06/02/08 15:50
> De : "John Olsen"
> A : clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Copie à :
> Objet : [Clipart] leechers and pirates
>
> regarding various salvos being fired over clker.com etal.:
>
> Am I going to the wrong clker.com?  The one I visit clearly has the
> author as one of the tags and you can sort by that - so that molomen
> and Liftarn submissions can be seen together.   i see  a few of my
> submissions are popular this week.  When I click on one and go to it's
> page right under the site title it says "Johnny Automatic greedy man"
>
> I don't want to get into a name calling debate, but it seems to me
> that "leechers and pirates" have one admirable advantage over our
> little group - they talk a lot less and work a lot more.  I'm gonna
> judge this site by results.
>
> How refreshing to go to a site focused on visual art - clipart and see
> - OMG - a page full of pictures of clipart!
>
> People go to OCAL looking for clipart.  God help them trying to find
> it.  The most likely thing they'll see is a blog feed from someone
> else's blog and words - lots of words.  In fact for something that is
> dedicated to visual art, it profoundly misunderstands the power of
> design and visuals.
>
> As someone who has contributed a file or two here, I am happy to have
> them spread around.  The important part is that the clipart is
> available.  Much of the art I upload is repurposed from public domain
> old books.  I see that as liberating it to be repurposed and used by
> more people than ever would if it just sat lost in a book.   Was that
> the intent of the original illustrator?  Almost certainly not.  But it
> is now in the PD and is there for people to use and reinvent.
>
> Now I'm done talking - I have uploading and librarian work to do.  I
> am in the middle of uploading about 500 files from the old library by
> hand because I have just given up on all the people that have come and
> gone here spouting off how easy something would be to do with just a
> little code that they knew they could write, but never got around to
> doing it.
>
> But I can't fix bugs or add site features  by brute force.
>
> A car is faster than walking, but if I start walking and the car never
> comes, who gets there first?
>
> John Olsen/Johnny Automatic
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