[Clipart] Frameshow.com & OpenClipArt.Org synergies

[Greg Bulmash]

Management team?

Aris Filokostas wrote:
> Hello,
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> My name is Aris Filokostas and I am the founder of a small team of Greek 
> web developers in Athens, Greece.
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> We are developing the following community-driven web portal for **frame 
> designs**:
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> http://www.frameshow.com
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> We are now experimenting with a new free application in Adobe Air.
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> Just download the “AIR” version from here to see what it can do (it is 
> on BETA so please be nice with us for any bugs!):
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> http://www.frameshow.com/download.htm
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> Now, the reason I contact you is that I see room for a beneficial tight 
> cooperation between our two complimentary services.
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> We evaluate several options for adding **attributed** cliparts inside 
> the application so that users can enrich their designs with them. One of 
> these solutions could be yours.
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> We will attribute every added clipart to the respective Designer and 
> OpenClipArt.Org, so you have the opportunity to gain popularity to our 
> growing user base.
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> We would also like to help you in growing your service with certain 
> actions. We have already processed and converted ALL cliparts into the 
> PNG format (not thumbnails but actual size), which is more appropriate 
> for use by the end-user. We can send you the PNG files to add them as 
> another download option (apart from the tumbnail PNG and the SVG file). 
> In that way, we will be able to direct all our user base to your website 
> in order to SEARCH FOR and DOWNLOAD additional cliparts into an 
> application. This means free awareness and more exposure for the 
> designer and OpenClicpArt.Org, as all our users will get very well 
> acquainted with your service.
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> We also believe that it would be a good idea to create a full CATALOG 
> (index) of all designs, so that the end-user can download and browse 
> small thumbnails of all designs OFFLINE, decide which ones she likes and 
> then visit your website to download the particular designs. This will 
> save your website from the "too many connections" problem, etc.
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> There is also an immediate need to improve the SEARCH mechanism. For 
> example, if I want to find the file "ryanlerch_Children_Playing.svg" 
> there is no way I can find this easily. The search mechanism has many 
> problems at its current state.
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> We want to cooperate so that we can improve both services, let us know 
> if the above are a good starting point. We are open to suggestions.
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> Finally, can we talk with your management team through SKYPE to 
> elaborate on the concept and describe certain problems we encountered on 
> your service (with suggestions for fixes)?
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> Thanks!
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> Best Regards,
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> Aris Filokostas
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> Likno.com
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> http://www.likno.com  Powerful menus, trees, buttons, designs for your 
> websites
> http://www.frameshow.com  Frame your digital photos with ease!
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