[Clipart] Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded

[Jon Phillips]

This is the big one! Please spread around...you can see partially from
this list the places to hit.

http://openclipart.org/wiki/Announcement_19#Send_out_the_announcement_to_the_following_sites

If you have other ideas where this should be sent, or specific emails
I should send this too, I have a script on our server I run to send
this in bulk globally!

Congrats to all! This feels so damn good to get this release stuff
back on track :) Thanks so much to everyone and Jochen for pushing on
the package! That is awesome...

Oh, and onto this next month of releases towards 12K and some images
about spring :) Heya, goals are good!!! I'm hopeful to get our new
site up and help spread out authority and leadership too in the next
month so I'm not so much a bottleneck. If there is something that you
want to help with or lead, now's the time to step it up!

Jon

2009/3/31 Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:
> March 31, 2009 - Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library
> (http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable
> vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000
> artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this
> accomplishment, since OCAL’s last release happened in 2005, and March
> being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL
> community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics.
> The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo
> who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for
> uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who
> have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint.
>
> The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art
> upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system.
> All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site’s
> registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make
> this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions
> to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative
> Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library
> files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate
> compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip
> art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a
> link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form.
>
> For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting
> 2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a
> goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time,
> release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site’s software
> to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable
> with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three
> critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to
> ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme.
>
> Highlight
>
> * An offline HTML gallery to browse through the thumbnails of all clip arts
> * Over 4,000 new cliparts as compared to release 0.18.
> * 10,000th upload by Boobaloo:
> http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895
> * Refocused Development around three critical tasks
> * Call for Participation toward April goals of 12,000 uploads about spring
> * Call for Participation towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
> ** http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/
>
> Downloads
>
> * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.bz2
> * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.gz
> * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.zip
>
> Press Kit
>
> * Logos: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about
> * All Clip Art: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art
>
> About Open Clip Art Library
>
> Founded in 2004 from Inkscape, the open source drawing tool, the Open Clip
> Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of
> user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted
> to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative
> Commons Public Domain Declaration.
>
> Help by submitting artwork today or join the IRC channel or the mailing
> list to find out about e.g. web development related contributions:
> http://openclipart.org/discussion
>
> For More Information: http://www.openclipart.org.
>
>
>
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