[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 60, Issue 65

[Jon Phillips]

Its slightly true, but needs correction. The package has some old and
the new clipart from ccHost. The 10K is for ccHost only...I should
update my post.

Jon

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:16 PM, John Olsen <johnny_automatic at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>
> Well this seems damned confusing - it starts by saying we have 12,000
> svg images, then announces our recent goal of getting to 10,000 then
> sets a goal of reaching 12,000 which we started off saying we had.
> Seems like Alice just went down the rabbit hole.
>
> Alice: I've had nothing yet, so I can't take more.
> The Hatter: You mean you can't take less; it's very easy to take more
> than nothing.
>
> Johnny
>
>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:08:28 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
>> Subject: [Clipart] Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and
>>       OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded
>> To: Open Clip Art Library list <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
>> Message-ID: <20090331110828.ED0F53A60E at openclipfont.osuosl.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>
>> 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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