[Clipart] Community Building

[Jon Phillips]

I totally agree with you. I think the REQUEST page is really great.
Allow anyone to upload sketches, urls and descriptions for a request.
I think its important to link the request to uploaded images.

This is also a great way for artists to make money...maybe longer term...

Bassel, what do you think about this?

Jon

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca> wrote:
> A comment on building the community.
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> Rather than (or in addition to) a “requests” page, I feel that a page where
> artists (non vector) could upload scans of illustrations, etc, and have OCAL
> vector artists use these illustrations as jump off points for creating
> vectors could build community. Bitmapped images uploaded would of course NOT
> become part of the collection, but vectors created from them would be.
> Perhaps leveraging existing locations would be good, like start a collection
> on wiki-commons or someplace, linked to OCAL – and specifically for OCAL
> contributions by non-vector artists. Credit to original artists (for the
> vector remixes) given etc.
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> If the page started with a bit of description as to what kind of art can be
> vectorized effectively, guidelines, etc. I think it could be useful.
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> In this way people could contribute to OCAL who may be great artists, but
> not vector artists.
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> Here is an example so to speak. This was uploaded to illustrate how pencil
> sketches can become vector art.
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> http://jazzmanian.deviantart.com/art/The-Buckets-79991458
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> Gerald_G
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> From: clipart-bounces+gerald.ganson=rdc.ab.ca at lists.freedesktop.org
> [mailto:clipart-bounces+gerald.ganson=rdc.ab.ca at lists.freedesktop.org] On
> Behalf Of Oleg Koptev
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:58 AM
> To: Schrijver
> Cc: Open Clip Art Library PUBLIC
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] 30K! and ready to launch!!!
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> I think focus should shift towards building a community and finding out how
> the OCAL collection can be of most use to people around the world.
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> The one of possible ways proposed by reJon in another thread (about package
> size) is 'packs' of clipart. I think it is really useful proposal. The
> 'Request' feature also could have great impact on popularity, but as we saw
> on the OCAL v.1.0 that 'Request' area can became trashbin without strong
> librarians control.
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> my 2 kopeck
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> Boobaloo
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