[Clipart] Now down to business...

[Jon Phillips]

This is a cool idea SEb. You should chat with us in #aiki on
irc.freenode.net or at http://openclipart.org/about to talk about how
to get you going on this. We use Aiki, so you should be able to
develop this functionality from the web interface. Bassel is the best
person to get you going on how to add this functionality now.

Great!
Jon

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:11 PM, SEb <sebastien.lanteigne at gmail.com> wrote:
> First I'd like to congratulate you guys for the new beta interface. I
> must admit one of the reasons I never used the site before is because
> it made me cringe every time I looked at it and it wasn't very fun to
> navigate. The new interface is much better.
>
> I'm currently uploading a bunch of contribution of my own  and I was
> wondering how I can help integrate a few ideas I have in mind.  I can
> write HTML, PHP and some javascript when needed and I pretty familiar
> with Apache. So I can possibly lend a hand on the technical side.
>
> My ideas include the ability to make sets. For example I made a set of
> clipart with a 'magic theme' as and openoffice.org extension.
> (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/trick_n_magic)
>
> Now I'm splitting those and uploading them but wouldn't it be nice if
> I could tell people. 'Hey, this clipart if part of a set!' and offer
> the option to view the rest of the set. From there, since clipart are
> often used in office suites, have the option to download the set as an
> openoffice.org extension.
>
> An openoffice.org extension is really just a zip file so it wouldn't
> be too hard to wrtte a script that fills the various information using
> the user data and some extra data collected when creating a set, then
> gathers the svg that are part of the set, generates png files and
> compresses the whole thing as and extensions.
>
> Just my 2 cents for now.
>
> In the meantime I'll resume my bug hunting and report any findings to launchpad.
>
> Seb.
>



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