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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.16 Announcement :: http://www.openclipart.org

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-08-08 01:54. General
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Aug 1, 2005 UTC — Release 0.16 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4442 images submitted by over 443 artists from around the world.

This releases squishes a major bug that replaced valid keywords in the clip art files with some strange HASH memory location text. Most of the clip art in the library and this release is now repaired.

Bryce Harrington and Jon Phillips both presented at the 2005 Desktop Developers Conference in Ottawa. Harrington's presentation promoted Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) while Phillips' presentation introduced the Open Clip Art Library to the freedesktop community. Both presentations were well received and sparked several debates.

Also added this month is a new clipart-announce mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart-announce). The Open Clip Art Library encourages everyone to sign up for this list in order to ONLY receive messages about Open Clip Art Library release announcements. This list is especially well-suited for packagers and others that might not want to receive all the developer discussions from the primary project mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart).

As always, see what the librarians and artists are working on at http://planet.openclipart.org. Artist and librarians (developer) for the project who would like to be included in this blog should contact (http://openclipart.org/contact.php) the project admins in order to be added.

For the month of August the project invites submissions of clip art themed for the coming fall season.

The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together.

Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library:

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.

Moderation (or at least, ranking)

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-08-09 22:18.

Besides the otherwise "i've-seen-you-before" open/public domain material, there is a lot of doodling and poor photography vectorization in there. Try the "people" category and you'll find... anime heads in all stages of completion.

To validate their effort, some sort of moderation should be applied to the media contributed to the library. If not a rigid accept/reject scheme, at least some sort of ranking, so that browsing the library [hopefully] shows us relevant stuff first.

In an ideal world, professional people would gladly endure the moderation job. Since they won't, community voting will do. Such schemes often rank popularity rather than quality, but most people will prefer discovering if there is some overlap of such qualities (because there is) than browsing pages cluttered with artwork of dubious quality anytime.

Finally, yeah, it's an open clipart library... The Linux Kernel is an open[-source] kernel and even so hell will go zero-absolute before anyone can commit his own hello world module to the source tree. And of course, yeah, they're beginning. And that's the right time to enforce quality and build a name.

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