Máirín Duffy wrote:
So one of the things we've discussed every now and then is having some
kind of gallery system set up (beyond the wiki which isn't quite
equipped for this) where we can share our work and comment on it, where
the community can easily browse and comment on it, and (nice bonus) even
have an RSS feed of artwork the general community can benefit from.
YES!!!!
Tonight I started investigating some options we have towards this. A
great solution would be to have an install of the art.gnome.org software
or have something custom-built for us, but I don't think we have the
resources for something like that right now. So I've looked around at
some other options:
1) Have an art-specific Fedora planet feed -
It would be something like http://art.planet.fedoraproject.org and it
would be a feed for artwork, not general blog posts. (E.g. you could
syndicate your deviant art portfolio feed or a flickr fedora art album
feed to this.)
I was to lazy to act, but one of my old ideas was to run such an
aggregator even on my own server.
Whichever other option we go with, it should produce suitable RSS feeds
so we should probably do this anyway. Send me your feeds (art, not blog)
and I'll make the request to set it up.
2) Set up a Deviant art community -
So I set one up and played around with it, take a look:
http://fedora-art.deviantart.com/
Disadvantages:
- the RSS feeds don't actually embed the image, they only provide a
link. (does anyone know if it embeds the image for paid subscription
accounts? I'd be willing to donate the $$ if so.)
This is a real problem. Yes, one can pay for one subscription for the
group but I guess the other members will like to have their own usable
feeds.
3) Flickr community
I gave this a try too, take a look:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/fedora-art/
Definitely: I hate you!
Today I had to promote the RHM article at the first hour but can't do
that because you give me a lot of work wih investigating those groups
and communities you created :p
Disadvantages:
- theres a limit per month on how much you can upload per user account
(I think it's 50mb/month.)
I think we can deal with 50MB
- flickr is focused entirely towards photos. while i read their terms of
service and made sure that it was okay for us to use for our purposes -
people won't be able to search for our artwork using the UI because it
seems they block non-photos from that according to their policy.
I remember reading some time ago about flickr disabling accounts where
the majority of the content is not photos. It may be true or not, but I
think we do not want to use flickr against the will of the owners.
4) Set up a version control repository -
Disadvantages:
- high technical barrier to entry
indeed, no version control
5) Something else?
I have a few more ideas:
6) picassaweb.google.com - it can be used by artists, give RSS feeds
with thumbnails but does not have groups. It can be used if we go with
only a planet aggregation.
Major disadvantage: it support only jpg, not even png
7) the Infrastructure project plan to offer hosting space,
developers.fedoraproject.org and people.fedoraproject.org: use this
space and host our own solution
ccHost is what we are using at http://openclipart.org - the software
have a lot of features: users, feeds for everything, comments, ratings.
Is not very mature in my experience but is sponsored by Creative
Commons. Can be configured to use a lot of file types, including SVG.
8) again, in our own hosting space run an instance of Gallery
(http://gallery.menalto.com/) - I don't have any experience with
installation or administration, but from the website it seems it
recently it gained support for RSS feeds
--
nicu
Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/
Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro
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