On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:44:38AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:02:15AM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 13:13 +0000, Jared Meidal wrote:
I see this dynamic user gallery, which is not strictly curated
It actually is curated. It's just not authored by us. Instead we look after which gallery streams to include and which artworks to enable/disable in our super-fantastic 'beat-that-tate-modern' online syndication page.
We /can/ pick and choose which items dis/enabled, we can choose to make new entrants disabled by default. The feed on staging /is/ curated by the person (whoever they are) that looks after the inkscape user on deviantArt.
Perhaps it would make sense then to indicate the curator in some prominent place?
This is certainly a value they're providing, as it can be surprisingly time intensive to do (it was most of the time involved when I worked on the sodipodi site, and then the inkscape site). Besides selecting images, you also field many emails from artists, concerned parents, fans, and bikeshedders.
Including a way to contact the curator might help redirect some of that traffic.
Oh heck, didn't realize Josh was the one doing it. Nevermind all the above.
Bryce
OTOH, one of the things useful about including some user-created content is the testamonial from the artist, perhaps with a description of how they did the work. I see some artists include this on their deviantart page, but it isn't percolated up into our site. With this info, it'd be less a list of 'pretty pictures' and more clearly a showcase of awesome stuff that can be done with the program.
In the old site, we listed the art with the inkscape version used to create them, so you could kind of see the progression of functionality over the releases, which served sort of a similar purpose.
I trust them. Not because I know them, but because they've made good calls in the past and their favorites gallery is filled with good decisions. If /they/ add some new works, our website will update with their decisions automatically enabled for our visitors to enjoy.
Have you mentioned to them about linking to their work from the inkscape site? If not, might be respectful to present this to them before making it official, in case they have any concerns with it.
Other sources, like open-clipart /are/ more arbitrary since any artist can self-select to tag their works inkscape. But that's a source you would set to disable new entrants and you can then have a system of enabling them (which I haven't built, but wouldn't be too hard, a few template tags and a simple curator permission)
In the case of OCAL, maybe better to just link over to that site. That site has additional tools for searching, rendering pngs and creating remixes and stuff.
Bryce
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