On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:34:37PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 7/8/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
The idea has been floated to merge OCAL back into Inkscape.
What happened to the idea of making it wiki-like, so that users can do most of the sorting work themselves? If this is still planned, will the merge with Inkscape help it or harm it?
This is the ccHost app I referred to earlier. It's great - the program works and is being maintained by creative commons; it needs to be adapted for use with clipart.
I think the merge with Inkscape will help it in several ways. First, since we can probably find ways to use it for Inkscape for other kinds of contributions besides just clipart (e.g. palettes, screenshots, about screen submissions, etc.), the effort of setting it up will pay off more greatly. Second, being part of Inkscape will hopefully bring in more technically-oriented participants who will be able to help in augmenting and administering the tool.
Of course, running ccHost on SourceForge would probably be a nightmare; much worse than the issues we've had with mediawiki. But since Inkscape will be moving the website to a new host, this will hopefully not be an issue. And of course, worst case is, we'd just run it on freedesktop.org.
Bryce