Hello, my name is Davide, i'm an inkscape user since i started playing with graphics, then it became a work. I started using inkscape for web-design too and then i had an idea after looking for inkscape resources on the internet. I've found many tutorials, some forums but i couldn't find what i expected for a vector graphic software: a web-site gallery, with the opportunity to publish your drawing inkscape made, so...
so i did it and with my small company called nois3lab (http://www.nois3lab.it) decided to make the best we could to provide the inkscape's users community with a powerful web-site not only for self publishing of images but also to increase visibility for inkscape and for the users community too.
Now we're almost ready to release it, we need someone to join us to fill the web-site with content (images for first) and to debug the web-site, making it comfortable even though we hope it already is. Actually there's a splash page on http://inkscapegallery.net to prepare users to the next release. We used drupal, cause it's open-source and cause we know it well, we tried to make it work the best it can. So, the development area is at http://test.inkscapegallery.net, if you'd like to, you can start to use it, posting your images, populating forums. We need 10 days of debugging and feedback, then we will move everything in http://www.inkscapegallery.net
I know that inkscape.org already have a section called gallery, but i think that what inkscapegallery could be is quite different, we hope to give inkscape the best container for images created with it and the users the best place to submit their work.
I hope that after the release we will collaborate with inkscape.org too, cause the primary goal of this web-site is to help inkscape knowledge growth, to give a place where to go to see what inkscape can do.
I love inkscape.org cause it's full of documentation, resources, forums. Some of these will be in inkscapegallery to, but it is a gallery web-site for the most and we hope a great web-site gallery.
I hope you will be happy to know what we are doing. As soon as the web site will be ready, i'll communicate and we will consider if and how to collaborate for the inkscape growing purpose.
Thanks, Davide Ferrante nois3lab inkscape gallery
davide|inkscapegallery wrote:
I've found many tutorials, some forums but i couldn't find what i expected for a vector graphic software: a web-site gallery, with the opportunity to publish your drawing inkscape made, so...
Some of us use deviantART to show our work. It is not open and the SVG support isn't perfect but it has the advantage of having a very large community of users.
Now we're almost ready to release it, we need someone to join us to fill the web-site with content (images for first) and to debug the web-site, making it comfortable even though we hope it already is. Actually there's a splash page on http://inkscapegallery.net to prepare users to the next release. We used drupal, cause it's open-source and cause we know it well, we tried to make it work the best it can.
You could have used ccHost, the software we are using for the Open Clip Art Library, I believe its support for SVG out-of-the-box, albeit not perfect, is better than to start from scratch with Drupal (and we could use some additional php developers :p)
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Some of us use deviantART to show our work. It is not open and the SVG support isn't perfect but it has the advantage of having a very large community of users.
i know, i'm in deviant artist too, even if i didn't submit images but i'm realizing now that they have svg support, inkscape gallery uses raster images.
You could have used ccHost, the software we are using for the Open Clip Art Library, I believe its support for SVG out-of-the-box, albeit not perfect, is better than to start from scratch with Drupal (and we could use some additional php developers :p)
Did you see inkscape gallery? Cause it's not only putting image into and showing them, it's a full featured web-site and i needed a powerful cms to do that. You'll find infos, link to tutorials, two forums, user gallery, comments, votes, licenses, link for downloading inkscape, news, several ways to show galleries, tag clouds, service links, user profiles, context related content, bilingual interface and content (english and italian), newsletter, private messages, feed rss and more to come. I thought not to figure out how to support svg for now, but to provide community with a rich gallery website with many features and inkscape made graphics.
I hope you're going to take a look at inkscape gallery, and i hope you'll use it cause it is meant to be a comfortable place for the inkscape's user. See you on deviant art for now, or in inkscape gallery very soon... Thanks, Da.
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