Getting a better sense of community - gallery based groups

[Jiri Jakub Masek]

Hi, when I read the last week discussion comes the idea of an
*art-supermarket* for contributing this project.  Contributors as providers,
Fedora people as buyers. So, isn't it the same idea like this? I support it.

JJM

2007/2/28, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com>:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.)
>
> 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/
>
> The advantages of deviant-art:
> - is that it is completely tailored for illustrations/designs, not just
> photos.
> - it's free, and you can easily attach your source SVGs (or any other
> type of source files) for your work directly to each piece.
> - pretty much everything is available as an RSS feed
> - nice commenting system for individual pieces
> - no upload/usage limits
> - licensing on images is explicit - when you create a piece of artwork
> you determine the license explicitly
>
> 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.)
> - having a group appears to be kind of a hack. you actually create a
> user that serves as the group, add your group members as friends (who
> also add the group as followers), and one or a small group of people
> have to manually upload things to the gallery. (this can be a good thing
> though, we can use the favorites system to highlight any fedora work,
> including drafts, and only add final/polished work to the gallery.)
>
> 3) Flickr community
>
> I gave this a try too, take a look:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/groups/fedora-art/
>
> Advantages:
> - free to get an account
> - it doesn't require manual intervention to get graphics in the gallery.
> any group members can push their images to the group pool. (and if
> inappropriate/whatever stuff gets pushed the admin can remove it)
> - you can create invite-only groups or make them completely open.
> - licensing on images is explicit - when you create a piece of artwork
> you determine the license explicitly
> - the RSS feeds do actually embed the image, and include any descriptive
> text you added to the image so even though you can't upload your source
> here, you can add a link to it in the description and it'll be published
> to the feed.
> - tagging system makes it easier to browse all the pictures
> - the UI is pretty nice :)
> - the RSS feeds are also awesome in that I think they can be per tag as
> well as for the entire pool of images
> - having a group isn't a hack, it's definitely built for that
>
> Disadvantages:
> - theres a limit per month on how much you can upload per user account
> (I think it's 50mb/month.)
> - 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.
>
> 4) Set up a version control repository -
>
> Advantages:
> - we can track versions of artwork and its sources
> - would ultimately be controlled by the fedora project, not a
> third-party so more reliable
>
> Disadvantages:
> - likely will be difficult for folks to browse on, not possible to
> comment on really
> - high technical barrier to entry
>
> 5) Something else?
>
> I looked briefly at shadowness.com, which is pretty similar to
> deviantart but they have explicit groups *and* their RSS feeds embed
> images. However, their copyright policies are pretty weird. I've also
> never heard of it before (have any of you?) Not sure how
> reliable/trustworthy it is? Flickr and deviantart have both been around
> a while.
>
> Any others we should look at?
>
> Any preferences / comments / ideas?
>
> ~m
>
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