http://planet.openclipart.org/news Planet Open Clip Art Library News - http://planet.openclipart.org/news http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/11/inkscape-047.html Even if this is pretty much a non-event for us, Fedora users who can make use of the development builds since before F11 (half a year ago), it is still a milestone and the <a href="http://inkscape.org/">developers</a> deserve congratulation for releasing at last the new and feature packed <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047">Inkscape 0.47</a> (could you endure the wait?).<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/inkscape047-released.png" alt="[inkscape]" border="0" /></center><br />I for one can't endure such waiting, so I am glad I use Fedora and be on the bleeding edge.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-3619180694837816432?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2009-11-25T09:10:22+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-is-small-world.html This morning when going to work I somehow noticed (I usually don't look for such things) this small poster glued on the wall of a building close to my office (less than 50 meters away):<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/img_1615.jpg" alt="poster" border="0" /></center><br />Noting out of the extraordinary, some small firm advertising for pet services, but what drew my attention was the drawing in the top-right corner with a dog head. It was looking familiar, as it is one of my drawings published at the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/nicubunu/7599">Open Clip Art Library</a> and it made my day!<br /><br />I made it years ago, exercising original drawing made with the mouse, so the result is not great, but I submitted it to <a href="http://openclipart.org">the library</a> anyway, as I do with all my drawings which are not made for a specific project. And I found awesome how a little graphic contributed to an international project found its way back to a few meters away of me. Either the world is very small or what we are doing is really useful for the people.<br /><br />Now to be honest, I can't say for sure if the image is taken from openclipart.org, from my <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/">own website</a>, where the images are also available, or from one of the many other websites redistributing, grace to the PD dedication, the openclipart.org content. But this is irrelevant, the goal was achieved.<br /><br />PS: is not wise to base your company logo on Public Domain clipart, but for <b>very small</b> companies this is not a real problem, they don't have real branding.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-6575988619747335039?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2009-11-03T12:28:37+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-month-holiday-images.html <p>November 2009 Clip Art of the Month salutes the Holiday Season!</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/people/liftarn/liftarn_Pumpkin_1.png"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/liftarn/liftarn_Pumpkin.png" class="alignnone" height="125" /></a></p> <p>Businesses shut down. Productivity slows to a halt. Shopping malls are so full of people they&#8217;re bursting at the seems. These are just some of the ideas brought to mind as the end of the year approaches and a new Holiday Season is upon us. </p> <p>A source of stress, at times, the Holidays can also be a time of togetherness and unity for people. Clip art images by <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/liftarn">liftarn</a> (above) and <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/bloodsong">bloodsong</a> (below) beautifully demonstrate how simple and effective imagery can articulate these same feelings.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/people/bloodsong/bloodsong_Turkey-RoundCartoon_1.png"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/bloodsong/bloodsong_Turkey-RoundCartoon.png" class="alignnone" height="125" /></a></p> <p>Vector graphics have also been stylistically implemented by <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/mcol">mcol</a>&#8217;s Christmas tree in the spirit of the Holiday Season.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/people/mcol/mcol_christmas_tree_1.png"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/mcol/mcol_christmas_tree_1.png" class="alignnone" height="125" /></a></p> <p>The <a href="http://www.openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> is always evolving and welcomes contributions from everyone around the world.</p> <p><em>Clip Art of the month is sponsored by Worldlabel.com, a multifunctional <a href="http://www.worldlabel.com">label</a> manufacturer.<br /> </em></p> 2009-11-02T14:28:24+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-month-raulxavs-rss-music-icon.html <p>&#8220;Clip Art of the Month&#8221; honors for October of 2009 go to raulxav for his unique spin on the RSS feed icon.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/raulxav/"><img class="alignnone" title="rss_music.png" src="http://openclipart.org/people/raulxav/raulxav_rss_music.png" alt="" width="68" height="121" /></a></p> <p>Regular internet users know that RSS feeds can significantly reduce time spent finding new content on your favorite web pages.  With this influx of content flooding users&#8217; RSS Readers, content producers must find ways to attract new subscribers and keep them reading.</p> <p>While valuable content is the surest way to accomplish this, the importance of catching a reader&#8217;s eye cannot be ignored.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/raulxav">Raulxav</a> has demonstrated other ideas for RSS icons, and I encourage you to consider ways in which you might catch a reader&#8217;s attention.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/raulxav/"><img class="alignnone" title="rss_soccer.png" src="http://openclipart.org/people/raulxav/raulxav_rss_soccer.png" alt="" width="72" height="67" /></a></p> <p>Visit the <a href="http://www.openclipart.org" target="_blank">Open Clip Art Library</a> to learn how you can contribute.</p> <p><em>Clip Art of the month is sponsored by <a href="http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/pagelabelsvisualselect.htm">Worldlabel.com</a>, a multifunctional label manufacturer. </em> </p> 2009-10-21T13:21:53+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/09/open-clip-art-library-new-interface-revealed/ <p>I nearly missed this if not for <a href="http://joncruz.org/">Jon Cruz</a> tweeting it, but TuxRadar made a new podcast talking about <a href="http://www.tuxradar.com/content/podcast-season-1-episode-15">Open Clip Art Library&#8217;s new interface</a>. Let&#8217;s consider this, a press hit! Even though the new interface isn&#8217;t quite ready, the <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/09/open-clip-art-library-uploads-online/">old one is working</a>!</p> 2009-09-24T23:15:38+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/09/open-clip-art-library-uploads-online/ <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/gubrww/14258"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/gubrww/gubrww_diamond_1.png" alt="gubrww_diamond" /></a></p> <p>Thanks to <strong>michi</strong>, <a href="http://openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art Library</a> is accepting uploads once more. Upload away! Michi and <a href="http://bassel.ws/">Bassel</a> have some new things coming which will make hacking on Open Clip Art Library much easier. </p> <p>Also, a big congratulations to Bassel for being promoted to admin! He is also now on the <a href="http://planet.openclipart.org">http://planet.openclipart.org</a> and our news: <a href="http://planet.openclipart.org/news">http://planet.openclipart.org/news</a></p> 2009-09-24T20:52:20+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/09/jonos-art-of-community-released-under-cc-by-nc-sa-3-0-license/ <p><a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/18/the-art-of-community-available-for-free-download/"><img alt="" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ArtOfCommunity-228x300.jpg" title="Art of Community" class="alignleft" width="228" height="300" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/">Jono</a> contacted me to review his book about community management, <a href="http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/">The Art of Community</a>, awhile ago. You should buy it and read it no less than 3 times. The chapters are well split, and provide great examples that make this a classic of the scale of my other favorite book about Open Source, Karl Fogel&#8217;s <a href="http://producingoss.com/">Producing Open Source</a> (How to Run a Successful Free Software Project). Jono&#8217;s book is now freed to be translated, transmitted, reformatted as long as one doesn&#8217;t make money off the work and does share back any changes since the book is now <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 3.0</a> licensed. Check it out!</p> <p><a href="http://grossmeier.net/">Greg</a> over at <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17837">Creative Commons blog</a> points out that: &#8220;The Art of Community isn’t just written for current or would-be community managers. It outlines and discusses all of the issues that are pertinent to simply working with a dispersed community of contributors.&#8221;</p> <p>Honor the Jono by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-Community-Building-Participation-Practice/dp/0596156715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251927101&sr=8-1">buying a copy</a>! Honor the Jono and CC by translating the book and spreading the <a href="http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/">community</a> love!</p> 2009-09-21T21:38:59+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/08/libre-graphics-meeting-2010-in-brussels-announced/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyfitz/2493367283/sizes/m/in/pool-776360@N22/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2493367283_3a5d971996.jpg" alt="LGM2008 by AndyFitz" /></a></p> <p><small>[ Photo <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">by-sa</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyfitz/2493367283/sizes/m/in/pool-776360@N22/">Andy Fitzsimon</a> ]</small></p> <p>I&#8217;ve been holding onto this announcement for too long. Its already out on some Linux-friendly calendars, but I want to make sure all the masses know about it! I&#8217;m super excited for <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels</a> for a renewed focus on content, content, content! This year, I plan to work more on the creative collaborative projects which will be a key part of the conference &mdash; think <a href="http://durian.blender.org">Blender Open Movie project</a>, but between all the creative free and open source graphics application communities. While that surely won&#8217;t be executed on the scale of my Blender friends&#8217; project, it will be a good start!</p> <p>Also, getting this announcement out there is good overall as <a href="http://prokoudine.info/blog/?p=163">Alexandre</a> and crew recently launched the large <a href="http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/">Libre Graphics World</a> website taking a close look at the software and communities behind Libre Graphics Meeting. And, important to get the announcement spread around the world since Jon Cruz from Inkscape is planning a <a href="http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2009/08/libre-graphics-day-at-lca-2010.html">Libre Graphics Day</a> at LinuxConf.au in New Zealand in January 2010.</p> <p>Please help spread the announcement, please translate it into your language on the <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Press_Release_1">Create wiki</a> or by posting it to your website in the language which will help the most people read about the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels!</p> <pre> Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Announced GLOBAL - August 22, 2009 - Cutting edge graphics software meets free culture at Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software will meet in Brussels, Belgium on May 26-29, 2010 at the fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM). Held in a historical piano factory, newly renovated into a lively exhibition and work space near Brussels' city center, LGM 2010 offers software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals the chance to collaborate and learn from each other. LGM emphasizes the sharing of collective creativity, innovation and ideas and is free for everyone to attend. The LGM community is excited for the opportunity to bring this event to the European capital. About the Libre Graphics Meeting The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats. Face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to users and developers alike; in the form of tutorials, talks, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) the event offers many formal and informal opportunities to interact. Highlights from LGM 2009 The last Libre Graphics Meeting took place in Montreal, Canada. It involved 150+ participants from around the world working together for four days to give presentations, demos, and meet informally. Through support from the École Polytechnique Montréal, the LGM user community (raising money on pledgie.com), Sourceforge, River Valley Technologies, Intel Communities, Open Candy, QT, sK1, GIMP, Python Software Foundation, Gnome foundation and Group Eyrolles, the conference funded travel for many international developers whom otherwise would not be able to work face to face. Highlights included contributions by companies building on Open Source such as AscenderCorp and Open Source Publishing, and presentations of Jeff Fortin’s PiTiVi Video Editor, FontMatrix, Phatch and Michael Terry’s work on In-Gimp user-experience analysis and kinetic templates. All major projects in attendance, Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, and Open Font Library, spent time planning activities for the next year. New projects like the panorama stitcher NONA, Lighttwist, a system for running multi-projector immersive video displays, and Markus Weiland's FacetZoom widget, set the stage for new exciting software developments leading into LGM 2010 in Brussels. A Preview of LGM 2010 For Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, the conference promoters challenge all participating projects and people to set goals and plan creative projects. First, each major project is requested to have set three solid priorities before the conference to work towards. Second, one or more collaborative projects is to be developed, beyond just the tools used, such as a book or animation. And third, the conference hopes to involve an increasing number of artists and academics to show novel uses libre graphics software, and to discuss, analyse and provide inspiration. In the coming months, Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 organizers will release more information about the upcoming conference, raising funds to enable the event, and release the official call for participation for 2010. Immediately, the conference organizers invite all interested in participating to watch the <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org</a> website and join the Create Project (<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org">http://create.freedesktop.org</a>) mailing list and get involved. LGM 2010 is hosted by the Libre Graphics Community and Constant in collaboration with De Pianofabriek, Master Networked Media and Research programme Communication in a Digital Age (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam) and the Bruxelles Linux User Group (BXLUG). For more information, visit <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a> Press Contact * Sponsoring Organization: <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/">Create Project</a> and <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting</a> * Contact: Jon Phillips * Contact email: <a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a> * Phone (USA): +1.415.830.3884 * Website: <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/</a> * Press Release in other languages: <a href="http://ur1.ca/a33b">http://ur1.ca/a33b</a> * Press Photos: http://ur1.ca/a34y ### </pre> 2009-08-22T23:39:07+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-mindukas-notebook.html <p>We are really getting into <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-jeronimos-dice-and-other-photo-realistic-art.html">photo-realistic clip art</a>. Maybe its the world being flooded with iPhones or loads of movies like Terminator 4 and Transformers that show off some new concepts in glassy interfaces. Regardless, <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Minduka/13752">Minduka</a> has his eyes set on making some quality clip art.</p> <div><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Minduka/13752"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/Minduka/Minduka_Notebook.png" alt="Minduka Notebook" /></a></div> <p>Also, Minduka made a nice image of a Present. With <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> (OCAL), since I&#8217;m an admin, I&#8217;m able to help cleanup Minduka&#8217;s file. When he uploaded it, <a href="http://openclipart.org/wiki/Guidelines">he did not set the document boundary correctly</a>. We hope that all types of people will upload content, so please keep uploading. However, every once and a while special people come to the Open Clip Art Library who want help fix these issues. We call these awesome people, Librarians. If you want to be one, please do <a href="http://openclipart.org/discussion">join our mailing list</a> and we can show you how.</p> <p>I fixed the following image, uploaded the file again and then created a thumbnail of his work for this blog post and the OCAL website. Fixed!</p> <div><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Minduka/13519"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/Minduka/Minduka_Present_Blue_Pack.png" alt="Minduka Present" /></a></div> <p><em>Clip Art of the Week is brought to you by <a href="http://www.worldlabel.com">Worldlabel.com</a>, a maker of labels for laser and inkjet printing.</em></p> 2009-06-24T10:32:15+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-jeronimos-dice-and-other-photo-realistic-art.html <div> <a href="http://http://openclipart.org/media/reviews/jeronimo/13282"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/jeronimo/jeronimo_dice_11.png" alt="Jeronimo's Dice" /></a> </div> <p><a href="http://http://openclipart.org/media/people/jeronimo">Jeronimo</a> is cranking out high quality photo-realistic clip art which is highly usable from everything from T-Shirts, labels, postcards, and compositions. Since the clip art is freely usable, you can use it on your own <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/business-card-tutorial-in-inkscapeorg.html">business card design</a> or website.</p> <div> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/jeronimo/13493"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/jeronimo/jeronimo_globe.png" alt="Globe" /></a> </div> <p>Jeronimo just uploaded the above Globe, seemingly inspired by the recent praise for his uploads. There are many <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/tags/globe">globes</a> as well at Open Clip Art Library.</p> <div> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/jeronimo/13306"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/jeronimo/jeronimo_audio-cassette_bumpy_rmx.png" alt="Audio Casette" /></a> </div> <p>And, my personal favorite work of Jeronimo&#8217;s is his Audio Tape, which some of you kind readers might not even remember at all!</p> <p>As with each <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/category/open-clip-art-library">Clip Art of the Week</a>, I am most eager to encourage you to contribute to the <a href="http://openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art Library</a>. Right now, behind the scenes, several people are working on the next version of the website which includes thumbnails, an advanced (but clean) user interface, and an easier process for contributing. If you&#8217;d like to help out, <a href="http://openclipart.org/discussion">please join the discussion</a>!</p> 2009-06-05T18:52:50+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/05/more-reviews-and-the-ultra-wide-views-exhibition-at-libre-graphics-meeting-2009/ <p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/4828998">The Ultra Wide Views Exhibition at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/yuv">Yuval Levy</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>The making of the first Ultra Wide Views Exhibition for Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montréal, Canada. High resolution large format giclées; a high resolution 360° panoramic display projecting still images, 3D (anaglyph) panorama and movies with ambiophonic sound; an experimental projectors array.</p> <p>Thanks to Yuval on this cool &#8220;<a href="http://vimeo.com/4828998?hd=1">making of video</a>.&#8221; I really had some good talks with Yuval about making LGM2010 more sustainable and more focused on content rather than just tools, aka bikeshed making. He <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/05/creating-in-the-cloud-video-at-libre-graphics-meeting-2009/">read over my review</a>, and now please <a href="http://panospace.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/lgm-2009-conclusions/">check out his much more complete review of LGM2009</a>, including his todo for 2010:</p> <blockquote> <h3>To do for LGM2010</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Decide</strong> on the venue ASAP. This is the single most important issue on the critical path to leading to LGM2010. The discussion on the mailing list seems to have fade out?</li> <li><strong>Reach out</strong> to the general public! Ginger Coons suggested tupperware parties? Let’s show schoolkids that they need not pirate software to be creative. Let’s share our creations with the general public. Let’s get the media buzz going. Concentrate a few speeches geared at the general public on the Saturday. Make the <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/05/25/exhibition-video/" target="_blank">exhibition</a> last longer than the conference, with the conference being its culminating point. Entice the general public to learn about free graphics.</li> <li><strong>Keep the buzz</strong> going – my feeling is that there is not enough going on in between conferences. I’d like to see more activity on the <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create" target="_blank">mailing list</a>. We need more fund raising in these difficult times.</li> </ul> </blockquote></p> 2009-05-27T06:48:42+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/05/creating-in-the-cloud-video-at-libre-graphics-meeting-2009/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/776360@N22/pool/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/3541611493_801769b7b0_o.jpg" alt="dave crossland at LGM2009" /></a><br /> <small>Dave Crossland at LGM2009 in Montreal. More photos coming soon Alexandre says!</small></p> <p><a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org">LGM2009</a> went quite well! I met some very interesting people and generally had a feeling of excitement while there. I initially felt as if our open source graphics community had entered a period of tool and bike shed making. Thus, I sounded the cry: <strong>what is the priority for <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics Meeting</a> now, more specifically for each of our projects, and for the overall community?</strong> Are we just making tools and creating more and more features, &mdash; better shovels, hammers and chainsaws &mdash; or do we have a collective strategy which is measurable from year to year. And, what about the content or quality of art vs. just graphics, being produced with our applications?</p> <p>One cool guy I met is Kaveh, whose company handles three major scientific publishing companies through his company in India. This guy really represents what I&#8217;m interested in in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS">FLOSS now</a>, which is self-sustaining projects along the lines of the great work Ton and <a href="http://blender.org/">Blender Community</a> has done. How can we all learn from the world of business to power our fun open source projects?</p> <p>All throughout the conference, Kaveh made <a href="http://river-valley.tv/?cat=280">professional recordings of the presentations</a> that synced the video and slides of presenters and immediately posted them to one of his company websites, <a href="http://river-valley.tv">River Valley</a>. </p> <p><strong><a href="http://river-valley.tv/creating-in-the-cloud-and-other-tales-of-design-realidad/">Here is a link to my video</a>.<br /> </strong></p> <p>Here is my list of top three favorite outcomes from <strong>LGM2009</strong>:</p> <ol> <li>Participation by Companies built on Open Source (<a href="http://river-valley.tv">River-Valley</a> and <a href="http://www.ascendercorp.com/">AscenderCorp</a>), and <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/">OSP</a></li> <li><a href="http://river-valley.tv/pitivi-an-overview-of-a-foss-video-editors-history-and-design/">Jeff Fortin&#8217;s PiTiVi Video Editor Presentation</a> (This project is growing now! Great! We need a great Open Source Video Editor!)</li> <li>Michael Terry&#8217;s Presentations on <a href="http://river-valley.tv/ingimp-a-smorgasbord-of-usability-adaptive-uis-and-visually-arresting-graphic-design-for-2009/">In-Gimp and Adaptive UI&#8217;s</a> and his Lightning Talk about <a href="http://river-valley.tv/kinematic-templates/">Kinetic Templates</a></li> </ol> <p>Here is what I hope for <strong>LGM2010</strong>:</p> <ol> <li>Each Project to have 3 Solid Priorities <strong>BEFORE</strong> LGM2010</li> <li>Collaborative Project Focused On Content, and <strong>NOT</strong> Tool Building. I have great hope that if <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/">OSP</a> leads this and we do LGM2010 in Brussels, then we will have a great content-based outcome, which will power development on tools.</li> <li>Involve more Artists and Academics</li> </ol> <p>I&#8217;m excited to hear from others about their thoughts about LGM2009, what worked, what didn&#8217;t, and what to do for LGM2010. What did you take away and/or add to LGM2009?</p> 2009-05-18T20:49:18+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-hrums-red-flower-and-more.html <p>The last post focused on <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-anonymous-clip-arts.html">Anonymous Clip Art submissions</a>, for this <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/category/open-clip-art-library">Clip Art of the Week</a>, let&#8217;s feature the new work of <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> contributor, <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/hrum">Hrum</a>, particularly <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/hrum/13132">Red Flower</a> which highlights the current theme at Open Clip Art Library &mdash; spring!</p> <div><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/hrum/13132"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/hrum/hrum_red_flower.png" alt="red flower" /></a></div> <p>Other great selections are the vector traced and tweaked, bottle below, and the celtic ornament which is useful for generating cards and letterhead. Also, if you visit <a href="http://http://openclipart.org/media/people/hrum">Hrum&#8217;s artist page</a> you can find more ornaments and borders which anyone may use freely for making cards, or a border for a letter.</p> <div> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/hrum/13133"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/hrum/hrum_bottle.png" alt="hrum bottle" /></a></div> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/hrum/13121"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/hrum/hrum_celtic_ornament.png" alt="celtic ornament" /></a> </p> <p>And more recently, Hrum is creating photorealistic images like this trashcan. </p> <div> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/hrum/13126"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/hrum/hrum_trash.png" alt="hrum trash" /></a> </div> <p>Regardless, there is much more that Hrum is submitting. Please head over, register at <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a>, and leave some reviews on the work that <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/hrum">Hrum</a> and others are doing at Open Clip Art Library!</p> 2009-05-14T20:57:15+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-anonymous-clip-arts.html <p>One of the solutions to our constant need for developers, is that instead of importing our old collection of clip art algorithmically, on <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a>, librarians such as <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/johnny_automatic">Johnny Automatic</a>, <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/chovynz">Chovynz</a>, <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/Darth_Gimp">Darth Gimp</a> and others have been helping to clean, manually upload, and tag files for the refreshed Open Clip Art Library.</p> <p>For this week, I want to feature their work on uploading public domain clip arts from the old system such as these AIGA standard images like this heliport:</p> <div> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Anonymous/12809"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/Anonymous/Anonymous_aiga_heliport.png" alt="heliport" /></a></div> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Anonymous/12805"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/Anonymous/Anonymous_aiga_hotel_information.png" alt="aiga" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Anonymous/12803"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/Anonymous/Anonymous_aiga_information_.png" alt="aiga" /></a> </p> <p>If your clip art is uploaded as the anonymous user on Open Clip Art Library, please do contact the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/Anonymous">Anonymous author</a> to get the clipart added to your account on the new Open Clip Art Library engine. For this week, please do applaud all those who are helping upload old cliparts to the anonymous account to help move us towards our goal of 12,000 clip art uploads this month!</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> As pointed out, praise <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/papapishu">Papapishu</a> who has contributed so much to these efforts!</p> 2009-04-24T08:01:15+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-sunflower-by-mokush.html <p><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/mokush/mokush_Sunflower_3.png" alt="mokush sunflower" /></p> <p>When <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-boobaloos-onion-ocal10k-exceeded-ocal-019-release.html">we released Open Clip Art Library 0.19 last week</a>, the amazing importance of getting back on track with monthly releases cannot be undervalued. As such, we hit a goal of 10,000 pieces of clip art uploaded to our new system. For April we are shooting to get 12,000 total pieces. Right now on April 10, we have 10,540 pieces!</p> <p>And, for the month of April we challenged the community to upload images related to spring. <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/mokush">Mokush</a> hit this one on the head with the lovely sunflower. Please use it freely in your compositions, on labels, on stationary and anywhere you see fit.</p> <p>Please help us as well grow the project to 12,000 pieces, all which will be included in the upcoming 0.20 Open Clip Art Library packaged release, news written about, and publicized at the upcoming <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal</a>.</p> 2009-04-10T04:18:48+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-boobaloos-onion-ocal10k-exceeded-ocal-019-release.html <p>This is a <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/open-clip-art-library-release-019-announcement-ocal10k-exceeded/">really big week for the Open Clip Art Library</a>! To start things off, last week we crossed the 10,000 file upload with the clip art of the week by Boobaloo:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/boobaloo/boobaloo_Onion.png" title="Onion" /></a></p> <p>Also, this entire last month the Open Clip Art Library celebrated its 5th birthday! We exceeded the 10,000 file upload mark last week and currently have <strong>10147</strong> files uploaded! That is really great news! This has helped encourage old and new developers to the project and made our collective self-esteem much stronger.</p> <p>To make this even a bigger milestone, new developer, Jochen, created the 0.19 release of clip art. We haven&#8217;t released a new package since 2005! In the past our package releases really drove growth of the project and site, and with the rejuvenated project, I&#8217;m confident this is already happening.</p> <p>Please help us spread the good news about this project, link to this post, and keep contributing clip art! From this OCAL10K sprint, I already have loads of excellent new clip art to write about here coming soon.</p> <p>Here is a <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/open-clip-art-library-release-019-announcement-ocal10k-exceeded/">linkable press release excerpt</a> as well:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>March 31, 2009</strong> &#8211; Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library (<a href="http://www.openclipart.org">http://www.openclipart.org</a>), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000 artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this accomplishment, since OCAL&#8217;s last release happened in 2005, and March being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics. The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint.</p> <p>The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system. All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site&#8217;s registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form.</p> <p>For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time, release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site&#8217;s software to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme.</p> <span class="bquote"></span></blockquote> <p><a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/open-clip-art-library-release-019-announcement-ocal10k-exceeded/">Continue onward</a> to read the highlights and to grab the new packages of all of our clip art!</p> 2009-03-31T05:43:37+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/03/open-clip-art-library-release-019-announcement-ocal10k-exceeded/ <p><strong>March 31, 2009</strong> &#8211; Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library (<a href="http://www.openclipart.org">http://www.openclipart.org</a>), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000 artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this accomplishment, since OCAL&#8217;s last release happened in 2005, and March being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics. The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint.</p> <p>The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system. All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site&#8217;s registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form.</p> <p>For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time, release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site&#8217;s software to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme.</p> <p><strong>Highlight</strong></p> <ul> <li>An offline HTML gallery to browse through the thumbnails of all clip arts</li> <li>Over 4,000 new cliparts as compared to release 0.18.</li> <li>10,000th upload by Boobaloo: http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895</li> <li>Refocused Development around three critical tasks</li> <li>Call for Participation toward April goals of 12,000 uploads about spring</li> <li>Call for Participatoin towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009</li> <li> <ul> <li>http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Downloads</strong></p> <ul> <li>http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.bz2</li> <li>http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.gz</li> <li>http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.zip</li> </ul> <p><strong>Press Kit</strong></p> <p>Logos: <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about">http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about</a></p> <p>10,000th Upload</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/boobaloo/boobaloo_Onion.png" title="Onion" /></a></p> <p>All Clip Art: <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art">http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art</a></p> <p><strong>About Open Clip Art Library</strong></p> <p>Founded in 2004 from Inkscape, the open source drawing tool, the Open Clip Art Library (<a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">http://www.openclipart.org/</a>) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration. </p> <p>Help by submitting artwork today or join the IRC channel or the mailing list to find out about e.g. web development related contributions: <a href="http://openclipart.org/discussion">http://openclipart.org/discussion</a></p> <p>For More Information: <a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">http://www.openclipart.org</a>.</p> <p>Original announcement text: <a href="http://openclipart.org/wiki/Announcement_19">Announcement 0.19</a>.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: There is some confusion on the 10K vs 12K. Our 10K goal is clipart into our new system. There is still some old clipart that has not been transferred to our new system, but that is in our previous packages. <strong>Also, <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/open-clip-art-library-release-019-announcement-ocal10k-exceeded/">please help us DIGG this story</a>.</strong></p> 2009-03-31T04:32:25+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/03/creating-in-the-cloud-and-other-tales-of-design-realidad/ <p>Here is the <a href="http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090331_Creating_in_the_Cloud_and_Other_Tales_of_Design_Realidad">first pass at what I want to speak about</a> at <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/call-for-presentations-libre-graphics-meeting-2009/">Libre Graphics Meeting 2009</a>. It is a wake-up alarm to all making desktop applications. We need to be thinking about how our projects and data fit into the web-powered future. Whether or not we agree with the shift to the web is somewhat irrelevant if we want to stay relevant now into the future. As always, I&#8217;m stating this fast and early and hope to get some feedback in the comments or <a href="http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090331_Creating_in_the_Cloud_and_Other_Tales_of_Design_Realidad">directly by editing the presentation proposal</a> before I post the final up on the Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 proposal system I built:</p> <blockquote><p> <strong>Creating in the Cloud and Other Tales of Design Realidad</strong></p> <p>The trend towards web-based applications creates a question about the future of creativity on the web. With web projects like Aviary, Scribd and Slideshare, more people than ever have access to making and sharing creations. How do our beloved desktop applications such as Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus, Krita, and Blender fit into this new world wide web world order (NWWWWO)? How do our projects stay relevant in contemporary times as more users and technology move to use network services? How may we learn from the rapid development of web-based projects that don&#8217;t rely upon the ultra-long development cycles, arduous community learning curves and reliance upon cranky ingrained software development methodologies?</p> <p>First, this presentation surveys the landscape of creative network services such as Aviary, DeviantArt, Scribd, and Docstoc. Then it investigates the the Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) approach to on-line network services, Autonomo.us Free Network Services most commonly licensed with the GNU Affero GPL 3.0 software license. The Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library communities are used as examples of pre-Free Network Services websites which can fit into the Autonomo.us Free Network Services definition. </p> <p>This presentation is a call to arms for all FLOSS Graphics communities to think about how their applications integrate with the web, what pieces are missing, and how we can all collaborate on making a unlocked web-based graphics future.</p></blockquote> 2009-03-29T10:33:36+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/03/call-for-presentations-libre-graphics-meeting-2009/ <p><img src="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/skin/header_en.png" alt="andy new header" /></p> <p>Last week we opened the <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting 2009</a> website for presentation submissions (along with Andy&#8217;s awesome new header graphic show above). <strong>Please submit your talk!</strong> Don&#8217;t wait until the last minute, because we need to know how much money we need to allocate for travel. We are raising funds to support travel of supported talks and developers. We are quite eager to put this conference on this year and I&#8217;m very happy to be pushing the event towards more web-based <a href="http://autonomo.us">autonomo.us</a> projects with the <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/towards-open-clip-art-library-10k/">rejuvenated Open Clip Art Library</a> pushing hard. Please submit your presentation proposals now. </p> <p>If you can&#8217;t make it, or you use free and open source graphics tools, <strong><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">please help support the premiere event for free and open source graphics applications</a></strong>. We need your <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/please-continue-libre-graphics-meeting-2009-support/">continued support</a>! We&#8217;ve raised ~ $4000 USD towards our $15,000 goal from the community. That is 100 supportive people who have supported the conference. If you have a business or want to donate a larger sum, we have sponsorship packages as well which will give you link love and more attention from our communities.</p> <p>Please spread the announcement below far and wide! You will be rewarded with respect <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <blockquote><p>Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), the premiere workshop and conference for developers and enthusiasts of free software graphics, will be held May 6-9, 2009, at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</p> <p>LGM invites you to share your work with the community. Topics of interest include reports on major open source graphics projects, technology previews, engineering talks, power-user techniques, graphics business best practices, and general issues such as open file formats and collaboration.</p> <p>Interested projects and individuals should submit proposals for presentations, demonstrations, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions by visiting the <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2009/Submit_Talk">talk submission page</a> at the CREATE project wiki. Proposals should be at most two paragraph abstracts and should include any special technical requirements.</p> <p>Individuals who already plan to attend can now <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/signup.php">register</a> free of charge at the LGM Web site.</p> <p>The call for participation ends April 1, so don&#8217;t delay!</p> <p><b>About Libre Graphics Meeting:</b></p> <p>For four years, the Libre Graphics Meeting has been the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of free software graphics applications. Developers from projects such as <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a>, <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a>, <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a>, <a href="http://koffice.org/krita/">Krita</a>, <a href="http://www.scribus.net/"> Scribus</a>, <a href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net/">Hugin</a>, the <a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">Open Clipart Library</a>, and the <a href="http://www.openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font Library</a> gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of brushes and other assets, and common formats.</p> <p>The face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to developers, but LGM offers plenty for end users as well. Tutorials, talks, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meetings to help free software users get the most out of their applications fill out the LGM schedule, and demonstrations from artists showcase what is possible.</p> <p>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/">www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a></p> <p>To support LGM 2009&#8217;s community fundraising campaign, visit <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">pledgie.com/campaigns/2926</a></p> </blockquote> 2009-03-29T04:25:25+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/mission-accomplished-ocal-10k.html The road to <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/openclipartprg-aiming-for-10k-images.html">10K images for the Open Clip Art Library</a> ended today and I would say it ended successfully: in due time, March 2009, the 5th anniversary of the project and with a (shameless plug) <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/nicubunu/11838">mighty image</a>. Time to rejoice!<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal10k-done.png" alt="[ocal 10K done]" border="0" /></center><br />...and keep the contributions flowing, do not rest on our laurels (at this very moment the counter is at 1009).<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal10k-proof.png" alt="[ocal 10K done]" border="0" /></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-1751326509638556490?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2009-03-24T16:42:23+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-papapishus-junk-ship-and-wikimedia-clips.html <p>Last week&#8217;s <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-pitrs-minimalist-food-icons.html">featured work</a> focused on minimalism. This week&#8217;s featured Clip Art of the Week comes from <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/papapishu">Papapishu</a>. He has taken the approach to find old pages from books that are in the public domain from Wikimedia Commons, extracts the clip art, and then converts them into vector graphics. The results are quite amazing:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/papapishu/11579"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/papapishu/papapishu_junk_(ship).png" alt="junk ship" /></a><br /> The <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Junk_(PSF).png">original is from Wikimedia Commons</a> and released into the public domain.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/papapishu/11578"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/papapishu/papapishu_galleon.png" alt="papapishu galleon" /></a></p> <p>As we are still striving towards the <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/congrats-nicu-towards-open-clip-art-library-10k/">Open Clip Art Library 10K</a>, taking Papapishu&#8217;s approach to adding to the collection is fabulous. We are at 9744 pieces right now with 10 days left! Please help us meet the goal by <a href="http://openclipart.org">uploading your clip art</a>!</p> 2009-03-21T02:12:24+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-personal-milestone-in-ocal-10k.html Another personal milestone in the <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/openclipartprg-aiming-for-10k-images.html">drive to 10K images</a> for the Open Clip Art Library: I <i>almost</i> finished re-uploading my images from the old site to the new one (that was a painful manual effort), setting my contributions at 575 images and the total uploads to 9630 (quite close to the target).<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal10k-import.png" alt="ocal 10K" border="0" /></center><br />I said <i>almost</i> since I have some more images that were part of the old site, some <a href="http://nicubunu.ro/cards/">playing cards</a> (218 images, uploading them will set he goal to almost complete), which I am not sure <b>if</b> and <b>how</b> I should upload (and have not managed to get a straight answer form anybody).<br /><br />Well, this is almost all my contribution to the 10K drive (started with 420 images, got to 575), until the end of the month I may upload a handful more files (unless the playing cards will kick in), so is the time to pass the torch, who will carry it?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-247342873542151364?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2009-03-17T16:34:07+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-pitrs-minimalist-food-icons.html <p>As we keep growing and striding beyond <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art">9530 pieces of clip art towards the 10,000 clip art mark</a> submitted to the <a href="http://openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art Library</a>, the quality of submissions keeps increasing.</p> <p>For this week, I am highlighting the minimal works of <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/pitr">Pitr</a>.</p> <div> <table border="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/pitr/11315"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/pitr/pitr_bakery_croissant.png" alt="pitr's croissant" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/pitr/11312"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/pitr/pitr_bakery_baguette.png" alt="pitr's baguette" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/pitr/11311"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/pitr/pitr_bakery_buns.png" alt="pitr's buns" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/pitr/10289"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/pitr/pitr_Candy_icon.png" alt="pitr's candy" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>One image I really appreciate is of Pitr&#8217;s watermelon:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/pitr/10285"></a><a href="http://openclipart.org/people/pitr/pitr_Watermelon_icon.png"></a></p> <p>This image is a reworked version of <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Machovka/2289">Machovka&#8217;s Watermelon</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Machovka/2289 "><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/pitr/pitr_Watermelon_icon.png" alt="Pitr's Watermelon" /></a></p> <p>The point is that Open Clip Art Library allows you to remix other people&#8217;s clip art and show the relationship between clip art files uploaded. <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/congrats-nicu-towards-open-clip-art-library-10k/">Towards the Open Clip Art Library 10K</a> during this month&#8217;s 5th anniversary of Open Clip Art Library, remixing clip art is a great way to help us meet our goal!</p> 2009-03-12T02:18:26+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/03/congrats-nicu-towards-open-clip-art-library-10k/ <p>Nicu hit a high-score of <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/towards-10k-my-500-th-image.html">500 clip art uploads</a>! Massive congratulations to him and to all, keep them flowing. Nicu wrote:</p> <blockquote><p><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal500.png" alt="ocal 500" border="0" /><br /> I have in the queue some more re-uploads, about 75 images, so the increase can be notable in the following days if I will got the time (and also reinforcing my <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/stats">rank</a>), but there is no way in hell I would try do displace <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/johnny_automatic">John Olsen</a>, with his mighty 2016 uploads, from the top spot. </p></blockquote> <p>Friendly competition is a good thing in the <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/towards-open-clip-art-library-10k/">#ocal10K</a> <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> I took the <strong>Nicu-Automatic</strong> challenge and uploaded some people and a nice distortion I created from some pictures of <a href="http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090111_Shredder_Party">shredded paper in prep for the shredder event</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/rejon/11101"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/rejon/rejon_Distorto_Nasties_Thick.png" alt="distorted nastied by rejon" /></a></p> <p>BTW, Nicu created my vector head icon. Nicu, I need a little reJon character I can use places as an update to my vectorhead icon <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> You know which one, right?</p> <p><a href="http://rejon.org/media/2006/12/rejon_head_192x192-pc.png" rel="lightbox[1583]"><img src="http://rejon.org/media/2006/12/rejon_head_192x192-pc.png" alt="rejon vector head" /></a></p> 2009-03-10T21:18:45+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/towards-10k-my-500-th-image.html On the drive to <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/openclipartprg-aiming-for-10k-images.html">10K images</a> for the Open Clip Art Library, with all its <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/road-to-10000-or-cc0-only-over-my-cold.html">nasty bumpings</a>, I reached a personal milestone: my <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/nicubunu/11261">500-th clipart</a> uploaded.<br /><br />It is not by any means an artistic achievement, is just a re-upload from the old site and it is an image I made (but never used) for another project and re-purposed it to the library a few years ago. But is a round number and a good opportunity to rejoice.<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal500.png" alt="ocal 500" border="0" /></center><br />I have in the queue some more re-uploads, about 75 images, so the increase can be notable in the following days if I will got the time (and also reinforcing my <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/stats">rank</a>), but there is no way in hell I would try do displace <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/johnny_automatic">John Olsen</a>, with his mighty 2016 uploads, from the top spot.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-88931607824286788?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2009-03-09T18:37:51+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/03/please-continue-libre-graphics-meeting-2009-support/ <p><a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/"><img src="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/skin/lgm_scribus_team_01.jpg" alt="LGM Scribus Team" /></a></p> <p>Yes, the economy is not very good, but we are more determined than ever to put on the <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting 2009</a> this year in Montreal. Its the main time that all your favorite Free and Open Source Graphics Software teams are able to come together to accelerate collaboration and development in person.</p> <p>We need your support! And to show this support, we have been asking for your support in the three following ways (as <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/02/support-libre-graphics-meeting-2009-fundraising-campaign/">described in my last post</a>):</p> <ul> <li><strong>Donate to Sponsor Developer Travel via our <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">Pledgie Campaign</a></strong></li> <li><strong>Blog about this campaign on your site(s)</strong></li> <li><strong>Put the following pledgie drive button on your site(s) for the duration of the campaign</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">Support LGM 2009</a></strong><br /> <a href="http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/2926"><img alt="Click here to lend your support to: Support the Libre Graphics Meeting and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !" src="http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/2926.png?skin_name=chrome" border="0" /></a></p> <p>There are already several in the community who are supporting our cause <a href="http://benniswelt.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/libre-graphics-meeting-2009/">such as Bennis Welt</a> who said, &#8220;I’d be happy if my readers would donate to this cause when using any open source graphic programs. 5, 10, 15$ or more are very appreciated.&#8221; In German he said, &#8220;Ich würde mich freuen, wenn dies viele meiner Leser, die Open Source Grafikprogramme einsetzen, tun, seien es 5, 10 oder 15$, jeder Betrag ist willkommen und wird dringend benötigt.&#8221;</p> <p>Supporting Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 promotes international development. In Poland, MMIIC <a href="http://www.gimpuj.info/index.php?topic=25649.0">posted a call for donations on the Polish Gimp Forums</a>. And, super-supporter Valessio from Brazil posted the announcement to <a href="http://www.InkscapeBrasil.org">www.InkscapeBrasil.org</a>, <a href="http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/Noticia20090306012705">http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/Noticia20090306012705</a>, <a href="http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/Scribus">http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/Scribus</a>, <a href="http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/LGM">http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/LGM</a> and his own blog: <a href="http://valessiobrito.info">http://valessiobrito.info</a>.</p> <p>Please <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">support Libre Graphics Meeting 2009</a> and let us know when you help spread the news!</p> 2009-03-07T22:10:32+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/road-to-10000-or-cc0-only-over-my-cold.html After a few days ago I was so excited about the <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/openclipartprg-aiming-for-10k-images.html">drive to 10K images at the Open Clip Art Library</a> I figured is the time to put my work where my mouth is, and planned a large contribution when I got disturbed by a talk about <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/clipart/2009-March/009018.html">moveing away from the Public Domain</a> dedication and towards a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0">Creative Commons travesty</a>, a move I am highly opposing to.<br /><br />I was very close to to what I do when I am very unhappy about something: go ballistic, burn the crops and poison the wells. And nuke and the bridges. I think I have extensive experience in the area and can be pretty effective doing it. But having a busy day I didn't got time for that, instead I had the time to think more, cool down and come with a second strategy: consolidate my position as the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/stats">second largest</a> contributor by counting the number of uploads to have a bigger soapbox when/if the proverbial matter will hit the fan.<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/10kprogress.png" alt="[ocal 10K and NO to CC0]" border="0" /></center><br />And as I rarely take the middle ground, my first contribution in this drive to 10K was a batch of <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/nicubunu/comic">44 new images</a> (new as images never published to OCAL so far, I still have a bunch to import from the old website so a lot of aces are in my sleeve).<br /><br />PS: the illustration for this post was prepared with an <a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1220425">experimental Inkscape devel build</a> for F10, generously provided in addition to the Rawhide package by our mighty <a href="http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/blog/entries/inkscape-snapshot-rawhide.html">packager</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-9121983938042771148?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2009-03-06T15:00:21+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-remis-champagne-anyone.html <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/remi_inconnu/11132"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Champagne_bottle.png" title="Champagne Bottle" width="71" height="258" /></a> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/remi_inconnu/11132"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Champagne_bottle.png" title="Champagne Bottle" width="71" height="258" /></a> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/remi_inconnu/11132"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Champagne_bottle.png" title="Champagne Bottle" width="71" height="258" /></a> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/remi_inconnu/11132"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Champagne_bottle.png" title="Champagne Bottle" width="71" height="258" /></a> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/remi_inconnu/11132"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Champagne_bottle.png" title="Champagne Bottle" width="71" height="258" /></a></p> <p>When <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-ajs-media-icons.html">prepping last week&#8217;s Clip Art of the Week</a>, I discovered the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/remi_inconnu">glossy clip art of Remi</a>. He has done some really amazing work such as the following:</p> <table> <tr> <td> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/remi_inconnu/9514"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Hunter_knife_1.png" alt="Remi Hunter Knife" /></a> </td> <td> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/remi_inconnu/9434"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Trash.png" alt="Remi Trash" /></a> </td> <td> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/download/remi_inconnu/5130"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/remi_inconnu/remi_inconnu_Colouring_pencils.png" alt="Remi Trash" /></a> </td> </tr> </table> <p>All of his clip art submissions are super-high quality! I would love to receive images showing people and businesses using this clip art on billboards, airplanes, in books, or anywhere you can use these images, since they are all released into the public domain!</p> <p>I bring up Remi&#8217;s awesome clip art this week to also highlight that this entire month is the 5 year anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library. To celebrate the project&#8217;s birthday en route to the big <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal</a>, we are <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/03/towards-open-clip-art-library-10k/">aiming big to cross the 10,000 pieces of clip art submitted to the collection</a>. <strong>Please help us reach this goal now by contributing your clip art! And, if you&#8217;ve used this clip art in great ways, please submit an image showing how you have used the clip art.</strong></p> 2009-03-06T07:41:02+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/03/the-create-project-refreshed/ <p>On the way towards raising <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/02/support-libre-graphics-meeting-2009-fundraising-campaign/">$15K for Libre Graphics Meeting</a>, with the help of the super awesome <a href="http://freegital.de/">Robert Martinez</a>, I refreshed the <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/">Create Project main website</a> with a new logo and rapidly developed designed. We never did a complete launch of the Create Project, and never had a logo. So, lets consider this the next launch launch launch (please write news stories about this project and Libre Graphics Meeting <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> .</p> <p><a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/"><img alt="" src="http://create.freedesktop.org/images/create-logo-big.png" title="The Create Project Logo" class="aligncenter" width="200" height="236" /></a></p> <p>I also updated the text on the front of the site which says what we are doing with the project space:</p> <blockquote><p class="motto">We catalyze communication and sharing between Free and Open Source creative software communities like <a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a>, <a href="http://gimp.org">Gimp</a>, <a href="http://www.scribus.net/">Scribus</a>, <a href="http://openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art library</a>, <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font Library</a> and more. We do <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting</a> and share <a href="http://rejon.org/wiki">Specifications</a>. Join our <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create">Mailing List</a>, use the <a href="http://rejon.org/wiki">Wiki</a>, or chat at #create on irc.freenode.net.</p> </blockquote> <p>If your project is not represented here, and you do free and open source creative software (audio, video, image and text), you are interested in collaboration and sharing, and you want it to be part of this project please do comment on this thread. Also, if you are into this theme and project, you can check out the design and other documents in the new <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/SVN">OSUOSL powered SVN module</a>.</p> <p>Create is pushing a few specifications right now such as:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Shared_resources" class="external text" title="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Shared_resources">Shared resources v0.1.0</a>. <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Swatches_-_colour_file_format" title="Swatches - colour file format">Swatches &#8211; colour file format</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Standards" class="external text" title="http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Standards">Colour management Standards</a> at ColourWiki with some overlapping areas <a href="http://www.oyranos.com/wiki/index.php?title=FeatureWish#Named_Colour" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.oyranos.com/wiki/index.php?title=FeatureWish#Named_Colour" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://tango-project.org/ArtLibreSet" class="external text" title="http://tango-project.org/ArtLibreSet">Icon set specification</a> from Tango project <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/User_interaction_implementations" title="User interaction implementations">User interaction implementations</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenRaster" title="OpenRaster">OpenRaster</a> &#8211; general multilayered bitmap exchange format </li> <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Open_Color_Standard" title="Open Color Standard">Open Color Standard</a> &#8211; free ourselves from the grip of pantone! </li> <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Non-destructive_images_processing_and_photo_management" title="Non-destructive images processing and photo management">Non-destructive images processing and photo management</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Unified_plug-in_API" title="Unified plug-in API">Unified plug-in API</a> for processing raster graphics </li> <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference" title="Conference">Conference</a> The Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 planning page (and for past LGMs) </li> <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2009" title="Conference 2009">Conference_2009</a> The Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 planning page </li> <li> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/ResourceTagging" title="ResourceTagging">ResourceTagging</a> &#8211; ways to integrate resource tagging into applications. </li> </li></li></ul> <p>The project is open to all types of involvement. Also, if your apps isn&#8217;t free and open, feel free to participate as well in development community specs the FreeDesktop.org way! Oh, and if you didn&#8217;t look, everything on the wiki is <strong><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/">CC BY-SA licensed</a></strong>.</p> 2009-03-04T20:34:45+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/03/towards-open-clip-art-library-10k/ <p><a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> is trying to hit the 10,000 clip art in our new system mark. While this number might not be huge in the modern User Generated Content space, the quality of the collection, and considering our old collection is about 10K in size already, its a good happy number that is growing at a regular pace.</p> <p>This is our push for this month, on the <a href="http://http://rejon.org/2009/02/support-libre-graphics-meeting-2009-fundraising-campaign/">path towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal</a>, to get more clip art, more users, and have fun while doing it. So, please jump in an <a href="http://openclipart.org/">submit clip art</a>. If something bugs you about the site, or project, <a href="http://openclipart.org/wiki/Roadmap">get on the roadmap</a>, <a href="http://openclipart.org/wiki/Website_Development">develop the project software</a>, and <a href="http://openclipart.org/wiki/Communication_Channels">join our communication channels</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/openclipartprg-aiming-for-10k-images.html">Nicu is on-board</a>. Are you? </p> <blockquote><p> But now a couple of things are aligned and the Open Clip Art Library deserves a share of the spotlight: </p> <p><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal10k.png" alt="OCAL 10K" border="0" /></center><br />First, the number of images uploaded at this very moment is 9,323, very close to a round 10,000 (yeah, we still have some thousands not yet imported from the old site, but only those are easily reachable).</p> <p>Second, the project was launched in March 2004, so this month will mark its 5 years anniversary.</p> <p>Putting those two next to each other, the conclusion is very tempting: a joined effort to hit the 10,000 images milestone until the end of March 2009. I&#8217;m in, how about you?</p></blockquote> <p>I&#8217;m <a href="http://rejon.org/2009/02/obama-vector-set-free/">doing my part with clip art of the week posts</a>. If so help by submitting your SVG clip art, help develop the site, or blog about this to spread the word! Its the month of clip art towards 10K, oh, and the 5 year anniversary for the project! Happy clip art renewing <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <p>Also, we have some other fun things brewing right now on the project behind the scenes which hopefully will be announced in the coming days.</p> <p>I&#8217;m also tagging this push as a couple of my daily ideas, which I still haven&#8217;t made an announcement about: <a href="http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090304_Open_Clip_Art_Library_Release_Roadmap">http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090304_Open_Clip_Art_Library_Release_Roadmap</a> and <a href="http://http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090303_Open_Clip_Art_Library_10K">http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090303_Open_Clip_Art_Library_10K</a>.</p> 2009-03-03T19:46:15+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/openclipartprg-aiming-for-10k-images.html After a couple of relatively highly popular successes (<a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/quest-complete-rpg-map-tileset.html">map elements</a> and <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/02/pac-man-baddies-with-inkscape-clipart.html">pac-man</a>, remember?), in the last year I was pretty much inactive at <a href="http://openclipart.org">openclipart.org</a>, as what I had on the TODO was boring and frustrating: re-upload images from the old site on the current one, with an awful interface and important core features missing.<br /><br />But now a couple of things are aligned and the Open Clip Art Library deserves a share of the spotlight: <br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal10k.png" alt="OCAL 10K" border="0" /></center><br />First, the number of images uploaded at this very moment is 9,323, very close to a round 10,000 (yeah, we still have some thousands not yet imported from the old site, but only those are easily reachable).<br /><br />Second, the project was launched in March 2004, so this month will mark its 5 years anniversary.<br /><br />Putting those two next to each other, the conclusion is very tempting: a joined effort to hit the 10,000 images milestone until the end of March 2009. I'm in, how about you?<br /><br />With the current upload rate, it may take 2 or 3 more months to reach the 10,000 target, so an effort, not a big one, is needed. We can do it, but only with contributor's help. When I will get some time I will upload at least 10-20 images on my own, most likely more.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-4093565919985936113?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2009-03-02T08:54:32+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/02/support-libre-graphics-meeting-2009-fundraising-campaign/ <p><a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/LGM2<a href="><a href="><a href="><a href="><a href="><a href="><a href="><a href="http://rejon.org/media/2009/02/lgm2009_-logo-blue.png" rel="lightbox[1526]"><img src="http://rejon.org/media/2009/02/lgm2009_-logo-blue.png" alt="LGM 2009 Logo" title="LGM 2009 Logo" width="400" height="327" class="size-full wp-image-1528" /></a></a></a></a></a></p> <p>As we did <a href="http://rejon.org/2008/04/support-the-libre-graphics-meeting-2008-in-poland/">last year</a>, we have launched the Libre Graphics meeting 2009 Pledgie drive. Our goal is to raise 15,000 USD this year to support travel and collaboration between Free and Open Source Graphics Software Developers and Users to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal">Montreal, Canada</a> this May 6, 7, 8 and 9.. We are running this campaign all the way up until April 22, 2009, but don&#8217;t wait until then to donate! For this campaign we are asking for your help to do three things:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Donate to Sponsor Developer Travel via our <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">Pledgie Campaign</a></strong></li> <li><strong>Blog about this campaign on your site(s)</strong></li> <li><strong>Put the following pledgie drive button on your site(s) for the duration of the campaign</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">Support LGM 2009</a></strong><br /> <a href="http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/2926"><img alt="Click here to lend your support to: Support the Libre Graphics Meeting and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !" src="http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/2926.png?skin_name=chrome" border="0" /></a></p> <p>Here is the <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/LGM2009_Press_Release">press release</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> <strong>Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 Launches Community Fundraising Campaign</strong></p> <p>The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual workshop for developers and users of free software graphics applications to collaborate and advance the cause of high-quality free graphics software. From now until April 22, you can help support this event by making a donation to the LGM 2009 community pledge drive. LGM is free to attend, so your support is critical to making this important event a success.</p> <p>The fourth annual LGM will be held May 6 - 9, 2009 in Montreal, Canada at <a href="http://www.polymtl.ca/">École Polytechnique</a>. Donations will be used solely to help cover travel costs for volunteer developers and presenters. Last year&#8217;s campaign raised more than $12,000 dollars from individuals and corporations in the community.</p> <p>As with last year, pledges can be made online at Pledgie.com. Visit <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926</a> to make your contribution. All donations are tax deductible for US taxpayers. Large donations from corporations and individuals may go through the Pledgie campaign or contact LGM directly at <a href="mailto:lgm@gnome.org">lgm@gnome.org</a> in order to coordinate.</p> <p><strong>About Libre Graphics Meeting</strong></p> <p>For four years, the Libre Graphics Meeting has been the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of free software graphics applications. Developers from projects such as <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a>, <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a>, <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a>, <a href="http://koffice.org/krita/">Krita</a>, <a href="http://www.scribus.net/">Scribus</a>, <a href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net/">Hugin</a>, the <a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">Open Clipart Library</a>], and the <a href="http://www.openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font Library</a> gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of brushes and other assets, and common formats.</p> <p>The face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to developers, but LGM offers plenty for end users as well. Tutorials, talks, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meetings to help free software users get the most out of their applications fill out the LGM schedule, and demonstrations from artists showcase what is possible.</p> <p>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/</a></p> <p>For the Pledgie campaign, visit <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926">http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926</a></p> </blockquote> <p>LGM is super critical for all of the aforementioned projects to get together and have time to talk face to face. Most of us live all around the world and only get to chat electronically. Meeting face to face synergizes all teams. Even more, through presentations and talks, new overlap happens which brings new collaboration.</p> <p>If you benefit from Free Software-based Graphics tools, please consider providing a donation to the LGM Fundraising Campaign so that we can all keep making this software great for you!</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Please <a href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Libre_Graphics_Meeting_2009_Fundraising_Campaign_Announced">Digg this announcement</a>, follow <a href="http://identi.ca/lgm">@lgm on Identi.ca</a> (and <a href="http://identi.ca/group/lgm">join the !lgm group</a> there too) or <a href="http://twitter.com/libregfxmtg">@libregfxmtg on Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51281478699">track the event on Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50466359547">join the LGM group</a> there as well.</p> 2009-02-27T08:52:38+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-ajs-media-icons.html <p>Sometimes I go through <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> and find gems like all the work <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/AJ">AJ has made</a>. For the Clip Art of the Week, I wanted to highlight his projection screen icon:</p> <div> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/AJ/10637"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/AJ/AJ_Portable_Projection_Screen.png" alt="AJ's projection screen" /></a> </div> <p>This is a great graphic! He has a mastery over Inkscape&#8217;s gradients and making icons look crisp. And, what is great about this piece of clip art is that you can take it right now, and put whatever you want on the screen. Say you wanted to create a postcard or flier about a presentation. You can use this great clip art directly and add your own image on top of it.</p> <p>He has also created some other very stylized icons of popular media:</p> <table> <tr> <td> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/AJ/9662"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/AJ/AJ_simple_VHS_tape.png" alt="AJ's VHS Tape" /></a> </td> <td> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/AJ/9659"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/AJ/AJ_simple_television.png" alt="AJ's TV" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/AJ/9660"><br /> <img src="http://openclipart.org/people/AJ/AJ_simple_radio.png" alt="AJ's Radio" /></a> </td> <td> <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/AJ/9661"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/AJ/AJ_simple_turntable.png" alt="AJ's Turntable" /></a> </td> </tr> </table> <p>We salute <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/AJ">AJ</a> this week! Please download, re-use, and <a href="http://openclipart.org">upload your own clip art</a> and hopefully you will be next week&#8217;s <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/category/open-clip-art-library">Clip Art of the Week</a>!</p> <p></p> 2009-02-26T00:35:17+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-hand-drawn-skull.html <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/narrowhouse/11059"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/narrowhouse/narrowhouse_skull.png" alt="narrowhouse's hand drawn skull" /></a></p> <p>Following up from <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-worldlabel-clip-art-gift.html">last week&#8217;s collection of donated sketches</a> from Russell at Worldlabel, I discovered this lovely <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/narrowhouse/11059">skull</a> that <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/narrowhouse">narrowhouse</a> sketches with a wacom tablet and uploaded to the <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a>.</p> <p>This is a great way to contribute clip art to the Open Clip Art Library. If you draw images by hand, you can scan them into your computer and convert them to vector graphics easily with <a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a>. Or, you can simply draw with Inkscape using your mouse or a cool Wacom tablet just like pen-on-paper.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/narrowhouse">Narrowhouse&#8217;s</a> contributions are overall of quite high quality. Here is a nice feature of Open Clip Art Library&#8217;s software engine, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/projects/cchost">ccHost</a>, which quickly allows one to <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/publicize/narrowhouse">publicize anyone&#8217;s contributions</a>:</p> <p></p> 2009-02-22T01:48:25+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/create-a-lightbulb-icon-that-follows-the-tango-guidelines/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><strong>Note:</strong> I originally wrote this post for the <a href="http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com">inkcsape tutorials blog</a>, but i liked this tutorial enough to do a shameless crosspost here on my personal blog.</p> <blockquote><p>Here is another great inkscape tutorial from <a href="http://bit.ly/JL0w4">vectortuts</a>, demonstrating how to create a vector lightbulb icon within the <a href="http://bit.ly/C6m5m">tango! icon guidelines</a>.</p> <p>This tutorial is a great overview on using inkscape for drawing icons.  For an overview on managing your workflow in inkscape while designing icons, see the previously posted tutorial, &#8220;<a title="Permanent Link: creating icons with inkscape - a basic workflow" rel="bookmark" href="http://bit.ly/16ZAB5">creating icons with inkscape &#8211; a basic workflow</a>.&#8221;</p> <p>Also, be sure to check out the <a href="http://bit.ly/JL0w4">vectortuts</a> website. Even though there are only a handful of inkscape tutorials posted there, if you have intermediate to advanced inkscape skills, you may be able to apply some of the techniques from the other tutorials hosted there.</p> <p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://vectortuts.s3.amazonaws.com/tuts/118_Lightbulb_Icon/final.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="200" /></p> <p><a href="http://bit.ly/tBj6l"><img class="size-full wp-image-159 aligncenter" src="http://inkscapetutorials.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/button.png?w=182&h=47" alt="" width="182" height="47" /></a></p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: This tutorial only demonstrates the process to create the light bulb icon above. The image below is a random subset of images that are in the tango! icon library. To get the tango! icons, including icons in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, visit the <a href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library">download page</a> on the tango! website.</p> <p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-242" title="screenshot" src="http://inkscapetutorials.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/screenshot.png?w=400&h=336" alt="screenshot" width="400" height="336" /></p></blockquote> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/257/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=257&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2009-02-19T12:15:15+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/02/obama-vector-set-free/ <p>Please use the following OBAMA graphic. It is released into the public domain and part of this week&#8217;s <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-worldlabel-clip-art-gift.html">Clip Art of the Week post</a>. Click the image to get the SVG file version you can use wherever you want.</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/rejon/11043"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/rejon/rejon_Barack_Obama_Print_Warhol_Stylee.png" alt="Barack Obama Warhol Stylee" /></a></p> 2009-02-17T08:33:27+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-worldlabel-clip-art-gift.html <p><a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-abe-lincoln-obama.html">Last week&#8217;s clip art of the week</a> inspired me to create a <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/rejon/11043">couple of quick vectorized graphics</a> from <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BarackObamaportrait.jpg">Obama&#8217;s public domain senate image from Wikimedia Commons</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/rejon/11043"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/rejon/rejon_Barack_Obama_Print_Warhol_Stylee.png" alt="Barack Obama Warhol Stylee" /></a></p> <p>The above image I created by taking the photo of Obama, importing it into the free drawing program, <a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a>, and then using the tracing function to convert the unscalable pixels to scalable vector graphics (meaning they may be scaled to any size). Anyone can find content in the public domain, and convert graphics to vector graphics and upload them to the <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a>. It is a quick and fast way to contribute to the project.</p> <p>For this week&#8217;s clip art of the week, I am highlighting the global contribution of clip art by Worldlabel.com, a maker of <a href="http://www.worldlabel.com">labels</a>. Russell from Worldlabel gave this clip art he had commissioned to the project, and every bit of it got converted to vector graphics in the manner I described above. Here are a few selections:</p> <table border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/zeimusu/1116"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/zeimusu/zeimusu_Girlface_2.png" alt="Girl Face" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Gerald_G/815"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/Gerald_G/Gerald_G_Boy_Face_Cartoon_5.png" alt="Boy Face" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/zeimusu/1550"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/zeimusu/zeimusu_dog_face_4.png" alt="dog face" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>If you want to donate clip art you created, please do so at <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a>. And, thanks again to Russell at Worldlabel.com for both pushing us to feature clip art and for the donation of clip art.</p> 2009-02-17T08:28:08+00:00 http://rejon.org/2009/02/launched-clip-art-of-the-week/ <p>Russell from <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/">Worldlabel.com</a> has kicked me into high gear on <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a>. After the lovely admins at <a href="http://osuosl.org">OSUOSL</a> fixed a problem with libxml on the OCAL server, I went ahead and pushed out the <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-abe-lincoln-obama.html">first clip art of the week sponsored by Worldlabel</a>. I will probably not crosspost anymore, so please subscribe to the <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/">Worldlabel Blog</a> or <a href="http://planet.openclipart.org/news">Planet Open Clip Art Library News</a> if you want to get some clip art of the week love. Please contribute to them with my &#8220;call outs.&#8221; </p> <p>Here is an image which is not the Clip Art of the Week, but needs some love in the same category to get to the level of <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-abe-lincoln-obama.html">Shepherd Fairey&#8217;s OBAMA poster image</a>, but all released into the public domain through the Open Clip Art Library:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/rg1024/10174"><img alt="" src="http://openclipart.org/people/rg1024/rg1024_Barack_Obama_1.png" title="OBAMA by rg1024" class="aligncenter" height="301" width="250" /></a></p> 2009-02-06T23:34:04+00:00 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-abe-lincoln-obama.html <p>This is a new weekly blog post which highlights great quality clip art found at <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a>. It will be blogged here at the Worldlabel blog and point out great clip art and provide a rallying cry to make better clip art in order to be featured each week. If you make clip art in response to the weekly clip art, don&#8217;t be shy! Please comment on this blog linking to your clip art.</p> <p>This week, artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_Fairey">Shepherd Fairey</a> has taken much heat over his <a title="OBAMA Hope poster" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22HOPE%22_poster">OBAMA Hope poster</a> which has been claimed to use an unauthorized photo by an <a title="Associated Press photographer" href="http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2009/02/10-questions-for-mannie-garcia.html">Associated Press photographer</a>. This image is the definitive image of OBAMA that most have seen and will be remembered through the ages as linked to OBAMA winning the presidential campaign of 2008.</p> <p>Regardless of the outcome of this lawsuit against Mr. Fairey which appears to be shielded by <a title="Fair Use" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use">Fair Use</a> in the US, nothing should stop us from highlighting a great woodcut of President Lincoln done by Johnny Automatic from an old public domain source, <a title="available at the Open Clip Art Library" href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/johnny_automatic/1220">available at the Open Clip Art Library</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/johnny_automatic/1220"><img class="aligncenter" title="Abraham Lincoln Woodcut" src="http://openclipart.org/people/johnny_automatic/johnny_automatic_Abraham_Lincoln.png" alt="Abraham Lincoln" width="264" height="309" /></a></p> <p>Please use this image anywhere you want! Clip art submitted to the <a title="Open Clip Art Library" href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> is released into the <a title="public domain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain">public domain</a> meaning, you can do anything you want with it!</p> <p>While I would have linked to a great example of OBAMA for this first clip art of the week at worldlabel.com, I want to issue a challenge to all to create a nice legal image clip art of OBAMA similar to <a title="this one by rg1024" href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/rg1024/10174">this one by rg1024</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/rg1024/10174"><img class="aligncenter" title="OBAMA by rg1024" src="http://openclipart.org/people/rg1024/rg1024_Barack_Obama_1.png" alt="" width="250" height="301" /></a></p> <p>Please take the invitation, create your own OBAMA clip art, <a title="upload it to Open Clip Art Library" href="http://openclipart.org">upload it to Open Clip Art Library</a>, and comment on this blog post with your creation! People will use your clip art and spread the greatness of your creations.</p> 2009-02-06T23:09:20+00:00 http://rejon.org/2008/11/why-share-source-discussion-slides-and-priorities/ <p>Here are my slides from last night&#8217;s presentation at the BLUG. I continue to be amazed about how interested some people in <a href="http://rejon.org/tag/beijing">Beijing</a> are about <a href="http://rejon.org/tag/floss">FLOSS</a>, Network Services, and <a href="http://rejon.org/tag/guanxi">guangxi</a>! We had a good discussion about why some people contribute to open source. Similar to many trends with FLOSS communities, most people were into contributing because they wanted to learn more. Some said they were interested in meeting new people while a couple of folks mentioned how their contributions got them a job &mdash; something recurring with many of my friends (myself included).</p> <p><a title="View Why Share Source & High Priority Free Culture Projects Beijing LUG 2008 document on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/7879743/Why-Share-Source-High-Priority-Free-Culture-Projects-Beijing-LUG-2008">Why Share Source &#038; High Priority Free Culture Projects Beijing LUG 2008</a> <div> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/upload">Get your own</a> at Scribd or <a href="http://www.scribd.com/browse">explore</a> others: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/browse?c=114-technology">Technology</a> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/browse?c=115-general">General</a> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/tag/culture">culture</a> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/tag/high">high</a> </div> <p>I then drilled down and started a discussion about what are possible priorities for FLOSS, then <a href="http://rejon.org/tag/freeculture">Free Culture</a>, and then <a href="http://autonomo.us">Autonomo.us network services</a>. This then segued (not the nerd chariot) into a discussion about what the attendees top 3 priorities are and what the top priorities are for Chinese FLOSS communities.</p> <p>Some stated that translation and localization are critical for Chinese FLOSS communities. However, we are not talking about just change some strings. What Chinese users prefer is a localized interfaces. <a href="http://mozillaonline.com/">CEO of Mozilla Online</a>, Li Gong, told me this as well the other day &mdash; Chinese users prefer their own cultural interface.</p> <p>Then I met Peter Junge, who organized the <a href="http://openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> conference last week and sponsors the BLUG free beer through his employer Red Flag. I learned from him that Red Flag does just this by creating their own positive fork of <a href="http://openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> called <a href="http://redoffice.com">Red Office</a>, which provides a cultural interface. Try it out, Clayton Cornell, from <a href="http://sun.com">Sun</a> said it is an interested usable interface.</p> <p>The most interesting and tangible should be priority for Chinese FLOSS communities came from a fellow named Anthony Wong who said there is no good quality FREE (as in <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0">CC BY-SA</a> or GNU FDL) Chinese dictionary for FLOSS. Currently, most people use proprietary dictionaries with StarDict. We discussed this further and what it would take to get this to happen and came to the idea that its:</p> <ul> <li>A great tangible project</li> <li>Should integrate with <a href="http://www.wiktionary.org/">wiktionary</a> and provide some filters for converting to StarDict and other formats</li> <li>Could take advantage of Chinese Public Domain rules to slurp in dictionaries</li> <li>Great project for those learning Chinese (like me! <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </li> </ul> <p>There are still some other issues which need to be investigated such as pulling Traditional Character dictionaries from Taiwan or Hong Kong and/or other sources and converting the characters. Regardless, the goal is to make a Chinese Dictionary for free culture that anyone may contribute to to make better. Hopefully, no sensitive words will be filtered either! <strong>NOTE: Please, if you know more about this and/or have resources which can disprove the need or corroborate the need for this project, please do post a comment on this post.</strong></p> <p>Then, just yesterday I met up with Prof. Wang Chunyan, who is public project lead of <a href="http://cn.creativecommons.org">Creative Commons Mainland China</a>, along with new buddy <a href="http://chinayouthology.com">Zafka</a>, Handong and Stephen from CC China. We discussed all things CC China, how great their <a href="http://cn.creativecommons.org/index.php/2nd-cc-photography-contest/">2nd Annual photo competition</a> is going with some 2000 high quality entries thus far, their upcoming CC B-Day in December, and what are the rules for Chinese Public Domain Status of creative works. I will save that for another post, but sounds approximately like works are in the public domain prior to 1957 in China right now. Then, government documents, official news, legislation, case law, and all official translations are uncopyrightable, with one caveat. Uncopyrightable works must have a form of attribution to the government in the form of a legal citation.</p> <p>Overall, great last few days increasing my guanxi points while all you guys are checking your twitterrank asking if you are the real spamking <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> As I <a href="http://rejon.org/2008/08/freesoftware-freeculture-trajectories/">started to outline in a previous post</a>, the main things I want to follow up on with this discussion of priorities is for us in FLOSS, Free Culture, and Autonomo.us worlds to develop a list of top 10 priorities for a year which give contributors nice goals to work on. I really wish a project (which I won&#8217;t name here publicly but has an i and c in the name) could have taken this on to catalyze development and collaboration between FREE communities as the FSF has modelled so well with their <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html">high priority project list</a>. However, we (myself included) are not ones to sit on our haunches and wait for a list of priorities! We hack for fun and incentives! </p> <p>If anyone finds this interesting, please do post up what you think are priority projects for FLOSS, Free Culture, and Autonomo.us Network Services. If you have insight into China, please post that as well. I will brew this some more and come up with some summary of some collective priorities for associated communities.</p> <p>The other take away is that it sounds like this Chinese Dictionary project, unless some pre-established work is done on this, is a good new project to build up with my Chinese colleagues <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></p> 2008-11-13T06:40:07+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/new-tutorials-on-inkscapetutorialswordpresscom/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I just posted 2 fresh tutorials on the inkscape tutorials blog! be sure to check them out and give them a go!</p> <p><a title="Permanent Link to Playing with Spiros and Path Effects" rel="bookmark" href="http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/playing-with-spiros-and-path-effects/">Playing with Spiros and Path Effects</a> by <a href="http://andy.brisgeek.com/">Andy Fitz</a></p> <p><a title="Permanent Link to Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape" rel="bookmark" href="http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/creating-a-coffee-cup-using-inkscape/">Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape </a>by<a title="Permanent Link to Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape" rel="bookmark" href="http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/creating-a-coffee-cup-using-inkscape/"> <a title="Posts by Peter Anglea" href="http://vectortuts.com/author/peter-anglea/">Peter Anglea</a></a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/243/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=243&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2008-08-25T23:10:55+00:00 http://rejon.org/2008/06/launched-creative-commons-case-studies-project/ <div class="alignleft"><img src="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/3/3f/Poster_bunny_small_400.jpg" alt="Big Buck Bunny Poster" /><br /> <small>Poster by <a href="http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/">Blender Foundation</a>, <a href="http://rejon.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC BY 3.0</a></small></div> <p>This is the next 30-45 days (okay a month) of knocking out all kinds of projects I&#8217;ve had in the queue for months, literally. The first of these is the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/projects/casestudies">Creative Commons Case Studies project</a>. Seriously, this one has been touched by <a href="http://pureinformation.org">so</a> <a href="http://superhumanoids.com">many</a> <a href="http://fabulousbitches.org">people</a> <a href="http://konsilience.wordpress.com">for</a> countless months now. </p> <p>I remember when <a href="http://gondwanaland.com/mlog">Mike Linksvayer</a> wanted me to push this one out and <a href="http://pureinformation.org">TVOL</a> and I sat in a room looking at each other like what the hell is this vague task Mike just gave us <img src="http://rejon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> Well, it coalesced at the CC Taiwan</p> <p>It also now helps me feel like the information side of Creative Commons infrastructure is pretty solid. I won&#8217;t say complete, but at least up to par with most projects of this size. To go along with this release, <a href="http://redprocess.com">Alex</a> and I shuffled around some of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/projects">/projects page at creativecommons.org</a> and there is now a section called &#8220;Information&#8221; which is useful for all those seeking out about why use CC. Please all, feel free to use these sections.</p> <p><a href="http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2008/06/24/creative-common-23.html">Joi just blogged a chunk</a> of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8396">Case Studies blog post</a> I did over at CC&#8217;s blog, which I&#8217;ve sourced below:</p> <blockquote><p> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/8397">Creative Commons Launches Global Case Studies Project</a><br /> Jon Phillips, June 24th, 2008<br /> Brisbane, Australia &amp; San Francisco, USA &#8212; 2008 June 24</p> <p>Today Creative Commons (CC), in association with Creative Commons Australia, officially announced the release of the Case Studies Project, which is a large-scale community effort to encourage all to explore and add noteworthy global CC stories. Creative Commons provides free tools to allow copyright-holders to clearly show rights associated with creative works, and now this project shows how notable adopters like author Cory Doctorow, web video-sharing company Blip.tv, and open film project &#8220;A Swarm of Angels&#8221; have successfully used CC licenses.</p> </blockquote> <p>And, Joi had this to say about the project:</p> <blockquote><p>This is a very important initiative and I hope everyone will contribute and use this resource. In order to make CC ubiquitous, we need support from businesses to get it integrated into the tools and the infrastructure. We need to prove that CC is not only good for society and culture, but makes business sense too. These case studies will be very important to help drive home the fact that sharing is good for business in addition to being &#8220;the right thing to do&#8221; in other respects.</p> <p>This also helps make the case to creators that you sharing makes sense for professionals as well.</p></blockquote> <p>The next big projects to focus on are the Metrics project, PDWiki Projects (Open Library with CC/PD integration and PDRegistry.ca). No links you say! Well, they are mostly out there in the ether so you can do investigation to find out what these cool projects are that I&#8217;ve been working on for a couple of years, seriously!</p> <p>SIDENOTE: For all you friends of <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/projects/cchost">ccHost</a>, a few of us will be heading to Berkeley to meet at <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=mudrakers,&near=Berkeley,+CA&fb=1&cid=0,0,8294219660616310859&z=16&iwloc=A">Mudrakers Cafe</a> at 2 PM this Thursday, June 26, 2008 until whenever (~5 PM) to hack with legendary hacker, <a href="http://fourstones.net/">Victor Stone</a> on ccHost 5.0, the engine behind <a href="http://ccmixter.org">ccMixter.org</a>, <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> and <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org">Open Font Library</a>. I want to do some code fun and not just my talky talk I do mostly these days.</p> 2008-06-24T06:35:43+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/creative-commons-salon-2/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/cc.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-222" src="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/cc.png?w=420&h=420" alt="" width="420" height="420" /></a></p> <p>The creative commons australia is hosting the next ccSalon au at the state library of queensland.the followinf is an excerpt from the ccau invite:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org.au/">creative commons australia</a> (CCau) invites you to the second ccSalon, a showcase of the creative commons in australia.</p> <p>the ccSalon is a public exhibition/performance/expo of how artists are using creative commons licences and material worldwide. the ccau event features creative commons licensed material by a range of australian artists, including a CC Film and Video showcase and an photo exhibition drawn from Powerhouse Museum, Sydney&#8217;s Photo of the Day series. Then get into the groove with music by Sydney performer, Yunyu and Andrew Garton&#8217;s Terminal Quartet.</p> <p>ccSalon is a public event.</p></blockquote> <p>for more information and the program of events for the eveing,  check out the <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org.au/australasiancommonssalon">ccau website</a>.</p> <p>the photos used in this flyer are from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/">Powerhouse Museum, Sydney&#8217;s Photo of the Day series on flickr</a>.</p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/221/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=221&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2008-06-05T01:40:59+00:00 http://rejon.org/2008/05/cchost-45-out-and-liblicense-07-too/ <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8288">Mike blogged</a> about the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/projects/cchost">ccHost</a> 4.5 release for all you to update your sites to for stability right before the massively updated 5.0 arrives on the scene. If you have forgotten, ccHost is the engine behind <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> and <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org">Open Font Library</a> (which both need developers). More info below:</p> <blockquote><p>Two new releases of <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost">ccHost</a> today, the <strong>remix-oriented media hosting software</strong> that drives <a href="http://ccmixter.org">ccMixter</a>:</p> <p>4.5, the final release from the 4.x tree. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7263">4.0 was released March 6 last year</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=598397">5.0beta</a> is the code that has been running on ccMixter for several months (5.0alpha was available in February.) The missing piece needed to make 5.0 final is updated administrator documentation.</p> <p>The software is licensed under the GPL and <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=156675">downloadable from sourceforge</a> or our <a href="http://code.creativecommons.org/">source repository</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Also, Asheesh packaged up liblicense 0.7 which is useful for all wanting to add licensing to your application. I want to get liblicense into a couple of applications like <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">Eye of Gnome</a> and something else fun. Any ideas open source developers? There are resources to help work on this at <a href="http://rejon.org/tag/creativecommons">Creative Commons</a> if you are interested in something fun:</p> <blockquote><p>I just released liblicense 0.7.0 on SourceForge. It fixes the Python bindings. They&#8217;ve been broken since the 0.6 release, it seems. Some functionality in them probably worked between 0.6 and 0.7, but (read on for more)&#8230;</p> <p><span id="more-72"></span><br /> LL_LICENSE and other constants were &#8220;extern const char&#8221; arrays before. Now they&#8217;re just lousy old #defines. This way, even though the strings might appear more than once in memory, it&#8217;s very simple for the IO modules like exempi.so to refer to those constants.</p> <p>Before, due to dynamic linker loading order issues, if liblicense.so were added to a process&#8217;s memory memory map at runtime, if liblicense then tried to dlopen() its modules, the modules wouldn&#8217;t be able to find those constants. What a drag! That broke the Python bindings&#8217; ability to use the modules.</p> <p>Now, I guess that&#8217;s still true, but the modules don&#8217;t need actual symbols from liblicense anymore.</p> <p>I noticed this issue in the process of creating and testing RPMs for Fedora. I had to bump the SONAME because this removes symbols from the library.</p> <p>You can grab it <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=238700">on SourceForge</a>, and perhaps soon in Fedora Rawhide.</p> </blockquote> 2008-05-18T08:54:12+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/fedora-9-released/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Yes, it it true&#8230; Fedora 9 has been released. I am downloading via bittorrent as we speak.</p> <p><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/f9banner.gif" alt="" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_9_Sulphur_Released">digg fedora 9 here!!!</a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=214&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2008-05-13T20:25:46+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/issue-1-of-codefree-an-art-magazine-for-foss-artists/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/">chrisdesign</a> has launched a new PDF magazine entitled <a href="http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/codefree/">&#8216;Code:Free&#8217;</a> and it is loaded to the brim with awesome examples of artwork created using Free Software. As can be expected, the majority of the art was created with <a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a> and <a href="http://gimp.org/">the GIMP</a>, but there are also some nice <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art</a> remixes thrown in to mix it up a bit. Chrisdesign also writes some tutorials (some of which i have featured on <a href="http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/">the inkscape tutorials weblog</a>) so be sure to browse his <a href="http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/">blog</a>.</p> <p>Be sure to check it out and support the growing number of artists using FOSS to create stunning works!</p> <p><a href="http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/codefree/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://chrisdesign.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/download1.jpg?w=298&h=307" alt="" width="298" height="307" /></a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/204/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=204&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2008-04-21T22:28:01+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/inkscape-wallpapers-desktop-backgrounds/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>here are some inkscape wallpapers that i have put together from the sticker designs that i did a few months ago for the inkscape sticker contest. The SVG&#8217;s are available from my deviantart site that the thumbs below are linked to.</p> <p><a href="http://ryanlerch.deviantart.com/art/inkscape-wallpaper-blue-82981784"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-200" src="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/blue2.png" alt="" /></a><a href="http://ryanlerch.deviantart.com/art/inkscape-wallpaper-orange-82981949"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-201" src="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/orange1.png" alt="" /></a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/196/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=196&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2008-04-16T07:34:07+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/inkscape-046-fully-released/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Even though the Linux versions of the newest version of Inkscape have been out for a few weeks now, the release of the OSX and Windows packages means that everyone can now enjoy the feature packed 0.46 version of Inkscape.</p> <p>Make sure you <a href="http://digg.com/software/Inkscape_0_46_released">digg the release of inkscape 0.46 </a></p> <p>Following is a blurb from the <a href="http://inkscape.org/inkscape046-release.php">inkscape release announcement</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.</p> <p>Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create &#8220;brushes&#8221; and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.</p></blockquote> <p>Inkscape can be downloaded for free from the inkscape website:</p> <p><a href="http://inkscape.org/">http://inkscape.org/</a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/190/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=190&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2008-04-01T23:27:19+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/02/on-scale-of-evil-from-6660-to-6666.html I know the real &quot;evil&quot; number is <b>666</b>, but the 666-th upload to the <a href="http://openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art Library</a> was <b>long ago</b>, so the best I can do is to try a surrogate, a replacement something looking close to it. So I uploaded another milestone:<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal/ocal6660.png" alt="[ocal]" border="0" /></center><br />I am not sure what is &quot;more evil&quot;, 6660 or 6666 or if they are evil enough to count, so I uploaded both the image number 6660 and image 6666 (both were imports from the old website), hope this make me sort of evil:<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal/ocal6666.png" alt="[ocal]" border="0" /></center><br />As <a href="http://web.mac.com/johnny_automatic/Photos/About_Me.html">Johnny Automatic</a> noted on the <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/clipart/2008-February/008371.html">mailing list</a>, about February 2008: &quot;this month has seen more submissions than any month since we began tracking them&quot;, we were up to something this month and still have one more day to go:<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/ocal/ocal200802.png" alt="[ocal]" border="0" /></center><br />What's next? I still have a lot of files from the old site to dump into ccHost, so I will continue my share of increasing the monthly uploads for a while. And I'll continue to be evil (or at least try to).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-1833022790318950700?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-02-28T15:50:18+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/02/tons-of-clipart-openclipartorg-daily.html <a href="http://openclipart.org"><img src="http://openclipart.org/cchost/ocal-files/skin/default/ocalbutton.png" alt="Open Clip Art Library" align="right" border="0" /></a>Quite late, a couple of years late, the 0.18 release of the <a href="http://openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art Library</a> got packaged for Fedora and is expected to hit a Rawhide near you (thanks <a href="http://skosi.org/~lkundrak/">lkundrak</a> for that).<br /><br />But that release is <b>ancient</b>, in the meantime we changed the site infrastructure (and lost the ability to do formal releases), gathered <b>thousands</b> of new images from <b>hundreds</b> of new users. What to do, lots of people want the images, we have them but no easy way to bulk download?<br /><br /><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/openclipartlibrary.png" alt="Open Clip Art Library" align="right" border="0" />I present you <b>the daily SVG snapshot</b>: a large tarball containing <b>all</b> the SVG and SVGZ files from our ccHost installation. Today's (the first) snapshot is 156 MB (tar.bz2, it extracts in about 600 MB) and contain over 8.000 images (all of them released as Public Domain).<br /><br />As a downside, it does lack meaningful structure, the files are grouped in folders by authors, not by topics/keywords/tags and we don't have keywords metadata inside SVG, so searching is a daunting task. But this is the best I can do, provide at least the content.<br /><br />Note that this does <b>not</b> replace the old 0.18 release, is complementary and contain mostly images submitted after that release (even if this is changing at a glacial speed as some of us re-upload by hand images from the old site to the new one).<br /><br /><a href="http://openclipart.org"><img src="http://openclipart.org/cchost/ocal-files/skin/default/ocalbutton.png" alt="Open Clip Art Library" align="right" border="0" /></a>I forgot something? Yes, the link to the tarball, of course, the most important thing :D Go to the <a href="http://download.openclipart.org/downloads/">Open Clip Art Library downloads page</a> and get <b>daily_SVG_snapshot.tar.bz2 </b> (no direct link from my blog as I'm not sure if it's a good idea do for a 156 MB download).<br /><br />So use the clipart, enjoy it and maybe contribute back!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-7594805514451114520?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-02-20T14:30:54+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/02/pac-man-baddies-with-inkscape-clipart.html My not so secret Pac-Man project is finished, the clipart images are available on my <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=pacman">collection</a> as well as on <a href="http://openclipart.org/">openclipart.org</a>, the tutorial is on the <a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/">tutorials page</a>, a screencast too, so now is the time to talk about them.<br /><br />Ladies and gentelmen, here are some Pac-Man bad buys and bad girls:<br /><center><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/pacman_baddies.png" alt="[pacman baddies]" border="0" /></center><br /><br /><img src="http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/artwork/funny/pacman3d_thumb.png" alt="[fedora games]" border="0" align="right" />The idea started months ago, when I made a silly cartoon about <b>Fedora Games</b> and I quickly realized the potential: is easy and fun (at least I think so), anybody can create such graphics and a tutorial is obvious and quick enough to be covered also by a screencast.<br />It got stuck in my head for a long time, screaming to get out waiting for me to get in the right mood for that. And in the end I gave up. <br /><br />I started by doing a <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=kRuT0oW1Aos">screencast</a> (as I said, is based on a concept I was already familiar with), sorry for the Flash abuse, it is made with Istanbul in Ogg Theora and I have the original, but until <b>fedoratv</b> gets usable, its temporary home will be on YouTube.<br /><center></center><br /><br /><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=pacman"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/pacman/base.svg.png" alt="[pacman]" border="0" align="right" /></a>Then I made in Inkscape the base shape, taking at each step screenshots for a future <a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_pacman_baddies/">tutorial</a>.<br /><br />When done the next step was to create various derivatives, changing either the texture or the shape, there are many of them I like, for example the ninja-pirate duo (who would win in a fight?):<br /><center><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/pacman/pirate.svg.png" alt="[pacman]" border="0" /><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/pacman/ninja.svg.png" alt="[pacman]" border="0" /></center><br />or the textured stripes and camouflage:<br /><center><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/pacman/stripes.svg.png" alt="[pacman]" border="0" /><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/pacman/camouflage.svg.png" alt="[pacman]" border="0" /></center><br />The original plan was to create 9 distinct images but the ideas came over and over so I jumped first at 16 and ended with 25 images (and still have a lot of ideas, but enough is enough).<br /><br />Then I uploaded the images: both in a <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=pacman">pacman gallery</a> of my <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/">clipart collection</a> and to the Open Clip Art Library (check the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/tags/arcade">arcade</a> tag).<br /><br />After that, crop the screenshots, combine them, put together in a HTML, add some English text and the <a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_pacman_baddies/">Pac-Man baddies Inkscape tutorial</a> is made. Translate everything into <a href="http://dioanad.info/ghiduri/inkscape_carcalaci_pacman/">Romanian language</a> (yup, I write in English first), put everything online, including the screencast and I am almost done.<br /><br />The last step is this: blog about them and throw a challenge: look at the <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=pacman">gallery</a> and find one baddie representing <b>you</b>. If you can't find one, read the <a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_pacman_baddies/">tutorial</a> and draw one yourself. Enjoy it. Show it to the entire world. Maybe upload it to the <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art Library</a>.<br /><br />And with that, enough for me with clipart for a while...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-5136234482556076663?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-02-05T11:17:54+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/inkscape-at-scale-and-inkscape-stickers/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Inkscape is going to have a booth at the <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/">Southern California Linux Expo</a> and the inkscape community of artists have been invited to contribute by designing stickers that will be handed out at the conference. This is an awesome idea, and it demonstrates how much inkscape is a community based project that not just developers can contribute to. For details on the sticker competition, check out the <a href="http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16631247/#journal">journal entry at the inkscape deviantart page</a></p> <p><a href="http://scislac.deviantart.com/">ScislaC</a> (an inkscape developer and artist) will also be presenting 4 one hour inkscape classes at SCaLE (two beginner and two advanced.) No doubt he will showcase some of the upcoming features in inkscape 0.46, like <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046#Live_Path_Effects_.28LPE.29">Live Path Effects</a>, <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046#SVG_filters">Filters</a>, <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046#3D_Box_tool">3D Box Tool</a>, <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046#Paint_Bucket_tool">the Paint Bucket tool</a> and <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046#Tweak_tool">the Tweak tool</a>.</p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/188/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=188&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2008-01-30T07:24:09+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-its-made-my-map-elements-with.html I imagine such a preamble is not very inviting, but it is the preamble of the <a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_rpg_map_elements/">latest article</a> from my <a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/">tutorials website</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote><i><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_rpg_map_elements/elements.png" alt="map elements" border="0" align="right" /></a>It's been a while since I wrote a tutorial (in fact quite a while, as &quot;wrote&quot; != &quot;published&quot;) and that was for good reason: I was not able to come with a tutorial fitting the rest of my my <a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/">tutorial site</a> and did not want to break the tradition . So it was a hard decision to write this piece, which comes as a conclusion to my <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/quest-complete-rpg-map-tileset.html">quest</a> to create <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map">a RPG tileset of over 50 clipart images</a>, a decision I made mostly because I already was asked about how I made the images and expect even more questions in the future.</i></blockquote><br /><br />It is not really a tutorial, more a &quot;how it's made&quot; for my <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map">map tileset</a> (available also from the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/tags/cartography">Open CLip Art Library</a>), it describe the process I used in creating those images, a very short sketch of the workflow (described in more detail in the article) is like this:<br /><center><a href="http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_rpg_map_elements/"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/map_element_process.png" alt="[workflow]" border="0" /><br /><small>[read more]</small></a></center><br /><br />Of course, there is available as usual a <a href="http://dioanad.info/ghiduri/inkscape_elemente_harta_rpg/"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/gfx/flags/ro.png" alt="" border="0" /> Romanian translation</a>.<br /><br />And now I can <b>really</b> consider this topic closed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-3979966138707456818?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-01-29T17:00:19+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/quest-complete-rpg-map-tileset.html I can consider complete my <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/halfway-to-empty-pledge-rpg-map-tileset.html">quest for a RPG map tileset</a>, 50 images are done (outline and full color), uploaded to my <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map">clipart collection</a> and to the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/tags/cartography">Open Clip Art Library</a> (look at the <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/tags/cartography">cartography</a> tag).<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/buildings1.jpg" alt="[rpg map sample]" border="0" /></a></center><br />Now is the time to sit back, relax, upload some samples in various places (like here), annoy people with that and maybe think at the next step, which should be something different. Or should I do more pieces for the set, considering I have a long list with additional ideas? This is a good think to think about while sitting back.<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/buildings2.jpg" alt="[rpg map sample]" border="0" /></a></center><br />I don't know how transparent is from those clipart images how much I miss the time when I used to fight orcs and be happy about that. I guess it's quite obvious (is a <b>long time</b>, about an year and a half).<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/buildings3.jpg" alt="[rpg map sample]" border="0" /></a></center><br />PS: the samples above are JPEGs, the PNG version was to big in file size, so I had to use lossy compression (with high quality), but load the JPEG, change the extension and will get either PNG and SVG.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-6043198703347739972?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-01-23T18:27:15+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/uplaoding-to-ocal-is-killing-me.html So the time has come: <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/halfway-to-empty-pledge-rpg-map-tileset.html">the set</a> is done, it have to be uploaded to the Open Clip Art Library. Unfortunately by hand, one by one, the full color image, the outline and a PNG thumbnail.<br />Question again: what are the computers build for? By any chance to help us automate repetitive tasks? Anyone wonders why I hesitate re-uploading my images (some hundreds) from the old site? Look at the pretty screencast (2.8MB, Ogg Theora) and multiply the operation with 50 (the number of images I have to upload):<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/video/ocal_upload.ogg"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/video/ocal_upload.png" alt="screencast" border="0" /></a></center><br />Php coders badly needed... anyone available?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-3555681856234685857?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-01-23T11:52:55+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/coloring-map.html The other day I talked about the <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/halfway-to-empty-pledge-rpg-map-tileset.html">outlines for my RPG map tileset</a>, naturally I went to the next step: adding pretty colors (as planned) and it progress quite fast, it is the <b>easy</b> part.<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/arch.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/bridge_stone2.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/gallows.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/bridge_wood.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a></center><br />I tried to get a balanced result: at the same time shiny enough but also simple enough, I could have added a lot more details but this is my current trade-off (feel free to start from the outlines and do your own colorization).<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/pond.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/inn.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/pyramid.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/cave_entrance.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a></center><br />One decision I made will surely come back and bite me in the ass: I used gradients. They make the look prettier but after importing a few images with gradients Inkscape gets confused very fast (it is a known bug).<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/statue.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/sign_post.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/fountain.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/tower_round_flag.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a></center><br />But enough for now, I spammed enough with this topic, will talk again about it when the set will be complete and uploaded to the <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> (hopefully next week considering the current speed). Until then I will quietly update <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map">my gallery</a>, one by one.<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/tower_round.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/docks.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/university.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/png/rpg_map/sign_crossroad.svg.png" alt="[tile]" border="0" /></a></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-6928547026207632430?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-01-17T15:24:23+00:00 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/halfway-to-empty-pledge-rpg-map-tileset.html One of my <b>many</b> failures in 2007 was to get the people at the <a href="http://openclipart.org">Open Clip Art Library</a> into holding a &quot;month of cartography&quot;, such a benign defeat is a good show of how bad I react at losing.<br /><br /><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/map_thumb.png" alt="" border="0" align="right" /></a>A few years ago I made a proof of concept about how <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2005/04/game-map-editing-finale.html">Inkscape can be used to create RPG maps</a> and a (small at the time) number of <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map">terrain SVG tiles</a>. This showed to be one of the hottest topics on my <a href="http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/">blog</a>, with important traffic, many reactions and follow-ups (I got many people contacting me offline about it). It can be considered a success.<br /><br />Recently on the Inkscape users mailing list the topic of cartography came to attention so I got the idea about holding a &quot;month of cartography&quot; at OCAL, we used to have such things, but the (still unfinished) migration to ccHost shifted the focus. They are good for channeling energies, gaining momentum, generating buzz and potentially bringing new contributors and users.<br />My approach was to make a pledge: if at least two other people back me and will contribute, I pledged to contribute <b>at least 50 new, original, images</b>.<br /><br />The idea didn't got enough traction, nobody backed me. So here is me bad at losing: once the idea was developed in my head, I continued working on it and created (at a slow pace, due to the low motivation) the above mentioned quantity of images. So <b>today</b> I am <b>halfway</b> to this pledge: I finished the outlines (this was the hardest part) for 50 images, they still nedd to be colored (that is the second half), see below a few highlights:<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/highlights.png" alt="[preview]" border="0" /></a></center><br />For now the images are available for download as <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map">part</a> of my <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/">own clipart collection</a>, after I add colors they will be uploaded (both as outline and full-color) to the <b>Open CLip Art Library</b>. The coloring process will follow at the same slow pace, probably I will make enough noise when ready.<br /><br />The set is not consistent as style, scale, perspective or quality but, hey, I pledged 50 images, not 50 <b>quality</b> images... (could it still be labeled as a <b>set</b>?) see also a screenshot with the entire set:<br /><center><a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map"><img src="http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/stamps.png" alt="[preview]" border="0" /></a></center><br />When approaching the target number a motivational issue appeared and I got confused about what to do next: start coloring, as originally planned, draw more new shaped, as I have in my head a large list of items which could be drawn or just call all this thing off, freeze and upload as it is.<br />Most likely I will stick to the plan but he work speed may have to suffer, watch the <a href="http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map">tileset</a> to monitor the progress.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5797212-7067509106878663893?l=nicubunu.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> 2008-01-16T11:51:10+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/inkscape-about-screen-contest-announced/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Today, <a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a> announced the <a href="http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16001755/">About Screen contest for the upcoming 0.46 release</a>. The About Screen changes with every major release, and always demonstrates some of the new features that are present in that release.</p> <p>For more information about the 0.46 About screen contest, guidelines and how to enter, <a href="http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16001755/">view the contest page at deviantArt</a>. Ted from Inkscape hosts the <a href="http://gould.cx/ted/ink-about/index.php?slide=16">Museum of Sodipodi and Inkscape About Screens</a> if you are looking for some inspiration for your splashscreen ideas.</p> <p><a href="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/ab.png" title="ab.png"></a></p> <div><a href="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/ab.png" title="ab.png"><img align="center" src="http://ryanler.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/ab.png" alt="ab.png" border="0" /></a></div> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/186/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=186&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2007-12-20T00:07:47+00:00 http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/clipart-of-the-week-5/ <div class="snap_preview"><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Chrisdesign/4520">Heart with diamonds</a> by <a href="http://openclipart.org/media/people/Chrisdesign">Chrisdesign</a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://openclipart.org/media/files/Chrisdesign/4520"><img src="http://openclipart.org/people/Chrisdesign/Chrisdesign_Heart_with_diamonds_1.png" border="0" height="291" width="300" /></a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryanler.wordpress.com/183/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryanler.wordpress.com&blog=344773&post=183&subd=ryanler&ref=&feed=1" /></div> 2007-11-23T01:45:26+00:00