Drumbeat/website/projects/Open Clip Art Library
Project Title
Open Clip Art Library
Short Description
This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.
How will your idea make the web better?
By supporting Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and building a large community of artists around clip art, we are both supporting a W3C web standard and focusing on high quality content that anyone can use for any purpose. You can find it all across the web!
tags
open, clip art, library, publicdomain, community, pre-web-2.0, opensource, freesoftware, freeculture
Website
Video or Presentation Slides
http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/drumbeatideasfromnsc1/
Participation. What do you need help with right now?
Our project needs help with basic web site administration functions, with improving and adding features to the site, addressing user questions, managing artwork and with legal issues that arise from user-generated content (copyright etc.)
What kinds of helpers or volunteers do you need?
We need people with a great deal of experience with PHP, javascript, web design, SVG graphics and illustration. Admin'ing a site that get half-million hits a week is a lot of work!
Goals, metrics and milestones. What is the outcome you're seeking?
We reached 30,000 royalty free cliparts on the site that are quite high quality. Our sites' traffic has increased by 100% since the installation of Aiki Framework, our AGPL-licensed framework that powers the website (http://aikiframework.org). We have over 60,000 users and typically send out over 1,000,000 graphics monthly. Our visitors stay an average of 5 minutes, and we have 6,000 + unique visitors daily. We hope to have many more users (100,000) and hope to partner with other open source developers and organizations to allow users to edit/create svg graphics entirely from the web for upload to our web application.
Current challenges and questions
Our current challenges are coordinating with other developers world wide, addressing issues with copyrighted material, keeping up with the bandwith requirements our community creates, moving existing systems over to the new Aiki Framework while developing the framework.
Audience
We are trying to reach out to anyone who has a need for high-quality SVG graphics, from buisness owners, students, graphic designers, publishers, video editors and others.
Geography
We target the entire world.
Partners and collaborators
Open Colour Project, Scribus, Cloudcanvas, Fabricatorz, Aiki Framework, Creative Commons, Inkscape, CREATE Project, Open Font Library, Freedesktop.org, KOffice, Scribus, TheOpenCD, Oregon Open Source Lab
Background
"Why do you or the project team care about this issue or problem? Why are you passionate about driving this project forward?"
Tools and Platforms
Launchpad, Bzr, Aiki Framework, Ubuntu
What collaborative tools are you already using?
Our website is a collaborative tool running http://aikiframework.org. We actively use a wiki (http://openclipart.org/wiki), mailing lists, Launchpad and IRC.
Budget & Fundraising
- 1,000 monthly for server bandwidth
- 2,000 monthly for software engineer
- 2,000 monthly for web developer
This is from our hosting at http://osuosl.org/
One time VM setup fee: $100 Virtual machine: $30/mo $30 Database(s): $40/db/mo x 5 $200 Email forwarding: $40/domain/mo x 2 $80 Monitoring: $120 Bandwidth: $35/Mbps sustained/mo $35
Monthly "costs": $345 One-time "costs": $220
Labor Costs
10 hours Manager Time @ 80/hr = $800. 20 hours Admin Time @ 30/hr = $600.
Total $1400.
In addition, we would ideally like to have approximately:
- $2,000./month for a software engineer
- $2,000./month for a front-end web developer
In an ideal universe, we would require $5400.00/month to run Open Clip Art Library. Right now, we work on a budget of 0.