chandan, top secret military sites get hacked, so i won't make any tall claims of complete data protection. however, we are working towards making it difficult to download images from the website. personally, i don't care if people download my pictures and keep copies on their desktop for personal reference. most likely, many contributors won't care either as long as their images are being used for educational purposes, or as personal reference. however, some contributors may be worried about their images. for these people we are including image protection. mihir chhatre will probably write about this when he gets time, or, most likely, we will put a small article on the website itself so that it is available as a reference on a more permanent basis.
we will make a more convincing case about this by putting up a few species page samples and many pictures on the website. i will let you all know when this is done. but ultimately, my guess is that those people who have the team spirit and willingness to share information and pictures online for the benefit of the community will contribute. those who worry to no end won't. At 9:01 AM +0530 12/27/09, Chandan Jyoti Gogoi wrote: > > >Hi KK, > >you can put me in data management group or Media Management and >Technical Support Team. >I say Joomla is a good choice, as people say "open source matters". >But will it be open source >image files for Ifoundbutterlies ? > >And will every image hold copyright or free license ? I bought this topic >as I seriously believe that "if you can see any image you can have >that image, nothing can stop you >from copying that image even if the image cannot be saved directly >on computer". > >So if you ask for copyrighted material to publish with permission, >those pictures will somehow end in >someones folder downloaded from the site. And even if you get images >that are free of copyright, I >suppose a few will still have their precious catch with them. You >can say I am just paranoid with >copyright but I really like opensource. I have seen people's >intellectual moving in streams and >downloaded free of costs from p2p and file sharing sites. It would >be nasty if we cannot protect the >documents of donators. So you can decide ? > >And please let me know how the user data and passwords are >maintained and who has direct access to these data. As you know >passwords are the weakest link to hack anything. > >And can we use Mailhide to hide mail address of everybody. It would >help reducing the everincreasing >spam reaching the mailbox. Gmail has a good spam protection but >others such as Yahoo, rediffmail, >sify, hotmail etc. has not spent much on spam protection. You can >check at ><http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/>http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/. I >have used it in websites that I have been developing. It use is >fairly simple and effective. > >Regards > >Chandan Jyoti Gogoi > > -- Krushnamegh Kunte Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh -- Enjoy
