Finally tracked down what I was not-quite-remembering RE a GIMP-based web app: OnlinePhotoLab.com, from 2000.
It's dead, of course. Turned up a reference to it in Wikipedia (permalink): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer_Kimball&oldid=350028332 Unfortunately, there's no archive.org cache of it either, thanks to robots.txt: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://onlinephotolab.com . That's of historical interest only, but it's interesting that someone had the idea that far back. [I don't know Spencer at all; others probably do].... There are a few lingering references/reviews to the site launch around, which make for interesting reading. Nate On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Nicolas Spalinger < [email protected]> wrote: > Nathan Willis wrote: > > Wasn't there an open web-based raster editor at least *discussed* (if > > not launched) five-or-more years ago? I recall looking at it at the > > time, but it wasn't prime-time-ready when I saw it. I don't remember if > > it was Gimp-derived or not, though. Or maybe I'm imagining the whole > thing. > > > > Also, another interesting point for discussion would be the prospect of > > building an OFL-based service like Typekit.com .... > > Yes, there are definite plans to meet/discuss/move forward the Open Font > Library at the next LGM along with plenty of other font-related > things... we're working on it... stay tuned. > > BTW, existing online font services already provide various quality open > fonts in their catalogues, for example Kernest: > http://kernest.com/licenses/sil-open-font-license > > As long as they do not remove or hide away the readmes, FONTLOG and > metadata indicating clearly the original designer's copyright and > licensing intents, it's good to see them take advantage of the open > fonts available and they are welcome to do it. Too many sites blur the > distinction between the "free fonts", i.e. freeware > somehow-distribute-but-don't-modify-or-redistributed and the libre/open > fonts under clear community-approved licensing allowing distribution, > modification and redistribution. Thankfully there seems to be a reverse > trend we should encourage of actually showing the metadata and related > information about the font's design with links back to the author's own > pages. > > Some food for thought on that subject on: > http://advogato.org/person/yosch/diary/60.html > > Cheers, > > -- > Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer > Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary > http://planet.open-fonts.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > -- Come to Texas Linux Fest, April 10 - registration now open at www.texaslinuxfest.org -- nathan.p.willis [email protected] aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis identi.ca/n8
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