On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:49 -0500, Scott Carr wrote: > Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > Scott Carr wrote: > > > >> G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > >> > >>> Nicu Buculei wrote: > >>> > >>>> Tom Taylor wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Wondering if there has been any discussion/consideration of > >>>>> association with openclipart library? Seems like a natural > >>>>> association. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Tom, such an association should be a two way street. On the Open Clip > >>>> Art Library website OpenOffice.org is listed as an affiliate, but on > >>>> the OOo website OCAL is not mentioned at all. Even more, it used to be > >>>> mentioned at http://contributing.openoffice.org/art.html but the link > >>>> was removed. > >>>> > >>>> We are doing a redesign of the OCAL website and in this process I > >>>> proposed for OOo will be removed from the affiliates list, but this > >>>> was not yet decided. > >>> > >>> > >>> Folks, > >>> > >>> We do link to openclipart via our third party page. I think we should > >>> rethink this as a result of this email. > >>> > >>> Please put forward your ideas on this important subject. > >>> > >> > >> > >> I wasn't aware they wanted to partner. If that is the case, I > >> wouldn't mind putting a main link on the site. There clipart is > >> opensource, etc. So why not? > > > > > > I haven't been paying close attention to this, but I was under the > > impression that requests had been made repeatedly to have the > > OpenClipart link restored to where it had been on the main OOo > > website. As Nicu said in the note quoted above, there had been a link > > once but it was removed some time ago. I think that may have happened > > around the same time that the link to OOoAuthors was removed from the > > main site's Contributing page on Writing. > > > I don't keep track of the main OOo website, they have never made the > request here. I would love to link to them from Doc, to fix an ongoing > issue, no clipart. ;-)
Err, we do. See http://documentation.openoffice.org/thirdparty.html > > > You used the term "partner" above. What does "partner" mean in the > > context? How does a separate site become (or qualify as) a partner? > > Just curious. > > It was a term loosely meaning that they link to us, and we link to > them. If someone wants to provide clipart, then it would be good to > point them there, as they already have the infrastructure to handle it. > > Clipart is one of those things that will probably not be added to the > OOo download because of size. If we can point people in the right > direction it will help. > That is why we link 'em. Don't know why no other pages do. > > > > This thread reminds me that I should make a note on the new main Docs > > page that most of the clipart is from OpenClipart. I'll do that on my > > next revision. > > Great idea. THANKS for all your work on this. It is amazing. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
