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.

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