Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery application including a content repository for the images, a display piece, an access control layer, and upload capabilities. The idea is to have a rigid design for the content repository with a very flexible display piece. The images in the content repository will be protected with granular access control.
We have a community consisted mostly by GSoC students that stayed around and became committers. There is also another issue around activity drilling down for a bit after GSoC finishes and students get back to student work, exams, etc which culminate on basically 0 activity for PhotArk on the last few months. One of the ideas being discussed around rebooting PhotArk is to move away from being a "photo repository,....,and upload capabilities" and becoming more like a mobile application that would aggregate trough multiple online/social photo sources (e.g. facebook, flickr, etc) which would deviate a bit from the original proposal of the podling. In case the community wants to move towards that direction, do we need to amend or do any special process on updating the podling proposal, etc ? [1] http://photark.markmail.org/ -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
