Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded

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March 31, 2009 - Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library

(http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable

vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000

artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this

accomplishment, since OCAL’s last release happened in 2005, and March

being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL

community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics.

The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo

who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for

uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who

have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint.

 

The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art

upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system.

All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site’s

registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make

this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions

to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative

Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library

files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate

compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip

art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a

link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form.

 

For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting

2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a

goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time,

release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site’s software

to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable

with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three

critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to

ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme.

 

Highlight

 

* An offline HTML gallery to browse through the thumbnails of all clip arts

* Over 4,000 new cliparts as compared to release 0.18.

* 10,000th upload by Boobaloo:

http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895

* Refocused Development around three critical tasks

* Call for Participation toward April goals of 12,000 uploads about spring

* Call for Participation towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009

** http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/

 

Downloads

 

* http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.bz2

* http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.gz

* http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.zip

 

Press Kit

 

* Logos: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about

* All Clip Art: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art

 

About Open Clip Art Library

 

Founded in 2004 from Inkscape, the open source drawing tool, the Open Clip

Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of

user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted

to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative

Commons Public Domain Declaration.

 

Help by submitting artwork today or join the IRC channel or the mailing

list to find out about e.g. web development related contributions:

http://openclipart.org/discussion

 

For More Information: http://www.openclipart.org.

 

 

 

 

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