HOWTO Help
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Join the Open Clip Art Library Community
The first way to help the Open Clip Art Library is to join the community.
This includes:
- Participate in discussions
- Help with what skills that you already have
- Give feedback to the development teams and the artists
- Create tools that make use of the Open Clip Art Library for all users
- ...and spread the word about the Open Clip Art Library
The main ways to gather information from and interact with the Open Clip Art Library community are:
- The official website for the Open Clip Art Library
- Subscribe to the Mailing List
- Browse the Mailing List Archives
- The wiki
- Chat via IRC on freenode
- Planet Open Clip Art Library
- Bugzilla
Create and submit new clipart
The best way to help is to create and submit new clipart.
All the images in The Open Clip Art Library (OCAL) are of the SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics) format. So the easiest place to start is to get a vector graphics editor like inkscape or one of the many other editors there are and start creating.
Guidelines are in place for the submission of artwork to the OCAL. Following these guidelines will ensure that your submissions enter the OCAL, and are available for use by everyone.
All images in the OCAL are in the public domain. This is the commons of information and expression where nothing is owned and all is permitted. You will just have to keep the name of the original author and others who have contributed.
Answer requests for clipart
A great way to help OCAL is to answer requests for people. Want to know how to start? Read here.
Cleanup existing clipart
There are a number of cliparts that need clean up of some description. Some of the clipart do not validate correctly. You could help OCAL by fixing these cliparts and re-uploading as a remix. Please make a comment about what you have done, so that when someone else comes to cleanup duplicates we can determine the most valid one.
Join the OCAL Development Team
We are in desperate need of people to help from PHP programmers. Contact us via the list or join us on #openclipart on freenode (irc.freenode.net). Areas that need work are: code to make PNG thumbnails of svg files as they are uploaded, bulk uploading, cchost bug fixing.
Some time after July 2006, the Open Clip Art Library migrated to Cchost, which is an open source project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata. Source: Cchost
The Open Clip Art Library wiki page on the OCAL ccHost development is a good place to start to get information about the progress of the development of the new engine.
The live ccHost site for the OCAL can also be viewed here
Did we mention we need PHP programmers?
Web Page Updates
Update pages in the Open Clip Art Library website.
Post news items
- Anyone can write a news item that can be viewed from the main page of the Open Clip Art Library Website
- Once a draft is written, it will be reviewed by a developer, and then published.
- The Open Clip Art Library news is managed with WordPress
- The Writing News section of the wiki contains instructions on how to write and get your news items published
Seek out New Clipart
Seek out new clipart that we can use under Public Domain terms.
Spread the word
Spread the word about the Open Clip Art Library!
- Mention Open Clip Art Library to applications you think could benefit from having access to a rich source of clipart.
- Strive to increase publicity for Open Clip Art Library through registration in search engines, linking to us from your website, addition of the Open Clip Art Library URL to appropriate websites, and other creative marketing ideas.
