Nicu’s Silhouette Images + State of Open Clip Art Library

Whoa, Nicu has some nice silhouette images waiting in the queue for Open Clip Art Library.

The Open Clip Art Library is going through a slight transition post-security problem and it has been about 2 months since we have done a release, which is off of our normal monthly schedule. Thus, new blood is needed in our project. This starts with me giving some blood and spending a couple of hours today contributing some time to getting upload and some other quick features online. Also, please join #openclipart on irc.freenode.net to jump in to discussing the project, what needs to be done and where things are going.

I wonder if a good strategy might be to make Friday’s Open Clip Art Library days, much like how the Tango Project does with their project. What do you all think about this?

7 Responses to “Nicu’s Silhouette Images + State of Open Clip Art Library”


  1. 1 Rob Myers

    Those silhouettes are amazingly cool. But putting my copyright hat on (and not knowing the artist), are they traced from existing images?

  2. 2 Robert

    wtf? Is this supposed to be clipart for hookers to put on their calling cards?

  3. 3 nicu

    Once we have a working site I can see us having a dedicated day each week for woring on OCAL: adding keywords, improving old submissions (crop, fit in page), etc. Also, i think having a dedicate day can help pushing themes, like “let’s meet friday on IRC and do XMAS clipart”

    About the silhouettes, i expect them to give some food to the zealots asking for censorship, but IMO this particular set of images is innocent enough

  4. 4 nicu

    Rob, i think the images are modified beyond the limit they can be considered derivative work anymore. I posted the link on the OCAL list one week ago with the hidden intention to collect feedback.

    Robert, why not? Seriously, i expected such reaction, be happy i’m not planning to submit those

  5. 5 Robert

    I’m not demanding censorship or anything, I just think it’s quite funny.

  6. 6 nicu

    well, anything is more usefull than those stars

  7. 7 jon

    I completely agree. However, I like the attitude of the creator of those stars which helps us push the boundaries and figure out how the boundaries of OCAL.

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