23 January 2008

Uploading to OCAL is killing me...

So the time has come: the set is done, it have to be uploaded to the Open Clip Art Library. Unfortunately by hand, one by one, the full color image, the outline and a PNG thumbnail.
Question again: what are the computers build for? By any chance to help us automate repetitive tasks? Anyone wonders why I hesitate re-uploading my images (some hundreds) from the old site? Look at the pretty screencast (2.8MB, Ogg Theora) and multiply the operation with 50 (the number of images I have to upload):

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Php coders badly needed... anyone available?

8 comments:

  1. A bit of work needed, but I have a sample WWW:Mechanize listing on my blog. HTH.

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  2. Yes, there are workarounds, but the proper solution wouldn't be to get two much-needed features into ccHost (what we are using for the website): automatic thumbnail creation and batch upload?
    We have over 7.000 (yes, seven thousands) images from the old website and no way to easily import them...

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  3. Client side answers may be the best you're gonna get Nicu. There has been a crippling bug on OCAL for many months that essentially puts road blocks into any browsing. Every bad link I find I post as a bug report and still, for months, no one who can fix it has addressed it. 1600 uploads all manually. I feel your pain.

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  4. Nicu...contact me if you want a PHP coder, and maybe I can help.

    abu UNDERSCORE hurayrah ATT hidayahonline DOTT org

    (replace CAPS with something appropriate for an e-mail...;))

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  5. If anyone wants to help the project, is welcomed on our mailing list.

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  6. I can help, can you detail the problem... and some of those old images to try. And I need and account for that, but I can handle it. I like OCAL and want to contribute, and Im good at scripting too. My mailing address is cemkalyoncu at google
    Cem Kalyoncu
    DarkGaze.Org

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  7. Then please join out mailing list http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart and will find all the needed info.

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