The test site for using ccHost as the main engine has been going great over the past month or so.
Below are a few facts of the current usage of the cchost site: We now have 46 registered users on the ccHost version of the Open Clip Art Library We now have 683 public domain cliparts uploaded into the cchost version of the Open Clip Art Library. Of the 56 images that were gifted to us by worldlabel.com, there are only 10 images remaining to be converted. There are only a few remaining tasks to be completed before we can go fully live with cchost as out main engine for clipart uploading and browsing. These include the tasks like the integration of thumbnails into the browsing process and the importing of all the images that are in the old archives over into the ccHost engine.

Tuesday, 10 October 2006 1:30 am GMT The Flying V Guitar by TheresaKnott

Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:50 am GMT Today, the Uploading of clipart on the old site was disabled, and everyone that wishes to upload to the Open Clip Art Library will be redirected to the ccHost site.This is a great step forward for the implementation of cchost as the primary engine for uploading, downloading and organising the library's image collection. If this is the first time that you have uploaded to ccHost, you HAVE to register before you can upload. This simple process allows you to upload, rate and review all the clip art in the library.If you have any questions or problems, use the normal communication channels that are outlined in the wiki.

There is now a RSS Feed for this Open Clip Art Library blog. You can find it at http://openclipart.org/cchost/ocal-files/viewfile/blog/ocalblog.xmlAttempts are being made to keep this blog up to date, so if you have any news that you wish to share, simply write the list, and it will be done.

Nicu has uploaded a great tutorial for converting a simple Raster image into a Vector Image. This process is ideal for converting the images that were gifted to us by worldlabel.com. The tutorial is in the "Examples" section, or you can find it here All the worldlabel.com images are now uploaded into the requests section, so if you have some time, keep converting them and uploading.

The Open Clip Art Library has had a nice contribution of images from worldlabel.com. Thanks! Unfortunately, these images are in bitmap formats.This means that we need these images converted from jpeg to svg, before they can be included in the Open Clip Art Library collection.Jon has uploaded some of the worldlabel bitmaps as "requests" (these are found by clicking the Requests tab above) redo them as vector (while possibly improving them) and then re-uploading them as a remix of the original image.So far, the "borders" images of the worldlabel collection are the only images that have been uploaded to ccHost. (And a fair few have been converted already) When the majority of the images have been converted, the next batch of images will be uploaded, ready to be converted.

Hello, our new engine, ccHost, now accepts SVG files thanks to the great work by Roan! Everyone should +10 thank him! Please see the great functioning test site: http://www.openclipart.org/cchostSo, please help us best by uploading test SVG files to this installation. We hope to move to it very shortly (hopefully within the week).There are still a few tasks in the migration we need help with such as:

1. export of our content from the old system to the new one
2. SVG thumbnails
3. writing metadata to SVG files in getid3
4. migration of old web content from old site to the new one

The tasks are listed on the ccHost Migration page on the wiki. Please e-mail the mailing list or hop onto our chat channel, #openclipart on irc.freenode.net if you want to help out. We are very close now to switching to this new infrastructure.

The kipi-plugins team is proud to announce the final release of kipi-plugins 0.1.3. This release include a lots of improvements and new tools to use with digiKam, especially the Geolocalization of pictures using google map and a GPS device, or a Metadata editor.The source for kipi-plugins is available at this url

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