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.

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/cchost So, 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 [...]

Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone release is intended for testing purposes only by developers and testers.New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include specially support for SVG text using svg:textPath

I just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU! to everyone who has contributed to this project and to let you know about an NGO in South Africa that uses Open Clip Art Library’s clipart. We have a portal http://www.sangonet.org.za that uses the clipart. The open clipart website has been a real bonus for [...]

The Inkscape community have announced since June 22, 2006, the release of Inkscape 0.44, a cross-platform Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool. Stable release 0.44 intended for production use is available at http://www.inkscape.org

Yes, this project is very much alive. While this year has seen its ups and downs, we are now on the up and up while continuing to transition to using ccHost. We are still in great need of PHP/MySQL developers to help us transition our project. Please see where we are currently at and what [...]

Please everyone in the Lyon, France, EU area come and attend the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting March 17, 18, and 19, 2006. This conference is going to be an excellent place to meet Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library artists and developers (as well as artists and developers from other creative applications). I (rejon) am presenting [...]

We have installed Creative Commons’ ccHost, “an open source (GPL licensed) project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata (used by ccMixter and other sites), onto the Open Clip Art Library’s server. The general idea is that this system is to take [...]

We are hoping that the artist, Franccesco Rollandin, will contact us via our contact form to get in touch with someone who is interested in your work, Jochen Schäfer. Thanks! Also, another company is looking for the artists: Dan Gerhards, The Structor and AJ Ashton. Please contact us to get in touch with Nancy Hennessy, [...]

Release 0.19 is due for full release within the next couple of days. Also, that nagging bug that is zero’ing clip art uploads is getting fixed. If you have already uploaded a file that got zero’d, rest assured that we backup all uploads. However, the current best way to upload is to already include the metadata [...]