Monday, 30 Apr 2007 01:01 GMT Sword
by Chrisdesign

Wednesday, 18 Apr 2007 22:29 GMT

Recently, the open clip art library's biggest contributor of artwork,JohnnyAutomatic reached his 500th clipart upload on the new site. At the time of writing, JohnnyAutomatic had uploaded 519 pieces of clipart. (view the stats page). An example of JohnnyAutomatic's work (the Toy Robot) can be seen to the left.

Wednesday, 18 April 2007 01:31 GMT Even though Inkscape 0.45 has only been out for a couple of months there are already many new features that have been implemented that will be available in the next full release. Below is a quote from the inkscape news that talks about the new features, and if you want to give them a go download a development version of Inkscape. A new Paint Bucket tool allows you to click in any area bounded on all sides and fill it with color. So now you can scan in a pencil sketch, import the bitmap into Inkscape, and quickly fill its cells with vector paint, letting you completely skip the bitmap tracing step.

Monday, 16 Apr 2007 22:28 GMT Redhead Anime Girl
by gopher

Monday, 16 April 2007 03:35 GMT The Google Summer of Code projects have been announced and like always there are tons of great open source projects that will get a boost from this great program. Even though openclipart.org does not have a directly linked participant, there are a few projects that will benefit users and contributors of openclipart.org.

1. Importing from, and Exporting to, a remote ccHost instance
   The project is a implementation of a new feature in Inkscape, integrating this software with the Open Clip Art Library. It will allow Inkscape's users to publish their work to OCAL in an automated fashion and also import pictures from it, by merely pressing a key sequence.
   - From the google summer of code website (link)

Thursday, 12 Apr 2007 22:51 am GMT The Open Clip Art Library is proud to announce its first ever contest - the Xiph.Org - Spread Open Media Logo/Mascot Contest. The main goal of this contest is to finish up with a highly identifiable logo and or mascot for the Spread Open Media project. Spread Open Media (acronymn SOM) is a project that will spread the word about Open Media Formats in the same manner as Spread Firefox did for the open source web browser. SOM will promote Open Media formats like Xiph's ( Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, Theora and XSPF) and others like SVG and ODF.

Clipart of the Week Monday, 9 Apr 2007 23:41 am GMT Expresso
by Pipo

Tuesday, 6 Feb 2007 00:50am GMT Inkscape (the free, open source SVG editor) has announced the release of version 0.45 of their great vector drawing program.

Links & Downloads:
- inkscape.org
- Download Inkscape 0.45 - Linux & Mac OS X packages (Windows should be there within 24hrs)
- Inkscape 0.45 Community submitted screenshots
- Inkscape Press Contact Jon Phillips' Blog on 0.45 Release

The following excerpt is from the Inkscape Press Release: