Re: Photo pledge, we need more photos from GNOME events

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
> > > > One challenge we face when doing the Annual Report (this is also true
> > > > for other print and web resources) is to find high quality photos of
> > > > our community. Therefore it would be great if people took more  CC
> > > > licensed [1] quality photos during GNOME events (conferences and
> > > > Hackfests) and share them online.
> >
> > Sharing online is tricky. Photos end up hosted in different places,
> > tagged in different ways. Often, they are just found on blog posts,
> > which are subsequently lost, or can be hard to find. We need an
> > efficient, predictable way to find the photos when we want to use
> > them.
> >
> > I suspect that the only way for us to do this properly is to maintain
> > our own archive of photo assets. Back when I reorganised our content,
> > I set something like this up on our ownCloud instance [1]. It would be
> > really awesome if members of the engagement team could add photos to
> > this archive during events, or shortly after them (like if you see
> > good pictures in blog posts).
> >
> > Allan
> >
> > [1] https://cloud.gnome.org/public.php?service=files&t=a81395e61fd9e241ae97449649d13b8d&path=%2FPhotos
>
> To follow up, we should put this information in the wiki as well.
>
> sri

it would be nice to have an official hashtag namespace for people who
take personal pictures and have it on flickr and google photos..