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

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 16:49 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> 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).

If content is under a free license I don't really get why something like
Wikimedia[1] Commons or Flickr isn't used to *share* with the wider
manchild out, there instead of putting them in our own 'data silo'. (Not
meant in a harsh way, I'm just bad finding better words this morning.)

andre

[1] Disclaimer: I am affiliated.
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