Re: Gnome photo kiosk program

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 07:57 +0200, z pekar gmail com wrote:
> I would like to sponsor(budget ca. 800-900$) a new open source (GPL)
> linux project - gkiosk. It should be a Gnome photo kiosk program,
> smth. like this: http://xkiosk2.sourceforge.net/ - this program
> could/should be used as a start point.
> things to add:
> 1) basic image edit functions, like (rotate, zoom, crop, move, redeyes
> removal, color adjusting,black & white, sepia, brightness and contrast
> etc. - all the standard stuff that can be taken from any open source
> photo manager like f-spot or any other).
> 2) adding custom templates/text to an image
> 3) calculation of the price of an order - for customer(to show before
> finishing the order) and for kiosk owner(printing expenses for
> bookkeeping)
> 4) automatic ftp upload of the order to the ftp server of the printing lab.
> optional:
> 5) basic centralized bookkeeping via php/mysql script: once an order
> is made - it should be recorded in a central MySQL-DB. A simple php
> script should be created to allow the kiosks owner to see the records.
> 
> bids: http://www.getacoder.com/projects/gkiosk_68339.html or contact
> me directly: z pekar gmail com

Cheese seems like the perfect starting point:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/

I guess you'll also want it to control a real camera (not just a webcam)
somehow.

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