Greetings, friendz,

Thank you for all the great art and thumbs up to everyone contributing to the Open Clip Art Library! The community is blossoming.

We're very happy to report that over the last few weeks we've had a massive jump in users who give us a Facebook like, surpassing the 3,000 mark. We'd also really appreciate a follow on Twitter @openclipart or Google+.

Regardless of what platform you choose you'll be able to follow current news and uploads to the ever-expanding database of YOUR art how YOU want it. We can always use your help growing our library, and thank you again in advance for telling your peers! Let's all keep the practice of sharing in the forefront of our minds.

Abstract Landscape by Viscious-Speed (/user-detail/Viscious-Speed)

What's particularly great about this Open Clip Art Library 3.1 release:

• Our new favoriting system


• A better landing page including more main page features and the most popular clipart.
  Collections have been improved


• Our server has been moved to a big linode box, thanks to gandi.net for supporting our development


• We added imagebot image editing to each clipart page simpy click the "Edit Image" button on a Clip Art detail page.


• Now you can set the resolution of the raster art you desire to download by entering a number into the white box on a Clip Art detail page and by pressing the orange [PNG] button. You can copy the link in that box and use it as HTML anywhere on the web.

As we look to the future, Open Clip Art Library is absolutely commited make it easier to upload, download, and share. Please participate in the development of the project today.

Please enjoy the Open Clip Art Library 3.1, and keep on sharing. Also, please consider donating to support the infrastructure which keeps our community running! We need your help to make the Open Clip Art Library the best public collection of Clip Art that "anyone may use for any purpose" in the world!

Released today is the monthly Qi Hardware's news where you'll see a veritable explosion of developments.

Beyond the fun news of the homebrew CMOS project making the world's smallest Nyan Cat, Fabricatorz Christopher Adams provided some design tweaks to the upcoming Milkymist One product launch:

The changes are included in the upcoming Milkymist One RC3 hardware with the new logo laser etched onto the top of the case, seen below.

And then you can also see it propagated to the box design:

You can also see on the latest news the full spread of the slides I developed for FISL12 in Brazil:

This just scratches the surface of the last month of news from the Qi Hardware Project. Please read about the other developments and join the copyleft hardware revolution!

The Fabricatorz will be in China the third week of October coordinating the first Sharism Forum at Get It Louder 2010 in Shanghai on 22 October, 2010. The Forum brings together thinkers, practitioners and activists whose work concerns and shapes the global movement of a new sharing culture. We have invited open-source entrepreneurs, community leaders, academics, artists and critics to actively advance the agenda of Sharism. We hope you can attend the forum!

This is a major milestone event for the Sharism project connecting together the larger picture of the global sharing culture between Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Free Network Services like Status.Net, Copyleft Hardware, and the sharing activities that happen on commercial sites like Flickr. Since Fabricatorz is a global company operating in both San Francisco and China, this project is close to our hearts in connecting many of the greatest people we know working in Internet, Business, and Culture in the region.

Get It Louder is China's most influential and closely-watched exhibition of emerging, young talent across creative disciplines. Get It Louder 2010 debuted in Beijing with great fanfare and press. It opens in Shanghai on 22 October until 7 November, 2010. The theme for this year's event is Sharism! Get It Louder Shanghai kicks off with the Sharism Forum that will segue into the opening of the exhibits at 8 PM.

We've been working on this massively over the last few months and hope you will join us to spread the word about this event globally, online and offline. We will do more Sharism events in the future, but right now need your support to make the project expand by using the tags #SHARISM and #SHARISM2010 online. You can learn more about sharism now: sharism.org

About the Sharism Forum

• http://www.getitlouder.com/EnChair.aspx?ID=16 (English)


• http://www.getitlouder.com/CnChair.aspx?ID=16 (Chinese)

Details

Time: October 22, 2010
Location: 800 SHOW Creative Park, Shanghai, China

Guest Speakers

Christopher ADAMS, Edmon CHUNG, Li GONG, HU Yong, Brianna LAUGHER, Mike LINKSVAYER, LIU Yan, Isaac MAO, OU Ning, Jon PHILLIPS, Nate PRODROMOU,Jack QIU, Philip TINARI, Gino YU, Zafka ZHANG

Website

http://www.getitlouder.com

Forum Coordinator
Fabricatorz

Sponsorship

Additional sponsorship for the Sharism Forum provided by Google Inc., the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Drumbeat.