Open Content Library Proposal
What is the future of Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library? These are two website that are integral to supporting open web standards such as SVG as with the Open Clip Art Library, and the new font-face tag, as with the Open Font Library. Also, both of these communities have built-in support for Creative Commons and other free software licenses where there is demand.
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Sponsorship Rationale
We seek sponsorship to support continuous work on the Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library. We seek support to push these communities to the next level. Since open source web development on actual running web services is much different from development on core software used to run the web, we need assistance in pushing our communities beyond the administrative and maintenance required to empower more people around the world to help develop both project, and thus to take to new levels of innovation on the open web.
Reasons to Support
- Supporting public domain svg library that already contains more than 40,000 svg items.
- Images clear for use by anyone for any purpose. Users include Wikipedia, Ubuntu, Mozilla, and more.
- Public advocacy of both SVG and the font-face/openfont technologies
- Provide a stable location for fonts which can be legally used around the we
- Provide legal alternatives to the murky content and fonts out on the web
- Focused squarely on open content licensing, Open Clip Art (SVG), and Open Fonts. Don't have the distractions of larger efforts, so can focus on advocacy and promotion.
Tasks
Open Clip Art Library
- Complete move of software to http://aikiframework.org
- Continue delivering monthly package of clipart and clipart of the month
- Continue monthly delivery of announcements about the community
- Manage the community effectively with consistent task completion
- Do continuous advocacy on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) involving campaigns, contests, and collaboration
- Speak at conference and public events about Open Clip Art Library, SVG standards, and web standards for graphics
- Keep supporting Creative Commons efforts as necessary by Open Clip Art Library
Open Font Library
- Complete move of software to http://aikiframework.org
- Begin delivery of monthly package of fonts
- Begin monthly status updates for the state of fonts
- Manage the community effectively
- Provide stable URLs for fonts which are legally free to use on the web
- Do continuous advocacy about open fonts, html5, css2/3 font technology standards
- Speak at conferences and public events about Open Font Library, open fonts and standard web technology supported in Firefox
Performance improvements
moving to aiki framework will give the projects many advantages
- cutting down the number of db queries required to render a page to the half means the website will run faster and serve more users
- open framework for creating custom APIs for other projects to use
Budget
- Sponsorship to be used for supporting two developers (one for each project) in China.
- Hire developer to work on Open Clip Art Library
- Development tasks listed above
- System Administration
- Hire developer to work on Open Font Library
- Development tasks listed above
- System Administration
People
NOTE: The sponsorships would not be tied to the people listed below. In fact, the sponsorships would be tied to tasks with new developers.
- Jon Phillips, Co-founder, Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library, http://rejon.org
- Bassel Safadi, Administrator, Open Clip Art Library, Inventor of Aiki Framework
