[Board] flickring out ...

[Steven Feldman]

Hiya

Copied Barry Rowlingson in as he is one of those mentioned.

I am an admin on the FOSS4G Group on flickr

It’s not quite the impending disaster that it may seem. See http://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/07/the-commons-the-past-is-100-part-of-our-future/ <http://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/07/the-commons-the-past-is-100-part-of-our-future/>

Key points:
If your images were uploaded as Creative Commons (mine were) then they will not be removed from flickr but unless you upgrade to Pro you won’t be able to upload any more images
There is a programme for 501(c)(3)’s to apply for a free Pro account at https://help.flickr.com/en_us/discounts-for-non-profit-organizations-rJio8cn7 <https://help.flickr.com/en_us/discounts-for-non-profit-organizations-rJio8cn7> we would probably be able to get an OSGeo Pro account - we would still have to work out how we could enable our snap happy members to upload to this account

Cheers
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Steven

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> On 5 Feb 2019, at 06:01, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was having a more serious look at our OSGeo Flickr group (some great early pictures of foss4g 2006 and the first osgeo booth). And downloading some photos that looked fun (mostly from Ian Turton).
> 
> I discovered I am an admin in the osgeo group, and I can look at the members and see a) who has over 1000 photos and b) who is "pro" (and will keep over 1000 photos). To keep these early photos we can consider reaching out to:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeo/members/ <https://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeo/members/>
> Ian Turton: 2326
> Jody Garnett: 3192
> Jeffrey Johnson: 7720
> Astrid: 996
> https://www.flickr.com/groups/foss4g/members/ <https://www.flickr.com/groups/foss4g/members/>
> Guido Stein: 1222
> Steven Feldman: 3334
> Joe Larson: 1142
> Bazza Seaotter: 1615
> This is a surprisingly small list, with many of these members are still active in our community.
> 
> Rather than watch this history vanish (on OSGeo's birthday no less) can we consider contacting these individuals once we have a place to store old photos (and ask them to upload again), or expense a Flickr pro subscription to give SAC more time?
> 
> Any word on if next cloud is suitable for holding photos?
> --
> Jody Garnett

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