[Board] flickring out ...

[Jody Garnett]

Excellent legwork Steven, so what we should do short term is contact those
near the 1000 mark and ask them to mark the images as Creative Commons.

I have been marking my as CCbyA (since it is a great outreach example on
use of an open license ....)
--
Jody Garnett


On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 02:31, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>
> 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 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
> ______
> Steven
>
> Unusual maps in strange places -  mappery.org
> @MapsintheWild <http://twitter.com/mapsinthewild>
>
> 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/
>
>    - Ian Turton: 2326
>    - Jody Garnett: 3192
>    - Jeffrey Johnson: 7720
>    - Astrid: 996
>
> 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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