[Board] flickring out ...

[Jody Garnett]

Flickr has extended until March 12 -
https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157676293604137/
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Jody Garnett


On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 02:55, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure that retrospectively marking your photos as CC will work. flickr
> says:
>
> "Anything uploaded with a CC license before November 1, 2018, won’t be
> deleted,”
>
> There again they may let you change them and keep them, who knows!
>
> An OSGeo Pro account may be the answer, we should apply for one and then
> reach out to the owners of the non CC images to get them to allows us to
> copy into our account. This is going to be time consuming unless someone
> can find a way to automate
>
>
> ______
> Steven
>
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> On 5 Feb 2019, at 18:30, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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