[OSGeo-Discuss] Flickr FOSS4G and OSGeo photo history deadline Feb 5th

[Jody Garnett]

Last chance to see this slice of our history:

- https://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeo/
- https://www.flickr.com/groups/foss4g/

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Jody Garnett


On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 19:58, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> As covered on discuss a couple months ago, And covered in the board
> meeting on Monday:
>
> Our OSGeo, FOSS4G and FOSS4G-NA photos on flicker may be reduced on Feb
> 5th as some photos are removed.
>
> Since these photos were shared with our groups we do not really know which
> ones will be removed. Photographers are asked to subscribe with a monthly
> fee (or have a limit of 1000 photos).
>
> It is not really possible for us as a group to do much, which is a shame
> for the internet as Flickr has a wide range of CC images (since they did a
> good job of explaining open licenses and making them easily to use.)
>
> Q: Can we throw the images on OSGeo next cloud?
>
> Q: Should we only copy the CC images? Or should we copy everything and try
> and reach authors before sharing?
>
> Aside: Many participants missed the CC license step - which is too bad as
> it is a good “first time” experience at contributing open content.
>
> Q: Anyone know of an API we could use to grab our images?
>
> Q: Any other Flickr groups we should capture for our history?
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> Jody Garnett
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