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

[Jody Garnett]

Looks like there is an API:

https://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.groups.pools.getPhotos.html

Does anyone already have an API key...

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:47 AM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> See my comments below
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> As covered on discuss a couple months ago, And covered in the board
> meeting on Monday:
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> Our OSGeo, FOSS4G and FOSS4G-NA photos on flicker may be reduced on Feb
> 5th as some photos are removed.
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> 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).
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> 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.)
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> Q: Can we throw the images on OSGeo next cloud?
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> *[Regina Obe] Yes – We have 16terabytes of space (of I think 8 TB is
> usable if it's in a RAID config of some sort) *
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> *want me to create a folder for said purpose?  I think it's possible to
> also share subfolders within that and display as gallery.*
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> *Nextcloud I think uses imagemagick to create thumbs and resized versions
> automatically. So I'd be interested in testing that out.  Last I tried if I
> thru a bunch of pictures in a folder on nextcloud, the pictures would show
> in the gallery widget and start out as small and then get larger as you
> went deeper.*
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> *It's also possible to attach like an FTP as a folder in nextcloud so we
> can investigate that too.*
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> Q: Should we only copy the CC images? Or should we copy everything and try
> and reach authors before sharing?
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> *[Regina Obe] Is it easy to separate the sets out?  I haven't used flickr
> so don't know.  I would think if they are in OSGeo shared gallery
> regardless of if authors mark them as CC, we could copy to another folder
> and have the authors sort them out.  It's better than losing them.*
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> Aside: Many participants missed the CC license step - which is too bad as
> it is a good “first time” experience at contributing open content.
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> Q: Anyone know of an API we could use to grab our images?*[Regina Obe] *  Have
> we checked if we can use Flickr's API or are their limits?  I've seen some
> scripts around that pull images using flickr's api
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> *Thanks,*
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> *Regina*
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