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

[Jody Garnett]

Cool, I like that the script grabs the description and metadata. Do you
think the script could be adapted to download from our group?

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 12:30 AM Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using https://github.com/helenst/flickr-backup to back my photos up.
>
> Ian
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 05:19, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>>
>> 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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> Ian Turton
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