Re: Getting a better sense of community - gallery based groups

[Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora nicubunu ro>]

Máirín Duffy wrote:
> 2) Set up a Deviant art community -
>
> Disadvantages:
> - the RSS feeds don't actually embed the image, they only provide a 
> link. (does anyone know if it embeds the image for paid subscription 
> accounts? I'd be willing to donate the $$ if so.)

This is a dA paid subscription: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/ and 
its gallery feed: 
http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=by%3Ainkscapers+sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps&type=deviation

Is exactly the same as for an unpaid account.

> 5) Something else?
>
> I looked briefly at shadowness.com, which is pretty similar to 
> deviantart but they have explicit groups *and* their RSS feeds embed 
> images. However, their copyright policies are pretty weird. I've also 
> never heard of it before (have any of you?) Not sure how 
> reliable/trustworthy it is? Flickr and deviantart have both been around 
> a while.
>
> Any others we should look at?
>
> Any preferences / comments / ideas?


I did more thinking about hosting and aggregating (if we decide to run 
our own gallery):

- for hosting: not everybody has his own hosting solution, is willing to 
pay for one and all free services are less then perfect. So for those in 
heed a gallery or something provided by Fedora could be very useful.

- for aggregating only: if we host content, then we probably will want 
to police it, so only aggregation will provide more freedom to the 
contributors.

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