Re: Photo pledge, we need more photos from GNOME events

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 06/02/2015, Rosanna Yuen <zana gnome org> wrote:
> Is "taking official event photos" an available option when asking for
> travel sponsorship? If yes, it really needs to be advertised more.  That
> would make it more unlikely that we would be missing crucial photos for the
> annual report.

It isn't at the moment, but I don't think we need to require people to
take photos, especially as some may not be comfortable with the
obligation, or to offer it as a reason for a sponsorship request.

My experience is that there is generally plenty of people taking
photos, but some of whom are not aware of the importance of using a
suitable licence or tagging photos appropriately. I think that it is
best practice for hackfest organisers to ask the hackfest attendees to
blog and upload photos at the start of each hackfest. For example, you
can find a whole bunch of GNOME.Asia 2014 photos at
https://www.flickr.com/groups/gnomeasia2014/pool/ which are CC
licensed.


> On Feb 6, 2015 8:52 AM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
> > > Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > If content is under a free license I don't really get why something
> > > > like
> > > > Wikimedia[1] Commons or Flickr isn't used to *share* with the wider
> > > > manchild out, there instead of putting them in our own 'data silo'.
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Sorry, I totally forgot to reply to this. The main reasons I went for
> > > our ownCloud instance were:
> > >
> > >  * It allows the Engagement Team to collaborate on curating the sets of
> > images.
> > >  * We can use it to keep our own copy of photos, in case they
> > > disappear off the internet.
> > >  * It means that the images can be stored alongside other team assets,
> > > such as merchandise designs, screenshots, dummy content, and archives.
> > >
> > > That said, I'm not dead against using another service.
> >
> > Perhaps we could mirror one to the other?  We'll still need a private
> > repo for images that we may not want to share with the rest of the
> > world either because the author may have given their permission only
> > for use by the GNOME Project or some other restriction.
> >
> > sri
> >
> > > Allan
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