(As a flickr user), the only problem that I had with the flickr group gallery was that there was no way to separate the themes. It's just all in one lump. I try not to complain without a solution so: My suggestion is: It would be nice if, after the deadline of the theme passes, someone (moderator) would upload a "photo" containing the text of that theme to "cap it off" so to speak. For example, at the end of June, you could post a photo that has black text "June: Tall Height" on a white background. After than you can commence with the next theme's photo submissions.
On 6/21/06, Michael Christian Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With a tip of my hat to Tom and John's recent comments, I'm not sure what > the next incarnation of PUG's gallery should be, but I did try something > recently that might be set an example of a plausible way to proceed using > free photo tools on the net. Specifically Flickr, which doesn't cost > anything, has no size limitations, and submissions to groups can be > moderated by group leaders (to trim out the weeds, so to speak). I figure > it's better to use free resources than put the burden of responsibility on a > few people. > > http://www.flickr.com/groups/ok1000/ > > A few weeks ago I started this Flickr group to allow Flickr Pentax users to > post themed pictures to a showcase gallery, to see how it would go. It's not > much right now, but then I didn't expect it to be popular and I'm surprised > there are even as many people in the group as there are right now. > > Any Flickr account holder can select to join the group, and then they can > select images from their personal gallery to be submitted to the group's > gallery. It works pretty easily. At any time, a user can pull their images > from the gallery or add new ones. They're shown in order of submission, not > date taken or uploaded to Flickr. On top of this, there are discussion > threads that can be extraneous to the comments for photos (as some people > don't allow comments under there photos). > > Uploading images to your personal gallery at Flickr is fairly > straightforward, although there are upload bandwidth caps for free accounts > (20MB a month). But no download caps. This alone makes it pretty attractive > to me. At for copyright, Flickr is good at displaying what reservations you > keep about sharing the image, and inhibiting copying as best they can. > > If someone wanted to moderate a new group, they could then post a discussion > thread at the Flickr group's webpage highlighting a winner and runners up > after they'd counted votes. Voting could be done in the comments for each > picture (a requisite would be to allow comments for these photos), and > because dates are shown for the comments. > > Just thought I'd put it out there for you guys to consider if you're not > into Flickr. Hey, and if you are at Flickr. > > - Michael > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
