Create a Gallery Page about website

[odysseywestra]

Okay this is for those who came from our State of MyPaint.Org post on our website.

If you would like your artwork in MyPaint.org gallery, we will need the following information.

• Your Name
• Art Piece Title
• Link to Art Piece

Also like state in the blog post, they will have to be in a license that is compatible with our licensing policy as @achadwick pointed out at . Please post your best work and no WIPs please. Thank You.

If you would like to post your screenshot of the program to be used in our home/features page, post you image in #7.

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Updated: Added licensing policy link.

[achadwick]

For clarification: we probably want a selection of screenshots of the program in use as well, but this issue is about collecting great examples of the program in the world. I'll mention screenshots in #7, since screenshots ≅ explanations of features.

[achadwick]

@odysseywestra Do we always need to host the image here ourselves? If not, maybe we could suggest relaxing the license constraint to "you only have to allow us to distribute a large, good-looking thumbnail under (preferred license here)", and just linking to the artist's own gallery page for the work. Let me know if you think that's unworkable.

Right now, I tentatively think we have to be able to use images hosted on the site for commercial purposes if we choose. And so do people downloading data from the site. We probably won't do that, but it's a key requirement of the DFSG and other codes for free licensing that commercial reuse of program documentation material is permitted. Documentation could include things like a website, if snapshotting the site were to form part of the official docs.

Artists may only want us to use a thumbnail on our website, so they can distribute the real deal under their own license. And that's probably the best compromise position if there are any issues.

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For everyone's reference: the MyPaint licensing policy covers promotional material: https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/wiki/Licensing-policy#supplemental-artwork-or-promotional-material. But it only covers stuff we ourselves distribute as part of the program download really.

(Of course, there is cross-pollenization allowed: promo art on the site could become in-program textures, splash screens etc. That's the point of having free licenses.)

[odysseywestra]

Yeah, My initial idea of of creating the gallery was to use the thumbnail to create a masonry layout and just have those thumbnails link to the urls the artists provide. So basially we are on the same page.

I'll edit the fist post to include to include the licensing policy wiki page. Thank you for pointing that out.

[AesaraB]

@odysseywestra do you want this to be embedded in the website, or will the Discourse community spruced up with some add-ons suffice?

[odysseywestra]

I think embedding it in from discourse might be a way to go about it that way it can be removed easily too. I'll need to do some research into this.