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Idea #28255: Requiring a flickr account should not be essential to submitting new wallpaper

bug This entry was marked as not being an idea the 29 July 11. If this is a bug report, please use the Ubuntu bug tracker.
Written by keito the 11 Jul 11 at 11:08. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea
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Flickr is not owned by Canonical - it is owned by Microsoft! As such it seems ludicrous that for someone to submit a new wallpaper for inclusion in the next release, they must sign-up to Flickr first.

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Solution #1: Make dedicated site for new wallpaper contest.
Written by keito the 11 Jul 11 at 11:08.
We need a dedicated Canonical owned site for submitting new wallpapers. Please, let's move away from the prerequisite of Flickr!!!

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 12 Jul 11 at 02:00
I see it the other way around - Flickr's owner is subsidizing the Ubuntu Artwork Team's efforts by hosting all those images for free, and has provided a convenient web interface for it!

Canonical taking over the tasks could mean additional hosting costs (sysadmin time still costs!) and bureaucratic hassle for the team. While minor, why shift the cost and admin burden at all?

Is there a plug-in Flickr replacement that Caninical could run on it's servers to replace the Flickr functionality? Or would somebody need to write it? (oops, that would cost, too)

keito wrote on the 12 Jul 11 at 16:30
cheesehead: I used to have a yahoo account, back in **2003**. It has long since expired, and it seems daft that I should have to setup an account for wallpaper submission with yahoo, when I already have a launhpad, ubuntu, brainstorm, etc account.

The hosting costs would be minuscule (when compared to hosting whole distros). The task of setting up a site, simple. You seem to have a problem with this idea, based solely on cost. Flickr is without doubt the worst image hosting site there is on the web.

There is no need to rewrite anything. http://gallery.menalto.com/

weberc2 wrote on the 12 Jul 11 at 18:15
Pretty sure Flickr is owned by Yahoo, not MS. Unless something changed recently (and I'm pretty sure MS failed to buy Yahoo)...

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 13 Jul 11 at 03:33
Why isn't Gallery (which is in the Ubuntu Repos already) mentioned in your Solution? It strengthens your argument.

mabynke wrote on the 20 Jul 11 at 15:35
A comment to solution #1: Canonical and the rest of the Ubuntu community should join the OpenPhoto project, for instance by using the software in a Canonical-driven website. It could then, for example, be integrated into Ubuntu One. This would not just give the Ubuntu community an open place to put their photos, but also help the OpenPhoto software get better, as Canonical and other Ubuntu developers would start improving it.

rensham wrote on the 28 Jul 11 at 21:16
You also con log in with a google account. Not a hotmail account. Would be nice if ubuntu might switch.

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 29 Jul 11 at 02:01
Closing in Brainstorm.
Please suggest this idea directly to the Ubuntu Art Team https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork


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