Ask HN: Suggestions on Open Source Photos?

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I have created the website http://opensourcephotos.wordpress.com/ which I hope to become a collection of beautiful photographs provided for free at high resolution. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what could be the best way to promote the site to let everybody know about this new free resource and to see if anyone is interested in submitting some of their images. Thanks, FG

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I use Flickr to find free, Creative Commons-licensed photos.

I suggest you just create a Flickr account. You'll be instantly discoverable, and you won't have to maintain your own database of (potentially) GB of images.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd rather keep the idea of a community (although for now it's just me) and be able to curate its content. Moreover, publishing only 10 images every 10 days, I doubt we will use a lot of space. Wordpress gives away 3GB for free and once we reach that quota, with a few buck we could increase it to 10GB, I believe.

I'd suggest starting with understanding the term "open source". It doesn't apply to photos.

Well, I hear what you are saying, but the definition of "open source software" is: software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. This is not software, so there is no "source code" per-se. But the original high-resolution images are "made freely available and may be redistributed and modified" so I thought that "open source photos" was an appropriate name.

Insofar as the largest, uncompressed version of a photo is its "source", I can see where s/he's coming from when using that term.

That's exactly what I was thinking. As a programmer, it made sense to me.

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