We're starting to work on projects for 2008, and one of those is collecting submissions of Kumoricon 2007 photos and videos for a site gallery. JeffT, the Publicity Director, has tasked me (MichaelEvans) with overseeing the collection and integration of submitted/previously released photos. Submission of any content must include agreement to the following:
- You took the photo(s)/vidoe(s) your self, or have full ownership rights of the content.
- You are extending full rights to store and use said content to Kumoricon (Really Altonimbus Entertainment; since Kumoricon is the name of an event it holds.).
With the understanding that our current intentions for use are...
- Creating a central gallery of photos that show Kumoricon, and/or cosplay at Kumoricon.
- Possibly (we hope to eventually allow for...) collating the photos by who took them, who's in them, characters that are being cosplayed...
I have created an upload area on one of my personal computers. Use of it may be a little slow, since it's only on a consumer cable internet connection.
http://kumoricon.mproj.net/upload.php If you choose to upload your photos here, there are size/time limits noted on the upload page, if you have a case that exceeds them, please contact me. Submissions may be in any compressed form you can legally create (.tar.whatever, .zip, .rar, .arj, .ace, .7z). If you do not currently have compression software,
7zip is multi-platform, free, etc (
Wikipedia description).
Alternately, you may copy this post in to a text file, and burn that, plus any submitted photos, to a CD/DVD that you can submit to JeffT (Publicity) or my self at a future convention meeting. Please also note your forum name in a file, or with a sharpie on the top side of the disc.
If you absolutely cannot do either, but have your photos online someplace and want to submit those, please reply and give us permission to 'rip' (likely wget or other auto-download software) the photos and data off the site you name.
Either way, you may also include a file that has your forum name, and a list of captions, matched with filenames, that you would like us to use. (Pretty much anything that is respectful of Kumoricon and those in the photos should make it in to the gallery.)
This is the raw format that things will eventually become before being integrated in to the gallery. The filename can of course be longer, this example was taken from a version of the mascot page.
<image filename="a.jpg" caption="Apples (or Oranges)" />
<image filename="b.jpg" caption="Ookami" />
<image filename="c.jpg" caption="Randomised" />
<image filename="d.jpg" caption="Nothing" />
<image filename="e.jpg" caption="Transposable" />
<image filename="f.jpg" caption="You can also use sentences." />
<image filename="g.jpg" caption="Many. Multiple sentences." />
However, an exported CSV/text file from a spreadsheet program would also work (Note, it HAS to be in text format, no native excel / open office files please.) Here is an example...
a.jpg,Apples (or Oranges)
b.jpg,Ookami
c.jpg,Randomised
longer filename.jpeg,"This field has a comma so it must be quoted, while quotes are optional elsewhere."
You can also replace the commas with tabs, as long as you do so consistently. Realistically any extremely regular, but simple format will work. However the above two are probably the easiest.
It May be possible for you to re-caption (or caption in the first place) the photos at a later date.
One final note: I was a new staff member this year. However, I was in the right place at the right time with the correct hardware (a laptop with the requisite card reader type) to download photos from someone's camera for use during the closing ceremonies. Unfortunately I never quite got their name, or any other contact data. At the moment, ~1.8 gigs of likely high quality jpeg photos taken with a very snazzy looking camera are sitting in limbo, still unviewed, on one of my raid arrays. If you are that individual and want to submit those photos, or want them to be purged from storage, please contact me (MichaelEvans), providing one of the photos (Verifiable by comparison of their checksums/byte streams) to verify that those are your files.
