OpenArt

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Synopsis

OpenArt is an open-source online community for artists and audiences of all types, giving all comers the interaction that is best for them, whether they are the artists or the audience, the talkers or the lurkers. It is designed from the ground up to be able to allow for user feedback and design suggestions. With OpenArt, the user base is the number-one priority.

Features

• Free and open-source
• Supports multiple submission types
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Image
  • Flash
  • Text
  • Application/program/website (screenshots and descriptions)
• Store metadata with your submissions
  • Tags
  • Species
  • Categories
  • Rating
  • An external link
  • Mark a submission as not yet published or as friends-only
  • Organize submissions into collections - ordered or unordered
  • Reference users and submissions easily
• Make your contributions to the site look you how you want them to
  • Use Markdown to author content, descriptions, comments, and so on to style your text
  • Use link shortcuts to link to other users, submissions, issues, comments groups, and events
• Manage groups and events
  • Full group system allows both public and private groups with threaded messages.
  • Create events specific to your group
  • View events in an easy-to-read calendar
  • Specify a location for your event and have a map (courtesy of Google Maps) attached to the event, linking to directions to get to that location.
• Search across all site content
  • Submissions
  • Users
  • Issues
  • Groups
  • Posts
  • Events
  • Site pages
• Themeable
  • Re-style the site how you want it
  • Upload custom icon-packs to further change the look of the site
  • Share your themes with others
• Integral market system - get rewarded for interacting with the site and spend your rewards voting on issues or on items in the OF Store
• Designed to allow user feedback
  • Users can create 'issues': bug reports, feature requests, and suggestions for improvement to the site and its policies, or notify admins and staff of ToS/AUP policy violations
  • Users can vote on the issues most important to them; the more votes an issue has, the more likely it is to be taken into account
  • Users can join a governing board in order to take issues into consideration
• I18N ready - view the site in your prefered language!
  • English
  • Help us localize the site for you!

Possible features:

• Dashboards - organize the site how you want
• Explorer view - view collections as an intuitive tree view, edit by dragging and dropping
• Log into other OpenArt instances using OAuth in order to view art, comment, and favorite
• Gravatar support

Requirements

• Grails 1.3.2 or higher (untested in other versions)
• Grails acegi plugin
• Grails markdown plugin
• ImageMagick DSL
• ImageMagick somewhere in your path
• A server capable of deploying WAR files (Tested on Jetty and Tomcat)

Issues, Source, Documentation, Integration

• Issue tracking: JIRA
• Documentation: Confluence
• Repository viewer + code reviews: FishEye+Crucible (repo hosted by GitHub, see below)
• Continuous integration: Bamboo
• Git repository: GitHub

Licensing

OpenArt - an open-source social and artistic website for artists and their audiences
Copyright (C) 2010 Matthew Scott

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Credits

• Matthew Scott (Makyo) - JNSQ
• (Add yourself if you contribute!)