Its been about 5 weeks and its time for quick update. Since the conclusion of the trip we've done a number of things. Brandon and I continued on to be closer friends than we ever had been. Yes we had our issues but we're old enough to handle them. I've managed to get up ogg theoras of all of the videos from the trip. I've also captured all of the road video. This is good because the video camera is going to Alaska with my parents in less than a week.

Two or three weeks after the trip we got an offer from our friends at Road Trip Nation for them to purchase some of our footage. Unfortunately the contracts they had specified that they needed ownership of all the content. Brandon and I decided to pass up the money knowing that the footage we collected is worth more. Every last bit of uhhs and fan noise is worth something. Our footage is too good to have some be locked in a vault. Help us realize the potential of our hard work.

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Hello, I posted over at Open Clip Art Library’s website, but I wanted to get maximize readership:

Hello, our new engine, ccHost, now accepts SVG files thanks to the great work by Roan! Everyone should +10 thank him! Please see the great functioning test site: http://www.openclipart.org/cchostSo, please help us best by uploading test SVG files to this installation. We hope to move to it very shortly (hopefully within the week). There are still a few tasks in the migration we need help with such as:

1. export of our content from the old system to the new one
2. SVG thumbnails
3. writing metadata to SVG files in getid3
4. migration of old web content from old site to the new one

The tasks are listed on the ccHost Migration page on the wiki. Please e-mail the mailing list or hop onto our chat channel, #openclipart on irc.freenode.net if you want to help out. We are very close now to switching to this new infrastructure. If you are having any problems uploading to the present site, please try the new one at http://www.openclipart.org/cchost. Thanks!