Two thoughts:
1 you might try restricting access to just those who are members of the Yahoo group, if only to minimize any possible copyright issues. Unless you can get permission(s).
2 if you need funding, let me know and I might be able to pry loose a few (a very few, things are tight) dollars to help.
> On 15 Sep 2014, at 14:05 , Randy Rodgers aquafawks_at_gmail.com [SkunkworksAMA] <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> I have a small Pentium-III 1ghz machine here I've used at home for a
> linux server for a long time and a friend of mine today has business
> class internet with a spare static IP at his personal office space and
> offered to let me sit a small machine in a corner with a UPS on it and
> I can do whatever I like with it.
>
> I could set up this little P3 box with a 80GB hard drive and just
> dedicate it entirely to a small website for hardiman in read-only.
> Maybe when I finish working on compiling all his work off the internet
> (that I was originally going to use for the torrent) I could work on
> orginizing a small website over there and just post it on that and
> leave it on 24-7 and let everyone access it there.
>
> I might anyway. Nothing special, no forums and no guest book or
> anything, just a site and let everyone see it.
>
> So far I have most of the Disree Lee art off e621, and a few hardiman
> pictures some of my friends have sent me.. and most (I think All) of
> his portfollios that he's created, and it's come up to 258 MB and 900
> pictures.
>
> Still yet to do: download all hardiman art off of e621, inkbunny, and
> FA, put in to folders, merge in to what I already have, delete
> duplicates, orginize in to folders. Then try and do the same for
> Disree Lee later.
>
> I have a few IRL projects on and off to do so I'm not devoting full
> time every day to it but when I get free time, so.. some day I'll
> finish it. I might set it up on a FTP access here and let the SAMA
> group members have a peek first and see if anyone can find anything
> they have that I don't have before I go out with it publicly.
>
> Basically I'm just trying to compile the "Ultimate James Hardiman"
> collection.. everything I can find he ever drew or created, and
> compile it all in one central location so people don't have to do what
> I'm doing (download it all over the internet and sift through
> duplicates). And some of the follios aren't on public sites either. I
> also have a couple magazine scans in here.
>
> Anyway I'm rambling, just thought I'd let folks know that someone is
> working on this.
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 16 2014 - 04:51:44 CDT