[vox] Open Source E-Card Software

[Kevin Schultz]

Thanks Bill :o)

Had no idea one could run the GIMP as a server.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 04:16:36PM -0800, Kevin Schultz wrote:
> >    Hi Jeff,
> >    I am thinking along the line of something I can install on a hosted
> LAMP
> >    server, to allow people to choose from among an album of images to
> >    personalize and forward.
>
> Yeah, you'll probably want either something like GIMP running as
> a server, or tools like ImageMagick or NetPBM tools, or something newer
> and cooler (Processing? :) )
>
> You could also probably have some fun with HTML5, <canvas>, and all that
> other newfangled stuff, but then you'd be somewhat restricting the
> audience.
> (You'd have a lot less 'work' to do on the server end, and a lot less
> temporary storage to deal with, compared to constructing & storign bitmaps,
> and showing them to the recipients.)
>
> This kind of stuff could also take advantage of cloud computing, like
> Amazon S3 for storage, and Amazon EC2 for doing the dirty work (and letting
> you scale it up).  They also have some DB products.
>
>  http://aws.amazon.com/
>
> And Amazon's obviously not the only cloud player in town.
>
> -bill!
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