A
Little Incomplete
List of Facts (L.I.L.O.F,
instead of F.A.Q.)
1. why
that name? ...
does it mean
something? Well,
I wanted to
play a bit with
words and "Yaop",
followed by " ! " seemed
to me like an
expression of
surprise and
at the same
time it means
Yet Another
Open Project.
2. where
the things come
from? All
the resources
used for the
project come
from the personal
economy and
tools of its
founder. Resources
are extremely
limited. Yaop! uses a Nikon ® Coolpix ® of
only 2.1 megapixels
(!!!) and have
no sponsors.
Also have a
tripod and a
bag to carry
things, an USB
card reader,
a portable Macintosh ®
computer (a
2003 iBook),
an external
USB LaCie ® hard-disk.
NOTE 1 : now there
is a brand new
Nikon® D50 of 6
megapixel, since
Mar-06.
NOTE 2 : now there is a brand new Macintosh® Mini (1,66 Mhz, 1Gb Ram), since Dec-2006
3. that's
why... Yaop
is looking for
resources/tools
to be able to
offer higher
quality. Below you find
a list of things
the project
needs to grow.
You can help
by donating
second hand
tools. Things
only have to
be in a good
condition to
work -no useless
tools please.
- Digital cameras:
SRL or any kind.
- computers (any
platform)
- external hard-disks
- Tripods
- digital cards:
SD or CF (those
used as memory
in the new digital
cameras)
 if
you want to give
something, please
e-mail first to
send you the required
data.
4.
how is the site
done and which
criterions are
used? normally
pages are first
written in italian
and translated
later in the
other two languages
(english and
spanish), but
this doesn't
happen always in that order. + later
we've got pages
creation: pages
are built on
a 2003 iBook
and due to the
fact I'm not
an HTML programmer
I have to work
on visual programs
like Mozilla
and others.
I'm waiting
for the day
we'd have a
nice free-open
HTML designer
program. As
you can easily
understand,
everything is
done by one
person alone.
That's why the
site gets updated
in a very "calm" rhythm.
Yaop! pages design
go about usability
and not about
special effects.
The whole site
have a general
tendency to minimalism,
from the design
point of view.
Simplicity and
practical structures are
the general rules.
The whole go around
the average user
who, contrary
to what many people
tend to believe
(thanks to a commercial
way of thinking),
owns a 56k modem
(that is the old
and common little
thing everybody
find in their
computers to be
able to browse
the Web at a snail
speed). Though,
images you see
in pages are well
compressed and
generally talking
I limit the use
of images (for
page design),
trying to play
more with flat
colors and fonts.
5.
may I promote
Yaop? Yes
of course. If
your are using
many images
from Yaop you
could consider
the fact of
putting a Yaop
mini-banner
somewhere. Promoting
Yaop means to
give a hand
to a project
that is stimulating
the usage of
free and open
digital material
(free as in
freedom and
as in "no
cost")
with educational,
spreading and
-least but not
last- funny
purposes.
A.  B.  C. 
D.  E. 
F.  G. 
NOTE: when using
one of this images
you have to create
a link pointing
to Yaop's Home
Page (www.yaop.org). |
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