I made a post last week on a request for developers to create a website for steemstockphotos.com, i listed some basic features of what the website is going to look like but i have not found any developer respond. I wish to say that the request is still open and i am going to continue to give an update on the request as time goes on. I believe this project is realistic and it will be executed.
This post is a request to thinkers to give some ideas on what will be explained in this post.
The genesis
I will try to recap what the project is all about though i already explained in the post requesting for developers. This is an adaption of @stellabelle post,post, months ago on Is The Internet Racist? Let's Build A Stock Photo Library That Actually Represents The World's People
Almost all blog post on steemit.com and other websites requests that the authors use pictures for further explanation. And many of the times the pictures that the author wants to use may not be what he/she has locally, this was what birthed online photo library. The developers of photo libraries thought it wise to make photos of all kind available for users who are online. Some of these photo libraries are free and some are not. We have all at one point or the other used pictures from some of these free photo libraries for our post as bloggers. But it becomes important that as we use these pictures, they are only the mirror of those who developed them (well this is not their fault). I mean that the pictures of the people we see in these sites are mostly pictures of people from their race. The pictures of other race are on the low may be because there are fewer photographers from other race. Take for example, pixabay.com, if you search for pictures of a black man, it is very interesting to see that result contains fewer number of black men,
And searching for black woman gives you an interesting result too.
If you search for any generic query, like ‘a man standing',
you will find out that the result of what you get is 90% from a race, and this goes for other queries, too and you ask yourself (if you are from other race, ‘what is happening?'.
I say this is also the result if you are using any other popular free photos library. If you, use shutterstock.com for example and you search a generic query like ‘a man standing' you get the greater percentage to be from a particular race (the white as i would like to call it)
As @stellabelle made this striking discovery in her post, she suggested that people who get this as a challenge should rise up to correct the matter. That is, build a stock photos library where the pictures of people from all race are displayed is equal proportion.
Blackphotos-The idea
This was the genesis of @blackphotos, on steemit, to display black people and their photos. I took up the challenge as a passion trying to see if i can do something about it, (@tecnosgirl made a post too to this effect, and @ehiboss as an adviser). Though i am not a developer (which made it harder), i am passionately seeking developers and getting advises from all i have met (if you are developer and you have not seen my private message you will soon see). I wish to have steemstockphotos.com (a name decided on by @stellabelle, @ehiboss, @technosgirl and I) created in the shortest possible time. I have created a repository on github.com to this effect thanks to @elear so that i can recieve contribution from utopian.io community, thanks to him for this great idea. This is to you @elear, i am still coming back to get some more, though you are so busy but i trust you are a very good man, you will make time for me. I wish that the steemstockphotos.com will be built on the steem blockchain, as other projects built on it, so that photographers will be rewarded for their hard work with upvotes. And the website buit on ipfs and ipns as storage.
Requests for thinkers
As the challenge has be explained above. Thinkers are requested to come up with:
- A working strategy to achieve this goal (you can use a flow chart to explain what your idea is).
- Ideas to solve equality issue. I mean how do we do it so that the library give pictures of people from all race equally.
- Ideas on which hosting site will be better with a valid justification.
- Any other ideas on what should be included on the website.
I will be on the look out for recommendations from thinkers to execute. The github repo is https://github.com/ayobami99/steemstockphotos and the name of the project is ayobami99/steemstockphotos (to be entered when submitting your contributions). If you wish to join you can contact me by commenting, or chatting me up on the utopian.com chat, or steemit.chat, and on discord app user: ayobami99 #6734
Thanks in anticipation for the ideas, please make your ideas as explicit as possible.
Thanks for reading. I remain @ayobami99
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The problem has been solved.
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