Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Internship 2007: Community Development

Cameron Parkins, cam’ron, usc, multimedia, cc community + media intern, freeculture activist, blog, curry activist, superhumanoid, mustache lover, r. kelly

+ other cool things

Community Development

Community Development•ccSocial

•Blogging•E-mailing•Clean up CC’s online presence•Work on CC’s offline presence

•ccAdvocacy•Participation

ccSocial

/weblog

•Me + Wordpress = BFF•Good experience in blogging•Took timely task off of people who were doing more important things

/weblog

Me June July Mike (VP)

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CC Salons

CC Salons•SF Salons July-Oct and the first LA Salon•SF Salon

•Powerpoint Karaoke•RedHat•BitTorrent•Artists

•LA Salon•Pixelodeon•Eric Steuer, Creative Director

Mustache Battle

Mustache Battle

Mustache Battle

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Mustache Battle

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Mustache Battle

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Not Pictured: Nathan Yergler (CTO)

Social Networks

Social Networks•Overall goal

•Establish CC’s presence•Facebook•MySpace•VIRB•Apple Learning Interchange

•Social network for educators•Promotional Materials

•Video etc. on different media sharing networks

•Blip.tv•slideshare.net

Curry

Curry

http://hurrythatcurry.blogspot.com

Curry

http://hurrythatcurry.blogspot.com

ccAdvocacy

Spread Open Media

•www.spreadopenmedia.org•Online project to discuss/promote Open Media formats

•Lessons•Information

•Community effort, volunteer base expanding

Spread Open Media

Participate!

Participate!•Most obvious + important

•Use licenses•CC Community + participation opportunities

•Wiki/website•Developers•Volunteer program

•Test run at LinuxWorld•Continuing work

•Incorporate beyond tech community

LiveContent

LiveContent

Volunteerism

LiveContent

Volunteerism

Evangelize

The Future...photo by flickr user Jeffrey Beall (http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/)

liblicense

creativecommons.org/project/Liblicense

Who I am•Powerpoint karaoke participant. •Student at the University of Washington.•Open source guru.

My project•Bring licensing to the desktop.

• Write a library to ease licensing tasks.• Accessing information.• Reading/Writing metadata.

• Integrate it into different platforms.• Gnome• Sugar• ...

Part 1: The library• Metadata modules.

• Handle read/writing.• RDF license files.• Bindings

• Python• Ruby (thanks Alex)

Part 2: Gnome integration•Control Center•Nautilus

Part 3: KDE4 integration

•Props to Jason•Dolphin

Part 4: Sugar (OLPC) integration•Journal•Ideas?

Part 5: The future• Further integration

• Applications• Xfce

• Adoption amongst Linux distributions• Ports

• Mac• Windows

Thanks•Jason Kivlighn•Jon Phillips•Nathan Yergler

CC WikiThierry Kennes - Tech intern

Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic Annotations

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Template:Books

{{Book| genre= See below for details| author= The author| publisher= The publisher| isbn= ISBN number| pubDate= Publication Date| license= URL of the license| cclicensed= CC-licensed version| pvfp= Print version for purchase| nbpages= Number of pages|

}}

•Also available for Template:ContentDirectory, Template:ContentRegistry.

OpenID

OpenID

MarkingMedia + Community Development Internship

Rebecca Rojer

Internal v. External

•Internal

•technical / meta-data

•machine-readable (searchable)

•External

•labels or markers; uses the medium itself when possible

Desktop Integration

App that allows users to assign

licenses to documents on their computer.

{mockups}

Set license properties for

individual files...

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Image:Gnome.png

... or set a system-wide default license.

MockupsMac

MockupsWindows

MockupsGnome

MockupsKDE

MockupsSugar ($100 Laptop)

MockupsOpen Moko (Open Source Phone)

Marking Media:

Text

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

Site Integration:ccLicense

LiveContent v1.0

Timothy Vollmer, tvol, umichstudent, schoolofinformation, researcher,cc community + media intern, freeculture supporter, cook, bicyclist, musician

+ many, many others

LiveContent, an idea

Questions?

How can content be “alive”?

How do we access open content?

How can we interact with CC-licensed media and share, remix, reuse content?

How can we connect CC and FOSS?

window on

Search tools

Licensing, marking, publishing tools

Open Source platforms and applications

LiveContent v1.0, a test

LiveCD - contents boot directly from CD – no installation required

LiveContent can be delivered in various ways—CD, USB, DVD, content feeds

Interaction with content is key, formats are secondary

Fedora 7 open source applications OpenOffice, Inkscape, The Gimp, Firefox, Totem,

Evince

open document templates

CC-licensed content

700mb!

Audio

Video

Image

Text

Education

CC relies on supportive content curators to aggregate and spread open content

Creative Commons Content Directories

What does v1.0 look like?

LiveContent v*.0

Future of LiveContent

autocurated content

v2.0 for libraries

extend to other areas - education

integration with other cc tools

How can you get involved?

CC projects are community projects

You can be involved! developers, content curators, testers, evangelizers

creativecommons.org/project/livecontent

Available tonight and at LinuxWorld

Creative Commons Timothy Vollmer Scott Shawcroft Jon Phillips Alex Roberts Cameron Parkins Rebecca Rojer

Fedora Jack Aboutboul

Worldlabel.com Russell Ossendryver

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