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

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

Me June July Mike (VP)

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
vs.

Mustache Battle
vs.

Mustache Battle
vs.
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

Spread Open Media
•www.spreadopenmedia.org
•Online project to discuss/promote Open Media
formats
•Lessons
•Information
•Community effort, volunteer base expanding

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.
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Open source guru.
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My project
Bring licensing to the desktop.
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Write a library to ease licensing tasks.
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Accessing information.
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Reading/Writing metadata.
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Integrate it into dierent platforms.
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Gnome
•
Sugar
•
...
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Part 1: The library
Metadata modules.
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Handle read/writing.
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RDF license files.
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Bindings
•
Python
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Ruby (thanks Alex)
•

Part 2: Gnome integration
Control Center
•
Nautilus
•

Part 3: KDE4 integration
Props to Jason
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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
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Nathan Yergler
•

CC Wiki
Thierry 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

Marking
Media + 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...

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

Mockups
Mac

Mockups
Windows

Mockups
Gnome

Mockups
KDE

Mockups
Sugar ($100 Laptop)

Mockups
Open 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?

Future of LiveContent
LiveContent v*.0

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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