THE OPEN CONTENT LIBRARY The Current Landscape, ccHost, and New Related CC Projects

Goal Get more open content onto the desktop.

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The Current Landscape

Who is hosting your content?

What is being done with your data?

How is your content licensed?

Closed. Mixed. Open.

How do we get open content onto the freedesktop?

The Open Content Library

A collection of content (audio, video, image, text) using open content licenses, stored in open formats with open source software that uses open services.

1. Social and Technical Strategy

2. Superset of Content Repositories

Open Clip Art Library www.openclipart.org

14K+images, ccHost-based, svg-based, publicdomain, ugc, healthy, osuosl, goodcommunication, 100+registrationsperday, needdevelopers, needart, needtheme

http://openclipart.org/wiki/Roadmap 0.19: Complete ccHost Transition Import Old Collection Thumbnails (basic browsing infrastructure) 0.20: Packaging and Browsing 0.21: Clip Art Requests 0.22: Wizards and Templates 0.23: Clip Art Optimization

0.19: Complete ccHost Transition

Import Old Collection

Thumbnails (basic browsing infrastructure)

0.20: Packaging and Browsing

0.21: Clip Art Requests

0.22: Wizards and Templates

0.23: Clip Art Optimization

Future Andy's New Site Design http://brisgeek.com/ocal/front.html Integration into Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Scribus Integration with other web services RSS, Sample Pool API, OpenSearch, WebDAV Integration with services (Mikons, etc)

Andy's New Site Design

http://brisgeek.com/ocal/front.html

Integration into Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Scribus

Integration with other web services

RSS, Sample Pool API, OpenSearch, WebDAV

Integration with services (Mikons, etc)

Open Font Library www.openfontlibrary.org

29+fonts, 123logoentries, perpetualbeta, needfonts, needdevelopers, needtheme, ugc, publicdomain, openfontlicense, osuosl-hosted, cchost-based

Roadmap 0.1: Launch! 0.2: Monthly Releases Begin 0.3: Community Update 0.4: Library Update 0.5: Release of Fontview Type Manager ...1.0: (pssst...its what you want to make it!)

0.1: Launch!

0.2: Monthly Releases Begin

0.3: Community Update

0.4: Library Update

0.5: Release of Fontview Type Manager

...1.0: (pssst...its what you want to make it!)

3. opencontentlibrary.org

More libraries?

No media utopias.

Data redundancy is a good thing.

Orkut's big in Brazil! Mixi is big in Japan!

Privacy anyone?

Maintain your own library on-line or, participate with community around library

Make it public, or keep it to youself

Make it legal (and clear) using Open Content Licenses (CC licenses or Public Domain)

Insure longevity with open formats.

Insure interoperability with open services

ccHost http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost

php+mysql+getid3, GPL, web2.0, event-based, similar_to_wordpress, similar_to_mediawiki, customizable, stable, version4.0, sample_pool_api php+mysql+getid3, GPL, web2.0, event-based, similar_to_wordpress, similar_to_mediawiki, customizable, stable, version4.0, sample_pool_api

Sample Pool API http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc CodeDoc http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/

Recently Released ccHost 4.0.1 Localization Support (i18n) Publicize Users Feeds coming out of every pour Data dumping in feed formats for re-use Sample Pool API (for interconnecting sites) Massive Performance Boost (Query Engine) Update CC license support to 3.0

Localization Support (i18n)

Publicize Users

Feeds coming out of every pour

Data dumping in feed formats for re-use

Sample Pool API (for interconnecting sites)

Massive Performance Boost (Query Engine)

Update CC license support to 3.0

Beyond ccHost 4.0.1 WebDAV support for easier uploading and programmatic interfaces Direct in/out to Inkscape (and others) Better support for other file formats Thumbnailing support Better generic import of content See the webpage for more plugins

WebDAV support for easier uploading and programmatic interfaces

Direct in/out to Inkscape (and others)

Better support for other file formats

Thumbnailing support

Better generic import of content

See the webpage for more plugins

Get ccHost! Thrice-daily builds of packages Thrice-daily builds of phpdoc http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost Requirements Php 4 and above MySQL 4 Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

Thrice-daily builds of packages

Thrice-daily builds of phpdoc

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost

Requirements

Php 4 and above

MySQL 4

Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

New Related CC Projects

liblicense http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Desktop_Integration http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Liblicense

LiveContent http://wiki.creativecommons.org/livecontent Debuting at LinuxWorldSF in August

Marking http://wiki.creativecommons.org/marking

pdwiki (not released: global public domain registry) Technology Preview at Wikimania in Taipei in August

Mo' Content. Mo' Libraries.

Open Source is Everywhere.

We still rely on non-open content.

Rays of hope with Rhythmbox.

Rays of hope with Mugshot.

Cross-over hope of Flickr, Youtube, blip.tv

New devices like OLPC and OpenMoko are content-making-machines

What are some ideas on how to best get more open content on Gnome?

THE OPEN CONTENT LIBRARY The Current Landscape, ccHost, and New Related CC Projects

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