[cc-community] introducing myself and an idea

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Wed May 2 12:34:53 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:45 -0400, Andy Kaplan-Myrth wrote:
> This is on a bit of a tangent from this discussion, but in case you 
> don't already know about it, a Canadian filmmaker, Brett Gaylor, has put 
> the process of making a documentary film on a collaborative website, 
> Open Source Cinema. He encourages people to upload raw footage, remix 
> it, and edit the script of the documentary, allowing the community to 
> contribute to the argument it makes.
>    http://www.opensourcecinema.org/manifesto
> 
> I don't know what Brett uses to run his site, but it might be suitable 
> for what you're looking for. It sounds like his project would benefit 
> from a repository like the one you're describing.

Heya, Brett uses ccHost: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost (the
same engine that powers http://ccmixter.org, http://openclipart.org and
http://openfontlibrary.org

Jon

> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> > I know that Jon Philips was interested in doing something similar, with 
> > particular focus on footage that documents the Free Culture movement.  He 
> > made a page on the freeculture.org wiki about his idea - 
> > http://wiki.freeculture.org/Spread_Free_Culture .  freeculture.org is the 
> > student arm of the Free Culture movement, for those who don't know it. 
> > I've been very busy lately and dropped the ball on helping him, which I'm 
> > a little sad about.
> > 
> > I wanted to take this time to make sure people have had a chance to look 
> > at his idea as written on our wiki and discuss any appropriate sharing of 
> > work. (-:
> > 
> > On the software end, as I understand things, Jon was probably going to use 
> > ccHost.
> > 
> > -- Asheesh.
> > 
> 
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Jon Phillips
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