[cc-community] Community Testing for LiveContent 2.0 beta LiveDVD

Timothy Vollmer tim at creativecommons.org
Thu Feb 14 15:46:07 EST 2008


http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8006

A beta of LiveContent 2.0 <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LiveContent> is
available for testing! We've got it up at the CC labs site (direct
download<http://labs.creativecommons.org:8080/%7Epaulproteus/tmp/ccLiveContent-2.0-1202964485.iso>)
and the Fedora Spins <http://spins.fedoraproject.org/> site
(torrent<http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//cc/ccLiveContent-2.0-1202964485.iso.torrent>).
Burn the DVD image to a disc and boot it up. The Creative Commons tech team
has been working on an interesting content "autocuration" process for
LiveContent 2.0, which automatically pulls down CC-licensed media for
inclusion on the LiveDVD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveDistro>. Our test
run is with Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/>, so check out the autocurated
images from the popular photo sharing site right on the LiveContent desktop.
A focus of LiveContent 2.0 is to foster the standardization of content APIs,
thus allowing LiveContent (and other media projects!) to draw from
CC-licensed feeds straight from the Content
Directories<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories>.
Check out the tech specs on Flickr's
API<http://www.flickr.com/services/api/>and look for more
documentation soon about CC's process.

This test build also contains some amazing photos from Wikimedia Commons'
Pictures of the
Year<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007>.
You can have your CC-licensed project featured on the disc too. We're moving
quickly with this, so hit us up with ideas for content you feel could be
included. Check out the wiki page to add specific content
ideas<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LiveContent_2_0>
.

If you're able to help test the LiveDVD functionality, please help us report
bugs, file feature requests and submit patches at the CC SourceForge
tracking page <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=80503&atid=559966>.
Please provide as much information as you can, including the build number
and the type of machine you're running it on.

Once again, we thank the generous folks over at
Worldlabel.com<http://www.worldlabel.com/>for supporting this project
and helping to push for better standardization,
making LiveContent an interesting tool and providing a necessary nudge
toward easier content sharing. Thanks also to Fedora
Project<http://www.fedoraproject.org/>for the testing and hosting
space.

LiveContent boots into Fedora 8 and runs directly from the LiveDVD. The
multimedia content can also be viewed without booting into the LiveDVD.
Here's more information on burning an ISO and running a LiveDVD.
Wikipedia: List of ISO image
software<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_image_software>
wikiHow: How to Burn ISO Files to
DVD<http://www.wikihow.com/Burn-ISO-Files-to-DVD>

-tvol
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