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  • From: François Déchelle <francois AT dechelle.net>
  • To: Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org, Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo AT gmail.com>, "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>, Cassio Melo <cassio.ufpe AT gmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Google Summer of Code 2007 Application
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:57 +0100

Jon Phillips a écrit :
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:17 -0400, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:

On 3/19/07, Cassio Melo <cassio.ufpe AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

I planning to submit an application for Google Summer of Code 2007 but
before that I'd like to hear from you some opinions about my ideas:

- An OpenOffice Writer add-on for publishing and searching CC licensed
documents;

I haven't thought much about integrating search, but an OpenOffice.org
implementation of what the Microsoft Office Addin
(http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Microsoft_Office_Addin) does would be
killer. Some additional thoughts on how it might work are available
at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OpenOfficeOrg_Addin.

> [...]

Hi Cassio, yes, I think both of these sound interesting. In particular,
the OO.o plugin that would be for all OO.o would be brilliant. I think
of major importance is how to specifically add this support to OO.o.

I think there is the plug-in level support and also seeing how a
contribution could be added to OO.o so that it ships as default in OO.o.

Anyhow, I'm cc'ing OO.o's community manager, who can comment on this
add-in some more and hopefully help you shape your application.

Louis, we are taking the approach this year to add CC support to key
applications in FLOSS. Please assist :)

Jon

Hello,

I have started working with Laurent Godard, an OpenOffice developer, on the Creative Commons add-on for Open Office; there is a (yet empty) wiki page in Open Office extensions wiki (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_repository/Creative_Commons) and a cvs repository. I have not had much time yet to make progress on the implementation, but I am willing to do it and will have more time in the next weeks to work on it. I do agree that adding CC support to OO.o is very important.

I think that there are some issues related to copyright if we want that the CC add-on is integrated in OO.o (which would be the best solution). Sun requires that people using the open office cvs sign a joined copyright agreement, which I did. The licence of the add-on is LGPL of course.

Of course, the GSoC will help, and I don't think that the job will be finished by this summer. If I can be of any help in shaping the application, please let me know.

I'll fill the wiki page asap and make an announce on cc-devel.

Best,

François






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