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  • From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] where-to-start
  • Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:02:55 -0600

Thanks Mike, I've taken note!

Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> writes:

> "building CC support into actual applications" is great at should be
> highlighted, but not ideal at all for a new contributor:
>
> - Sometimes trivially simple, so much so not really interesting
> - Beyond the trivially simple, requires really significant
> understanding of relevant standards and practices and how they might
> relate to what application in question does
> - Either of the above requires long-term maintenance or functionality
> will quickly be abandonware, not working with new versions of
> application, etc
>
> But as a consequence of the above, fixing bugs and doing evaluations
> and filing bugs against existing code which builds, or once
> halfway-built CC support into some application is valuable, eg various
> extensions that have been developed for WordPress, Drupal, and
> Firefox.
>
> I think it'd be interesting for whatever becomes of a CC developer
> portal to also highlight applications that CC doesn't work on
> directly, but already do support CC in some fashion. This collection
> would be varied enough in implementation language, application domain,
> etc, that anyone who wants to code for free culture (or something like
> that) could find something they'd be really excited about. And
> improvements in applications that people use to create, curate, etc
> free culture, OA, OER, etc, are a big long-term win for CC.
>
> Some obvious applications:
> * Booki
> * Freesound
> * GNU FM
> * MediaGoblin
> * Mediawiki
> ....
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Christopher Allan Webber
> <cwebber AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
>> Likely not, agreed that building CC support into actual applications the
>> most important thing at this point.  Probably worth a clean-out of that
>> page.
>>
>> Nathan Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net> writes:
>>
>>> Are there any "challenges" listed on that page beyond
>>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Build_Creative_Commons_licensing_into_more_content_creation_applications
>>> that CC actually cares about these days?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Christopher Allan Webber
>>> <cwebber AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
>>>> There are some good suggestions on ways to help there, as well as on
>>>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer_Challenges (sadly not updated
>>>> in a while).
>>>>
>>>> I think the best thing that can be done for now is to build CC licensing
>>>> tools into your favorite program.  For example, we have a plugin for
>>>> openoffice, there are several for wordpress, and OpenAttribute for
>>>> firefox, etc.  I'm struggling to think of python-specific applications
>>>> that are in most need of CC licensing help at the moment, though.
>>>>
>>>>  - Chris
>>>>
>>>> PS: If you really are interested in helping, you could help assist with
>>>> fixing bugs in our website and etc:
>>>>  http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/
>>>>
>>>> I suspect that's not very exciting!  But if you are interested, feel
>>>> free to join us in channel #cc on irc.freenode.net
>>>>
>>>> Good luck and have fun!
>>>>
>>>>  - Chris
>>>>
>>>> Stas Sușcov <stas AT nerd.ro> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello and welcome,
>>>>> I'm not from inside the CC team, but I think you could take a look at
>>>>> developer's wiki pages:
>>>>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developers
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope it helps.
>>>>> Good luck!
>>>>>
>>>>> În data de Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:00:58 +0200, Rj redoc
>>>>> <rjredoc AT gmail.com> a
>>>>> scris:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  i forgot to mention that i have no previous experience of such
>>>>>> projects. i
>>>>>> am a college student in my second year and i know basic level python.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rj redoc <rjredoc AT gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hello. I have learned basic python and want to contribute something to
>>>>>>> this organisation and in the process expand my knowledge and
>>>>>>> experience.could anybody please help me where to start.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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