Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 01:20 +0000, Nic Wistreich wrote:
> hello
> 
> Just joined the list.

Welcome!

> I'm currently configuring Joomla (open source CMS formerlly known as 
> Mambo) to create a site where people can upload their own articles (and 
> more).
> 
> I'd like to offer the users the chance to add a CC license to their 
> work - ideally at the point of content submission, or if that's too 
> tricky at signup to appear through their profile and thus create a 
> global rights setting for that user and their content.
> 
> Has anyone managed to do this yet? (Google suggests to me they haven't)

I have not heard of this. I think you will find out more by asking the
Joomla/Mambo community and developers.

> Does anyone here have any knowledge of Joomla/Mambo and an idea of how 
> to do this? I'm wondering about using Facile Forms which is a basic 
> application development environment joomla component.


Sorry, I don't...

> I am sadly not a coder - although I can configure files, and understand 
> what the CC site is suggesting to do with normal sites when the code is 
> more accessible. but the core of Joomla is quite impenetrable to me!
> 
> Any help here would be really appreciated, as I'm sure it would be by 
> the Joomla community. Given Joomla's popularity it could maybe trigger 
> an increase in CC assigned content.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Nic

Nic, I think your best best is to push this upstream with Joomla/Mambo
developers/community members.

Please keep us posted as to what you find!

Jon

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