Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 11:54 -0400, Luke Hoersten wrote:
> Wow awesome work! This list looks pretty extensive. Something that
> might help would be to get a few Ubuntu developers/maintainers on the
> cause because Ubuntu throws a lot of weight around in the Gnome world
> right now.

Great, I think the most beneficial contributions will be in some nice
finite development tasks in form of the challenges we have created.

I look forward to what comes of this...

Great!

Jon

> On 8/14/06, Jon Phillips <jon AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 00:48 +0200, Jaime Frutos Morales wrote:
> > > HI!
> > >
> > > I would like to start a wiki page with all the information about
> > > integrating CC and Gnome.
> >
> > I see you have already created this page and other ones to support.
> >
> >
> > > Ideas for this page:
> > >
> > > - Gnome/GTK applications aware of CC licenses (Banshee after Summer of
> > > Code 2006, Firefox with Mozcc plugin, Epiphany with CC license viewer
> > > extension, Inkscape, etc)
> >
> > Excellent to keep a list of these....
> >
> > > - Gnome/GTK applications which could easily become aware of CC licenses.
> >
> > Yes, and hopefully we can come up with a generic way these applications
> > can support CC licensing to make it easy for these applications.
> > Thoughts on this?
> >
> > >    I have submitted several enhancement bug reports for some Gnome
> > > applications
> > >    about this:
> > >
> > >    Epiphany: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348050
> > >    Nautilus: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349170
> > >    Evince: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349173
> > >    Totem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349218
> > >    Gnumeric: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349220
> > >    EOG: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349222
> > >    GIMP: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349224
> >
> > Great...please keep the cc-devel list apprised on how these bugs do and
> > if there are good comments as to their support.
> >
> > > - Gnome/GTK applications which could be created to integrate CC
> > > licenses into the desktop:
> > >
> > >    I'm talking to Tracker's creator
> > > (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker) to include a "License"
> > > field on the specification to look for CC licensed files within the
> > > desktop. If it is achieved, the next step is to aim Deskbar-applet
> > > integration or to create a new tool to do such searches.
> >
> > I joined this list and pushed on this as well. I a bit skeptical to
> > whether this Tracker application has taken on life and if it is
> > positioned to become a solid FD.o standard. However, I would be great if
> > this is so.
> >
> > >    I'm thinking about creating an application to download CC music
> > > files from ccHost-based sites, but I don't know if there is any
> > > existing API to do this. Other approach could be to parse the feed
> > > looking for audio files, but this option would only download latest
> > > content.
> >
> > Yes, please see the ccHost Sample Pool API which provides a mechanism
> > for querying for files on a ccHost installation and getting back an RSS
> > or ATOM feed of results: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sample_Pool_API
> >
> > We also are adding a ccHost upload API which will extend the
> > capabilities more.
> >
> > I would highly recommend for you to join the cc-devel and cctools-cchost
> > (on sf.net) lists to discuss these topics:
> > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mailing_Lists
> >
> >
> > > This wiki page could be linked from
> > > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Desktop_Integration. Similar pages
> > > could be created for other OS desktops such as KDE, MacOS,etc.
> >
> > Great, I'm glad you created these!
> >
> > > What do you think about it? Is it interesting? Is it worth the effort?
> >
> > Of course, these are very interesting ideas and it would be great for
> > you to ramp up your participation in the CC Developer Community and
> > hopefully others will help as well...
> >
> > Please join the cc-devel mailing list and lets start conquering some
> > finite tasks to push this up hill....also, I would like to say that I
> > think it is better to try and create integration on the larger
> > freedesktop which would encompass Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and other
> > desktops...that is what I like about the Tracker project and other fd.o
> > standards....they try to consider that there is more than just GNOME.
> >
> > Jon
> >
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> > Jon Phillips
> > jon AT creativecommons.org
> > cell: 510.499.0894
> >
> > Software Engineer
> > Creative Commons
> > www.creativecommons.org
> >
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