Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Nathan Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Hi Nimal,

Great to hear that you're interested.  A few details:

There are two OpenOffice.org ideas.  One is a port of the Microsoft
developed Office plugin (http://ucsdbiolit.codeplex.com/).  We'd like
to be able to tag words as part of an ontology within Writer
documents.  Ideally the plugin should be able to consume an arbitrary
ontology, and then we can ship it with a few already included (such as
the biomedical ontology, etc).

The second OpenOffice.org related project is updating our existing
plugin in several ways; see
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OpenOffice_Plugin_Updates for an
overview.

The WordPress idea is probably the least well defined at this point.
It'd be nice to extend the WordPress editor to allow authors to add
RDFa to their posts, similar to how they can already mark text as
bold, italicized or linked.  Like the OOo Ontology plugin it'd be good
to provide an extensible route for adding vocabulary, but we should
probably ship with support for common things like dublin core metadata
and support for marking up media in the posts.

If you have specific questions about any of these projects, please let us 
know.

Nathan


2009/3/23 TalkOut a.k.a. Nimal <talkout AT gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm Nimal, a final year undergraduate student in Computer Science and
> Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I'm interested to doing
> a GSoC 2009 project with Creative Commons development. I have been involved
> in many open source projects development and localization for the last 4
> years, including WordPress, Moodle, Firefox, Sahana, and OpenOffice. This
> time I got interested with some projects ideas given in the CC wiki. And
> they include my love for the projects and my for this licence.
>
> I'm manily interested in the OpenOffice Plugin or the WordPress plugin and I
> feel they suite me and I have development experience with both those. So I
> would like to learn a little more about the requirements from the community
> as you are the people who would know this better.
>
> I tried to catch any mentors on #cc, but couldn't get hold of any, so if
> there is anyone who could help me out, I'll be greatly thank full to you.
>
> Hope to work wiht CC this GSoC.
>
> --
> Nimal
>
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