Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Nathan Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Yeah, we've had at least one other person submit a proposal around
updating the existing OOo extension.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM, TalkOut a.k.a. Nimal
<talkout AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Thanks for the details.
>
> I feel I will be more capable of updating the existing OpenOffice.org
> plugin.
> I already have some OOo development and localization experience and OOo has
> be my office suite for sometime.
> So I'll look into the links you have provided and come up with a draft
> proposal, so that we can continue from there.
> I feel with a draft proposal we will be able to shape up our ideas more.
>
> Is there anyone else already expressed interest for this project idea?
>
> Nimal
>
> IRC: talkout
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Nathan Yergler
> <nathan AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> > IRC: talkout
>> > Email: talkout AT gmail.com
>> > Blog: http://thetalkouttrojans.blogspot.com/
>> >
>> >
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