Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Nathan Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Hi Nivanka,

I'm very happy to hear that you're interested in the CC GSoC projects.
 Robert gave some excellent advice in his email about logistics and
previous projects.  I'll just comment on these projects and you can
let us know if you have additional questions.

Both of those would be great projects for someone to work on.  As you
probably saw from the wiki page, we had a Summer of Code student last
year do an initial implementation of the RDFa Plugin for WordPress.
The primary opportunity there is polishing the code and making it work
with the visual editor (right now I believe it's limited to the HTML
editor).  There's been other interest in making WordPress work better
with RDFa (from outside CC, see
http://danbri.org/words/2009/12/23/507), so improving that could be
really useful.

The media manager project also has lots of potential.  There are two
different things I'd like to see implemented. First, I'd like to see
fields for the license and attribution information in the media
manager generally. When filled in, the media manager should insert
HTML that includes attribution and license information.

An additional step that I think would be interesting is extending it
to support RDFa and/or OEmbed.  That is, given the URL of a page
(instead of an image), pull the page and look for RDFa there for
title, license, description, etc.  OEmbed might not be required, but
could be used to get the actual object, if not specified by the RDFa.
The CC specific bit of that is support for the license.  The inserted
HTML would also include the license/attribution information, as well
as the appropriate scope metadata (indicating the source URL initially
provided).  We (CC) can provide examples of how this metadata should
be constructed.

Think about these possible projects and let me know if you have any
questions.  I'll add some of these details to the wiki pages as well.

Thanks again for your interest, and sorry for the delayed reply.

Nathan


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Nivanka Fonseka <fonsekaean AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a student of the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka.
> I'd like to submit my application to the GSOC program 2010, and to work with
> the Creative Commons,
> as after reading I found working with CC is going to be much interesting,
> fun, as well as I can sharpen
> myself.
>
>
> I went through the project ideas which were listed on
>
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer_Challenges
>
> And I am much interested in taking the following two
>
> Support for CC licenses in WordPress Media Manager
> RDFa Plugin for WordPress
>
> I am writing this email in-order to show my interests, and to seek guidance
> on how to send my
> application + proposal.
>
> If you can reply me in advance it would be great.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> --
> Nivanka Fonseka
>
> Skype: nivanka.fonseka
> Twitter: @nivankafonseka
>
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