Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Kent Mewhort <kent AT openissues.ca>]

Hi All,

I want to share an alpha version of a little project I'm putting 
together, CoursePacker.org.  The goal is to allow users to quickly 
create university course packs, or other collections of openly-licensed 
works.  Users can upload documents in a variety of supported formats and 
the web platform takes care of the document conversion, table of 
contents, page number stamping and CC license/attribution stamping.

It still needs some styling refinements and some bells and whistles, 
which I'll work on when I have a few free cycles to do so, but the core 
functionality is all there for anyone that wants to check it out 
(http://www.coursepacker.org). Firefox is recommended at this point 
(Chrome's internal PDF viewer doesn't work well for the embedded 
preview).  Comments welcome.  I'm thinking to perhaps release this under 
the CC Canada banner when it's ready.

My original was plan was to also eventually implement on-site widgets to 
pull in materials from Wikipedia, jurisprudence databases, and other 
websites with public domain or CC works. However, after perusing Dan's 
slides on Pasteboard, I'm wondering if Pasteboard could be leveraged and 
used to directly pull Pasteboard-collected content into a CoursePacker 
course pack...

Kent