THE OPEN CONTENT LIBRARY
The Current Landscape, ccHost, and
New Related CC Projects
Goal
Get more open content
onto the desktop.
rejon.org
rejon.org, artist, developer,
writer, sf, newmedia, theory, culture, opensource,
opencontent,
sustainability, network, overlap,
experimental, media, inkscape, openclipartlibrary,
openfontlibrary
share, reuse, and remix legally
sf, nonprofit, small, 4.5yearsold, freelicenses, freetools,
scientists, artists, authors, educators, business, bloggers,
vloggers,
hollywood, indyvideo
All Rights Reserved.
No Rights Reserved.
Some Rights Reserved.
http://creativecommons.org/license/by/3.0
Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a CC
Attribution 3.0 unported license.
The Current Landscape
(re) mix-it
Who is hosting your content?
What is being done with your data?
How is your content licensed?
Closed. Mixed. Open.
How do we get open content
onto the freedesktop?
The Open Content Library
A collection of content (audio, video, image, text) using open
content licenses, stored in open formats with open source software
that uses open services.
1. Social and Technical Strategy
2. Superset of Content Repositories
Open Clip Art Library
www.openclipart.org
14K+images, ccHost-based, svg-based, publicdomain, ugc, healthy,
osuosl, goodcommunication, 100+registrationsperday, needdevelopers,
needart, needtheme
http://openclipart.org/wiki/Roadmap
0.19: Complete ccHost Transition
Import Old Collection
Thumbnails (basic browsing infrastructure)
0.20: Packaging and Browsing
0.21: Clip Art Requests
0.22: Wizards and Templates
0.23: Clip Art Optimization
Future
Andy's New Site Design
http://brisgeek.com/ocal/front.html
Integration into Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Scribus
Integration with other web services
RSS, Sample Pool API, OpenSearch, WebDAV
Integration with services (Mikons, etc)
Open Font Library
www.openfontlibrary.org
29+fonts, 123logoentries, perpetualbeta, needfonts,
needdevelopers, needtheme, ugc, publicdomain, openfontlicense,
osuosl-hosted, cchost-based
Roadmap
0.1: Launch!
0.2: Monthly Releases Begin
0.3: Community Update
0.4: Library Update
0.5: Release of Fontview Type Manager
...1.0: (pssst...its what you want to make it!)
3. opencontentlibrary.org
More libraries?
No media utopias.
Data redundancy is a good thing.
Orkut's big in Brazil!
Mixi is big in Japan!
Privacy anyone?
Maintain your own library on-line
or, participate with community around library
Make it public, or
keep it to youself
Make it legal (and clear) using Open Content Licenses (CC
licenses or Public Domain)
Insure longevity with open formats.
Insure interoperability with
open services
ccHost
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost
php+mysql+getid3, GPL, web2.0, event-based,
similar_to_wordpress, similar_to_mediawiki, customizable, stable,
version4.0, sample_pool_api
php+mysql+getid3, GPL, web2.0, event-based,
similar_to_wordpress, similar_to_mediawiki, customizable, stable,
version4.0, sample_pool_api
Sample Pool API
http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc
CodeDoc
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/
Recently Released ccHost 4.0.1
Localization Support (i18n)
Publicize Users
Feeds coming out of every pour
Data dumping in feed formats for re-use
Sample Pool API (for interconnecting sites)
Massive Performance Boost (Query Engine)
Update CC license support to 3.0
Beyond ccHost 4.0.1
WebDAV support for easier uploading and programmatic
interfaces
Direct in/out to Inkscape (and others)
Better support for other file formats
Thumbnailing support
Better generic import of content
See the webpage for more plugins
Get ccHost!
Thrice-daily builds of packages
Thrice-daily builds of phpdoc
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost
Requirements
Php 4 and above
MySQL 4
Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
New Related CC Projects
liblicense
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Desktop_Integration
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Liblicense
LiveContent
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/livecontent
Debuting at LinuxWorldSF in August
Marking
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/marking
pdwiki
(not released: global public domain registry)
Technology Preview at Wikimania in Taipei in August
Mo' Content.
Mo' Libraries.
The remix cycle
Open Source is Everywhere.
We still rely on non-open content.
Rays of hope with Rhythmbox.
Rays of hope with Mugshot.
Cross-over hope of Flickr,
Youtube, blip.tv
New devices like OLPC and OpenMoko are
content-making-machines
What are some ideas on how to best get more open content on
Gnome?
THE OPEN CONTENT LIBRARY
The Current Landscape, ccHost, and
New Related CC Projects
Jon Phillips
[email protected]
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