1. The Open Content Library An Overview of the Open Clip Art Library and ccHost

• • Jon Phillips, Community Developer

• Creative Commons (HQ, SF)

• [email_address]

• http://creativecommons.org

2. Overall Concepts

HOWTO: Concrete Actions

Applying Open Source to Open Content

About Community and Contributing to Society

While we are ideal, action happens through specific banal tasks (pick up a shovel)

Please Help!This is an invitation.

3. Three Points

Current Landscape

The Open Content Library

Make More Libraries

4. Who is hosting your content? ? 5. Does your content host provide export of all your media? ? 6. What is being done with your data? ? 7. How many accounts do you have? ? 8. Is your content licensed properly? ? 9. What is the Open Content Library?

A collection of content (audio, video, text, etc) using open content licenses, stored in open formats with open source software that uses open services.

10. An Open Content Library Could

Be Any Size (People, Items, etc)

Use Any Open Content license

• Creative Commons License (Prefer)

Be Public, Private, or Mixed

• Allow Users to Control Privacy

Use Open Services (RSS, Atom)

• Support Content Import/Export

Use Open Formats (svg, xml, odf)

Have Open Source Software power it...

11. Current Landscape 12. CurrentLandscape

Closed ___

Mixed ___

Open ___

13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Mixed ___

Flickr

• Limits how-much you can upload

• CC licensing deeply integrated

• Has Import/Export

• Groups/Privacy controls

• Stored on Yahoo/Flickr's Hardware

• Powered by Closed Software

• Some Open Services/API (upload, streams)

• Focused on Photo Storage and Sharing

28. Mixed ___

Google-dom (gmail, calendars, etc)

• Stored on Google's Hardware

• Licensing not integrated (beyond search)

• Stored on both Open and Closed Software

• Uses Mixed Services (API, RSS)

• Various Privacy Controls

• Ad-Supported

29. Open ___

Wikipedia

• Stored on Wikipedia's servers

• • But full dumps available and many many public mirrors

• Uses Open Source Mediawiki software

• Uses Open Standards, Services

• Focuses on Human Knowledge (history, primarily text-based)

• Stores other media, but draws heavily from other Open Content Libraries

30. Open ___

Archive.org

• Stored on many many mirrors

• Import/Export available

• Has specific requirements

• Supports CC licenses

• Trying to do everything (possibly problem)

• Archive implies storage of old media

31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Open ___

ccMixter.org

• Based upon Open Source ccHost engine

• A remix community, not a content community

• Support CC licenses

• Uses Open Services

• Uses Mixed Formats (AIF, FLAC, MP3)

• Has import/export

37. Open ___

wordpress.org-based blogs

• Open Source software for blogging

• You install and host your own content

• Focused on blogging, not content management system (CMS)

• Supports Open Services (RSS, Atom)

• Support Mixed Formats

38. The Open Content Library 39. Why are More Open Content Libraries Needed?

No Media Utopias (that can do everything)

Data Redundancy is a good thing

Niche-based like Social Network Services

• Orkut's big in Brazil! Mixi is big in Japan!

Need different libraries that focus around:

• Languages, Cultures, Specific Media, Usage

Privacy Anyone?

40.

Do one thing well, or a lot of things not so well

Open Source Software communities have developed strong strategies for building communities of practice

• Wikipedia, Open Clip Art Library and others have learned

41. An Open Content Library Empowers

Maintain your own library on-line

Or, Maintain community around library

Make it public, or keep it to yourself (same per-user)

Make it legal (and clear) using Open Content Licenses (CC licenses or Public Domain)

Insure longevity with open formats

Insure interoperability with open services

42. Business Commons Possibilities

Commercial Rights Brokerage

Advertising on libraries

Sell Services around Content

• Digitization

• Printing

• Collection

• Media Discovery

43. 1 stWay toView :Social and technical Strategy

Social

• Good communities and projects need real people and real communication

• Without good social, don't try technical (ASIDE: OLPC, eLearning)

Technical

• Good softwarecatalyzes certain types of communications and activities

• Bad Softwarehurts social/community

44. 2 ndWay toView :Open Content Library as Superset

There are pre-existing libraries which exhibit these behaviors described

• Open Clip Art Library

• • www.openclipart.org

• • A community focused on the collection and creation of public domain clip art

• • 16K+ images (SVG-based)

• Open Font Library

• • www.openfontlibrary.org

• • A public domain and Open Font Licensed collection of Fonts

45. 46. 47. 48. 3 rdWay toView : opencontentlibrary.org

Light-Interface to Open Content Library projects

Basic place to collect these types of libraries

Place for pooling of ideas around this subject

49. Make More Libraries 50. Community Development (Building)

How to build an online community that is to accomplish some goal

Really Means...

• HOWTO build an Open Content Development Community with approximately 20 people

51. Open Source Constitution-lite

Make the source open

Release Early, Release Often

Reward contributors (with praise or some material reward if possible)

52. Need More Specific Model

Open Source Software Light-Constitution is abstract

It is aimed at software source code

We need a model that is:

• community-centric

• generalized for on-line communities

• more pragmatic

53. More Concrete Structure

Concepts

Infrastructure

Social

...and some misplaced Corollaries

54. Concepts

Make one solid goal for the project

• Remember KISS: Keep It Simple

• Do one thing well, or do many things not so well

• Always ask: "Does this move us closer to our primary goal?"

Pick a solid simple name that can be simplified to a one word tag.

Use this tag/simple name for the domain name, etc for the project. It is your common branding.

55. Infrastructure

• Also called Holy Trinity of Online Communication, or network of social software

Install CMS (ccHost, wiki, or blog)

• collective memory

Maintain a group chat channel

• irc.freenode.net, aim, gtalk

• synchronous communication

Setup a mailing list

• Asynchronous communication

56. Social

Help edit recent CMS edits

Answer all relevant emails

Stay in chat channel and answer questions

57. Corollaries

Social Atmosphere is defined in first days to 2 weeks of a project

• Start with a positive atmosphere, then this is bread into the communities dna

• Starting with a negative atmosphere of flaming and disses, then the community will develop this way and more than likely will die.

• Generally, it is amicable to be extra-nice, and cordial much like one would like in the real world.

58. Corollaries, cont'd

Real vs. Virtual

• Generally, treat developers and people in general just as you would in the real world, if not better.

Promote Contribution

• Reward contributors with praise!

• Material vs. Non-material Rewards

59. Corollaries, cont'd

Dealing with problems

• Personal problems between people should be dealt with offlist

• Group problems should be handled decisively by a core member in a positive manner

• Problems in a community should be dealt with internally before being publicly exposed (if at all).

• 99% of the time this solves conflicts that arise

60. 61. Creative Commons' CMS: ccHost

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost

ccHost is an open source (GPL licensed) project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata.

It is used byccMixterand other sites

• http://ccmixter.org

PHP + MySQL + standard Open Source packaging

62. ccHost, cont'd

Most similar tomediawikiandwordpress

Encouragesproper licensing ,sharingandremixofmany types of media(video, audio, text, image)

Highly customizable and stable

• Development version used by most major installations, thus, it gets tested heavily

63. ccHost Users

Open Source Cinema uses

• www.opensourcecinema.org

Open Clip Art Library moving to ccHost

• www.openclipart.org/cchost

Open Font Library

• www.openfontlibrary.org

Simuze.nl moving to ccHost

Teacherhost (teaching material coming out soon)

64. Recently Released ccHost 3.1

Full localization support (i18n)

• Chinese (Traditional and Simplified, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, English ;)

Replaced phpbb2 dependency with native forum/blog code

Feeds coming out of every pour (rss, atom, custom, etc)

Data dumping in feed formats for re-use

Sample Pool API (for interconnecting sites)

Sample/Clip Browser (show demo)

65. 66. 67. 68. 69. Beyond ccHost 3.1

WebDAV support for easier uploading and programmatic interfaces

Better support for other file formats

Better thumbnailing support

Better generic import of content

Better support for customization

Support for other licenses (OFL, CC GNU-GPL, CC GNU-LGPL)

See the webpage for more plugins

70. Get ccHost!

Thrice-daily builds of packages

Thrice-daily builds of phpdoc (trying to make development easy)

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost

Requirements

• Php 4 and above

• MySQL 4

• Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

71. CcHost Extension Demo

Let's get you guys hooked on this...

72. CC Developer Community (CCDC)

http://developer.creativecommons.org/

Focused around CC licenses, standards, and technology

CC itself is inspired by Free and Open Source Software and also uses GPL/MIT licenses for its own software

Four main software projects (ccTools)

4 Google SoC projects

73. CCDC Goals

Build a strong and supportive community of developers

Support Creative Commons Developer Community Projects

Build infrastructure around Creative Commons licenses

Build infrastructure around Creative Commons standards

74. CCDC: Get Involved

Mailing Lists

• [email_address]

IRC

• #cc on irc.freenode.net

Submit a Patch

• http://cctools.sf.net

Wiki

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer

Try some Developer Challenges

75. Useful Sites

Main sites

• http://creativecommons.org/

• http://icommons.org

• http://www.sciencecommons.org/

Set up an RSS feed for both blogs

Graphics & movies that explain CC

• http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/how1

• http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1

• http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/

76. The Open Content Library An Overview of the Open Clip Art Library and ccHost

• Jon Phillips, Community Developer

• Creative Commons (HQ, SF)

• [email_address]

• http://creativecommons.org