I am lightly tracking the development of operating system and desktop-level integration of Creative Commons licensing, and came across these interesting developments:
http://textoplano.livejournal.com/3439.html Also, I noticed that freedesktop.org is hosting a couple of projects for desktop-based search (Tracker) (similar to apple's spotlight and beagle, except desktop-neutral) and a shared metadata spec. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec I have joined this tracker-list to keep tabs and find out what is happening on these fronts, how connected this project is, etc. I also have started a discussion on this list about how this shared metadata spec might be amended with CC licensing and how we already support metadata. If anyone is interested, please join me on the tracker-list where these discussions are taking place. I am very unclear what the level of participation is on this project and believe it to be 1-5 developers right now. If there are more developers and organizational connections, it is something we should think about supporting and figure out how to connect with... Also, I would like to mention the Portland Project, which is another fd.o project, and supported by OSDL, Intel, IBM, etc. This is an interesting desktop project: "Portland intends to generate a common set of Linux Desktop Interfaces and Tools to allow all applications to easily integrate with the free desktop configuration an end user has chosen to work with." This project is not fluff and is hopefully including some of the Create Projects (http://create.freedesktop.org) specs. and Creative Commons specs as well. If anyone is interested in these topics, please join the portland list and help me push this project up hill as well to support licensing (and Creative Commons licensing) on the desktop... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
