Hi guys, I’ve voiced my opinions about Creative Commons development strategies for as long as I have been on this list and it seems like CC as an organisation just doesn’t learn from it’s past.
A year or more a go the list received a similar mail detailing a new platform where teachers would be able to combine material and make kick-ass OER, or so was the promise. This product was never launched and the people working on it left CC. Similarly I’ve been hearing that you are trying to repurpose the Taiwanese LetCC tool. I quick look in the Github repositories shows that your last commit on that was in July. Now you are pushing a log-in system and a list app while in the meantime you seem to be neglecting your legal tools and tools that are in use today. I’ve heard you want to put a search tool more in the centre of your business plan, but you are not measuring how much is being searched on cc.org. You claim that this is an important part of your user engagement at the moment but you have nothing to back that up. This is literally a 5 minute job, you only have to fill in the variable. Hit it is ’s’ for creativecommons.org and ‘query’ for search.creativecommons.org.. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode still gives security warnings, while they are accessible they do not give much confidence that CC can operate as a technology company. https://creativecommons.org/ns still does not have any CSS attached to it since a cleanup of your server. CCrel is being used throughout the world, Europeana being one of its large proponents. Again you are not providing any confidence in your technological skill. If you want search you will need to have CC-material searchable. CCrel, schema.org or other similar initiatives provide that. I see no activity of CC global in that direction. For me there is a large disconnect to what CC global is trying to achieve and what the actual CC community wants/needs. And honestly I’ve been ranting about this for years now. You can open almost any Mail thread in this lists archive to read my dismay :) and that shouldn’t be funny. Finally for my feedback, interests should come first contracts should come later. You are inviting us to sign a contract but you haven’t even told us the app yet. It doesn’t make any sense. /rant Best, Maarten -- Kennisland | www.kl.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31643053919 | @mzeinstra > On 05 Dec 2014, at 24:40 , BjornW <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > Personally, I'd would walk away and not contribute to this. There's plenty of > interesting FLOSS projects seeking contributors without 'forcing' me to jump > through legal hoops. Also I think that an agreement such as this, is > detriment to the Creative Commons cause and 'brand'. > > Just my two euro cents ;) > > grtz > BjornW > > > On 05-12-14 00:19, Matt Lee wrote: >> The List is a new web app and Android app from Creative Commons. We're >> developing it in the open, under a free software license. We'd like to >> get third party contributions, and we have an agreement that we're >> proposing that'll do that. >> >> Read it here: >> https://github.com/creativecommons/list/blob/master/contributing.md >> and please let us have your feedback either here or via GitHub Issues. >> >> Join us now and share the software! >> >> I'm really excited by this work, and we'd love to have your contributions. >> >> --- >> Matt Lee >> Creative Commons >> Boston, MA, USA >> _______________________________________________ >> cc-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel >> > > > -- > > met vriendelijke groet, > Bjorn Wijers > > * b u r o b j o r n .nl * > digitaal vakmanschap | digital craftsmanship > > Postbus 14145 > 3508 SE Utrecht > The Netherlands > > tel: +31 6 49 74 78 70 > http://www.burobjorn.nl > > _______________________________________________ > cc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
