> > Regarding more info: It would be nice to have a lot of very direct links > > as to where one can find more free culture in the various types of media; > > openclipart.org, jamendo.com, blip.tv, yotofoto etc.. A good directory > > (or a very obvious link to one) could be very useful. I think it could > > help people "letting go" of the über-commercial sphere to see how much > > excellent Free material there actually is available (provide them with > > quality and show them the equally excellent quantity). > > Great idea - I've added a page "The Directory" which is linked to from > the main navigation across the top as well as from the main body of > text on the welcome page. If you want to look over than and see what > you think of the links, and the page, so far? I'm sure there's loads > more to go in - and I want to put all those links over to the "Free > Culture Links" sidebar bit too.
The site is shaping up to become an excellent starting point for Free Culture. I especially appreciate that you show how Free Software is connected to Free Culture, and that you are clear about the different licenses. Such issues are often not explained well from the start in order to avoid confusion, but end up causing a lot more confusion later on. Maybe it would also be a good idea to have a page listing the different licenses that has been used on the DVD and explain their general peculiarities (without going into too much detail of course). Here are some more links for the directory Music: http://www.opsound.org/ http://www.dogmazic.net http://www.jamglue.com/ General: http://www.legaltorrents.com Photography: http://openphoto.net http://www.morguefile.com/ http://www.sxc.hu/ Video: http://www.eyespot.com/ http://jumpcut.com/ http://blip.tv/posts/?license=6: (BY-SA) http://blip.tv/posts/?license=5: (BY-NC-SA) Software: http://www.theopencd.org/ freshmeat sourceforge > > Another idea would be a participatory version of the DVD. You could ship > > a half-filled disc (around 2GB) with a simple button for "Make a new DVD > > that includes the files I have added", which recognizes the users media > > files and lets him/her select among suitable licenses for them. > > Again this is a cool idea but I'm not sure I'd have the ability to > implement this one. If you had any ideas? To make the DVD at the > minute I extract the data from the iso of the Live CD and the DVD and > put it into one folder + media files for the computer, then create a > new iso image using mkisofs. Probably not the most elegant solution > but it works :D I'm planning on including detailed instructions on the > site of how to make your own DVD though so perhaps that would be > enough? At least a step in the right direction... My initial suggestion does demand some programming expertise, of which I sadly have none myself. I have checked different LiveCD build options to see what is available, but they all seem to require a great deal of work that would be difficult to automize. The closest feature set would probably be in Dynebolic, where simple (?) tools to rebuild the CD with (some?) changes are included, and which is created in a modular fashion, enabling the use of software (or media) add-ons. See http://dev.dynebolic.org/ for info. I haven't tried the rebuilding myself, but have generally great admiration for the project. Your solution is a lot simpler though. I guess you need at least a GNU/Linux writeable harddrive partition to store the temporary data, but that is probably something that is difficult to avoid in any case. If we could assume the user had such a partition, the process could easily be automated, probably even with a shell script. The simple instructions you refer to should in any case suffice to make an excellent first Free Me DVD. > > One bug: I had a problem with the pages not showing up properly in > > Konqueror (default web browser on the KDE desktop, which shares its > > render engine with Safari). Everything that is beneath the visible area > > turns up white when I scroll down. > > Not sure I understood this quite properly but I've fixed something! > The hyperlinks in the footer would change to black when you hovered, > they now change grey so are still readable - was this what you meant? > I'm sorry if not, let me know again and I'll see if I can find what > you mean. I had a look in Konqueror myself but didn't spot anything. I just discovered that the webpage makes an additional scrollbar on the far right (in Konqueror only), next to the "normal" scroll bar. Scrolling the left one provides the rest of the page, scrolling the right one shows a lot of white. From a quick look at your css, I would guess that this IE hack is causing it: html { /* Force Vertical Scrollbar */ /* IE */ overflow-y: scroll; peace, Stian _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
