Developer

The primary goal of the Creative Commons Developer Community (CCDC) is to build a community of developers around the development of tools facilitating Creative Commons' licenses and standards. You can help by accepting one of our Developer Challenges.

[edit] Community 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

[edit] Get Involved

• Mailing Lists
• IRC
• Try some Developer Challenges
• Submit a Patch
• Translate projects into different languages

[edit] Documentation

• Choosing Licenses
• Reading Licenses
• HOWTO Create, Apply and Submit Patches
• Translating ccHost - Help localize for your language
• Coding Style - General coding guidelines and settings
• Using Markup

[edit] Discussion

• Refocusing Creative Commons Development
• Help Revise Developer Challenges
• Help Revise Summer of Code 2006
• Maximize Software Distribution - targeting software distros, PR, etc
• Software Release Procedure - best practices for releasing CCDC Software
• Open Source - starting, running and learning about CC + Open Source
• Search Engine Survey - General survey of the open source search engine scene
• Operating System Search Survey - General survey of search and metadata

[edit] People

• Nathan Yergler
• Victor Stone
• Jon Phillips
• Bjorn Wijers
• Mike Linksvayer
• Bryce Harrington
• Puma

[edit] Projects

Creative Commons actively develops the following software projects:

• ccPublisher
• ccHost (ccMixter source code)
• Translator - http://translate.creativecommons.org/
• ccLookup
• Command Line Tools
• ccNutch

Also see the Tools Category Index for links to additional projects. Code for our projects is hosted at Sourceforge.net or Berlios.de; see the Source Repository Policy for information on contributing code or starting a new project. See the Source Repository Information page for general information about the available modules and how to check them out from source control.

[edit] Supporting Projects

We also maintain several library projects which are reused in some of our applications:

• License Wrappers language-specific wrappers for representing and manipulating license information
• Creative Commons Web Services
• Web Services Client Implementations
• pyArchive
• Ajax License Chooser
• libfeedback

[edit] Exploratory Projects

The projects below are currently being discussed or explored:

• Developer Challenges - a long list of challenges set for exploration
• Content Aggregation
• liblicense - an abstract library for implementing license support (C-library)
• Dream CC Tool - A discussion of the "ideal" CC tool; possibly the successor to ccPublisher?
• Development Ideas - A collection of nascent ideas for CC-enabled tools. As these become more fleshed out, they'll be moved to their own pages.