Summer of Code 2012

This year Creative Commons has a much more limited focus on what we would like to see out of Google Summer of Code than in previous years. A specific project is listed below:

Creative Commons LibreOffice (OpenOffice) plugin updates

We'd like to see various updates to the LibreOffice plugin. We've had significant work done on the OpenOffice plugin over the last few years, particularly in 2010.

We'd like to see more work done on the plugin. Some particular things we'd like to see:

• Get the extension added to the LibreOffice extension center
• General UI cleanup: eg, make the tabs be actual tabs, if possible
• Switch Public Domain Certification tool to use Public Domain Mark instead
• Rewrite from Java to Python
•  ???

Other projects

While CC's scope of interest is limited this year, we encourage applying to other projects. Here are some that are in particular important to free cultural production and curation; any improvements to these programs (and many others) help build the commons:

• Blender
• Inkscape
• GIMP
• Libre.fm
• LibreOffice
• MediaGoblin
• Mediawiki
• MusicBrainz
• OpenStreetMap