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Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2012-07-05T02:59:23Z

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|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
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|Author=Cory Doctorow
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|Tag=Literature
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|Country=United Kingdom
|Quote=Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.
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|Image_attribution=[http://flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/ Joi Ito]
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== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

== Media ==
* [http://craphound.com/bio.php About Cory Doctorow (official website)]
* [http://xkcd.com/239/ One of a number of XKCD comics where Cory Doctorow is mentioned].
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* [http://www.anggarakasa.com/kumpulan-cerpen-terbaik-karya-orang-orang-terbaik/ Cerpen] [http://www.anggarakasa.com/mengenal-jenis-jenis-kucing-bagi-yang-ingin-memelihara-kucing/ Kucing]
* [http://www.anggarakasa.com/kata-kata-cinta-terindah-yang-terdengar-oleh-hati/ Kata-kata cinta]

Translating with Pootle/Admins: managing suggestions and previewing

2011-10-07T02:49:45Z

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= Video =

{{#gadget: pootle_3}}

= Navigation =

* Up to the top, [[Translating with Pootle]]
* Previous, to [[Translating with Pootle/Making translations and suggestions|Making translations and suggestions]]

= Text =

There are a few things that only administrators of the language can do: accepting suggestions as translations, and committing translations to see how they look at staging.creativecommons.org.

== Accepting suggestions ==

Handling suggestions in Pootle is very easy. If on in the '''translation screen''' you see a message reading, ''View Suggestions'', you can click it to show the suggestions that have been made as well as the name of the user who made the suggestion.

[[Image:Pootle_view_suggestions_dropped_down.png|frame|The ''View Suggestions'' option available next to a message.]]

If you want to act on those suggestions, click the ''Edit'' link at the end of the row. This will bring you to the full edit screen with that message selected.

[[Image:Pootle_edit_screen_with_suggestion.png|frame|The edit screen with a suggestion visible.]]

You can click on the green check-mark or the red X; they will accept or reject the suggestion respectively. If you want to accept a modified version of the suggestion, you can click the green check-mark to accept the suggestion and then edit it in the translation field. Be sure to hit ''submit'' afterwards.

== Creative Commons' "Staging" website ==

We run an experimental clone of the Creative Commons website at http://staging.creativecommons.org/. The ''cc_org'' translation catalog is made available in near-real-time in two places.

* The staging license chooser at [http://staging.creativecommons.org/license http://creativecommons.org/license/] allows you to preview questions users see when they choose a license.
* The staging deeds at, for example, [http://staging.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ http://staging.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/] show the localized versions of the human-readable license deeds.

For both of these, appending ?lang=no lets you see the Norwegian translation; that should work for any short language code.

== Committing translations ==

Language editors can use the ''commit'' facility in Pootle to permanently store their changes. Each commit is a permanent snapshot of the PO file. In addition, we only update ''staging.creativecommons.org'' once you commit.

As a result, the commit feature is very useful as as "preview" feature. To use it, you must have the commit privilege to a language in Pootle.

Start at the message catalogs page, as seen below:

[[Image:Pootle_show_editing_functions.png|frame|The message catalogs page with ''Show Editing Functions'' highlighted]]

Follow the link to '''Show Editing Functions'', and you arrive at a page like this:

[[Image:Pootle_editing_functions.png|frame|The editing functions page]]

Click on "Commit," and after a somewhat substantial wait, you will see a message indicating that some files were committed. (If there are no changes, then Pootle will not actually perform a commit.) You can then expect that ''staging.creativecommons.org'' is up-to-date with respect to the language you are working on.

== Pushing to the live site ==

WHen you are happy with your changes as they appear on ''staging.creativecommons.org'', email webmaster@creativecommons.org to request that we update the main creativecommons.org website with your translations. You should expect a response saying it's done within a couple of work days at the longest.

== Granting permissions ==

As a language administrator, you can grant privileges to other translators who have shown their ability to provide good-quality text. To do that, log in and click go to your Account page. From there, you will see an "Administrate" link for a project and language. Click this link, and you can select the rights you want each user to have.

Keep in mind that the user who you want to assign permissions to '''has to have already''' added this language in his or her profile page.
* [http://www.gadgetsdotcom.com Gadgets] [http://asbestosisweb.blogspot.com]

Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2011-10-07T02:47:09Z

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