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[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Developer Challenges]]
[[Category:Developer]]
[[Category:freesoftware]]
[[Category:opensource]]
[[Category:ccLiveCD]]
[[Category:LiveContent]]

First run of LiveContent initiative, to be debuted at LinuxWorld 2007, San Francisco. The iso is being hosted at http://cc-livecontent.dreamhosters.com.

To burn and test a copy of LiveContent v1.0:

#click on the most current iso image (titled "ccLiveContent-LATEST.iso") and download to your computer
#burn the iso onto a CD
#reboot your computer with CD inside
#while computer is rebooting, hold down "boot from disk" key ("C" on Macs, "F12" PCs) - note: the LiveCD can only boot from Intel-architecture machines
#at boot menu, choose "run from CD"

LiveContent will boot and run directly from the CD. Please feel free to test out the interface, applications and cc-licensed content. We truly appreciate your time and effort in logging comments, concerns and suggestions [[LiveContent#bugs|here]]. +

===contents===

=== Fedora 7 ===
Fedora 7 is the Linux operating system that will be running live from the CD. Fedora 7 can be customized by creating "spins." Spins are custom builds of the CD with applications and features that meet the users' needs. A specific spin can be documented by including a "build date" on the CD and its packaging. Any user who has installed Fedora on their machine can spin custom LiveCDs.

====You can create your own LiveCD! with Fedora====
*Graphical User Interface (GUI) - Revisor (comes loaded in Fedora)
*Command Line Interface (CLI) - livecd-creator (creates liveCDs)
*Pungi creates installation discs
**https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi
*users who wish to contribute to Fedora's internal build system need an account **http://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts
*Koji is Fedora's server that tracks recent builds
**http://koji.fedoraproject.org

=== FOSS Productivity/creativity/entertainment apps ===

*[http://www.openoffice.org Openoffice] - Complete version
*[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ FireFox] - web browser
*[http://www.gimp.org/ Gimp] - raster graphics editor
*[http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] - audio editor
*[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape] - vector graphics editor
*[http://www.videolan.org/VLC/ VLC] - video and audio viewer, transcoder, streamer
*[http://www.worldlabel.com Worldlabel.com] Blank Opendocument Format Label Templates and collection of pre-designed label templates: address, shipping, filing, CD - licensed public domain
*Totem - audio and video viewer
*gThumb - image viewer
*Evince - PDF Viewer

*note that all these FOSS applications are also available for installation on machines running proprietary operating systems (windows, osx), not just linux machines

=== Creative Commons-licensed content ===
We want to provide examples from each category (audio, video, text, image, education) to showcase on the LiveContent CD. We will develop a system that can automatically pull top content from the sites that we choose (and these sites can change as well).

We'll feature one website/service/cc-content provider from each of the 5 categories for this initial run. We should provide examples of cc-licensed materials from each. don't know how many--we'll see how much room is left on the cd:

*audio - jamendo
**[[Audio#Featured_Audio_Sites|more audio]]
*video - blip.tv
**[[Video#Featured_Video_Sites|more video]]
*image - flickr
**[[Image#Featured_Image_Sites|more image]]
*text - lulu
**[[Text#Featured_Text_sites|more text]]
*education - connexions
**[[Education#Featured_Education_sites|more education]]

*[[Multiple_Formats|even more]]

*what about cc-videos?
*possible inclusion of a CC plugin pre-installed in Openoffice.org
*inclusion of CC plug-in for Firefox?

=== Documentation ===
*promotional information
**http://why.openoffice.org/why_nfp.html
**would be nice to develop documents for the promotion of FOSS for other applications as well - Why Gimp, Why Inscape, etc.
*http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/
*http://opendocumentfellowship.org/
*explanation of licenses like from the Free Me DVD - http://questionsplease.org/freeme/free-culture/the-licenses/
*we should provide a pointer to our new "licenses explained" visual
**http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses
**http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses
* tutorials
**http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/
**http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
**http://www.gimp.org/docs/
**http://www.inkscape.org/doc/index.php

=== Interface and Display Options ===
v1.0 screenshots
<gallery>
Image:cclc_bookmarks.png|bookmarks toolbar
Image:cclc_bootup.png|bootup page
Image:cclc_desktop0.png|desktop wallpaper
Image:cclc_desktop1.png|desktop with content icons
Image:cclc_image.png|image folder open
Image:cclc_menu.png|open applications menu
Image:cclc_popup.png|informational pop-up
Image:cclc_popup0.png|pop-up on desktop
Image:cclc_starting.png|booting screen
Image:cclc_wwtg.png|wanna work together?
</gallery>

==== Themeing ====
*Gnome with cc boot splash, cc desktop, cc content icons

==== Informational Pop-up Screen ====
[[LiveContent_popup_v1_text|This screen]] will be loaded upon booting the CD to welcome users and give an overview of the LiveCD.

===v1.0 testing feedback===

Please help CC make LiveContent the best it can be! Provide feedback under the following categories, or create your own!

====interface====
* desktop icons look like part of the background- they should somehow be raised or otherwise be made to look like an icon, rather than part of the background.
* (DONE) not clear that using two desktops makes sense; just one more thing for people to click on and be confused by. Make it only one desktop by default, and remove the applet from the panel.
* make CC the default search in FF. (this may be confusing to users used to Google as default)
* if there is a global CC ical file, the calendar should be subscribed to it so that it shows up in the calendar in the panel clock. (none right now)
* (DONE) folders that are 'bookmarked' show up in the 'Places' menus; would be good to bookmark the various Audio/Video/etc. folders, I think.
* nautilus thumbnails certain media types. The thumbnails should be pre-generated so that there isn't excessive drive access and clock icons when people open the folders for the first time. (They are in .thumbnails, I believe.)
* nautilus can put icons on individual files. I suggest that perhaps nautilus should include icons representing the licenses, and then each media/content file can have the license represented as an icon on the file. (Either as a supplement to, or a replacement for, the ugly license.txt file. The license.txt can be hidden with by placing it in .hidden, as in http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/livecd-project/trunk/locales/en_US/home/Desktop/Images%20from%20GNOME%20community%20events/.hidden?view=markup) (liblicense will address these concerns, with emblems in the works to denote the license)
* nautilus can reorder and remember the order of files; would be good to order the content directories something like content / web links / license.txt. (That information is stored in ~/.nautilus/metafiles/ if you need to back it up.)
* (DONE, but also we should find a way to represent this so that titles do not appear to cluttered) the pictures should be titled with names/author ('foo by Steve Bar.jpg'), instead of 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc.
* web icons should have the globe replaced with the sites favico or something like it. (There is a way to do this, but I admit I don't recall what it is.)

====content (audio/video/image/text/education)====

* no Free Culture in Texts? :)
* in Education, probably a link to Curriki would be good. Ditto perhaps http://www.introecon.com/ ?
* perhaps the various CC comics, both http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/ and http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1/ ? Not sure where those would go.

====proposed additions/deletions to applications====
* would remove DOM Inspector plugin from FF, and add the MozCC plugin.
* why OpenOffice? Abiword and Gnumeric fit onto a liveCD much, much better- could fit another several dozen megs of content, at least, if you made that swap. (I seem to recall the difference was over 100 megs when I was working on the old GNOME liveCDs.)
* I'd remove gnome-terminal, at least from the final build. No need to have it clutter up the iso or the menus for this target audience.
* the screensaver should be turned on, and set by default to use the pictures in the Images directory.
*For Kids (possible inclusion in future releases)
**http://www.linuxforkids.org/
**[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint]
**[http://gcompris.net/-en- qcompris]
**[http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net Tuxtype]
**[http://www.schooltool.org/ Schooltool]
*Collection of clipart from [http://www.openclipart.org Open Clip Art Library]

====bugs====

*wireless is not supported on all machines [not fixable by CC]
*system time is incorrect [system does not know the timezone, so never going to know it correctly. Perhaps remove the clock altogether?]
*is there printing support?
*I have many error of logical block at the boot of the cd. I can't view the main interface.

====comments/questions====
*note - productivity and creativity apps cannot be independently installed without first installing Fedora - aka liveCD doesn't support application installs before full OS install
**however, most of the applications have been developed for a variety of operating systems in addition to Linux

LiveContent 1.0 - Revision history

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Jon Phillips: New page: Category:Technology Category:Developer Challenges Category:Developer Category:freesoftware Category:opensource Category:ccLiveCD Category:LiveContent First ru...