Developers

Welcome to the CC Developer Community! This is where you'll find all about the technologies and software products that CC uses to push forward our mission to maximize digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

Get Involved

All of the projects developed at Creative Commons are open source software, and just like most open source projects, outside involvement is key to its success. But you don't have to be a software developer to join us--we'd love to have you in the discussion if you're a user researcher, designer, translator, or just interested in the topic.

E-mail

Join our mailing list

IRC

Chat with us real-time on irc (Freenode, #cc)

Coming soon: public team meetings, and other ways to engage.

Core Technologies

RDFa

Standard for adding machine-readable statements to web pages.

CcREL

Language for adding licensing information to web pages.

LRMI

Language for describing educational resources on the web.

Liblicense

Library for embedding licensing metadata into files of various formats. (note: now somewhat out of date!)

Projects

Google Summer of Code

Check out the GSoC 2013 page for ideas and more.

Localization

Check out the Translate page for ways to help the Creative Commons community with translations.