OLPC

This page details Creative Commons and the Creative Commons Community's involvement in the One Laptop Per Child project. This page really detailed the earlier effort of Creative Commons to help on the OLPC project, but now the current work is on the OLPC wiki.

Projects

• liblicense handles licensing for the free and open desktop. The major work on this is done and patches are into OLPC on this.

Ideas

Open Content Portal

NOTE: This work is now being folded into the Open Library project.

• website
• focused on children (and other users)
• allows both upload/download

Find and Publish Mechanism

COMPLETE: This work is now complete and and called liblicense. There are other standards for empowering this, but lets consider this a good job done.

• (DONE) Software on device enables find and publish
• (DONE)Develop GTK-based license chooser that hooks into desktop as control panel
  • (DONE)Idea is for this to be skinned with sugar and put in so that each user on a system might select the default license
• (DONE)Develop KDE-based license chooser
• (DONE)Allows for proper licensing (although, how does one explain this to kids?)

Mockups of the Integration

• Mock-Ups of Sugar License Chooser
• Mock-Ups of License Chooser for KDE
• Mock-Ups of License Chooser for Gnome
• Mock-Ups of License Chooser for Open Moko

Pre-existing Content

• (WONTFIX) Get all content on the device licensed with CC licenses
• (DONE) Get all documentation and printed matter CC licensed

Curriculum

• (TODO) Make a licensing activity that explains licensing and how it works on the OLPC

Related

• LiveContent
• Developer Challenges
• Developer

People

• Jon Phillips
• Scott Shawcroft
• Asheesh Laroia
• Jason Kivlighn
• Join the project and help us!

External

• Creative Commons page on OLPC wiki that details CC involvement
• Official Site]
• Wikipedia Page on OLPC
• OLPC Developer Program - to get development machines
• News
  • Rethinking a window to the world