LiveContent 2 0
Contents
Goals
- Daily build infrastructure
- Autocuration of Open Content
- Standardization of content feeds and APIs
LiveContent 2.0 works to address several technical issues surrounding our interaction with open content. First, 2.0 aims to develop, using the Fedora architecture, a daily build structure of the LiveContent LiveDVD. Second, 2.0 aims to generate "autocurated content." Autocurated content uses APIs and content feeds from open content providers and hosting organizations that can be used to pull down the most current, "live" open content. Third, 2.0 aims to provide a nudge to prompt more content curators to provide standardized open content feeds so that others can use this infrastructure for their own projects.
We believe that the LiveContent distro can provide a useful platform that allows users to test explore free and open content and test out free, open source software. The LiveContent distro provides information and documentation about Creative Commons, the FOSS movement, and demos to how users can take advantage of the media included to re-create, re-mix and re-share content.
Technical Details
- Sourceforge bug tracker for LiveContent
- autocurated packaging of content
- spins.fedoraproject.org hosting space
- 1.0 testing feedback
Contents
Fedora 8 is the base architecture
- keeping most applications from v1.0 as base (OpenOffice, Inkscape, The Gimp, Firefox, Totem, Evince, gThumb, Tuxpaint)
CC Content
CC is working on developing a system to "autocurate" content from CC-friendly sites such as Flickr. CC tech team will take API infrastructures to be able to pull down CC-licensed content from these sites for inclusion on LiveContent 2.0 DVD. Categories may include, but not limited to:
- Audio
- Video
- Text
- Image
- Educational resources
- marking--a README file generated with the autocuration process to mark the media with the appropriate CC license
Documentation
Proper documentation about LiveContent is vital to include within the DVD. How to deliver documentation that is informative, draws people in, is not boring or too much to digest?
Start page
- Quick soundbytes
Welcome to LiveContent 2.0
Creative Commons LiveContent is a project to spread the word about open content--multimedia materials that you can freely use, copy, and build upon.
What is Creative Commons?
Blurb: Creative Commons provides free tools that allow creators like authors, artists, scientists and educators share their work with the world. Creative Commons let you legally share, remix and reuse creativity!
What is free, open source software (FOSS)?
Blurb: Free, open source software (FOSS) puts users in the driver's seat, providing free and open access to copy, modify and share software with others. It's an important community that empowers innovation and creativity without the lock-in of proprietary software.
Exploring and Creating with Open Content
Blurb: Check out free, open creative content like photos, music, and videos from places like Flickr, Jamendo, and Blip.tv--all free, all at your fingertips, all ready to share, remix, and reuse. Click on the desktop icons to explore content within that category. Because all the content here is CC-licensed, you can take the material, rip it, use it, improve it.
Access the applications by clicking "Applications" in the menu at the lower left corner of the screen. Create your own flyer using the Gimp and CC-licensed photos on the desktop. Draw a picture, cut up audio, view videos using free, open media players. Plug in an thumb drive to save open content to it. When you create, you can share it again with Creative Commons.
Where is open content going? There are lots of exciting projects that are working on opening up information to everyone. Help support projects to minimaize barriers to sharing and reusing educational materials, build the open content base by adding your favorite CC-licensed-powered project to the Content Directories on the CC wiki, jump in with supporting access to a huge library of free, open books.
- ccLearn
- Open Library Project
- Open Content Alliance
- Spread Open Media
- Find More Creative Commons Content
Participate
Join us! Help the growing movement that is working to minimize barriers to the sharing and reuse of creativity and culture. There's lots of way to get involved. Build the open content base by adding your favorite CC-licensed-powered project to the Content Directories on the CC wiki. Check out some sweet projects like ccLearn, the educational arm of CC, and OpenLibrary, an ambitious project to collect and unite catalog data for all books in the world.
Quitting out of LiveContent
Quit out of LiveContent by clicking "System" from the menubar at the bottom of the screen. Next, click "Shut Down" and choose whether to restart the computer into the default operating system or shut down.
Thank You
Worldlabel.com has provided generous support for the development and distribution of this project. Technical infrastructure provided by Fedora.
Community Involvement
- Share how you use LiveContent
Design Considerations
- working on new color scheme for desktop
- will keep content icons the same as 1.0
- modified physical packaging to match new color scheme
- icons that match apps, renaming of things like openoffice
- GNOME accessibility for disabled?
Distribution Options
Future Ideas for LiveContent
Freedom Toaster
- Freedom Toasters are conveniently located, self-contained, computer-based, 'Bring 'n Burn' facilities.
- Like vending machines, preloaded to dispense confectionery, Freedom Toasters are preloaded to dispense free digital products, including software, photography, music and literature.
- The Freedom Toaster project began as a means of overcoming the difficulty in obtaining Linux and Open Source software due to the restrictive telecommunications environment in South Africa, where the easy downloading of large pieces of software is just not possible for everyone.
CC proselytizing and swag
- have on hand to give out at conferences, meetings
- ccLearn
- distribute with other swag like buttons, stickers
