Main Page
This page is set to explore the idea of participation on a large scale and applied volunteerism with Creative Commons to help evangelize, discuss, and present Creative Commons to your locale.
Contents
How To Participate: Everybody
License Your Work
Creative Commons licenses would do little without enthusiastic use by creators across disciplines. If you’ve created any sort of copyrightable material, such as video, text, images, websites or blogs, license them! See http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ for information about choosing a license.
http://creativecommons.org/license
Events
CC Salons
The CC Salon is a monthly event focused on building a community of artists and developers around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology. The first event is set for San Francisco with intention for the idea to replicate in other locations internationally.
The format for each event is to encourage loose networking amongst participants with 2-3 brief presentations from individuals and groups developing interesting projects that relate to the Creative Commons.
Check if there is a Salon in your city. If not, let us know and we can help you start one!
Conferences
Creative Commons is a small nonprofit. CC presents at several conferences a year, but the formal staff is small. We often need other CC community members to help us at conferences by helping present the projects, fliers, and other issues. Also, this is a great way to get into your favorite conference for free!
Check out our schedule and contact us if you want to get involved handing out swag and manning the booth.
Local Outreach
You can get CC involved in your community in a variety of different ways. The LiveContent project presents a bevy of opportunities in integrating CC in your area - from your local library to school. Encouraging this usage may seem small-scale, but in reality, is incredibly important.
As always, evangelize to your best abilities! Informal person-to-person discussions are a great way to spread the word about CC.
Social Networks
Join us on any of the following networks - we're always looking to meet new people and make new friends!
- Creative Commons on Myspace
- Creative Commons on Facebook
- Creative Commons on Upcoming
- Creative Commons on Virb
Media Publishing
We have profiles on many of the major media-sharing websites, check us out below:
For a full list of online communities that support CC-licensing of content, please check out our Content_Directory
- No built in support? That's OK - just follow our marking standards on how to make sure your licence is understood by your audience.
How to Participate: Specific
Developers
We are continuously updating and introducing new tools to help users license their work more easily. Any ideas? Send an email to see what we’re working on and how your expertise may help us out.
- Read over the Developer Section
- Take on some Developer Challenges
- Help Expand the Tech Challenges
- Help Expand this wiki
- Jump on IRC or cc-devel and ask questions.
- Help answer questions on IRC and/or the Mailing Lists
- Help test out Creative Commons sponsored software projects (CcHost, etc)
Creators
- License your media/content with a CC license!
- Use Creative Commons' Software
- Contribute to this wiki
- Spread the word about Creative Commons
Lawyers
Are you in the capacity to give legal advice? Consider giving some pro bono counseling to potential license users. Educate them about the current state of copyright, the Creative Commons mission and all the legalities of using the licenses.
- License your media/content with a CC license!
- Contribute to this wiki
- Spread the word about Creative Commons
College Students
- See if there is an active FreeCulture.org chapter at your school
- If so, join it!
- If not, start one!
- The folks at FreeCulture.org are more than happy to lend a hand in setting up new chapters - send an e-mail to newgroup@freeculture.org for more info
