Summer of Code 2007

Creative Commons is participating in Google's Summer of Code 2006 as a mentoring organization.

This page highlights ideas for Google Summer of Code student proposals and feature updates as the program progresses. For now please see our Tech Challenges page for project ideas.

Students

If you find an idea listed below that you like, we encourage you to read up about the Creative Commons Developer Community, ask questions, and then include the following in your proposal:

1. Detailed description / design document
2. an approximate schedule (timeline)
3. brief description of past projects (including open source) that you've participated in
4. brief resume/bio/contact information

Questions

1. Read up about the Creative Commons Developer Community
2. Join the cc-devel mailing list and ask questions
3. Join the Creative Commons chat channel, #cc, on irc.freenode.net.

Deadlines

Student applications open on May 1, 2006 and close May 8, 2006. Final decisions by Creative Comons will be made by May 22, 2006 for submission to Google.

General Ideas

More ideas are avaible in the Tech Challenges section of the website. What follows is a generalized listing of quick ideas which any student may use to identify interests.

LiveCD

Application Integration

Media Mixing

Plugins

Mentors

• Mike Linksvayer (mlinksva)
• Jon Phillips (rejon)
• Nathan Yergler (nyergler)