Summer of Code 2007

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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. Please do not be constrained by the ideas below, but please use them to jumpstart and understand the general areas we are interested in supporting.

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ccTools

ccHost

  • Extend ccHost to work with new media filetypes and push changes up-stream to getid3()
  • Setup and build a video version of ccmixter.org using cchost.

ccPublisher

LiveCD

Create an Open Source LiveCD which supports

Applications

Desktop

Media Mixing

Plugins

Web Mashups

Attributors

  • Create scripts which add attribution and basic license information into media
    • Photos: this would create some basic graphical overlay to the image, or basic html wrappers around the content that says author name, license (url).
    • Other Media: Please propose other ways one could attribute authorship on the media itself

Mentors