Re: [Tracker] Introduction and Questions + Creative Commons

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 15:56 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Jon Phillips and I'm a developer on Inkscape.org and the
> freedesktop.org supported projects, Open Clip Art Library, Create
> Project (and the hopeful Open Font Library). During the day I work for
> Creative Commons as a Developer and I'm interested in the areas you are
> discussing on this list.

Neat!  :-)


> Also, I'm curious how major this endeavour is, does it have the blessing
> of the Portland Projects (OSDL, GNOME, KDE, etc) and if so, how can CC
> best support this initiative?

I'm not sure what you mean by "how major this endeavor is"?  I'm
guessing how popular?  It's not very popular at the moment but I would
guess that Tracker is not feature complete yet, plus Mr. McCracken has
been doing some under the hood tweaking.

> As I see there are a few levels that I would like to see metadata on the
> desktop: 1.) on the operating system level (abstracted into a db, like
> what you all provide) 2.) on the file level (embedded inside of a file)

As far as indexing creative commons content, I think, you will have to
elaborate on what you want to see.  Most of us are not very familiar
with creative commons.  I'm familiar with the licenses themselves but I
don't understand it in this context.

Are you talking about being able to identify creative common content and
be able to specially add metadata for those types?

> I look forward to joining this discussion...

Unfortunately, it seems no one has bitten.  So I guess I am.

sri

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Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>