News & updates about CC tech ๐ป projects & ๐ฉโ๐ป community. We build tools that make working with CC licensing easier. Contributions welcome!
๐ธ : "HP85" (CC0)
Each month, CC uses Common Crawl
#data
to find all domains that contain CC-licensed content.
To draw conclusions from this dataset, we created the Linked Commons: a visualization that shows how the Commons is digitally connected.
Take a look. ๐
"Creative Commons has created a WordPress plugin which makes it easier to attribute and license content." ๐
Great article on the plugin,
@mattgsouthern
via
@sejournal
!
We have released our new Chooser project after nearly three years of work! Chooser is now ready for integration into other projects and platforms.
#VueJS
#opensource
#javascript
Let us know if you're interested in participating in a 1 hour usability test for one of CC's websites or products. No specific experience required and we're offering a $25 gift card as an incentive.
๐ฅ After months of development, the revamped ๐ค CC Open Souce site is live & it is ๐ phenomenal! It was designed by
@fcoveram
and developed by
@DhruviButti
over the course of her
@outreachy
internship.
We hope you like it as much as we do. Visit us @
ATTN: We're hiring a part-time Open Source Community Coordinator! If you think you'd be a good fit, please apply as soon as possible!
#opensource
#jobopening
If you're looking to integrate CC licenses or CC licensed works into your application or you'd like to help us build our products, you're in the right place! ๐
Check out "Open Source at CC" to learn more!
๐ข This just in: We released a massive update to the ranking algorithm on ๐ CC Search ()! It promises higher quality & relevance in search results. Try it out today!
CC Search is open source. See the source behind these changes @
The ๐ CC License Chooser, like most of our apps, is free and open source software. As we move closer to the v2 release, we need your help implementing features, finding and fixing bugs, and testing.
Here's a list of issues that you can help us out with:
Help us improve the CC License Chooser! We are scheduling user interviews from Jan 21 - 24. ๐ป
โ 30 minutes
โ $10 gift card
โ And an easier way to use CC licenses!
Sign up here:
๐ CC Search has over 500M images!
@SrinidhiKrishna
, a
@gsoc
intern working on CC Search, has written a fantastic post on the OS
@CC
blog about how we crawl and index such a huge dataset with
@ApacheAirflow
.
You can read the ๐ blog post @
Peek under the hood of
@freesounddev
(built by
@mtg_upf
), the "biggest website for sharing CC-licensed audio in the observable universe". Freesound is open source and has a great API.
๐CC Search๐ has received lots of updates recently! From improved filtering to copyright infringement reporting and a redesign of the image details section, among others, Search is rapidly improving. For more details, check out the releases page on GitHub
โ๏ธTwo things:
1. We're working on sharing all of the
@smithsonian
's newly released works through CC Search!
2. And we're working with
@Sketchfab
to make all of the 3D scans and models available for download and reuse as well!
Stay tuned!
๐ ICYMI: The
@smithsonian
recently joined a growing list of cultural institutions recognizing the importance of
#openaccess
to knowledge and creativity through digitization and legal tools (like CC0)!
>> We love it (๐) and we're here to help.
The
@jsonapi
specification is a fantastic & thorough document on standardising how ๐ฅ๏ธ servers and ๐ป clients can communicate RESTfully over the Internet.
Know what the best part is? The CC0-marked specification is in the ๐ฅ public domain!
Read it @
๐ CC Search is your one-stop shop for
#openaccess
content. But hidden under the deceptively simple UI is a ๐ช powerful set of advanced search features such as phrase search, boolean operators and fuzzy matching.
Read the ๐ฆธ advanced search guide @
๐Accepted interns for the mid year
@gsoc
and
@outreachy
round were announced today!๐ We have accepted seven interns this round, and we are eager to get started. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal, we hope to see more from all of you in the future. ๐
Hey! ๐ We need your help to improve CC Search!
Just 30 minutes of your time (between Dec 9 - Dec 20) and you'll get a $10 Amazon USD gift card, and a better
#internet
.
Sign up below!
You can now sponsor us on GitHub. Our small staff maintains ๐ธ free software, like ๐ CC Search, used by millions ๐ worldwide, on a tight budget. We completely rely on donations and grants from sponsors like you to sustain these projects.
Please donate @
Woah! ๐๐ฎ
Not only did the
@smithsonian
just release 2.8 million pieces from their digital collection into the public domain, but they also released an API and a GitHub data repository for the
#SmithsonianOpenAccess
initiative!
Our
#SmithsonianOpenAccess
launch includes about 2.8 million of our digital collection images and nearly two centuries of data, with content across disciplinesโfrom portraits of historic American figures to 3D scans of dinosaur skeletons.
๐ข Calling all polyglots! We published a ๐ guide for translating CC apps into your language using
@transifex
& tearing down barriers to
#openaccess
content.
Apps like the ๐ CC License Chooser are used by millions of people worldwide. Read the guide @
Last week, we rolled out CC Community Teams! Community Teams gives open source contributors a way to become more deeply involved in CC Open Source through roles that can be taken on by making open source contributions. Check out the details here!
Read
@BellenGC
's latest update on the work she's doing to visualize relationships between the 300 million+ images in the CC Catalog as part of
@gsoc
!
A long-overdue release of the Creative Commons
@WordPress
plugin is almost out! See a preview in
@AhmadBilalDev
's blog post wrapping up his work on the plugin as a
@gsoc
student.
Attention creatives, educators, developers, and CC Search enthusiastsโwe've got a new
#plugin
to help you search the
#globalcommons
, and we want you to help us make it even better.
Details below. ๐๐
Writing demands ๐ focus. Switching to a search engine to find images for your docs breaks your flow. Use the ๐งฉ CC Search extension to search for CC-licensed images and use them, with attribution, in one click!
โฌ๏ธ Download it for your favourite browser @
You don't need to be a developer to join the CC Open Source community & make worldwide impact. If you're a ๐ฃ polyglot, your contributions could enable entirely new populations to access our tools & products.
You can read more about our ๐ i18n efforts @
๐
@hacktoberfest
2020 ends in just a week! If you haven't made 4 PRs yet, now would be a fantastic time to step into the world of open source, and win ๐ swag (or ๐ฒ plant trees) for doing so!
Use our helpful Issue Finder to find your 1๏ธโฃst issue @
How do you crawl ๐คฏ half a billion images without accidentally DDoSing your target? Politely! Alden Page, the backend engineer on ๐ CC Search, breaks down the workings and infrastructure of the CC crawler in a new post.
You can read the ๐ blog post @
๐ข We released a massive update to ๐จ Vocabulary, combining our icon font library, CSS framework and Vue components into a ๐ฆ monorepo bringing all packages in sync!
Vocabulary is open source. To read more about the release & contribute, visit
You can now sponsor us on GitHub. Our small staff maintains ๐ธ free software, like the ๐ CC License Chooser, used by millions ๐ worldwide, on a tight budget. We rely on donations from sponsors like you to sustain these projects.
Please donate @
We're now using the
@sciencemuseum
's API to show search results on CC Search! Read Srinidhi Krishna's blog post on his work to pull in that data as part of his
@gsoc
internship.
Choosing the right โ๏ธ license for your work can be confusing! Maran Wolston, a ๐ฉโ๐ซ CC Certificate facilitator and admin, has written a tutorial "Open Education Course: Choosing a License" (CC BY 4.0) on how our new Chooser makes it easy!
Read it @
Did you know
@nounproject
() has over ๐คฏ 3 million icons and art-quality photos, all licensed under Creative Commons
#openaccess
licenses!
On the flip side, we actually use many icons from the Noun Project () on the ๐ CC website.
๐ The new โ๏ธ CC Legal Database is now live!
@krysaldb
, our Outreachy intern involved in building this project, takes us through its โจ new features and future plans in a post on the CC blog.
Check it out @
Read the ๐ blog post @
Soon, you'll be able to browse through dedicated
@NASA
,
@BioDivLibrary
, and
@SpaceX
collections via
@Flickr
on CC Search! Read Charini Nanayakkara's post about the technical details of how she implemented it during
@gsoc
here:
In a new post on the OS
@CC
blog,
@DhruviButti
, the
@outreachy
intern who revamped the very same site, writes about how she made use of ๐จ Vocabulary, our open source design system in the UI & contributed back to it in the process.
Read the ๐ blog post @
๐ CC Search () recently received a major visual update!
๐ Featured collections on the homepage
๐ Improved filter layout
๐ Many more UI/UX fixes
CC Search is open-source. To know more about this release, read the changelog @
CC Vocabulary, our new unified design system for CC websites and tools, is now ready to use! Read
@dhruvkb_
's post about it and see a sneak peek of what it would look like applied to CC Search.
We're a distributed organization, with team members in Canada, the United States, Kenya, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil! So when we're able to get together, it's great. ๐
Here we are at our latest In-Town-Week in Seattle!
Did you know that
@BongaleNimish
, our โ๏ธ GSoD technical writer, manages the ๐ฆ
@getlektor
package on
@chocolateynuget
? He had experienced difficulty setting up the project locally on Windows, so he made it a 1-step effortless process!
Check it out @
๐ CC Search indexes
#openaccess
content from 40+ sources, from ๐ผ photo sharing sites like
@Flickr
to ๐ museums like the
@smithsonian
.
See the list in the completely redesigned Sources page @ & if there's a source you'd like to see added, let us know!
Last week, we featured some great posts from the ๐ข OS
@CC
blog penned by our GSoD interns. But did you know that anyone can submit a post? If you have an experience with CC open source that you'd like to ๐ฃ share, we'd love to read it!
Find out how @
Check out our technical blog!
Where the CC technical team writes about what we're working on, updates about CC's software projects, engineering related programs and events that CC is participating in, and more!
If you're curious about how we're going to be improving CC Search with the AWS Imagine Grant we were recently awarded, here's everything you need to know! (architecture diagrams included)
CC Open Source is getting a revamp soon courtesy of
@DhruviButti
's
@outreachy
project. Read about her work and get a peek at the new design in her blog post.
The open source ๐งฉ CC Search Browser Extension has come a long way from where it started.
@MayankNader
, our two-time GSoC intern who's worked on the extension since inception, describes the โจ new features he developed in GSoC '20.
Read the ๐ blog post @
As part of
@outreachy
,
@DhruviButti
is redesigning the CC Open Source website, and she's writing a series on the UX design cycle as part of it. Read her post on step 1, Resource Gathering, here:
๐ Registrations for
@hacktoberfest
are now open! By making four meaningful PRs to any open source projects in the month of ๐ October, you can win a ๐ T-shirt or plant a ๐ณ tree.
Join us in the month-long celebration of open source by registering @
Did you know that the entire ๐บ๏ธ GeoNames () database, containing a mind-boggling 11M+ place names and address information from around the ๐ globe, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License? Now you do!
Want to interact more closely with the CC Open Source community? Have questions about CC Open Source? Join our community Slack workspace or the CC developer mailing list!
Front-end engineer,
@breno_ferreira
explains some of the challenges that CC faced after deploying the first release of CC Search with Server Side Rendering (SSR). ๐ค
Read the blog post:
Have you met our social media ๐จโ๐จ artist yet? Our ๐ผ OG image generator is an open source fork of
@vercel
's open source tool, itself built using
@ChromiumDev
's open source Puppeteer project. It's powered by our open source DL, ๐จ Vocabulary!
Check it out @
The new CC License Chooser is well on its way to becoming *the* CC License Chooser.
@bulat_olga
, who worked on it in this last
@outreachy
winter round, has written a blog post about her work on the CC Open Source Blog! Have a read through it here:
How can we figure out which images are โsignificantโ? ๐ค "We have to find some metrics that can act as a proxy for significance. Popularity and provenance seem like two promising indicators."
#ccsearch
We just did a double release of ๐จ Vocabulary and ๐ก Fonts! Fonts is on CalVer ๐ too!
๐ Better interop with Bulma
โณ๏ธ Half a dozen new icons
๐ Many more UI/UX fixes
Vocabulary and Fonts are open-source. Read the changelogs @ &
We just released an update to the ๐งฉ CC Search browser extension ()! You can now store more ๐ bookmarks & expect better ๐ performance.
The CC Search extension is open-source. To know more about this release, read the changelog @
The 2020 ๐
#CCGlobalSummit
starts in 4๏ธโฃ days!
@dhruvkb_
, our Open-Source Community Coordinator is presenting a talk on ๐จ Vocabulary, our open source design library, on 20 Oct @ 13:00pm UTC.
Check out the full list of ๐ sessions & ๐ฃ speakers @
๐ฆ We shipped a new version of ๐จ Vocabulary, which brings:
๐ฉโ๐จ An updated color palette
๐ซ Mailchimp integration for newsletter subscriptions
๐ฑ Focus styles for buttons
๐ Bug fixes & UI improvements
To know more about this release & contribute, visit
You might know that CC license icons are a part of the Unicode standard ๐. But font support isn't here yet โน๏ธ. In a post on the Ctrl blog, Daniel Aleksandersen explains how to render these icons on the web with some nifty CSS to back it up.
Read it @
Fact 1๏ธโฃ:
@Vimeo
contains nearly 8M CC licensed ๐ฅ videos.
Fact 2๏ธโฃ: You can now search through this huge collection directly from ๐ CC Search.
๐ข We just released an update to CC Search () that, among many improvements, adds Vimeo to video meta search!
Did you know that CC has an technical blog? Did you know that anyone can submit a post? Weโd like to read what you have to say about your experience with CC projects or licenses! To find out how to write a post, check out our guide on our web site:
The ๐ CC License Chooser is due for a major UX upgrade! The latest mockups prepared by our designer
@fcoveram
show improvements to both UI and content, and a new visual design based on components from ๐จ CC Vocabulary.
๐ See the
@figmadesign
mockups @
The new โ๏ธ CC legal database is almost ready!
@krysaldb
, a
@gsoc
intern working on the project, documents the new features and improvements, for both users and developers, that the new version offers in her post on the OS
@CC
blog.
Read the ๐ blog post @
๐ The applicants selected for Google Season of Docs 2020 were announced today. Congratulations to the three accepted candidates, Jacqueline, Nimish, and Ariessa! We absolutely cannot wait to ๐ get started.
๐ Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal.
The ๐ docs for the CC Base, our WordPress theme, built by
@jacquelinebinya
, are now live! In her latest blog post, she talks about migrating from
@googledocs
to the
@gridsome
site and her idea for its community-driven future.
Read the ๐ blog post @
Fact: The ๐
@smithsonian
collection has almost 30 different museums.
@charini_23
, a
@gsoc
intern working on the Catalog API, outlines the process used under the hood to keep these providers up to date in a post on the OS
@CC
blog.
Read the ๐ blog post @
๐ฃ Want to know some interesting things we're working on right now? We're adding a dark theme to all our ๐จ Vocabulary storybooks: !
Vocabulary is open source. You can contribute to its development on GitHub @
๐ Sssh, do you want to know a secret? We're overhauling our entire frontend stack and migrating ๐ CC Search to
@nuxt_js
! Nuxt.js simplifies many aspects of frontend development and is open source, just like CC Search.
Keep up with the development @
Please join us in welcoming our mid-year 2020 interns! These interns will work with members of the
@creativecommons
team on projects that support our mission and community, and we're eager to get started. You can read more about them and their work here!
๐ Introducing the Open COVID Pledge!
This Pledge grants the public free, temporary access (๐) to
#IP
rights in support of solving the
#COVID19
crisis, removing obstacles to knowledge and inventions that could save lives and limit suffering. โฌ๏ธ
๐ข We released a new update to our design system, ๐จVocabulary ()!
โฅ๏ธ New icon in Donate button
๐ Improved i18n UI
๐ Link colors fixed
๐ Bug fixes
Vocabulary is open source. To know more about this release, read the changelog @
๐ We're working to improve CC's Platform Toolkit!
If you've uploaded CC-licensed content to
@YouTube
,
@Flickr
,
@Medium
, etc. we want to talk to you!
Help us by participating in a 30 min user interview between Jan 27 - 31, and get a $10 gift card!
Read more about
@apdsr_
's work on revamping the Creative Commons guide for platform integration through
@outreachy
. You can also check out her UX process here:
You might be aware of
@DhruviButti
's ๐ phenomenal redesign of the CC Open Source site as an Outreachy intern last summer. If you aren't, read her blog post introducing our design library and summarising the key differences.
Read the ๐ blog post @
Curious about what we're up to regarding CC Search? We've made our roadmap for Search public, so all of you can get a better idea of what's going on with Search now, and in the future! Check it out here:
We're redesigning the CC Global Network website to serve our members better.
Check out the latest updates via this post by CC's Web Developer,
@hugosolar
โ
The newest update to ๐ CC Search () lays the foundations of ๐ i18n, fixes many ๐ a11y issues and also improves ๐ performance throughout the site.
CC Search is open-source. To know more about this release, read the changelog @
Do you want to work on open source code with a 100% remote team for Creative Commons? We're hiring a Front End Engineer for CC Search. Please help spread the word!
CC's Core Systems Manager,
@fsckme
, recently wrote a blog post about a fix we implemented for intermittent issues with block device mappings in some of our
@awscloud
EC2 NVMe EBS volumes. Check out their post here!
ATTN all CC WP plugin users! We've got two awesome new features thanks to
@gsoc
participant
@AhmadBilalDev
.
โSetting a default site license
โLicense blocks
Learn more below!
As
@googledevs
Season of Docs 2020 draws to a close, we're grateful to have met 3 amazing โ๏ธ technical writers, Ariessa,
@jacquelinebinya
&
@BongaleNimish
. They've done a fantastic job of improving our ๐ docs & making our projects more ๐ค accessible to developers.
๐ Thank you!
We released a new update to ๐ CC Search ()!
๐ผ Adds Nappy () as a meta search engine
๐ Adds a new 'Explore CC' pane
CC Search is open-source. To know more about this release, read the changelog @