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Meet CC Argentina, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!

Community

After introducing the CC Italy Chapter to you in July, the CC Netherlands Chapter in August, CC Bangladesh Chapter in September, CC Tanzania Chapter in October, and the CC India Chapter in November, and the CC Mexico Chapter in December, we are staying in Latin America to introduce the CC Argentina Chapter!  The Creative Commons…

Meet CC Mexico, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!

Community
CC Mexico

After introducing the CC Italy Chapter to you in July, the CC Netherlands Chapter in August, CC Bangladesh Chapter in September, CC Tanzania Chapter in October, and the CC India Chapter in November, we are now traveling to Latin America to introduce the CC Mexico Chapter!  The Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) consists of 46…

Meet the Winners of the CC Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund!

Community
CC Tiles

During the CC Global Summit, we had our “CC Open GLAM Platform Meeting”, where we had the opportunity to present several of the activities that we are running with the Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund. We’re delighted to announce the five winners of the General Projects of the Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund. The CC…

The Linked Commons 2.0: What’s New?

Community, Technology

This is part of a series of posts introducing the projects built by open source contributors mentored by Creative Commons during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 and Outreachy. Subham Sahu was one of those contributors and we are grateful for his work on this project. The CC Catalog data visualization—the Linked Commons 2.0—is a…

Important Updates to the Creative Commons Catalog

Community, Technology
CC Open Source logo with CC Catalog

This is part of a series of posts introducing the projects built by open source contributors mentored by Creative Commons during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 and Outreachy. K. S. Srinidhi Krishna and Charini Nanayakkara were two of those contributors and we are grateful for their work on this project. The Creative Commons (CC)…

Say Hello to Our New CC Open Source Website!

Community, Technology
CC Open Source logo for the open source website

This is part of a series of posts introducing the projects built by open source contributors mentored by Creative Commons during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 and Outreachy. This post was written by Dhruvi Butti, a 2020 Outreachy intern and a 3rd-year undergrad at IIIT Surat.  “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan…

You Can Now Sponsor CC’s Open Source Work on GitHub!

Community, Technology

Creative Commons is now accepting sponsorship via GitHub Sponsors! CC’s small engineering team builds essential open-source infrastructure for CC-licensed and public domain content. Our tools make it easier for anyone to: release original content under an open license. find and responsibly reuse openly licensed and public domain content. connect to the larger ecosystem of openly…

Meet CC Tanzania, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!

Community

After introducing the CC Italy Chapter to you in July, the CC Netherlands Chapter in August and CC Bangladesh Chapter in September, we are now travelling to Africa to introduce the CC Tanzania Chapter!  The Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) consists of 45 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a…

Six Projects Get Funding from the Creative Commons Copyright Platform Activities Fund

Community
CC Tiles

We’re delighted to announce the six selected projects that will receive funding from the CC Copyright Platform Activities Fund in 2020! The CC Copyright Platform is an active space for copyright advocates and experts to coordinate copyright law and policy-related activities. This year, CC launched an Activities Fund to support copyright-related activities by Platform members.…

Meet CC Bangladesh, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!

Community

After introducing the CC Italy Chapter to you in July and the CC Netherlands Chapter in August, we are now traveling to Southeast Asia to introduce the CC Bangladesh Chapter!  The Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) consists of 45 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a community of advocates, activists,…