MAKE (which is, incidentally, one of the coolest magazines around) is hosting the MAKE: Movies film festival as part of the Maker Faire, taking place on April 22 and 23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. You’ve got a few more days (until Wednesday, April 12) to submit your CC-licensed project demo videos, DIY tech documentaries,…
At this year’s SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons, moderated a panel on Open Science. The panel is now available as a podcast, thanks to the good folks at SXSW.
Bjorn Wijers of CC Netherlands sends this about the successful premier of Elephants Dream (previous post — Your textures in a movie): The Blender movie ‘Elephants Dream’ (previously known under the working title Orange) was released last friday with a crowded but nice premiere at the Ketelhuis in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Elephants Dream is the…
Creative Commons licenses ported to Mainland China were launched last week. Photos from the launch event are on Flickr with the ccchina tag. A post in Chinese is here. Photo by Shi Zhao licensed under CC BY.
Weekly two hour radio program dedicated to CC-licensed music Black Sweater White Cat initiated WBCR’s new live stream last week. Now you can catch the program every Saturday at 9PM EDT (Sunday 1AM GMT) and not have to wait for the podcast. BSWC host Biotic writes in: Next week we will be talking to Lisa…
Every major software release has bugs and ccHost 2.0, released last week, is no exception. Today we released ccHost 2.0.1, fixing a problem with contests and making it easier to install in a non-webroot directory. (ccHost is the GPL-licensed web app that runs ccMixter, read all about it here.) In other development news Nathan has…
The iCommons site is now live with some exciting news about this summer’s iSummit. What is iCommons? Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open content, access to knowledge, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. Using…
We’re pleased to announce that we have added to new members to our Board. Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame and Laurie Racine, one time President of the Center for the Public Domain and Chair and co-founder of Public Knowledge. More details here.
We’ve just released ccHost 2.0, the GPL-licensed software platform that powers ccMixter. Thanks to Victor Stone for months of mad coding (when he’s not remixing) and Jon Phillips for packaging the release. I’ve already blogged about two new features included in this release, remix statistics and the sample pool API, but there’s much more. Check…
Remix Reading is running an exhibition of Creative Commons-licensed art at the Riverside Museum at Blake’s Lock in the UK from April 28th through 30th. There’s an open call for submissions until April 6, so get to it! Remix Reading’s Tom Chance tells us: Anyone can submit, and we’d especially like to receive “real media”…