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Creative Commons Global Summit 2013 (cckorea / CC BY) You might remember a few months ago when CC announced the start of an affiliate project grant program to support and expand the work of CC’s global volunteer network. Today, we are thrilled to announce the recipients of those grants. With a pool of over 70…

At today’s meeting of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Board voted unanimously to require open licensing on publicly funded materials resulting from all Chancellor’s Office contracts and grants. Here are the key documents: Recommended Action at Board Meeting (CC BY required) – September 9-10, 2013 Press Release (CC BY required)…

SXSW / nickmickolas / CC BY-NC-SA Are you planning to go to South by Southwest next year? CC has two pending sessions at SXSW Interactive and one at SXSWedu. If you’d like to see these sessions happen next year, then please cast your vote. Voting ends this week, so please show your support now! Open…

The Creative Commons Global Summit is almost here! If you’re not joining us in Buenos Aires, there are several ways you can follow the summit this week: Visit the Summit portal Follow the #ccsum hashtag on Twitter and the Summit group on Flickr. Read updates in English here on the CC blog and in Spanish…

Earlier this year, CC China Mainland volunteers helped organize an educational event to promote open licensing. The CC China Mainland team recaps the event in this guest blog post, which originally appeared on the CC China Mainland blog. CC China Mainland volunteers recently helped organize the Trans-disciplinary System Integration Design Challenge, a program of the…

India has launched a new learning repository for open educational resources (OER). India’s Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, and the Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training have collaboratively developed the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER). Dr. Pallam Raju,…

By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Dennis Cantrell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. We’re happy to welcome the CC United States (CC US) affiliate to the Creative Commons family. The hub for CC US will be located at the American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property…

As the open educational resources (OER) movement continues to grow, students and educators alike can benefit from openly licensed content. The use of Creative Commons licenses in education has allowed learning resources to travel farther, reach more people, and be repurposed to meet local needs. I recently spoke with Ariel Diaz, CEO of Boundless learning…

What do you get when you write software that becomes the basis of just about every geospatial application out there? You get perspective. Frank Warmerdam has been authoring, improving, supporting, and shepherding Shapelib, libtiff, GDAL and OGR for the past 15 years. Frank believes that by sharing effort, by adopting open, cooperatively developed standards, and…