During the iSummit last weekend in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dwayne Bailey from the WordForge project. We discussed the tools used to translate Creative Commons software and he assisted me in installing the server-based tool Pootle on our servers. Pootle is a web-based tool that allows users…

In preparation for the iCommons iSummit taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil later this week, we’re pleased to announce that ccPublisher 2.2 is now available. The focus of this release was internationalization, and it includes translations for Chinese (Taiwan), Croation, Dutch, Polish, and Spanish. Thanks to the volunteers who graciously handled the translation efforts.…

We’ve shipped two new releases of ccPublisher today. The first is a bug fix release. ccPublisher 2.0.4 fixes several crash-inducing bugs. All users are encouraged to upgrade. The second release is the first beta for ccPublisher 2.2. ccPublisher 2.2 is the next feature release for ccPublisher and adds support for internationalizing the application. ccPublisher 2.2…

Last week we shipped ccPublisher 2 and as with all major updates, there were bound to be bugs. Fortunately users have been allowing the automated crash reporter to send (non-personal, non-identifying) information to the ccPublisher Issue Tracker, which has allowed us to work on fixing bugs people are encountering. I’ve just uploaded ccPublisher 2.0.3. This…

As previously mentioned, Creative Commons is participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code. Creative Commons was awarded four project slots by Google, and the selecting the top four was challenging. We received many, many excellent proposals, and I personally want to thank everyone who took the time to think about a project and submit…