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- Contribute to the Venezuelan 3.0 Licenses
published on Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:31:42 +0000
The Venezuelan 3.0 license draft is open for public discussion! We welcome all those who are interested to view the Venezuela BY-NC-SA draft and contribute their comments this month. The next step for the Venezuela team ... - COMMUNIA?s response to the proposed amendments to PSI Directive
published on Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:49 +0000
This post is an adaptation from the COMMUNIA International Association blog and is cross-posted at the Open Knowledge Foundation website. Creative Commons and the Open Knowledge Foundation are institutional members of CO... - 12th Annual Media That Matters Festival ? Call for Entries!
published on Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:12:56 +0000
Arts Engine‘s annual Media That Matters Festival — now in its 12th year — is accepting new entries for short films! In addition to being a “premier showcase for short films with big messages̶... - Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online by the Open Knowledge Foundation
published on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:01:54 +0000
The Open Knowledge Foundation has published a nifty guide on the basics of Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online. You can skim the guide in well under ten minutes, and it includes useful links and accompanying d... - Final Public Comment Period on LRMI Draft Specification
published on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:01:18 +0000
As you may recall, the LRMI project is creating a educational metadata vocabulary that will hopefully plug into the Schema.org metadata framework to be used by the major search engines. Last week, the LRMI Technical Wor... - Job Opportunity: Senior Accountant at Creative Commons
published on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:33:26 +0000
In addition to our search for a CTO, we have posted a position for a Senior Accountant. The Senior Accountant will report to the Controller and be responsible for essential duties such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Recei... - Contribute to Open Education Week
published on Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:20:38 +0000
Open Education Week 5-10 March 2012: Call for participation. Please fill out the Open Education Week contributor?s form by January 31, 2012. Join your colleagues around the world to increase understanding about open edu... - Job opportunity: Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons
published on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:39:45 +0000
mlinksva / CC BY It’s a new year, which means it’s also the perfect time to re-start our search for Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons! Mike Linksvayer, Vice President and former CTO, says, “... - Comments to the White House Inquiry on Public Access to Publicly Funded Research Publications, Data
published on Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:01:12 +0000
In November we wrote that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was soliciting comments on two related Requests for Information (RFI). One asked for feedback on how the federal government should ... - We are still against SOPA/PIPA (plus best practices on marking CC-licensed works)
published on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:38:27 +0000
In the next two weeks, the U.S. Congress will take up deliberations on SOPA/PIPA, the Internet censorship bills. We’ve written about it here and here, and we’re writing again to help stop U.S. American Censor...
