Drumbeat/Attribution generator

OpenAttribute: The world's simplest open attribution tool

• A Mozilla Drumbeat project born at the "Learning, Freedom and the Web" Festival
• Currently in the strategy / scope / story / design phase. Dive in and get involved. Details below.

Project tools

• Mailing list: Google Group is here
• Twitter hash tag: #Drumbeat #OpenAttribute
• Chat room (IRC): Host Name: irc.mozilla.org Channel Name: #openattribute
• Issue tracker: coming soon [shall we set up an open atrium basecamp / tracker?]

Help this project now

• Code available at https://github.com/nyergler/openattribute-firefox
• Help test early versions, see http://yergler.net/blog/2010/12/31/minor-update-for-openattribute/

The project in 5 sentences

• Creative Commons content is awesome, but attributing it properly can be difficult and confusing.
• How-to guides and user education haven't helped much. We need a simple tool everyone can use to do the right thing with the click of a button.
• That's why we're building OpenAttribute, a suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work.
• The tools include a simple add-on for web browsers, and plug-ins for popular publishing platforms like Flickr, Wordpress, MediaWiki and Drupal.
• The result: OpenAttribute makes it easy for everyday people to use open and Creative Commons content. And ensures content creators get credit for their work.

One-page overview

• Draft in progress here

Project infographic

• Coming soon

Potential project names

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Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

• Draft F.A.Q. is here

Functional Specification

• Functional Specification draft
• List of comparable solutions
  

Roadmap

• We're trying to get the first prototype built by January 17.
• Roadmap document is here