Creative Commons LiveContent CD and Fedora

LiveContent is a collaborative initiative to showcase Creative Commons-licensed media as well as FOSS. LiveContent is a joint effort between Creative Commons and Fedora, Red Hat’s community-based open source platform.

The LiveContent CD features a variety of Creative Commons-licensed media including audio, video, image, text and educational resources. Users can explore this free and open content and learn more about CC-friendly organizations like Jamendo, Blip.tv, and Flickr.

Fedora 7 and open source applications (such as OpenOffice, The Gimp, Inkscape, Firefox) boot directly from the CD, allowing users the ability to view and remix content in various ways. LiveContent is designed to be a window into the CC community by offering open content and encouraging the use of open source tools. As such, it is very much a community project, and input is necessary, be it as a developer, a content curator, or LiveContent user. This input can range from interface design to potential avenues for future distribution. Thanks to http://www.worldlabel.com a for providing support for the development and distribution for the LiveContent CD.

LiveContent v1.0 has been rolled out. Download ISO here: http://cc-livecontent.dreamhosters.com and give it a test run. CC welcomes feedback and ideas for the CD, please feel free and visit http://creativecommons.org/project/livecontent and leave your comments. The Creative Commons is working on the next version of LiveContent, v2.0 which will be dedicated to fulfilling the needs of public terminals at Libraries.