Drumbeat/Attribution generator

OpenAttribute: The world's simplest open attribution tool

• A Mozilla Drumbeat project born at the "Learning, Freedom and the Web" Festival

Project tools

• Mailing list: Google Group is here
• Twitter hash tag: #Drumbeat #OpenAttribute
• Chat room (IRC): coming soon
• Issue tracker: coming soon

Help this project now

• Collaborate on a functional spec for the tools
• Help with browser add-on, Wordpress and Drupal plugin development
• Become an alpha tester

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

• [Add to the list http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/OpenAttribute-names here]

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

• Draft F.A.Q. is here

Functional Specification

• See Functional Specification draft here