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): coming soon
• Issue tracker: coming soon

Help this project now

Let the project mailing list know if you can help with:

• Technical analysis: Provide analysis and recommendations on comparable solutions. Before we build anything, need to understand what already exists and how we fit. Do we really need to build something new, or tweak / add a layer over top of what already exists?
• Technical feedback: Provide feedback on the draft Functional Specification document (below).
• Graphic design: Need to turn whiteboard of project info-graphic into a more polished design. (coming soon)

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 here

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

• Draft F.A.Q. is here

Comparable Solutions

• What comparable solutions or tools already exist? Review and add to the list here
  

Functional Specification

• Functional Specification draft is here

Roadmap

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