New CreativeCommons.org launched 2023 September
by Sara Lovell, Shafiya Heena, Timid Robot Zehta on 2024-05-28
Creative Commons (CC) launched a new CreativeCommons.org website on 2023 September 27th. This...
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CC Legal Tools: Machine-Readable Layer
by Saurabh Kumar on 2023-08-28
Greetings, readers!🌟 I'm excited to share that as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023, I...
New Chapter of My Professional Life
by Shafiya Heena on 2023-06-20
Greetings, readers! I’m Shafiya Heena, from Hyderabad, India, who now finds herself immersed in...
Considering Community Contributions at Creative Commons
by Sara Lovell on 2023-03-24
Different open source communities work differently and so everyone may arrive at Creative...
Thinking More Openly About Working in The Open
by Sara Lovell on 2022-12-16
I began working at Creative Commons (CC) as the Full Stack Engineer this year and it’s been...
Summary: My GSoD 2020 Journey
by Ariessa Norramli on 2020-12-02
Thank you for the wonderful experience, Creative Commons!
Finish Video Presentation, Project Report and Evaluation Form
by Ariessa Norramli on 2020-12-01
For week 10 and 11, I finished porting CC Catalog documentation, submitted a video presentation,...
Finish GSoD Tasks and Explore CC Catalog Documentation
by Ariessa Norramli on 2020-11-20
Today marks my fifth blog entry on Creative Commons. For week 9 and 10, I explored CC Catalog...
Restructure README and Add Documentation Guidelines
by Ariessa Norramli on 2020-11-05
This is my fourth blog entry on Creative Commons. For week 7 and 8, I restructured the file...
Add New Sections, Descriptions, Help Texts, Code Examples, Schemas, and Serializers
by Ariessa Norramli on 2020-10-21
Welcome to my third blog entry! For week 5 and 6, I added new sections, descriptions, help...
Add Response Samples and Descriptions for API Endpoints
by Ariessa Norramli on 2020-10-09
Well, hello again đź‘‹! For week 3 and week 4, I added response samples and descriptions for API...
Creative Commons WordPress plugin: attribution for images
by Radek Czajka on 2020-10-01
As a part of Centrum Cyfrowe's #NoWorries project funded by EUIPO, I have had the pleasure of...
Add Query Using curl Command and Provide Response Samples
by Ariessa Norramli on 2020-09-25
First of all, I’m very thankful to get selected as a Google Season of Docs participant under...
The specifics - Revamping CCOS
by Dhruvi Butti on 2020-09-02
In this blog, I will be talking about how I managed to use Vocabulary ( Creative Commons's...
Accessibility and Internationalization: WrapUp GSoC 2020
by Ayan Choudhary on 2020-08-31
These is the final blog of my internship with CC. I am working on improving the accessibility of...
Linked Commons: GSoC'20 Wrap Up
by Subham Sahu on 2020-08-28
Time flies faster when you are having fun! I didn't believe it back then. But now I do after...
CC Search Extension: Wrapping up GSoC 2020
by Mayank Nader on 2020-08-27
In this post, I'll give an overview of the improvements and features that were added to the CC...
Automate GitHub for more than CI/CD
by Zack Krida on 2020-08-26
Get started using GitHub bots and actions for community management and repository health.
Linked Commons: Data Update
by Subham Sahu on 2020-08-25
In this blog, I will be explaining the task we were working on for the last 3-4 weeks. It will...
Say Hello To Our Community Team
by Dhruv Bhanushali on 2020-08-14
Creative Commons is committed to open-source software. We have over two dozen projects, spanning...
Accessibility Improvements: Final Changes and Modal Accessilibity
by Ayan Choudhary on 2020-08-12
These are the last two weeks of my internship with CC. I am working on improving the...
Linked Commons: Autocomplete Feature
by Subham Sahu on 2020-07-31
The following blog intends to explain the very recent feature integrated to the Linked Commons....
CC Search, Initial Accessibility Improvements
by Ayan Choudhary on 2020-07-25
These are the seventh and eighth weeks of my internship with CC. I am working on improving the...
What is up? - CCOS Revamp
by Dhruvi Butti on 2020-07-20
In my previous blog, I demonstrated what my Outreachy project was about. Here I will talk about...
Linked Commons: What's new?
by Subham Sahu on 2020-07-16
Linked Commons is a visualization project which aims to showcase and establish a relationship...
Internationalization continued: Modifying tests
by Ayan Choudhary on 2020-07-10
These are the fifth and sixth weeks of my internship with CC. I am working on improving the...
Integration of Vocabulary with CCOS.
by Dhruvi Butti on 2020-07-08
This blog demonstrates the project I am working on during the course of my Outreachy internship....
Internationalization Continued: Handling strings in the store
by Ayan Choudhary on 2020-06-26
These are the second two weeks of my internship with CC. I am working on improving the...
CC Search, Setting up vue-i18n and internationalizing homepage
by Ayan Choudhary on 2020-06-10
These are the first two weeks of my internship with CC. I am working on improving the...
Resource Gathering
by Dhruvi Butti on 2020-06-09
As an outreachy intern, I am handling the integration of Creative Commons design library —...
Upcoming improvements/features in CC Search Extension
by Mayank Nader on 2020-06-01
CC Search Extension is a cross-browser extension, which lets you search for and filter content...
CC Search, Proposal Drafting and Community Bonding
by Ayan Choudhary on 2020-05-22
Proposal Drafting
Takeaways from my FOSSÂ journey!
by Dhruvi Butti on 2020-05-22
"Sky at night" by Rychu92 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Date-Partitioned Data Reingestion
by Brent Moran on 2020-05-14
CC Catalog is a project that gathers information about images from around the internet, and...
Apache Airflow testing with Pytest
by Brent Moran on 2020-01-23
CC Catalog is a project that gathers information about images from around the internet, and...
Creative Commons Awarded AWS Imagine Grant
by Alden Page on 2019-12-12
Creative Commons was recently awarded a $125,000 AWS Imagine grant, which will cover...
Building a Distributed Indexer for a Search Engine
by Alden Page on 2019-12-11
With CC Search, we want to make it possible to search all of the estimated 1.6 billion Creative...
Empowering Collaboration in the Commons
by Timid Robot Zehta on 2019-11-25
In the past few months I have been privileged to attend [Wikimania 2019][wikimania2019] and the...
Creative Commons Google Docs Add-on
by Brandon Dorman on 2019-09-11
A few years ago I published a Google Docs Add-on that allowed users to insert a Creative Commons...
Some thoughts on improving the relevance of images in CC Search
by Alden Page on 2019-09-06
Like other image search services, CC Search matches queries with keywords in descriptive...
Introducing CC Search Extension
by Mayank Nader on 2019-09-03
The past three months of Google summer of code has been an amazing learning experience to say...
The Linked Commons graph: the final vis
by MarĂa BelĂ©n Guaranda Cabezas on 2019-09-03
ℹ️ 2023-08-31: This project was archived along with the shuttering of CC Search (now Openverse)....
Creative Commons WordPress Plugin Final Phase
by Ahmad Bilal on 2019-08-23
For the context, I am working with my mentor Timid Robot on Creative Commons WordPress Plugin in...
CC Browser Extension Week 9, 10
by Mayank Nader on 2019-08-12
For the context, I am working on my GSoC project that is to make a browser-extension to search...
Visualize CC Catalog data - data processing part 3
by MarĂa BelĂ©n Guaranda Cabezas on 2019-08-12
ℹ️ 2023-08-31: This project was archived along with the shuttering of CC Search (now Openverse)....
Visualize CC Catalog data - data processing part 2
by MarĂa BelĂ©n Guaranda Cabezas on 2019-07-26
ℹ️ 2023-08-31: This project was archived along with the shuttering of CC Search (now Openverse)....
Easy search and use of CC-licensed images for WordPress
by Eleni (Lena) Stergatou on 2019-07-24
Inspiration and idea for the WordPress plugin
Creative Commons WordPress Plugin Second Phase
by Ahmad Bilal on 2019-07-20
For the context, I am working with my mentor Timid Robot on Creative Commons WordPress Plugin in...
CC Browser Extension Week 7, 8
by Mayank Nader on 2019-07-19
For the context, I am working on my GSoC project that is to make a browser-extension to search...
Combating dead links with CC Link Checker
by Bhumij Gupta on 2019-07-15
Creative Commons provides vast number of public copyright licenses for people who want to enable...
Visualize CC Catalog data - data processing
by MarĂa BelĂ©n Guaranda Cabezas on 2019-07-10
ℹ️ 2023-08-31: This project was archived along with the shuttering of CC Search (now Openverse)....
CC Browser Extension Week 5, 6
by Mayank Nader on 2019-07-04
For the context, I am working on my GSoC project that is to make a browser-extension to search...
CC Browser Extension - A GSoC Project
by Mayank Nader on 2019-06-20
With the Creative Commons engineering team working very hard to catalog and index a plethora of...
Searching 300MM Images with CC Search: Backend Architecture
by Alden Page on 2019-06-19
In 2016, Creative Commons hired Liza Daly to build a proof-of-concept engine for searching 10...
Visualize CC Catalog data
by MarĂa BelĂ©n Guaranda Cabezas on 2019-06-17
ℹ️ 2023-08-31: This project was archived along with the shuttering of CC Search (now Openverse)....
CC Catalog: Leveraging Open Data and Open APIs
by Sophine Clachar on 2019-06-07
This post is the first of a three-part series about the underlying infrastructure for Creative...
Meet CC’s 2019 Google Summer of Code students
by Kriti Godey on 2019-05-30
This year, CC is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization after...
CC Google Summer of Code accepted students announced
by Kriti Godey on 2019-05-06
Google Summer of Code has just announced the list of accepted students for 2019. We’d like to...
Open Source at Creative Commons - 2019 Global Summit Event
by Sophine Clachar on 2019-05-01
Creative Commons has been building free software for over a decade to support its mission of...
Open Development with SaltStack
by Timid Robot Zehta on 2019-04-17
I am excited to publicize the open source repository for our SaltStack configuration:...