Join the CC Developer Community

Join our Slack or mailing list communities to meet other developers interested in Creative Commons, get feedback on your projects, and talk with CC's full-time engineering staff. You can also keep up with us on the CC Open Source Blogor viaTwitter.

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Mailing Lists

CC Developers:For general technical discussion open to all members. Join on Google Groupsor by sending an email to [email protected].

CC Usability Announcements:Announcement-only list for users to sign up for usability testing. Joinon Google Groupsor by sending an email to[email protected].

Slack

Creative Commons has a large Slack community with sub-communities for tech/developers (of course), theCC Global Network,specific countries, open education, GLAM, and more. It is open to the public and you can sign up here.If you're not familiar with Slack, please read "Getting Started" on Slack's usage guide.Information on joining a specific channel is on"Join a channel".

Once you join, please introduce yourself in the#cc-developerschannel.

The channels most relevant to CC's developer community are:

Channel Discussion related to
#cc-dev-legal-tools cc-legal-tools-appproject (CC Legal Tools formatting and translation)
#cc-dev-legaldb legaldbproject
#cc-dev-license-chooser cc-chooserproject (new CC license chooser)
#cc-dev-linkchecker cc-link-checkerproject
#cc-dev-platform-toolkit mpproject (CC Platform Toolkit)
#cc-dev-searchportal searchproject
#cc-dev-vocabulary cc-vocabularyproject
#cc-dev-wordpress wp-plugin-creativecommonsproject (creativecommons WordPress plugin)
#cc-dev-workprograms GSoC, GSoD, Outreachy, and otherwork programsor internships
#cc-developers general technical issues, new tech blog posts, etc.
#cc-translation Coordinating translation efforts
#cc-usability general usability issues, seeking feedback on new releases of CC products from the community, etc.

Slack Tips

  • You will automatically join the#generaland#cc-announcementschannels when you sign in to Slack for the first time.
    • #generalis for general purpose discussions relevant to CC.
    • #cc-announcementsis reserved for important announcements from CC staff.
  • For more information about how Creative Commons uses Slack, seethe Slack page on the CC public wiki.
  • If you're looking to talk to someone on CC's full-time engineering staff, you're most likely to find us on Slack between 11:00 and 23:00 UTC on weekdays.