[pdb-discuss] Creating the new pdw website

Fri Feb 2 17:58:18 UTC 2007

Dear Tim and Michael,

Just wanted to check whether you'd seen item 1 in the 'Next steps' 
email. It involved doing a bit of work to put some content into a 
wordpress site so that it could become www.publicdomainworks.net 
(replacing the current demo wiki system). Most of this would be copying 
over and adapting existing material from the existing site and 
PublicDomainBurn section on fc-uk site.

I don't think this would take much time (at most a few hours at the 
start and then an hour a max to keep things up to date) and I'd 
provisionally listed you two as taking on this option. Would that be ok 
with you guys?

Regards,

Rufus

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [pdb-discuss] Next steps
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:03:01 +0000
From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
To: pdb-discuss at lists.okfn.org

Dear All,

Following our last meeting and the discussion on list I've put together
a short list of things we can work on. Please take a look and indicate
if you'd be interested to help out with any of these items.

Regards,

Rufus

1. Sort out a proper wordpress-based website

   * Put in some of our news over the last year
   * Migrate information from the current moinmoin-based site available
at http://www.publicdomainworks.net/
   * Copy over any relevant the copyright info we've collected under
http://www.freeculture.org.uk/PublicDomainBurn/

I've now made the wordpress install available at:

   http://blog.publicdomainworks.net/

and checked Michael's login -- repeatedly :)

*Who*: Michael was kind enough to volunteer to do an hour or so on a
week. Tim, I wondered whether you'd be able to help out here?

2. Parsing that composer list we received and uploading the results data
to musicbrainz. This involves

   * parsing the original text file
   * checking which composers are already listed on musicbrainz
   * working out how we can automate uploading to musicbrainz (or
failing that uploading information by hand)

*Who*: Rufus (me), Nathan (?), Andrew (?)

3. BBC catalogue data

   * investigate parsing of data
   * confirm rights status (are we allowed to upload to musicbrainz)

*Who*: volunteers needed!

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