[pdb-discuss] Re: Creating the new pdw website

Fri Feb 2 18:02:10 UTC 2007

Hey Rufus,

Sorry to take so long replying, I'm having quite a hectic couple of weeks.
I'd love to help out with this, so feel free to put my name down.

cheers!

Tim

On 2/2/07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> _______________________________________________
> pdb-discuss mailing list
> pdb-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdb-discuss
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pd-discuss/attachments/20070202/dcd7ddb0/attachment.html>