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

Fri Feb 2 18:04:11 UTC 2007

Me too, i'm very much involved and have time this weekend if thats of use.

Apologies for making you chase! Bests.

On 2/2/07, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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!
> >
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>

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