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Anyone want to work at Creative Commons as a Web Engineer or General Counsel?

Yes, I want to get two very very good people to work with at Creative Commons particularly from the *Open* universe. Come help build up all the great things we share dear in free and open culture:

Creative Commons is hiring a web developer/sysadmin (let’s call it a web engineer) for its San Francisco office. The technical requirements are broad but not deep — the ideal candidate would have the ability to learn quickly and willingness to tackle any technical task with gusto — from IT drudgework to developing cool web apps. See the job description for application details.

Please forward to anyone who would be interested but just happens to be offline for a spell. What other excuse would they have for not reading the CC blog? :-)

Also check out our openings for General Counsel and CC Learn Executive Director.

Please ping me for the personal connection whenever you think its applicable. Yes, and good people with good social skills please apply! :) Who wouldn’t want to live in SF and join us for monthly CC Salons, forays to iSummits and trips in zipcars to random companies.

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CC 3.0 Licenses now in Inkscape in SVN

Mike made a nice nod towards Inkscape’s support for Creative Commons licensing on the CC blog:

Last fall we mentioned a great post by Wikipedia leader (and now CC board member) Jimmy Wales on why free knowledge requires free software and free file formats.

Now Wikipedian Erik Möller weighs in with a practical post on Wikimedia’s open source toolset, which may be seen as a paean to open source media creation software generally (Wikipedia leading the way).

Erik specifically calls out Inkscape, a drawing application with contributions from now CC employee Jon Phillips (his open source contributions were crucial to getting a job here).

I’d like to add that I checked in changes to Inkscape for the recently released 3.0 licenses as well. I’d like underscore as well what Mike is saying about free and open source applications supporting Creative Commons licensing.

With my new role at CC as community+business developer, if you have added CC licensing and standards to your project and/or are wanting to, please do contact me for some big community shout-outs, blogging and general community plugging credit that I will do to support your efforts both here and on Creative Commons infrastructure. Let’s hook it up!

Ideally, I’d like to get CC licensing embedded into the freedesktop as the ultimate innovator and use-case for how to do things right. Never forget your roots is what my Mom said :)