rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

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

I want to be able to set my presence (or ideally have my computer figure this out with idle time, image analysis with camera, amplitude detection with mic/sound, etc) and have all apps across my free desktop on gnome or xfce react accordingly so I don’t have to set this in each application.

I also would like for my computer to know when the networking is unavailable and react accordingly. Yes, I know that the right way to do this is dbus, galago and support of applications for the right messages.

My question is, is there an applet to set this presence and/or is there a quick way to get this going generically and bonus points if good way(s) in gentoo?

This is my comment to Hubert Figuiere, who is launching a library, eXMPi, for operating on XMP metadata in the Open Source world:

Yes, I think this is a great move Hubert! Unfortunately, Inkscape uses standard RDF, which can be formatted easily into XMP. Also, the Open Clip Art library reads SVGs which use this RDF.

Hubert, please point us to the code! Creative Commons is fully promoting XMP as the way to go for embedding metadata and the major freedesktop.org indexers are supporting it as well.

We should all push on adobe to get them to open source (GPL) their XMP toolkit which they are clutching. They can only gain from doing this sooner rather than later, especially now that Microsoft’s Vista Photo Gallery supports XMP.

How can we best accelerate this standard in open source? Linksvayer and I have looked at many standards and whatnot and the space is completely clogged up with the minions of metadata all over the web. So, between the complexity of systems for embedding and standardization of fields, XMP solves this nasty problem the best. The only area where metadata has somewhat standardized is in the music space with id3 with mp3s. Still, it would be good to have XMP support in the audio space to have uniformity.