[CREATE] Abstract for a paper on the ideas of Create

[Jon Phillips]

Yes, I know this is probably premature, but I busted it out in order to
think about some ideas of this project:

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The Create Project: Sharing Creativity

Currently, projects like Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Audacity,
Open Clip Art Library and others are highly successful projects which
produce much video, audio, illustrations, photos, and other media.
However, there is much code, media, and infrastructure produced by each
project which could be shared thus saving developer time, increasing
project productivity, and improving the user experience. Because these
projects share similar concerns and types of output, there is a need to
work together on standards, promotions, and plans.

This presentation is about the Create Project and how it catalyzes
communication and sharing between Free and Open Source “creative
software” communities by providing a third-party space. This talk
outlines the the rationale for this project, its current state, who is
participating, and future plans.

Particular emphasis is placed upon the strategy of improving
communication through ambient sharing. This is typified by combining
developers' blogs from the different creative application development
communities into a planet-type blog aggregation available at
http://create.freedesktop.org/. Whereas in the commercial world,
affiliations and alliances are brokered through contracts and funding,
in Free and Open Source Software, alternate approaches for encouraging
collaboration and sharing are necessary.


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Please comment and change what is above...Embedded in this writing are a
possible primary goal, some thoughts about scale, etc.

Jon


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