As Matt announced today, (April 27, 2021) we are thrilled to bring the Creative Commons Search product into the WordPress Community. The new name for the product will be Openverse and will eventually live at http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20210808151912/https://wordpress.org/openverse

There are many logistics and steps to work through as we grow and build out a new WordPress team and focus. I think the first few immediate requests are:

1. Create a new Slack channel, titled #openverse, where we can start coordinating in the open
2. Setup the following GitHub repositories to bring the ccsearch code under the WordPress.org umbrella with myself (mkaz) and Zack Krida (zackkrida) as administrators. We can add additional developers to the repositories as needed.
   • openverse-catalog
   • openverse-scripts
   • openverse-frontend
   • openverse-api
3. A new site on the Make network, make.wordpress.org/openverse

We are excited to get the new project started and looking forward to welcoming the CC Search maintainers and contributors into the WordPress community. Please join us in the new Slack channel once available.

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Thanks @cbringmann, @chanthaboune, and @zackkrida for reviewing this post.