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== Welcome to Berkman Center Google Summer of Code | == Welcome to Berkman Center Google Summer of Code 2016== | ||
The [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University] was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace. | The [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University] was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace. | ||
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Read more about [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ the Berkman Center]. | Read more about [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ the Berkman Center]. | ||
Read more about [https:// | Read more about [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ GSoC]. | ||
===Contact Us=== | ===Contact Us=== | ||
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==Project Opportunities== | ==Project Opportunities== | ||
There are seven GSoC | There are seven GSoC 2016 projects at the Berkman Center: | ||
===Loosely Defined=== | ===Loosely Defined=== | ||
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====[[ | ====[[Lumen]]==== | ||
Lumen is a website, database and research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. | |||
====[[ | ====[[Curricle]]==== | ||
Curricle aims at developing a lively, interactive, playful mode of navigating curricular programming and choices not as catalogue than as the experience of a landscape of intersecting ways. | |||
====[[ | ====[[Internet Monitor]]==== | ||
Internet Monitor's aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content controls and Internet activity around the world. | |||
====[[TagTeam]]==== | ====[[TagTeam]]==== | ||
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==Application Template== | ==Application Template== | ||
[[Application_Template|Application template for GSoC | [[Application_Template|Application template for GSoC 2016.]] This is the preferred template for submitting your application to work on a Berkman Center project. | ||
==FAQ== | ==FAQ== | ||
[[GSoC_FAQ|Answers to commonly asked questions.]] This includes a set of requirements around working hours, who can apply, other commitments you might have for the summer. Please read! | [[GSoC_FAQ|Answers to commonly asked questions.]] This includes a set of requirements around working hours, who can apply, other commitments you might have for the summer. Please read! |
Revision as of 15:30, 16 February 2016
Welcome to Berkman Center Google Summer of Code 2016
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
We investigate the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, of commerce, of governance, and of education, and the relationship of law to each. We do this through active rather than passive research, believing that the best way to understand cyberspace is to actually build out into it.
Our faculty, fellows, students, and affiliates engage with a wide spectrum of Net issues, including governance, privacy, intellectual property, antitrust, content control, and electronic commerce. Our diverse research interests cohere in a common understanding of the Internet as a social and political space where constraints upon inhabitants are determined not only through the traditional application of law, but, more subtly, through technical architecture ("code").
As part of our active research mission, we build, use, and freely share open software platforms for free online lectures and discussions. We also sponsor gatherings, ranging from informal lunches to international conferences, that bring together members of our diverse network of participants to swap insights – and sometimes barbs – as they stake out their respective visions for what the Net can become. We also teach, seeking out online and global opportunities, as well as supporting the traditional Harvard Law School curriculum, often in conjunction with other Harvard schools and MIT.
Read more about the Berkman Center.
Read more about GSoC.
Contact Us
IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/berkman-gsoc IRC logs here
Email: berkmancenterharvard@gmail.com
Project Opportunities
There are seven GSoC 2016 projects at the Berkman Center:
Loosely Defined
Docksr
A slick GUI for managing document relationships and versions.
Tools for Time Travel
A suite of time capsule encryption tools for sending messages securely into the future, so they cannot be read until a particular date or event.
Tighter Defined
Lumen
Lumen is a website, database and research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content.
Curricle
Curricle aims at developing a lively, interactive, playful mode of navigating curricular programming and choices not as catalogue than as the experience of a landscape of intersecting ways.
Internet Monitor
Internet Monitor's aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content controls and Internet activity around the world.
TagTeam
TagTeam is a versatile, open-source social-tagging platform and feed aggregator.
Application Template
Application template for GSoC 2016. This is the preferred template for submitting your application to work on a Berkman Center project.
FAQ
Answers to commonly asked questions. This includes a set of requirements around working hours, who can apply, other commitments you might have for the summer. Please read!