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Welcome to Berkman Center Google Summer of Code 2013

The Berkman Center 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.

Read more about the Berkman Center.

Check out the GSOC overview page.

Contact Us

IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/berkman-gsoc IRC logs here

Email: berkmancenterharvard@gmail.com

Idea Page by Project

The opportunities at Berkman break down into several projects.

Loosely Defined

Civic Seed

An online role playing game for civic education and service learning that helps students connect to community organizations and mentors. It has been used at the University level and will be developed for K-12.

Community PlanIt

An online mission-based game for community planning. It has been used in six cities in Europe and the United States.

Strictly Defined

Redmine Application Tracker

Application Tracker an open source tool to help us manage applications to our employment, fellowship, and internship opportunities. It is a Redmine plugin that serves as an integral part of our internal workflow, while also allowing applicants to better manage and control their application materials and profile.

Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a project that crawls and analyzes on-line media content. It collects, tags, and analyzes the full stream of news stories from a wide variety of traditional and new media sources. It aims to track news content comprehensively and provide free, open, and flexible tools to allow researchers to perform their own analysis.

PageOneX

PageOneX is an innovative approach to the analysis and visualization of front page newspaper coverage, that enables communities and advocacy groups to track certain news threads in a easy and visual way.

Time Tracker

Time Tracker is a a tool meant to help users track time spent on various projects and tasks.

Application Template

Application Template 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, etc. PLEASE READ!