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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
Application Tracker
Stay Tuned...
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.
Time Tracker
Stay Tuned...
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!