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Welcome to Berkman Center Google Summer of Code 2011
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.
Idea Pages by Project
The opportunities at Berkman break down into several projects.
Sub-Projects:
- Check-in Check-out Asset Tracker: A plugin to Redmine and an extensible Ruby-on-Rails project management tool. This plugin gets used to track physical assets found within any organization. The plugin tracks an asset much like a library book indicating who the asset has been assigned to, when it is due back, and other asset specific traits like warranty expirations.
- Cohort: We'd like to continue the work on our tag-based CRM, where the C means "community" more than "customer" or "client".
- ONI Tester: The Berkman Center's Open Network Initiative does testing to determine the openness of the internet with respect to filtering. These tests have historically been done on the ground in the country where the filtering is suspected of being done with specialized software carried around on portable media (diskette, cdrom, usb drives). The software is hard to update, hard to guarantee secure and sometimes not intuitive to use for testers in various countries.
- Online Media Legal Network: The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a network of law firms, law school clinics, in-house counsel, and individual lawyers throughout the United States willing to provide pro bono (free) legal assistance to qualifying online journalism ventures and other digital media creators.
Berkman Google Summer of Code 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!