Berkman Klein Google Summer of Code Wiki - User contributions [en]

Data Integration DB

2017-03-16T15:10:00Z

Griffin:

Summer of code project

Project: Create a database and data integration system that allows for discovery of hidden connections between existing data sets

Project rationale:

The Berkman Klein Center and affiliated researchers are collecting a great deal of information and unique knowledge about Web sites around the world, including where they are located, if they are filtered or blocked, if they are connected to oppositional political parties in authoritarian regimes, as well as demographic and other data on bloggers. For example the Internet & Democracy Project has created social network maps of Persian, Arabic, Russian, and US blogospheres, and had humans tell us what type of sites political bloggers prefer, the YouTube videos they preferentially link to, as well as a wealth of data on who bloggers are in various foreign countries and what type issues they care about. The OpenNet initative has data on what Web sites are filtered around the world, and in many cases what content they host that might lead them to be filtered (such as prohibited sexual, religious, or political content or affiliation). And Berkman spinoffs like Stopbadware.org have data on what Web sites are affiliated with badware, as well as location and other data. Currently, this information is stored within project silos, in different formats, and effectively (but unintentionally) walled off from other researchers. There is a tremendous and long overdue need for a central data repository for Berkman collected data that uses best-practices for metadata representation and cross referencing. The ultimate goal of this effort is to allow researchers from various Berkman Klein Center projects to gain insights that they would not have seen before, and to fully utilize the tremendous amount of (largely untapped) knowledge we are collecting about the global Internet and its users. We also would like to allow researchers outside of Berkman to gain access to as much data as we can safely release, so others can build on the work we have started. This effort will ultimately help the Berkman Klein Center to make meaningful connections between sets of data, and to make discoveries that are essentially right in front of us, but invisible due to project silos.

Requirements:

*creation of a relational database for storing various types of information about given URLs including (but are not limited to): location, language, if the site is blocked/filtered, blogger demographics (male, female, etc.), connected to badware, political orientation, if it is an oppositional news sites, etc.
*a user interface which allows non-technical researchers to search and sort datasets
*conformity with common metadata standards, such as Dublin Core.
*user and group level access control
*security—encryption, limiting access, granular permissions, etc.
*use open source database system (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
*methods for entering datasets from various formats (e.g. csv, xml).

Qualifications:

*interest in helping cutting-edge research teams discover previously unknown patterns and unique connections between data sets
*knowledge of relational database design
*familiarity with XML and (preferably) metadata standards

Application Template

2017-03-16T15:09:31Z

Griffin:

==Contact Information==

Name:

Country:

School and degree:

Email:

Phone:

Which method of communication do you prefer? (i.e. in person, email, chat, video conference, etc.):

What Berkman project(s) are you interested in?

==About You==

# If you have a link to a resume/CV/LinkedIn profile, include it here.
# Please describe yourself, including your development background and specific expertise.
# What do you hope to gain through the process of participating in GSoC, and specifically by contributing to a Berkman project?
# Why are you interested in the Berkman coding project(s) you stated above?
# Have you reviewed the [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline important dates and times] for GSoC 2017?
# Do you have any significant conflicts with the listed schedule? If so, please list them here.
# Do you understand this is a serious commitment, equivalent to a full-time paid summer internship or summer job?
# We strongly prefer students that provide code samples, ideally in a "social coding" site like GitHub. Please provide a link to code you've written, whether it's a zip file / tarball you host on your own or your Github profile.

==Proposal==

Please repeat the following if you are applying to more then one of our projects.

===Overview===

*Provide a brief overview of your proposed solution and objectives you want to achieve with your chosen project.
*Please include programming languages and technologies you plan to use.

====Detailed====

Describe your proposed solution in as much detail as you can. Explain what algorithms/technologies you intend to use/study (if any). You can also include links to additional details like diagrams, etc., outlining your ideas acting as supplementary information for your proposal outside of this scope.

====Project Plan====

How do you plan to spend your summer? Please include a preliminary plan, broken down by pre-Midterm and post-Midterm, on how you think you can fulfill your project in the time allocated. Try to be as specific and realistic as you can with your goals and timeline.

The project plan and its timeline will form a significant part of the assessment of your application, as well as mid-term and final evaluations.

==Additional Information==

If you would like to provide any other relevant information, please do so here.

==What to expect from your mentor (and what your mentor expects from you)==
If you are selected to GSoC 2017 with the Berkman Klein Center, you can expect the following:
* We recognize that the goals may change during the project, and the mentors will accept modifications to the goals at any time. But they are also expecting to see reasonable effort go into the initial project timeline. Any changes to your goals or plan are expected to be immediately communicated to your mentor.

* Your mentor will discuss with you any specific status updates or any other regular communication they expect from you as well as which methods they prefer for documentation and collaboration (Google Docs, wiki, etc.).

* The project plan and timeline you set forth in your application will also form a significant part of your mid-term and final evaluations.

Docksr

2017-03-16T15:08:50Z

Griffin:

We want to build software that will help us manage multiple inter-related documents.

It would most likely take the form of an overlay for Google Drive that allows us to keep track of dependencies between documents. This GUI would show how documents are related and allow on-click access to these documents (via either Google Docs or Word). It will also enable document versioning (define document B to be a new version of document A) to allow us keep track of versions in a non-destructive way.

Some of this functionality already exists, so a big part of it this project would be to identify existing open source options and then customize it to run on top of Google Drive and our existing project management interface ([http://www.redmine.org/ Redmine]).

Why do we want to do this? The Berkman Klein Center writes a lot of reports and academic papers. And when we write these reports, we then often generate a lot of other materials based on the original report (press releases, e-mails, websites, executive summaries, shorter versions of the report, etc.). When we write these smaller documents, we often need to use consistent language across all of the forms, which then creates significant problems when people make edits to a subsidiary documents. We need a way to keep track of documents and make sure that when changes occur in one, we know to also check all co-dependent documents.

=== Ideal candidate criteria ===
We are looking for candidates who are interested in solving workflow challenges and have experience building GUIs. In your proposal, please explain what approach you believe will be most successful to build Docksr.

We are open to the mechanics of how you would design Docksr, so creativity and efficient use of time and resources are valued.

CLA Commons

2017-03-16T15:08:33Z

Griffin:

CLA Commons wants to simplify open source Contributor License Agreements for both developers and projects.

As a developer, you may have been asked to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) at one point or another. These legal documents can be confusing and intimidating, especially when you just want to contribute code to make a product or service better.

What if there were a way to make the equivalent for CLAs of what Creative Commons is for copyright ([https://creativecommons.org https://creativecommons.org])? The aim of this project is to do just that.

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is bringing lawyers, researchers, and technologists together at Harvard Law School to draft simple “flavors” of CLA documents. Our Cyberlaw Clinic ([http://cyberlawclinic.berkman.harvard.edu http://cyberlawclinic.berkman.harvard.edu]) is writing easy-to-understand FAQs, and designing iconography to best simplify these legal agreements. The legal work is taken care of—all CLA Commons needs is to modify the current CLAhub app.

Ideally, we want the CLA Commons app (currently CLAhub) to authenticate with a project’s Github account and create a contributors.md file containing the CLA text selected via the app. We also want the app to verify that a contributor has “signed” a contributors.md file by adding their Github username before submitting a pull request. We want this process to take place without storing any personally identifiable information (PII) within the CLA Commons database, unlike in the current CLAhub system. We also would like to find a way to migrate the existing PII in the CLAhub database to the new structure in a way that minimally impacts current users of the CLAhub app.
 
More info: [https://clahub.com https://clahub.com]
 
Github repo: [https://github.com/clahub/clahub https://github.com/clahub/clahub]

====Ideal candidate criteria:====
CLA Commons is interested in candidates with experience in Ruby and the Github API ([https://developer.github.com https://developer.github.com]). For this project, we’re looking for a creative programmer to tackle vexing design questions and help bring CLA Commons to life. With regards to modifying the the original CLAhub app, we have a short list of high, medium, and low priority modifications in mind. However, we encourage the GSoC intern to also think up feature ideas that meet his/her interests.

Internet Monitor

2017-03-16T15:08:10Z

Griffin: Klein'd

Internet Monitor is a research project based at [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society]. 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. The project helps researchers, advocates, policymakers, and user communities understand trends in Internet health and activity through research, analysis, and data visualization.

Internet Monitor has several technical components:

==Platform==
Contact: Ryan Morrison~Westphal ([mailto:rwestphal@cyber.law.harvard.edu rwestphal@cyber.law.harvard.edu])
The Internet Monitor platform and Access Index (launched in July 2014) give policy makers, digital activists, researchers, and user communities an authoritative, independent, and multi-faceted set of quantitative data on the state of the global Internet. The platform brings together 15 indicators on Internet access and infrastructure to create the Internet Monitor Access Index, which offers a starting point for further analysis of Internet access conditions in 92 countries.
 
''July 15, 2014:'' [https://thenetmonitor.org/blog/posts/welcome-to-internet-monitor Welcome to Internet Monitor!] 
''July 22, 2015:'' [https://thenetmonitor.org/blog/posts/a-berkman-center-summer-intern-explores-internet-monitor A Berkman Center summer intern explores Internet Monitor]

===Tech:===
* Ruby on Rails
* JavaScript

===Project ideas:===
* Support switching between current and archived Access Indexes in both the website and data API
* Updates the indicator weight sliders feature

==Dashboard==
The Internet Monitor [https://dashboard.thenetmonitor.org/ dashboard] (launched in September 2015) offers users the opportunity to customize a collection of data visualization “widgets” according to their interest. The dashboard compiles and curates data from multiple sources, including primary data collected by the Berkman Klein Center and our partners, as well as relevant secondary data. Users can create individual boards that provide a real-time view of the state of the Internet across a variety of dimensions, enable easy comparisons across countries and data sources, and are easy to configure, edit, and share. 
September 28, 2015: [https://thenetmonitor.org/blog/posts/announcing-the-internet-monitor-data-dashboard Announcing the Internet Monitor data dashboard!]

===Tech: ===
* Meteor
* Bootstrap 3
* Project ideas:
* Measurement Lab widgets
* Data-agnostic visualization widgets

==Website availability testing==
Contact: Justin Clark ([mailto:jclark@cyber.law.harvard.edu jclark@cyber.law.harvard.edu])

Internet Monitor is developing a suite of tools to enable the automated collection of data on website availability in a number of countries worldwide. This effort has several components: data collection tools tailored specifically for assessing website availability and gathering evidence of deliberate blocking; global and country-specific lists of URLs to test; and additional sources of data, including NetClerk (which uses proxies located in data centers worldwide to test website accessibility) and FarFlung (a Chrome extension that allows users to participate voluntarily in testing URLs from their browsers). We are developing an analysis platform that will ingest data from the various sources to more accurately determine the availability of different sites in different locations. We are building a real-time testing UI, initially available only to invited participants, to enable on-demand testing in any of the supported locations worldwide.

===Project ideas:===
* Planet Lab, Measurement Lab, RIPE ATLAS integrations
* Mobile component
* System-on-a-Chip (SoC) collectors (Arduino, CHiP, Raspberry Pi, ESP8266)
* Tor integration
* Automated URL list generation
* Machine-learned block page classification
* Automated packet capture forensics

Main Page

2017-03-15T19:17:15Z

Griffin: expanded on Question Tool

[[Image:GSoC2016Logo.jpg]]

== Welcome to Berkman Klein Center Google Summer of Code 2017==
===What is GSoC?===
Basically, it's where you spend your summer writing code for awesome open source projects:
<blockquote>Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization during their break from university.

Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together almost 11,000 student participants and 10,000 mentors from over 113 countries worldwide. Google Summer of Code has produced over 50 million lines of code for 515 open source organizations.

As a part of Google Summer of Code, student participants are paired with a mentor from the participating organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development and techniques. Students have the opportunity to spend the break between their school semesters earning a stipend while working in areas related to their interests.

In turn, the participating organizations are able to identify and bring in new developers who implement new features and hopefully continue to contribute to open source even after the program is over. Most importantly, more code is created and released for the use and benefit of all</blockquote>

The [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com official GSoC 2017 homepage] describes how it works and what it involves.

The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code GSoC Wikipedia entry] also includes some interesting background information.

===Who are we?===
The [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/ 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/faculty/ faculty], [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/fellows/ 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/ online lectures and discussions]. We also sponsor [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/ 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/teaching/ 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 Klein Center at [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu our homepage].

===Contact Us===
We prefer email, though also run an IRC channel. 
'''Email:''' [mailto:gsoc@cyber.harvard.edu gsoc@cyber.harvard.edu] 
'''IRC:''' irc://irc.freenode.net/berkman-gsoc [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/gsoc-irc-logs/ IRC logs here]

==Project Opportunities==
There are several GSoC 2017 projects at the Berkman Klein Center:

===Loosely Defined===

====[[CLA Commons]]====
Do you think Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) are confusing? What if there were a way to make the equivalent of what Creative Commons is for Copyright for CLAs? The aim of this project is to do just that. Partnering lawyers, researchers and technologists at Harvard Law School and beyond to come up with good and useful technology and law.

===Tighter Defined===
====[[LibraryBox]]====
LibraryBox [http://librarybox.us]: an open source offline digital distribution tool that uses inexpensive hardware to enable localized sharing of content.

====[[Measure the Future]]====
Measure the Future is an open source project that is building a computer-vision based tool to allow libraries, museums, and other civic locations to better understand the use of their physical spaces and buildings.

====[[Question Tool]]====
A tool for asking and voting on questions during events or classes. Written in Javascript using the Meteor.js framework.

====[[Lumen]]====
Lumen [https://lumendatabase.org/] is a website, database and research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. 

====[[Book-a-Nook]]====
Book-a-Nook is an online tool to activate community spaces, with a particular focus on libraries.

====[[Dotplot]]====
Dotplot is a visualization that allows one to tell a story about data.

====[[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 [https://dashboard.thenetmonitor.org/] aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content controls and Internet activity around the world.

====[[TagTeam]]====
TagTeam [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/] is a versatile, open-source social-tagging platform and feed aggregator.

====[[Teem]]====
An app focused on increasing the participation and sustainability of commons-based peer production communities.

====[[SwellRT]]====
The first full-stack framework for developing decentralized real-time collaborative apps in JavaScript/Java/Android

==How to Apply==
Applications open March 20, 2017 at 12:00 (EDT) / 17:00 (UTC). You must submit your application via GSoC: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/get-started. We will not be able to accept or process any application in any other way. Please use the below application template when submitting your application.

All proposals must be submitted by April 3, 2017 at 12:00 (EDT) / 17:00 (UTC). We will not be able to accept or process any application in any other way.

===Application Template===
[[Application_Template|Application template for GSoC 2017.]] This is the preferred template for submitting your application to work on a Berkman Klein Center project.

==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!

User:Griffin

2017-03-15T15:50:46Z

Griffin: Created page with "See: https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/gboyce"

See: https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/gboyce

Main Page

2017-03-15T15:48:38Z

Griffin: Klein'd

[[Image:GSoC2016Logo.jpg]]

== Welcome to Berkman Klein Center Google Summer of Code 2017==
===What is GSoC?===
Basically, it's where you spend your summer writing code for awesome open source projects:
<blockquote>Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization during their break from university.

Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together almost 11,000 student participants and 10,000 mentors from over 113 countries worldwide. Google Summer of Code has produced over 50 million lines of code for 515 open source organizations.

As a part of Google Summer of Code, student participants are paired with a mentor from the participating organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development and techniques. Students have the opportunity to spend the break between their school semesters earning a stipend while working in areas related to their interests.

In turn, the participating organizations are able to identify and bring in new developers who implement new features and hopefully continue to contribute to open source even after the program is over. Most importantly, more code is created and released for the use and benefit of all</blockquote>

The [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com official GSoC 2017 homepage] describes how it works and what it involves.

The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code GSoC Wikipedia entry] also includes some interesting background information.

===Who are we?===
The [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/ 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/faculty/ faculty], [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/fellows/ 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/ online lectures and discussions]. We also sponsor [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/ 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/teaching/ 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 Klein Center at [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu our homepage].

===Contact Us===
We prefer email, though also run an IRC channel. 
'''Email:''' [mailto:gsoc@cyber.harvard.edu gsoc@cyber.harvard.edu] 
'''IRC:''' irc://irc.freenode.net/berkman-gsoc [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/gsoc-irc-logs/ IRC logs here]

==Project Opportunities==
There are several GSoC 2017 projects at the Berkman Klein Center:

===Loosely Defined===

====[[CLA Commons]]====
Do you think Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) are confusing? What if there were a way to make the equivalent of what Creative Commons is for Copyright for CLAs? The aim of this project is to do just that. Partnering lawyers, researchers and technologists at Harvard Law School and beyond to come up with good and useful technology and law.

===Tighter Defined===
====[[LibraryBox]]====
LibraryBox [http://librarybox.us]: an open source offline digital distribution tool that uses inexpensive hardware to enable localized sharing of content.

====[[Measure the Future]]====
Measure the Future is an open source project that is building a computer-vision based tool to allow libraries, museums, and other civic locations to better understand the use of their physical spaces and buildings.

====[[Question Tool]]====
A tool for asking and voting on questions during events or classes.

====[[Lumen]]====
Lumen [https://lumendatabase.org/] is a website, database and research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. 

====[[Book-a-Nook]]====
Book-a-Nook is an online tool to activate community spaces, with a particular focus on libraries.

====[[Dotplot]]====
Dotplot is a visualization that allows one to tell a story about data.

====[[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 [https://dashboard.thenetmonitor.org/] aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content controls and Internet activity around the world.

====[[TagTeam]]====
TagTeam [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/] is a versatile, open-source social-tagging platform and feed aggregator.

====[[Teem]]====
An app focused on increasing the participation and sustainability of commons-based peer production communities.

====[[SwellRT]]====
The first full-stack framework for developing decentralized real-time collaborative apps in JavaScript/Java/Android

==How to Apply==
Applications open March 20, 2017 at 12:00 (EDT) / 17:00 (UTC). You must submit your application via GSoC: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/get-started. We will not be able to accept or process any application in any other way. Please use the below application template when submitting your application.

All proposals must be submitted by April 3, 2017 at 12:00 (EDT) / 17:00 (UTC). We will not be able to accept or process any application in any other way.

===Application Template===
[[Application_Template|Application template for GSoC 2017.]] This is the preferred template for submitting your application to work on a Berkman Klein Center project.

==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!