$10,000 in Further Awards for RECAP Projects

Today, teams across the country are hard at work on the Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants. These grants, offered by the Think Computer Foundation, provide $5,000 awards for three different projects related to RECAP.

We are delighted to announce additional awards. The generous folks over at Google's Open Source Programs team have pledged to support two more RECAP-related project awards -- at $5,000 each. These are open to anyone who wishes to submit a proposal for a significant improvement to the RECAP system. We will work with the proposers to scope the project and define what qualifies for the award. All projects must be open source.

There are several potential ideas. For instance, someone might propose add support to RECAP for displaying the user's current balance and prompting the user to liberate up to their free quarterly $15 allocation as the end of the quarter approaches (inspired by Operation Asymptote). Someone might propose to improve the https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/ interface, and to improve detection and removal of private information. Someone might propose some other idea that we haven't thought of. You may wish to watch the discussion of a few of these initial ideas from our developer kickoff session.

Email info@free.law if you are interested. Thanks again to the Think Computer Foundation and Google.