boalt.org:
a Boalt student group working for the public interest in technology law
projects
2008
The boalt.org Public Interest Summer Fellowship
The Boalt.org summer fellowship for 2008 went to Aaron Brauer-Rieke, who worked with the ACLU of Northern California as a Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Intern. Congratulations, Aaron!
2007
The boalt.org Public Interest Summer Fellowship
The Boalt.org summer fellowship for 2007 went to Larisa Mann, who worked in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Students Expressing Truth (SET) Foundation, in Kingston, Jamaica on a rehabilitative justice program that set up low-power radio, internet radio, and recording studios in three prisons in Kingston. Congratulations, Larisa!
Day of the RFIDs
In April, Boalt.org organized DAY OF THE RFIDS - an awareness-raising event about radio frequency ID tags, focusing on the RFID tags in UC Berkeley student ID cards. Boalt.org also sold RFID-signal-blocking wallets, passport-holders and card sleeves to raise money for the Summer Fellowship.
2005-06
The boalt.org BOINC team(s)
Distributed Computing projects can put your computer's idle time to more productive use furthering scientific research that may lead to discoveries in protein folding or all manner of other scientific geekery. You can even search for aliens. boalt.org and its members have put their computers to work on several such projects, which are enabled by an open source distributed computing platform developed here at Berkeley, called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). Learn how to join the boalt.org BOINC team(s) and put your computers to work too.
2004-05
The boalt.org Public Interest Summer Fellowship
The Summer 2005 boalt.org Public Interest Summer Fellowship was awarded to 1L, Tori Praul. Tori worked in the new San Francisco office of EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Congratulations Tori!
Free Software CD 2.0
The first week of Fall 2004 classes was finished off with boalt.org's Free As In Beer Free Software CD Giveaway. After 1Ls came out of their Friday LRW classes, they were greeted in Darling courtyard with boalt.org's Free Software CD 2.0 which is chock full of great free software for both Macintosh OS X users as well as Windows users.
While we tried to get your attention with the free beer, we also used the opportunity to explain that the 'free' in 'free software' really refers to freedom, not a lack of cost. (Though it turns out the CDs were gratis as well.) The 'free' refers to freedom because all the software on our Free Software CD is licensed under Free Software Foundation-approved licenses which give you the rights to run, copy, modify and distribute the software yourself. (Read individual licenses for all the details.) So, if you want to make a copy of the boalt.org Free Software CD 2.0 for a friend, then go for it! That's the whole point!
2003-04
The boalt.org Public Interest Summer Fellowship
Summer 2004 marked the first time that we offered The boalt.org
Public Interest Summer Fellowship. This yearly award provides a stipend
for one or more law students who spend their summer working in the
public interest
in technology law. One common example of such work is an unpaid or
significantly under-paid position at a non-profit organization
whose activites relate to the ideas
boalt.org is passionate about.
Each year boalt.org has many fundraisers to help
make the fellowship a reality. Some examples
include:
Introducing the fellowship recipient...
boalt.org is pleased to announce that the 2004 boalt.org Public
Interest
Summer Fellowship has been awarded to Gemma Suh, a first-year student
at Boalt Hall
School of Law. Gemma will intern at the Center
for Democracy and Technology in
Washington D.C. this summer. Congratulations Gemma!
The Free Software CD Project
In order to improve the computing life of Boalt students, boalt.org
organized, produced, and
distributed 100 copies of Version 1.0 (Pre-Socratic) of the Free Software
CD. This CD is a collection of Free software
for Mac OS X and Windows. Although the CDs were given away to students
and staff, some individuals decided that they wanted to give something
back
to boalt.org and decided to donate
to our summer fellowship fund.
Be on the lookout for new versions of the Free Software CD in future years!
The First Anual boalt.org Speling Bee
In the spring of 2004, boalt.org planned and organized a wildly
successful event to
raise money for its Public Interest Summer Fellowship. More than 20
teams and
individuals competed in the two-round competition. With awards for Best
Spelling, Most
Creative Spelling, Best Group Name, and Best Attitude (among others),
the Speling Bee
was a blast. Sounds of Boalt
feature artist
Freeda Yllana also treated the crowd to a live reading of "1L", the
spoken word piece
she performed for the Sounds of
Boalt CD.
Photographs of the Speling Bee are available here.
The Sounds of Boalt CD
In conjunction with the Creative
Law Society, boalt.org produced a compilation of
music and spoken word written and performed by present and past Boalt
students.
Each track was licensed under a Creative Commons License
or donated to the public domain. The compact discs (details available
on The Sounds of Boalt CD homepage)
were sold to raise money for The boalt.org Public Interest Summer
Fellowship. In fact,
demand was so great that the first printing of the CDs sold out and a
second run was made.
There are still some copies left which can be ordered at sounds.of.boalt.org.
ksnake.boalt.org
The lighter side of boalt.org makes itself heard at ksnake.boalt.org.
This project is an effort to create a resource showcasing the talent of
some of boalt.org's most dedicated
members. KSnake (also known as KSnakeRace) is a program which is part
of the KDE Games suite. It can be
played in Linux, MacOS, or even Windows (through emulation). Visit
ksnake.boalt.org for a glimpse into boalt.org's inner
sanctum or drop by the boalt.org office, Room 156, and play a round or
two.
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