Info
bio
I'm an internet researcher and digital freedom advocate promoting open source technology adoption in education. I've done work with the One Laptop per Child project and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. My recent projects involve applying new technologies for collaboration to Open Educational Resources.
web site
irc nick
isforinsects
How to contact me
@sethish (twitter/identica) or seth at sethish
Projects
I am me.
Collect images and metadata from phil.cdc.gov the Public Health Image Library at the Center for Disease Control. The project's goal is to rescue this data and upload it to Archive.org and Wiki-commons.
Started the project (from research 2+ years ago)
Wrote database interactions (data store and retrieve)
Set and enforced code and comment standards
BostonPublic.org project, crawling and parsing bills and the public record from the Massachusetts Legislature's website(s)
Researching website data structures with test data
Using NLTK and BeautifulSoup (with Html5Lib) to grok data
Meeting with congressional staffers to generate requirements for a tool
Easily save your reddit comments/submissions to xml or json.
Part of an eventual collection of $social-media-site backup tools.
Implemented better password handling with getpass()