Change the world with TurboGears, and get paid to do it!
I’ve done a bit of consulting work with the Law School at Stanford University recently, and they are looking for a full time coder to help them change the way patent law is handled in the US.
They have a very cool TurboGears application that will radically improve the transparency of the way out legal system handles “intellectual property.” And they plan to make orders of magnitude more intellectual property data publicly available than we’ve ever seen, and they intend to do it with a python/TurboGears based system.
Ultimately I think this data has the potential to:
- to expose people who abuse patent, copyright, and trade secret laws,
- and to highlight problems with the way intellectual property laws are enforced,
- and ultimately to give us the raw data we need to make intelligent and lasting changes in the whole system.
At the same time it can help to prove that you can build high-traffic, robust systems with Python and TurboGears. They are also doing all kinds of interesting things with search, language processing, and have some amazingly smart people on their team. But they need a fantastic web developer to help them get this amazing stuff into the hands of real people soon.
Which is where you come in, if you’re available or can make yourself available, and you want to be part of something really impressive, feel free to drop me an e-mail at compoundthinking@gmail.com, and I’ll put you in contact with the right people.