As one of the four elements of the NAF design, work-based learning (WBL) plays an important role in students’ academy experiences. According to our WBL Tracker data (which over 70% of NAF academies have used this year), over 46,000 students have participated in more than 3,300 WBL activities during the 2023-24 school year. Academies offer a wide variety of innovative...
As one of the four elements of the NAF design, work-based learning (WBL) plays an important role in students’ academy experiences. According to our WBL Tracker data (which over 70% of NAF academies have used this year), over 46,000 students have participated in more than 3,300 WBL activities during the 2023-24 school year. Academies offer a wide variety of innovative...
MovieLabs, has released a new white paper in the 2030 Vision Series, titled “Security Interoperability in Media Creation” which builds on the “Interoperability in Media Creation” white paper to set forth what is needed for the security of media production workflows as software and cloud infrastructure play a larger role in supporting creative work. The white paper...
by Holly Wise, program operations manager and SJN Awards manager Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of the inaugural Solutions Journalism Network Awards program! With over 400 entries from 13 countries, the competition was fierce. From established national outlets to the heart of rural communities and the next generation of journalists, this awards program...
All of the infrastructure used by Ruby developers today, including Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org is maintained and developed by volunteers. While it’s good that no one company controls resources shared by the community, it’s terrible that the only people who work on our shared infrastructure are doing so for free and in their spare time. Ruby Together was...
We are pleased to announce that Ruby Together has joined with Ruby Central to create The Rubygems Partnership, an ongoing project to improve the stability and performance of RubyGems.org. As part of this partnership, Ruby Central will continue to underwrite hosting and operational costs for RubyGems.org, while Ruby Together will fund ongoing maintenance and...
Michael Lissner February 25, 2012 For the past two years at CourtListener we used a mess of code to scrape the Federal Court system. This worked remarkably well, but we recently began expanding our coverage and it was clear a rewrite was needed. For the past several weeks, we’ve been building a replacement called Juriscraper that is more reliable...
Michael Lissner May 13, 2012 Following on Friday’s big announcement about our new citator, today I’m excited to share that we’ve completed incorporating volumes 1 to 491 of the third series of the Federal Reporter (F.3d). This has been a monumental task over the past six months. Since we already have many cases that were from the same time period...
January 20, 2013 Last week, our community lost Aaron Swartz. We are still reeling. Aaron was a fighter for openness and freedom, and many people have been channeling their grief into positive actions for causes that were close to Aaron’s heart. One of these people is Aaron Greenspan, creator of the open-data site Plainsite and the Think Computer Foundation. He...
Michael Lissner June 27, 2013 We’re proud to announce a big new feature today that we’ve been planning for a long time. Starting today, you can make citation queries against the CourtListener corpus. If you look in the bottom of the left hand column, you’ll see a new slider: Sliding the handles around, you can easily filter out any documents that...