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Freeseer

Freeseer is a powerful screen-casting tool. It enables you to record from a various video and audio sources such as local desktop, usb, microphone, and other sources. It supports live streaming. It also provides rich meta data handling capabilities in which the speaker, title, event, and other meta data are encoded in the video files.

The Freeseer project is a project still growing rapidly and perhaps one of the best open source video screen casting tools available.

Freeseer is implemented in Python. Code is managed in git.

Project: Upload tool.

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ReviewBoard

Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process. ReviewBoard is written in Python using the Django web framework.

Students working on Review Board will have the opportunity to learn about back-end web development using Python, and Django, as well as front-end development using HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery. Source control is managed via Git on GitHub. All patches are reviewed using Review Board, and students are expected to contribute to reviews for each other, as well as to other members of the development community.

Students will probably be working on the following projects:

Re-work the front-end to require less frequent page reloads. Publishing a review or comments or whatever shouldn’t reload the page. Nor should updating the dashboard.
Finishing pluggable review UIs for di