Hello all,

I'm Jason Kivlighn, a selected student for Google's Summer of Code. Here's the gist of my project:

Working under Creative Commons, I will extended the Tracker search and indexing engine to support the extraction of license claims. Because of the various forms that the license may take, I will build support based on the recommendations of Creative Commons, as outlined at http://creativecommons.org/technology/usingmarkup...
At the very least, the project will result in Tracker gaining support for indexing license claims embedding in MP3, OGG, PDF, HTML, and XML formats.

http://code.google.com/soc/cc/appinfo.html?csaid=1B2CE25E80A89A15

Now for a little about myself. I'm an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle majoring in Computer Engineering. I've been an Open Source enthusiast since I found Linux as a development platform about 6 years ago. I developed Krecipes for a few years and now am working on Sidestream, a network for artists to distribute their works. I like hacking together projects here and there as I see fit. My UW campus shortest route finder was a fun little project to settle the "What's the fastest way from X to Y" disputes once-and-for-all.

My spring quarter is a hassle of Comp. Eng. studies and TA'ing for the 'Programming Languages' course; but as summer rolls around, I'll be ready for a summer of hacking with Tracker and CC :-)