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Witness now has two hackers working on it :-)

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 Looking for a baby you can call your own? This section lists one-person projects.
-==Witness==
-We need a Django/Python hacker to work on [[Witness|Witness]], a web app for helping us (and anyone else who needs it) make sure person A has agreed to document X. There are loads of applications for this:
-* Proof that a Mozilla contributor has agreed to our Committer’s Agreement
-* Proof that someone has agreed to the IPR policy necessary for contributing to a standards body mailing list
-* Proof that someone has agreed to a trademark licence
-This is basically an app to make legal paperwork less of a hassle in open source projects and other places, an idea which we think people will like :-) It has interesting parts to do with BrowserID integration, identity verification, and how you make an electronic record of someone's agreement that will stand up in court. There are a couple of [http://blog.gerv.net/2012/05/witnes/ blog] [http://blog.gerv.net/2012/07/can-i-get-a-witness/ posts] about it too. If you are interested, contact [http://www.gerv.net/hacking/before-you-mail-gerv.html Gerv].