Open-source

Parts of The Verdic­t’s stack are open-source and devel­oped in-house. Here they are, cate­go­rized by their use.

Publication Assistance

• Autas­sign
  • Purpose: Auto­mat­i­cally assign work to a pool of work­ers based on skills, diffi­culty and workload
  • Status: Depre­cated, no longer main­tained or in use
  • Link: https://​github​.com/​b​l​u​e​l​i​n​d​e​n​/​a​u​t​assign
  • Language: Pure Google Apps Script JavaScript
• Tapper
  • Purpose: Use a vari­ety of algo­rithms to assign doers to things. The included work­time algo­rithm is an opti­mized and more advanced version of Autas­sign’s core algorithm.
  • Status: Depre­cated, not in use
  • Link: https://​github​.com/​b​l​u​e​l​i​n​d​e​n​/​tapper
  • NPM: https://​www​.npmjs​.com/​p​a​c​k​a​g​e​/​w​o​r​k​tapper
  • Language: Tran­spiled Type­Script, using TSC with typings included
• Arti­cle­man
  • Pitch: Use Google Sheets? Tired of having to keep up with keyboard short­cuts and formu­las to manage content and people in your student media orga­ni­za­tion, quickly and effi­ciently? Arti­cle­man is here to help. From trans­fer­ring and trans­form­ing data between sheets to dele­gat­ing indi­vid­ual tasks based on staff skill and work­load, Arti­cle­man makes quick work out of boring tasks. No, it’s not AI, but I also don’t have a bridge to sell you here. It’s completely free.
  • Language: Depre­cated, not in use
  • Status: Active devel­op­ment, pre-alpha
  • Link: arti​cle​man​.org
• Glean
  • Purpose: Quickly and easily get images out of Google Docs documents
  • Status: Main­tained, bug fixes only
  • Link: https://​github​.com/​b​l​u​e​l​i​n​d​e​n​/glean
  • Usable version: https://​projects​.bluelin​den​.art/​glean/
  • Language: HTML + JavaScript

Other Tools

• Faster-Whis­per UI 
  • Purpose: Tran­scribe inter­views or other audio using a faster version of OpenAI Whisper
  • Status: Use At Your Own Risk, no support is provided at all whatsoever
  • Link: https://​github​.com/​b​l​u​e​l​i​n​d​e​n​/​f​a​s​t​e​r​-​w​h​i​s​per-ui
  • Language: Python
• Case­ment
  • Purpose: A light­weight iFrame commu­ni­ca­tions library for apps contained within iFrames, using a simple inside-outside para­digm, with bidi­rec­tional commu­ni­ca­tions, action hooks, and Promises.
  • Status: Fully supported by blue linden in compli­ance with the GNU GPL 3.0
  • Link: https://​github​.com/​b​l​u​e​l​i​n​d​e​n​/​c​a​s​ement/
  • NPM: https://​npmjs​.com/​p​a​c​k​a​g​e​/​c​a​s​ement/
  • Language: Type­Script