[okfn-discuss] Big news: Alpha Launch of PyBossa, the open-source micro-tasking platform

[Dan Stanley]

Hi Rufus

Would anyone be available to give a presentation on this platform at our
event in London this Saturday?: www.electionshack.co.uk

One of the challenges we will be trying to address there is how to
coordinate and display different types of crowdsourced data in a useful way
- it sounds like this could potentially be a way of deploying multiple
different types of crowdsourcing tool to gather different types of
elections information in once place. Particularly relevant to the
discussion we will be having about informal monitoring throughout the
electoral cycle in countries where official monitoring is banned. There
should be a bunch of people there with crowdsourcing/mapping expertise, so
could be a good place to spread the word.

Thanks

Dan

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 8 June 2012 14:56, Alex Averbuch <alex.averbuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This looks really interesting, great project! Thanks a lot for sharing.
> >
> > Could you give a brief explanation of the pricing model please (I read
> the
> > blog, but haven't looked at the website yet)?
> >
> > For example, to me it seems as though this is "crowd sourcing as a
> > platform", in a similar way that Google App Engine is "cloud computing
> as a
> > platform", i.e. it is a hosted platform, where people can deploy crowd
> > sourcing applications, which use the provided platform API.
>
> At the moment a clear pricing model has not been worked out and at
> present it's completely free to host an app there. At some point we
> may want to introduce some kind of pricing model in order to support
> the sustainability of the project (though I note the underlying
> pybossa software is open-source and easy to deploy).
>
> The other pricing aspect could be paying for people to do tasks (a la
> mechanical turk). We really aren't focused on that - the platform is
> designed for *volunteer* micro-tasking / crowd-sourcing projects (i.e.
> projects where people are happy to contribute because they are
> projects for the public good e.g. citizen science, civic apps etc).
>
> Rufus
>
> > How completely wrong am I? :)
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> looks interesting...where is the source code? interested in looking at
> it
> >>
> >>
> >> adam
> >>
> >>
> >> On 06/08/2012 02:32 PM, Sam Leon wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear OKFNers,
> >>>
> >>> Please check out:
> >>>
> >>> *
> >>>
> >>>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/08/introducing-pybossa-the-open-source-micro-tasking-platform/
> >>>
> >>> *<
> http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/08/introducing-pybossa-the-open-source-micro-tasking-platform/
> >
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *http://pybossa.com/*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> We've just launched the alpha version of PyBossa, a crowd-sourcing and
> >>> micro-taking platform developed in collaboration with the Citizen
> >>> Cyberscience Center<http://www.citizencyberscience.net/>.
> >>>
> >>> In a nut-shell, PyBossa is a *free*, *open-source* *crowd-sourcing*
> >>> and *micro-tasking
> >>> platform*. It enables people to create and run projects that utilise
> >>> online
> >>>
> >>> assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as
> image
> >>> classification, transcription, geocoding and more. PyBossa is there to
> >>> help
> >>> *researchers*, *civic hackers* and *developers* to create projects
> where
> >>>
> >>> anyone around the world with some time, interest and an internet
> >>> connection
> >>> can contribute.
> >>>
> >>> The demo projects we currently have focus on real world applications of
> >>> the
> >>> platform for use in medical diagnosis and geocoding the location of
> green
> >>> spaces in cities.
> >>>
> >>> Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks of it, so go and try
> out
> >>> the demo projects!
> >>>
> >>> Sam
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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