[open-science-dev] PyBOSSA: re-implementing the open source PHP BOSSA framework in Python

[Daniel Lombraña González]

Hi everyone,

Today I have finally pushed some code for the demo application that
actually "works" ;) Well, this first version gets several Flickr Photo
URLs, and creates an application + a batch + several tasks in PyBOSSA. You
can see that it is actually working if you have the application running, as
in the front page you will have a list of applications and associated tasks.

Nigini, if you need help, let me know!

Cheers,

Daniel

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 13:02, Nigini Abilio <nigini at lsd.ufcg.edu.br> wrote:

> Hello there.
>
> As Lucas said, I was really busy with some deadlines at November but now
> we here in Brazil will try to sync with your great work. I'm really
> interested in helping at the pyBOSSA project, mainly at the API design and
> implementation. We'll probably have a study case that will use it.
>
> I'll get the code now and try to feedback this week, including the look at
> our code to think about how to rewrite it to pyBOSSA.
>
> Regards.
>
>  2011/11/25 Daniel Lombraña González <teleyinex at gmail.com>
>
>>  Dear all,
>>
>> During a hackfest in Cape Town (Africa at Home), and thanks to the
>> collaboration of Rufus Pollock from Okfn, we have started to port and
>> improve BOSSA (a volunteer thinking framework) to Python. You can find the
>> code here: https://github.com/citizen-cyberscience-centre/pybossa
>>
>> BOSSA is a framework that allows the creation of projects where the
>> humans are the CPUs. Imagine a project where an algorithm has to answer the
>> following question: does this photograph contain a dog? While for
>> algorithms, usually, this will be very complicated for humans is a fairly
>> simple task. BOSSA helps in the creation of this kind of projects,
>> providing tools for managing users, jobs, etc.
>>
>> During the Africa at Home hackfest, we were in contact with the main
>> developer of BOSSA and agreed on porting the code to Python.
>>
>> This new implementation will allow running a central service, decoupling
>> the task interface from BOSSA. This will allow the creation of different
>> projects based on any programming language as the core system will provide
>> a nice API to request and submit jobs using JSON. BOSSA will take care of
>> distributing the tasks among its users.
>>
>> The improvements of this new version are:
>> - Flaskr micro-framework
>> - HTML templates engine
>> - API
>> - Python, who doesn't love Python ;) (remember batteries included!)
>>
>> Therefore, if anyone is interested in helping us, send us an e-mail!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> --
>> Citizen Cyberscience Centre
>> www.citizencyberscience.net
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Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el
intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV
o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un
fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él.
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