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

Fri Jun 8 13:56:00 UTC 2012

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.

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
>
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> 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://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/<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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