PyBossa is an open source platform for crowd-sourcing online (volunteer) assistance to perform tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence (e.g. image classification, transcription, information location etc).
PyBossa was inspired by the BOSSA crowdsourcing engine but is written in python (hence the name!). It can be used for any distributed tasks application but was initially developed to help scientists and other researchers crowd-source human problem-solving skills!
See it in Action
PyBossa powers http://pybossa.com/ - check it out!
Installing and Upgrading
See doc/install.rst or http://pybossa.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html
Running Tests
Set SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_TEST_URI e.g.:
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgres://pybossa:pass@localhost/pybossa'
Then run the tests (requires nose):
nosetests -v test/
Useful Links
- Documentation: http://pybossa.readthedocs.org/
- Mailing List http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science-dev
Authors
- Daniel Lombraña González - Citizen Cyberscience Centre
- Rufus Pollock - Open Knowledge Foundation
- Chris Powell - EPICollect
- David Anderson - BOINC / Berkeley (via BOSSA)
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- FontAwesome fonts by http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/