redhog / pybossa

Open-source crowd-sourcing (microtasking) platform with a focus on volunteer contribution and making it super-easy to create a crowd-sourcing app.

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 CrowdCrafting.org and ForestWatchers.net

Installing and Upgrading

Important: if you are updating a server, please, be sure to check the Database Migration scripts, as new changes could introduce new tables, columns, etc, in the DB model. See the Migration Section from the documentation

See installation instructions.

NOTE: The latest version uses M2CRYPTO and the pypi version has a bug that does not allow you to sign properly RSA keys, however it will install it perfectly well. For this reason, you will need to install it using this other version: pip install -e git+https://github.com/Hypernode/M2Crypto#egg=M2Crypto

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
• Mailing List

Contributing

If you want to contribute to the project, please, check the CONTRIBUTING file.

It has the instructions to become a contributor.

Authors

• Daniel Lombraña González - Citizen Cyberscience Centre, Shuttleworth Fellow

• Rufus Pollock - Open Knowledge Foundation

• David Anderson - BOINC / Berkeley (via BOSSA)

• Twitter Bootstrap Icons by Glyphicons

• FontAwesome fonts

• GeoLite data by MaxMind

Copyright / License

Copyright 2013 SF Isle of Man Limited.

Source Code License: The GNU Affero General Public License, either version 3 of the License or (at your option) any later version. (see COPYING file)

The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.

Documentation and media is under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 3.