callzhang / pybossa

PYBOSSA is the ultimate crowdsourcing framework (aka microtasking) to analyze or enrich data that can't be processed by machines alone.

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).

Actividad subvencionada por el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte

PyBossa was inspired by the BOSSA crowdsourcing engine but is written in python (hence the name!). It can be used for any distributed tasks project 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 MicroPast a joint project by British Museum and University College of London.

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 Updating Section from the documentation

See installation instructions.

Testing

Unit testing

Just run:

  nosetests test/

Browser testing

Thanks to the support of BrowserStack we can do real cross browser testing on multiple desktop and mobile platforms.

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.

Acknowledgments

• Open Knowledge Foundation
• FontAwesome fonts
• GeoLite data by MaxMind

Special thanks to Shuttleworth Foundations for funding us and their true support:

• Shuttleworth Foundation

Copyright / License

Copyright 2015 SciFabric LTD.

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.