imclab / hunchworks

Social network for hypothesis formation, evidence collection, and collective decision-making.

HunchWorks

From http://www.unglobalpulse.org/blog/why-hunchworks:

Hunchworks is a tool to enable experts of all kinds to post hypotheses that might warrant further exploration. We hope that it will provide the ability to capture the intuition, gut knowledge and situational awareness of the experts. HunchWorks is also a mechanism to make the membranes between silos of knowledge both inside and outside of the UN more permeable, surfacing the hunches of other researchers and promoting the cross-pollination of ideas and evidence.

Status

HunchWorks is on hold until further notice.

Requirements

• Python >= 2.6
• Django == 1.3
• MongoDB >= 2.0

Installation

# Create an isolated development environment with VirtualEnv.
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages --python=python2.6 hunchworks
$ cd hunchworks
$ source bin/activate

# Grab the latest source from GitHub.
$ git clone git://github.com/global-pulse/HunchWorks.git src
$ cd src

# Install development dependencies with Pip.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install Sass with Brew (for now).
$ brew install brew-gem
$ brew gem install sass

# Start the development server.
$ ./manage.py syncdb
$ ./manage.py runserver

Running Tests

$ fab test

Acknowledgements

HunchWorks would not be possible without the following contributors:

• [Social Login Buttons] (http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/sign-in-with-twitter-facebook-and-openid) by [Komodo Media] (http://www.komodomedia.com)

License

HunchWorks is free software, available under the GNU GPL v3.