Bounty? about open_exoplanet_catalogue

[ryanvarley]

As much as i would like to receive bitcoins for commits, i think the money could be used for other things and not really encourage updates from new people.

A logo is good but i know several people which make them for £50 ($80) so it wouldn't have to be a major portion of it.

As for the rest i'm unsure. Paying ungrads won't last too long with that money but maybe paying someone to go through the catalogue checking for new / missing values could be useful.

On that note i think the most useful thing would be a website that flags values that are old or checks for missing ones. People can then confirm the values aren't available or find new papers. The same could be said for adding references to existing values (where .eu was used for example). We would then have a big list of small jobs that need doing - i think this would be very useful for people looking to help but unsure where to start - it also lets us keep a check on the state of the catalogue and areas that may be poor.

[planetaryscience]

I'm not to college yet, so don't exactly know what a grant like this would
be used for. What sort of things are typical of an $800 dollar grant to be
spent on, and are any of those things things that I could help with?

-Planetaryscience

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Hanno Rein [email protected] wrote:

I have a moderate amount of money (~$800) left over from a grant that I
could use on this catalogue. Does anyone have suggestions?

• Paying contributor bitcoins, e.g. http://tip4commit.com
• Pay undergraduates to help maintaining the catalogue
• Design a logo

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[hannorein]

I agree that a nicer and more useful website would be great. But I don't know how one would find someone to help out with that. It requires quite a lot of expertise (programming and astrophysics). And $800 won't get us very far. But if you have a suggestion on where to go or who to ask, I'd love to hear it.