[HOT] Tasking Manager Interchange

Pierre GIRAUD pierre.giraud at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 15:53:48 GMT 2013


Agreed, there is a bunch of good ideas to get from PyBossa for new features
or enhancements for the HOT (but not only) Tasking Manager.


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:

> Oh yeah. I came across Pybossa the other day for some other reason (and
> http://crowdcrafting.org which I guess is a site deploying it in various
> ways)
>
> Another one to add to your list is http://mapmill.org (the one we used
> for Sandy) which is closer to Pybossa style tasks.
>
> They are more mini microtask thing than the HOT tasks have tended to be,
> but that doesn't mean the ideas can't brought together somehow in a useful
> way. Simpler aerial imagery assessment microtasks could provide data used
> to set up boundaries for the HOT tasking manager perhaps. If nothing else
> this could be inspiration for new features of the HOT tasking manager.
>
> Harry
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Om G <om.imap at gmail.com>
> *To:* hot at openstreetmap.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 14:55
> *Subject:* [HOT] Tasking Manager Interchange
>
> In the interest of expanding everyone's horizons... :)
>
> I'm wondering if the tasking manager is able to provide some kind of feed.
> The SBTF is getting ready to use PyBossa (
> http://blog.okfn.org/category/okf-projects/pybossa/) as a microtasking
> manager. I was thinking that we could provide a list of volunteer
> opportunities. The SBTF has a lot of downtime where we lose engagement with
> volunteers. This would expand their understanding and provide needed work.
>
> We could just point people to the OSM TaskMgr, but this raises a larger
> point. We might be able to generate much greater interest and capacity by
> unifying the experience a bit.
>
> Cross pollination of volunteers is a great thing, as their enthusiasm will
> spread outward.
>
> What's the landscape?
>
> OSM Tasking Manager
> PyBossa
> Frontline SMS
> Ushahidi
> Wikimapia
> Elva
> Crisis Tracker
> Sahana/Eden
>
> Others?
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