Crowdcrafting is an instance of PyBossa:
From the about page:
PyBossa is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. PyBossa is there to help researchers, civic hackers and developers to create projects where anyone around the world with some time, interest and an internet connection can contribute.
PyBossa is different to existing efforts:
- It’s a 100% open-source
- Unlike, say, “mechanical turk” style projects, PyBossa is not designed to handle payment or money — it is designed to support volunteer-driven projects.
- It’s designed as a platform and framework for developing deploying crowd-sourcing and microtasking apps rather than being a crowd-sourcing application itself. Individual crowd-sourcing apps are written as simple snippets of Javascript and HTML which are then deployed on a PyBossa instance \(such as_ CrowdCrafting.org). This way one can easily develop custom apps while using the PyBossa platform to store your data, manage users, and handle workflow.
You can read more about the architecture in the PyBossa Documentation and follow the step-by-step tutorial to create your own apps.
Are interfaces for volunteer projects better than for-hire projects?
Do they need to be?
How would you overcome the gap between “…this is how I see the interface (the developers)…” versus the interface that users prefer?
Hint: 20th century advertising discovered that secret decades ago. See: Predicting What People Want and especially the reference to Selling Blue Elephants.