Beagle is looking for Frontend Engineers + Designers

[jbenet]

How about:

Beagle

Beagle: a tool for sharing scientific insights

What

Beagle, named after Charles Darwin’s ship, is a social sharing tool, designed with the unique needs of scientists in mind. Beagle helps capture insights quickly at the exact times they are generated and routes them to the people who need them most.

The goal of the project is to transform how scientific insights are generated, shared and re-combined, accelerating the scientific enterprise.

Who

Beagle is a project run by Ed Boyden (@edboyden3), Konrad Koerding (@koerding), Adam Marblestone (@adammarblestone), and Juan Benet (@jbenet)

Seeking

• highly motivated hackers to drive an open-source project
• should have interest in working closely with scientists to find the optimal user experience

Frontend Engineer (full time or part time):

• strong background in web development (js/html/css).
• experience building and deploying web applications. experience with Bootstrap or similar UI frameworks.
• some experience with node.js and npm preferred.
• please provide a github profile, and any links to webapps developed.

UX / UI designer (full time or part time)

• strong background in web products user experience design
• ability to create UIs using frameworks like Bootstrap or Polymer
• ability to iterate quickly on designs with user feedback.
• ideally has worked on social sharing applications and understands UX constraints in sharing interfaces (privacy, intuitiveness, etc).
• please provide design portfolio website, or live apps.

  Contact Us

Contact us by responding below (feel free to ask questions) or emailing us at beagle@media.mit.edu

[jbenet]

@maxogden @arfon @kaythaney @ropensci @karthik could you help us spread the word? Thanks! :) (feel free to tag more people here that are relevant)

[jbenet]

Also worth mentioning: our work will also help hypothes.is, as will be building closely with them and lots of modules we build may be usable in both projects. (cc @tilgovi @dwhly).

[jbenet]

cc (for spreading the word) @sballesteros @davidad @virgilgr @feross @tenedor @bmpvieira @substack @mikolalysenko @jackparmer

[zeke]

This reminds me of hoodwink.d, a now-defunct underground commenting system that allowed users to attach secret comments to DOM elements on any page on the web. It's been offline for years, after the mysterious e-disappearance of its creator, _why. Here's a great writeup on what hoodwink'd was: http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2006/01/hoodwinkd.html

I'm also reminded of Bookburro, another defunct thing. It was a Firefox extension that recognized when you were visiting a bookseller site and presented cheaper prices from competitor sites, as well as local library data.

A few years back, I created something called Sniphr. It's a Rails web application and Chrome browser extension for saving snippets of text from web pages. The source for that is here:

• http://sniphr.com/
• https://github.com/zeke/sniphr
• https://github.com/zeke/sniphr-chrome

This looks like a fun project, and I'm interested in learning more about it. Thanks to @maxogden for pointing it out.

[adammarblestone-zz]

Thanks @zeke -- those all look very relevant, particularly the last two. Beagle will likely try to combine many of these methods and focus UX/UI very specifically on the needs of practicing scientists as they search and read papers. We'll keep you updated -- public repo and a more complete website coming soon, as we begin to make a push to build this.

[sballesteros]

@mitar and the peer library guys might be interested. cc @mitar @tiffbogich

[jbenet]

Oh wow, this is really cool and totally in line with our thoughts. @mitar, let's talk! Thanks @sballesteros!!

[mitar]

I am currently busy at a hackathon. Will get back to you. But yes, we should collaborate!

[mitar]

Check out our source code: https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary

[adammarblestone-zz]

Wow @mitar, looks like we've converged on a few design aspects already -- looking forward to talking as soon as you're available.

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[jbenet]

@zeke @mitar let's setup a time to chat. I'll email you individually to +hangout.

[dwhly]

@edsu you might be interested in this.

[edsu]

@dwhly that does look interesting. thnx!

[jbenet]

Hey @edsu -- what's the best email to reach you at? The one listed on your github profile?