anikalindtner
commented
9 years ago hi @volontarian, thanks for submitting the projects. In reviewing it, there were some questions, we had:
- generally what does it do and what are you aiming for? it all seems a bit confusing to us, even the documentation. It seems to be a gigantic app that is similar to our teams.app (https://teams.railsgirlssummerofcode.org/), no?
- in 2013 a RGSoC student worked on this and developed a plugin called disaster assistance for. however we can't find the plugin now. has it ever been merged to voluntari.at?
- what would the students have to do to have their work merged into the project?
- how many people are contributing to the project?
volontarian
Name and Contact of the Project Mentor
Mathias Gawlista (gawlista@gmail.com)
Name of the Project
Voluntary
URL
Source Code of Core: http://Voluntary.Software Example Provider: http://Volontari.at (online again)
About the System
The core is the Ruby gem and Rails engine voluntary which is a crowdsourcing management system with the goal of user-generated content powering http://Volontari.at (German/French for voluntary service or journalism training).
Current "voluntary" plugins alias products are: recruiting (featured in core product but will be outsourced to new gem volontariat), text / task creation, translation, scholarship (multitenant variant of http://Teams.RailsGirlsSummerOfCode.org), classified advertisement and music metadata enrichment.
Suitable for beginners?
Yes, I already participated with this system in Rails Girls Summer of Code 2013 and we released a minimum viable product (MVP) of a new plugin for the system: classified advertisement.
What are issues/features students may work on?
There are many drafts of new plugins as well as new features for already released plugins and core to work on. But for this Summer of Code I would recommend to only work on new plugins implemented as a Rails engine which are as follows ...
Brainstorming
First "clone" tools like http://Tricider.com. That means managing lists of ideas with pros and cons which are voteable. Maybe there is also time for a comparison feature like http://Versus.io. This plugin is a dependency of the next product.
Evaluate.Voluntary.Software
First implement an open source variant of http://Ruby-Toolbox.com which is not only for Ruby Tools. Not part of the project for this Summer of Code and started when the MVP of dependent brainstorming plugin has been released: brainstorming of different software for a purpose and option to request software.
Georeferencing
It's about requesting users to add marker(s) about a given topic to a Google map.
Data Recognition
The customer can define a question about an object like an image and someone of the crowd can complete this task by answering the question.
Survey
The customer can setup questions with different answering types like Google Form Surveys and define the target audience. And the survey will be shown to the matched crowd and they can answer the questions.
Tagging
The customer can define data like text or images which should be tagged by the crowd.
Feedback
Customers can create a project e.g. for a product and users can add feedback like questions, problems, praise and ideas which all are commentable and voteable. Customers can also post announcements here. A role model is GetSatisfaction, see it in action here: https://forum.hootsuite.com/hootsuite
Involuntary
Add new agency model which has many projects and users. Tasks through those projects should be hidden from voluntary tasks queue even before assignment (involuntary flag). Assignment of tasks to users (through agencies). Maybe the students can start an optional accounting system (bounty).