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Submission + - ISS earth night photos Crowdsourced For Science with Crowdcrafting.org (nasa.gov) 2

Submitted by teleyinex on Friday August 15, 2014 @07:27AM

teleyinex writes: The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) is leading a project called Cities at Night to catalog the images taken by astronauts from the ISS.

The project uses the platform Crowdcrafting powered by the open source software PyBossa to catalog images in cities, stars or other objects, as well as geo-reference them.

Submission + - ForestWatchers: A citizen project for forest monitoring (forestwatchers.net)

Submitted by teleyinex on Friday September 28, 2012 @04:12AM

teleyinex writes: ForestWatchers.net is a citizen project with the goal of making possible to anyone (locals, volunteers, NGOs, governments, etc), anywhere in the world, to monitor selected patches of forest across the globe, almost in real-time, using a computer connected to the Internet.

The project has recencently released a first alpha web application (built using the open source crowdsourcing PyBossa framework) where volunteers can participate classifying satellite images of one area of the Amazon basin.

The project is looking for feedback and help about this first application.

Submission + - OKCon11 is ready with free workshops! (okcon.org)

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teleyinex

on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @08:41AM

teleyinex writes: "The annual conference of the Open Knowledge Foundation will be held in Berlin. There will be different lectures about open data, open science, open access, etc. and different free workshops where hackers, volunteers, designers, etc. can participate learning new tools, or helping scientists to develope new prototypes for their research projects. The program is available here."

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