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Crowdsourcing of open-source electronic product ideas. Gerard O ’ Leary Supervisor: Dr. John Breslin. What is ?. EI is a community-based crowdsourcing website tailored to the development of electronic based projects
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Crowdsourcing of open-source electronic product ideas Gerard O’Leary Supervisor: Dr. John Breslin
What is ? EI is a community-based crowdsourcing website tailored to the development of electronic based projects Provides an online home for ideas and projects where they can be broken into tasks to encourage community collaboration
Purpose • Project collaboration • Showcasing projects • Outsourcing electronic design
Milestones Pass • Project/Idea creation along with user-defined requirements. Average • User contributions phase of process. Good • Review process for community. Very Good • Creation of community leaderboard. Excellent • Creation of product page for successful ideas.
Main work to date • Joomla! • Radian • Drupal
The RadianMx Content Management System • Main office - NUI Galway Innovation centre • PHP Based • Released November 2012 • Issue: • Undocumented • Very little developer support
Content management framework • Core supports basic features • User account registration • System administration. • Extended by “Modules”– using “hook” system. • “Nodes” hold structured information • title, content, author, dateetc. • Menu system and views, create information architecture. • Theme system controls how all this looks to site visitors.
Tasks to complete Very Good • Creation of community leaderboard. Excellent • Creation of product page for successful ideas. • Site Promotion • User feedback • Look and Feel • Social media integration
Industry Contact • Keith Killilea CEO, Radian Enterprise Systems • Alan Burke Project Manager & Developer, Annertech