Scicast is a project mainly written in JAVASCRIPT and RUBY, it's free.
artisan
This is a Ruby on Rails + Hobo web application for managing the SciCast competition. The app features:
A contributor site, where competition entrants can sign up and complete the submission of one or more entries, including upload of movie files.
An administration and editorial site, where competition administrators can manage most aspects of the editorial workflow, including tracking various tasks that have to be performed on each entry (for example, checking for use of copyright material). There is also a powerful and flexible tag based organiser, which can be used for a range of purposes, including assigning entries to various competition categories. A commenting system allows administrators to discuss the entry with the contributor.
A judging site, where competition judges can log in, access the films in their category and leave comments on them.
The app was built by Artisan Technology and StoryCog, funded by NESTA.
NESTA have generously asked that the software be contributed to the open-source community. The software is valuable on two counts:
As the starting point for a competition management system that can support a wide variety of online competitions. The details of the operations of the SciCast competition are not hard-wired, and the software can be customised relatively easy to be used in many other ways. In particular the software features a very free-form and flexible editorial system.
As a complete example of a web app built using the Hobo extensions to Ruby on Rails, and as such a valuable resource to learners of Hobo.
The software is made available under the MIT license:
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