PyBossa demo project Mosquito

Crowdcrafting Mosquito Project

The project has five main files:

• project.json: a JSON file that describes the project.
• long_description.md: a Markdown file with a long description of the project.
• template.html: the task presenter code.
• tutorial.html: a tutorial file

Testing the project

You need to install the pybossa-pbs libraries. Use of a virtual environment is recommended:

    $ virtualenv env
    $ source env/bin/activate

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Creating an account in a PyBossa server

Now that you've all the requirements installed in your system, you need a PyBossa account:

• Create an account in your PyBossa server (use Crowdcrafting if you want).
• Copy your API-KEY (you can find it in your profile page).

Configure pybossa-pbs command line

PyBossa-pbs command line tool can be configured with a config file in order to avoid typing the API-KEY and the server every time you want to take an action on your project. For this reason, we recommend you to actually create the config file. For creating the file, follow the next steps:

    $ cd ~
    $ editorofyourchoice .pybossa.cfg

That will create a file. Now paste the following:

[default]
server: http://yourpybossaserver.com
apikey: yourapikey

Save the file, and you are done! From now on, pybossa-pbs will always use the default section to run your commands.

Create the project

Now that we've everything in place, creating the project is as simple as running this command:

    $ pbs create_project

Adding some tasks

Using a CSV file for adding tasks

This is very simple too, thanks to pbs:

    $ pbs add_tasks --tasks-file tasks.csv

You'll get a progress bar with the tasks being uploaded. Now your project has some tasks in the server to be processed by the volunteers.

Finally, add the task presenter, tutorial and long description

Now that we've some data to process, let's add to our project the required templates to show a better description of our project, to present the tasks to our users, and a small tutorial for the volunteers:

    $ pbs update_project

Done!