Gerard O ’ Leary Supervisor: Dr. John Breslin

Gerard O’Leary

Supervisor:Dr. John Breslin

Crowdsourcing of open-source electronic product ideas

EI is a community-based crowdsourcing websitetailored 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

What is ?

O Project collaboration

O Showcasing projects

O Outsourcing electronic design

PurposeBroken down

into development

tasks

User posts new idea

Community collaborate on contributions

Task F

Task E

Task D

Task C

Task B

Task A

Finalised project page

Pass

O Project/Idea creation along with user-defined requirements.

Average O User contributions phase of process.

Good

O Review process for community.

Very Good

O Creation of community leaderboard.

Excellent O Creation of product page for successful ideas.

Milestones

O Joomla!

O Radian

O Drupal

Main work to date

Prototype

O The RadianMx Content Management System

O Main office - NUI Galway Innovation centreO PHP BasedO Released November 2012

O Issue: • Undocumented• Very little developer support

O Content management frameworkO Core supports basic features

• User account registration• System administration.

O Extended by “Modules” – using “hook” system.

O “Nodes” hold structured information • title, content, author, date etc.

O Menu system and views, create information architecture.

O Theme system controls how all this looks to site visitors.

Homepage

“Idea creation along with user-defined requirements”

New Project created

“User contributions phase of process”

“Review process for community”

Very Good

O Creation of community leaderboard.

Excellent O Creation of product page for successful

ideas.

O Site PromotionO User feedbackO Look and FeelO Social media integration

Tasks to complete

O Keith Killilea CEO, Radian Enterprise Systems

O Alan Burke Project Manager & Developer, Annertech

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