Google Summer of Code

2018 Program
Public Lab

Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution

Technologies

javascript, ruby on rails, node.js

Topics

science, environment, collaboration, community, hardware

http://publiclab.org

Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution

Measuring pollution at low cost

Public Lab is focused on democratizing the tools and techniques of environmental science so that communities who face pollution and other environmental problems can actually use them.

We believe that low cost, open source, easy to use hardware and software can enable anyone to collect data with which to hold polluters accountable.

Sensor data and open hardware development

Public Lab software projects focus on two areas: community collaboration and open hardware development (PublicLab.org), and data processing for our sensors and tools (MapKnitter.org and SpectralWorkbench.org, among others).

Our collaboration and development platform PublicLab.org enables thousands of people to publish updates and share designs for emerging environmental open hardware projects. Our browser-based data analysis tools make use of HTML5 features such as CSS 3d transforms for image distortion and the WebRTC webcam API for capturing spectral data, to make advanced features available to users in a powerful cross-platform, user-friendly, database-backed approach to open science tools.

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2018 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor

Margaret Norton

Mentor

amirber, icarito, jywarren

Organization

Public Lab

Computer Vision enhancements for Raspberry Pi based Public Lab Science Projects

The project would provide a series of modular python programs that could be used to support different Public Lab imaging and spectrum measurement...

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Contributor

Sagarpreet Chadha

Mentor

Stevie Lewis, jywarren, Bronwen Densmore

Organization

Public Lab

Social Media Integration and Leaflet Environmental-Layers Library .

People are increasingly engaging with Public Lab community and questions via Twitter . This project helps in : Generating more content to PublicLab...

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Contributor

tech4gt

Mentor

Ujjwal Sharma, gretchengehrke, Mayank Kashyap, jywarren

Organization

Public Lab

Image Sequencer v2

Image Sequencer is a sequential image processing library completely written in javascript which currently supports Node.js and the browser. It has...

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Contributor

Naman Gupta

Mentor

Mayank Kashyap, jywarren, Stevie Lewis

Organization

Public Lab

Email integration Project

The current implementation of Email System in PLOTS2 doesn't implement Active Jobs i.e queue feature because it is currently using rails 4.1. And...

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Contributor

Sidharth Bansal

Mentor

Mayank Kashyap, Ujjwal Sharma, jywarren, Emmanuel Hayford

Organization

Public Lab

OAuth & Upgrade to Bootstrap 4

Authorising users through Google, Facebook, Github and Twitter through Omniauth gem and upgrading the current bootstrap version 3 to version 4.

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Contributor

Gaurav Sachdeva

Mentor

jywarren, Stevie Lewis

Organization

Public Lab

Draft Feature and Email Integration project

Draft Feature: This feature would allow users to save their research note as a draft so that user can complete it anytime. It would also allow a user...

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Contributor

Vidit Chitkara

Mentor

Amanda Snow, jywarren, Stevie Lewis

Organization

Public Lab

Email Notification Overhaul

The aim of this proposal is to enhance user experience. The features which are integrated in this proposal are:- 1) Reply to comments by email - A...

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