David, > On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 at 06:30, David Hughes <davidpeterhug...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am a scientist at Penn State and the United Nations. We have a Platform >> called PlantVillage that is a public good with a backend built on RoR with >> various apps farmers use around the world to get help. The reason these >> farmers (e.g. in Kenya) would use the tool is that they dont have access to >> human experts who can help them know the problems in their field >> (pests/climate change stress). You can read our blogs here >> https://plantvillage.psu.edu/blogposts >> I wrote back in 2018 to this group to ask about getting your help. Many >> of you were very keen on helping. THANKS!! >> I didnt follow up as I am not a coder. I pay a team in India to do this. >> So, it was just easier to keep with them. I didnt even know where to start >> in sharing the code on GitHub. >> Now in recent weeks Ruby experts at Penn State (who built ScholarSphere >> https://github.com/psu-stewardship/scholarsphere) have looked at our >> code and it is very bad! Rubocop showing errors off the charts and no >> tests/commit. >> > I'll take a look at it if you don't mind.
> It needs your help and we are actively trying to make sure we dont have >> any privacy issues so we can open source it. >> I am reaching out now as we have an extremely urgent situation though. >> You may have seen the news about Locust swarms in East Africa? They are the >> worse in 75 years >> According to the UN, 19 million people are in immediate danger. They are >> at Level 3 (crisis). Since we can expect hotter, drier weather in some >> affected regions in the coming months (low crop outcome) the addition of >> locusts in potentially a famine. >> Here is an article today https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51501832 The >> video is informative >> They are mostly in Kenya where control is possible. But we need lots of >> people out there with phone use our app and reporting sitings. Currently, >> they use WhatsApp but since that is private we cannot get the GPS >> coordinates of the locations. >> The Indian team I employ built an app. But I am sure it has problems and >> if we have thousands of users it could fail. >> Here is the apk file of the app >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nAvTolDEz48mPLtIPO6abumW6KQAM-00/view?usp=sharing >> It is super simple: It must do two things >> 1) Allow users to upload images/videos from which United Nations Staff >> can determine the location and stage of locust swarms >> 2) Enable app users to have a free-ranging chat function. There should be >> two chat channels: general (any users of apps) and admin (just select). >> One of the problems we have is the code base for the locust app is tied >> to the rest of out platform and apps. So, there are security issues if user >> names and passwords etc. >> Your coding skills could save lives here: that is not an exaggeration! If >> you can help that would be wonderful. I am very new at this so dont know >> your culture but am willing to learn. We have thousands of agriculture >> experts and farmers working with us. We could have thousands of coders like >> you. So, if you can be patient and help me build this we can create a >> community using the skills you all have helping the poorest people on our >> planet cope with stresses like locusts and climate change. >> Fair warning! If you jump in the code won't be pretty and documented. I >> can incentivize you with some swag :) >> > What sort of swag? > I am trying to hire Ruby people at Penn State so will have an advert soon. >> > How much budget do you have available? -- H -- OpenPGP: https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1 If you wish to request my time, please do so using *bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest <http://bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest>*. Si vous voudrais faire connnaisance, allez a *bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest <http://bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest>*. <https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1>Sent from my mobile device Envoye de mon portable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAP%2BbYWAbeaiin%2Btv8GaXjJCk7em4wN2DW157aEPi%3D7T2L6Awyg%40mail.gmail.com.
