Create a website to store/share experiments about psychopy HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi Jon,

intriguing idea. After some thought, it might be possible to modify a StackOverflow-Like QA-System (like Coordino or OSCA (which is python/django based :)) to that need - some superficial changes (relabel Question to Code-Snippet, tag by stimulus, whole experiment, ...) will already go a long way (built-in user and community support, admin tools etc.). I'm not sure what your vision on integration on the PsychoPy-side is - while it is relatively easy to offer classes for Coder users, it would be nice to offer an more or less hassle-free solution to Builder users as well (how large is the userbase there?)

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That sort of thing is nice for handling voting of quality and tagging to make for easier searching.
But I'm not sure it quite ticks the boxes as a repository for uploading files. Maybe it could though.

Definitely another interesting variant to think about.

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Well, from my point of view uploading as such is not really the problem - anybody can upload anything somewhere. For such a component exchange to be useful and adopted by a majority of PsychoPy users the incentive to share and the searchability of shared material are the key issues.

In other words: how often do you end up at StackOverflow when googling for solutions for coding problems? Very, very often (at least me...) So apparently the persistent, accessible Q/A style of StackOverflow seems to be the best known way to present solutions to problems other people have already solved.

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I'm thinking more about the less sophisticated user and, particularly about Builder users. The idea here was more to be able to upload my entire experiment (e.g. from a published study) to some permanent repository. Or a custom builder component (nobody really knows this yet, but you can already create plug-in components in the builder, that might be distributed rather neatly this way).

That's why I was thinking more like a repository, with a zip file, with a description of the contents and an optional screenshot.

But your idea sounds great too for code snippets. Maybe for that we could even just add a new tag to StackOverflow?

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I think this should happen.

What about something more like gist? In fact, why not build it on top of gist, using github's public API's for authentication, file management,versioning,discussion etc? just adding some more context specific community features like indexing, rating, project pages or what have you.

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On 06/12/2012 16:13, nat wrote:

I think this should happen.

What about something more like gist? In fact, why not build it on top
of gist, using github's public API's for authentication, file
management,versioning,discussion etc? just adding some more context
specific community features like indexing, rating, project pages or
what have you.

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I'm quite fond of the new OpenScienceFramework.org
I think we should just piggy-back on that project and use tags to
identify psychopy experiments that can be searched for? They've also
said that the API will be open at some point so that we can add hooks to
psychopy to push/pull straight from that repository.

I'm definitely not going to put any of my own dev time into building
something new here.

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I'm going to mark this as closed, since OpenScienceFramework achieves so much. It isn't really easy for 'browsing' but supports tags at least and the uploading/storing of files etc is really slick.

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