Hi there,
At the WorldBrain.io project, we are a distributed team of 9 people and our goal is to battle scientific misinformation by building the tools for users to easily find quality scientific content online.
We are looking for both a developer team lead and contributors and work with technologies like ReactJS, ElasticSearch, Gensim, Django and Python.
What is the Problem?
The most efficient way to find quality (scientific) content is currently to use a search-engine and only read results of personally trusted sources, or to use the internal search functions on each of your those websites separately. Unfortunately this has to be done for every new search request.
What do we build?
Our first step is an open-source search engine that lets users limit the sources to what the science community flags as trustworthy. (news websites, blogs, scholarly/governmental databases)
They can also create completely custom groups of sources they want to search through.
The ultimate purpose of this tool is to build a large community of scientifically-minded individuals, and become an integral part of their daily web research.
With the browsing data users can voluntarily share with the community, we want to develop a credible and independent score for scientific quality of news and blog articles, as well as uncover relations between them.
Via a free browser plugin, every web user will then be able to view this score and get recommendations for relevant content to articles they read on the web.
Around this idea, we want to build a community of developers that works and learns from each other in a fun and professional environment.
If you care about community as well as honest and scientifically-valid information online we’d love to talk to you!
Just write us an email at: info@worldbrain.io
Best,
Oliver
More info:
Github: WorldBrain
Website: http://www.worldbrain.io/