Ruby on Rails

Hi David,

I would certainly contribute a small bit of time lending my expertise for free if you made it open source, specifically around code quality. One of my specialties is coming into very degraded RoR codebases, implementing a cleanup plan, ratcheting in order to get things in order (writing tests for current expected state, making improvements, then adjusting tests to reflect), and instilling best practices.

While I could not guarantee much of my time (I need to reserve most of my time for paid obligations), I would certainly be happy to contribute some Pull Requests to bring the code quality level up (measurable by something like Code Climate, for example) and introduce some best practices.

I love the cause, so happy to give back.

You can find me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottkevin/

Best,

Kevin

Kevin Elliott

Entrepreneurial focused full stack engineering

On Nov 13, 2018, at 11:22 AM, David Hughes <davidpet...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all

I am a scientist at Penn State University and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. I work to help poor farmers in Africa and elsewhere grow more food by combatting pests and diseases.  There are two ways we do this: an Android app that runs TensorFlow object detection offline inside the food without a web connection (see here). The other way is through an Open Access library on content called PlantVillage with a QA forum. This platform is 6 years old and had around 8 million visitors with around 80-100k new month.  https://plantvillage.psu.edu/  The platform is RoR

All of this is a public good, aimed at helping poor farmers who typically earn a few dollars/day. I am spending a lot of money on developers (in India) and  I raise money with grant writing etc. I am having issues around quality and cannot afford the necessary QA. 

I was wondering if I open sourced the site would your community be interested in helping? We work directly with farmers and through the United Nations. It really can be a very impactful project 

My goal is an AI-driven platform that is the number 1 resource in the world for smallholder farmers around the world. All ad free and without haresting their data to sell 

I would love to hear your views on whether open sourcing would be a good idea and would people  join in?

Thanks 

David 

David Hughes
Dept Entomology & Biology, 
Penn State 
https://sites.psu.edu/hugheslab/
https://plantvillage.psu.edu/
dhu...@psu.edu

@zombieantguy, @plantvillage
814 863 6073 (Office)

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2018-2019, UN FAO Fellow, Rome and visiting professor at La Sapienza, Rome 

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