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Hi David,

It's an excellent idea.

I would really glad to help you in terms of testing the application.

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Thanks,

Mohan G

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:55 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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