modilabs/formhub — Issue #120: Crowdforms
Author: mberg
Created: 2012-01-24 12:06:16+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature

Guys,

So been thinking and talking to Prabhas a lot about the idea of using formhub for crowd sourcing. Here is what we came up with.

I think the idea is pretty exciting in that unlike a service like Ushahidi, it allows for a very easy way to do structured crowdsourcing (ie with a structured form) and publish the data immediately to a data feed (xls/csv) with a simple map. You don't have to figure out how to setup a full instance of ushahidi and figure out how to get the data out.

I shared with you the specs in a google doc as that's probably a better place to have an initial brainstorm before we turn it into stories and move it to github issues.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bu31Qeh78Nv0W95qHZg4qy2z27mijsZnxTeMlJkJ64/edit?hl=en_US

Let me know what you think. I think this could help bring some more mass market appeal to formhub. I also got crowdform.org if we want to use that.

Let's create a new noun!

Matt