Glossary of Terms for Daemo
Glossary of Terms
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - an online labor market where requesters post jobs and workers choose which jobs to do for pay
Angular JS - a javascript framework
Boomerang - Daemo's reputation system
Balsamiq - a rapid prototyping tool
CHI - The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.
Code of Conduct -
Contributor (also known as participant or researcher) - people who help to build Daemo
Crowd-ownership
CSCW - The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing is the premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks.
Daemo - a self-governed crowdsourcing marketplace (our first version is live on daemo.stanford.edu )
Django - a Python web framework
DRI - directly responsible individual
DM - a 'direct message' sent to another contributor
GH - Google Hangout
Leadership board (LB) - a group of main contributors on behalf of platform community to uphold the best interests and ideals of the platform (Daemo) and its community
macrotask
MD - Google Material Design
Meteor - a platform for contributors to post and peer review proposals
microtask
Milestones -
Open-Gov (also knows as op-gov, Open Governance)
Organization/Foundation
Organisational models - for-profit, hybrid, non-profit
Participant
Ping - to message someone or mention their name in a post so they're notified of it.
Poster -
Python - an object-oriented, high-level programming language
Prototype task - an intermediate feedback mode where workers can test each task's design and provide comments to help improve it
Reach out - ask someone or message them directly
Reputation System
Requester
Researcher
ShareLaTeX - an online LaTeX editor
Spring cohort
Social enterprise
Summer cohort
Trello - a powerful task management tool. We post each week's milestone on trello board.
UIST - The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) is the premier forum for innovations in human-computer interfaces. Our UIST paper got accepted, read it for more details.
Weighted voting
Wiki
Winter cohort
Worker
Contributors: @juechi @arichmondfuller @