bearid VS desktop

By the end of my previous post, I had reached a good baseline for the Bearcam Companion app. It was past time to start tracking the code in a version control system. Since we already have the BearID Project on GitHub, I decided to use the same for this project.

We initially focused on building a photo dataset of the bears at Brooks Falls. We collected photos from individuals and a large set from the National Parks Service's bear monitoring program at Katmai. From there we got involved with Dr. Melanie Clapham, a conservation scientist in British Columbia, studying the bears of Glendale Cove. We built a computer to run our ML training and developed an open source application, bearid, which we provided to Melanie as a Docker container she could run in the field on a laptop.

The BearID Project application bearid runs on a server. It takes photos or videos as inputs and outputs a sequence of boxes labeled with the bear's name. This can only happen after someone goes into the field (or, forest), collects a bunch of SD cards from trail cameras, and uploads them to the server. This happens a few times a year. If the trail camera was connected, it could send data to the cloud, but the connection would probably be expensive. If the camera could detect and identify the bear and send only the metadata to a server, we could update the researcher in real time. I have less experience in this area, so connecting it all together with AWS services will be a real learning experience for me.

Congrats on the launch! It's always exciting to see more competition in the version control space.

One question I have is whether you guys are better than:

https://desktop.github.com/

This seems to do the exact same thing, be free forever, and have a more mature GUI that is also easier to use than regular terminal git. In my firm, even with people who don't know how to code, they can use github desktop (since it babies you through the process of committing code.)

- Product designers for open-source hardware. Various design files, SVG etc.

I’ve experimented with a “GUI only” git flow - just to see what is possible, so I could introduce the concept to others.

I found GitHub desktop app (https://desktop.github.com/)did a great job of visually showing git flows and functions, but for a non-tech/programmming person, the tool would be daunting.

Curiosity what your suggested tech stack would be - sans Terminal…

just use github desktop its an open source tool https://desktop.github.com/

Download and install GitHub Desktop if you haven't already.

3️⃣ GitHub Desktop: A desktop application provided by GitHub that allows you to interact with Git repositories visually. It provides an easy way to clone repositories, commit changes, create branches, and push and pull changes. Website: https://desktop.github.com/

GitHub Desktop - much, much easier than installing and setting up Git yourself (free)

GitHub Desktop - Price: Free Git client for Mac that allows you to manage your GitHub repositories.