Top 8 citizen-science Open-Source Projects

boinc

213 1,916 9.6 PHP

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

Project mention: Bitcoin Block 840000 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19

The only way I can foresee a cryptocoin actually holding value is if spending the coin meant spending processing cycles and RAM doing things like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...
But in more general sense, less like https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and more like AWS...
It's the only way to have value, actually holding computing power in a distributed network.

Open-Gamma-Detector

2 227 8.6 C++

☢️👁️ Hardware for a hackable DIY gamma-ray spectrometer using a popular NaI(Tl) scintillator, SiPM and a Raspberry Pi Pico.

Project mention: Open-Gamma-Detector: a hackable DIY gamma-ray spectrometer | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-13

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
pyinaturalist

1 123 8.6 Python

Python client for iNaturalist
Klimerko

14 108 0.0 C++

☁ DIY Air Quality Monitoring Device
PlanktoScope

1 52 8.9 Shell

Open and Affordable Quantitative Imaging Platform

Project mention: PlanktoScope: Open and Affordable Quantitative Imaging Platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-07

osdg-data

3 25 3.2

The OSDG Community Dataset (OSDG-CD) is a public dataset of thousands of text excerpts, validated by OSDG Community Platform (OSDG-CP) citizen scientists with respect to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The dataset is updated every quarter and published on Zenodo.
guide

2 3 2.7 HTML

The citizen science guide is designed to be a practical and compact gateway publication for the purpose of assisting research libraries to start setting up a citizen science programme. #cs4rl (by cs4rl)
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
OPNL

1 1 0.0

The Open Innovation Open Source License proposal

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).