I’ve met with Nathan Mathias, who is developing Media Meter http://mediameter.org/ (development version http://mmdev.media.mit.edu/, please do not share the link yet), a tool built on Ruby on Rails to crowdsource the analysis of news, and able to test the intercoder reliability. They are offering their code (the github link will come soon). We still have to figure out if we go for it, and if we do how the collaboration will be: fork it or stay in the same platform. Nathan, the main developer, is offering online support and to be on the conference calls once a week. He is willing to expand the use of the tool for more uses.
I think it is a great idea to not start from scratch and to have Nathan’s help. At the same time I am worried about starting our project with many things that we do not need. Any thoughts on this?
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