1. Gerard O’Leary Supervisor: Dr. John Breslin Crowdsourcing of open-source electronic product ideas

2. EI is a community-based crowdsourcing website tailored to the development of electronic based projects Provides an online home for ideas and projects where they can be broken into tasks to encourage community collaboration What is ?

3. O Project collaboration O Showcasing projects O Outsourcing electronic design Purpose

4. Pass O Project/Idea creation along with user-defined requirements. Average O User contributions phase of process. Good O Review process for community. Very Good O Creation of community leaderboard. Excellent O Creation of product page for successful ideas. Milestones

5. O Joomla! O Radian O Drupal Main work to date

6. Prototype

9. O The RadianMx Content Management System O Main office - NUI Galway Innovation centre O PHP Based O Released November 2012 O Issue: Undocumented Very little developer support

10. O Content management framework O Core supports basic features User account registration System administration. O Extended by “Modules” – using “hook” system. O “Nodes” hold structured information title, content, author, date etc. O Menu system and views, create information architecture. O Theme system controls how all this looks to site visitors.

12. Homepage

13. “Idea creation along with user-defined requirements”

14. New Project created

15. “User contributions phase of process”

16. “Review process for community”

17. Very Good O Creation of community leaderboard. Excellent O Creation of product page for successful ideas. O Site Promotion O User feedback O Look and Feel O Social media integration Tasks to complete

18. O Keith Killilea CEO, Radian Enterprise Systems O Alan Burke Project Manager & Developer, Annertech Industry Contact