Greenboxes (Beta) is a web-based platform for the free distribution of open-source ecological computer code (any language) and other analytical tools. Greenboxes provides users an easy to use platform for sharing their code and for searching for code. Each node is associated with a local institution and provides a user-friendly code management system, and a centralized portal for sharing and collaborating on projects. Users control the privacy levels of their code: public, among partner nodes, within local node only, or only with project members. Through the establishment of multiple nodes, the cross-linking capabilities of Greenboxes facilitates a community-wide ecological code-sharing network. Greenboxes is built on Sculpin -- a flexible open source file-sharing framework also from Iugo-Cafe.
Current Greenbox nodes
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FishBox is used by scientists at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center for code-sharing. Strong in stochastic processes, population viability, and time-series analysis. LAMBDA (MAR-1 package) is housed here. |
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EcologyBox is open to the public for code-sharing. The focus is on ecologically-oriented code. MIXSIR (isotope analysis) is housed here. |
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REEFBox is open to the public for code-sharing. This site is for sharing code to analyze data from acoustical tags. |
Developers
Iugo-cafe is a project of Ben Weintraub (the computer programmer), Eli Holmes (the geeky conservation biologist), and Brice Semmens (the less geeky conservation biologist and Greenbox manager). Go to Developers for contact info.