Could we apply the methodologies of software development and the collaborative spirit of open source to innovation development and research projects themselves?
Nodecosmos is our attempt to answer that.
It has three main features:
1. Nodes: they can represent a component of a system, an ingredient in a recipe, or any other type of constituent. Nodes can contain other nodes, collectively forming a tree that represents the entire system.
2. Workflows: they detail every interaction between nodes in a step-by-step format. As each node has its own workflow, it allows for a comprehensive design of both the big picture and specific details. By laying out the interactions between nodes visually, workflows allow users to understand not just what components make up a system, but precisely how these components interact to produce the desired outcomes. This is critical in innovation, where understanding and tweaking these interactions can lead to breakthroughs in system design and functionality.
3. Contribution Request: central to managing collaboration on projects. It represents proposal to merge a set of changes to the project. Contribution Requests clearly displays the differences between the proposed changes and the existing state of the project, ensuring that all modifications are considered and assessed carefully before integration. It facilitates collaborative decision-making by enabling team members to review, discuss, and approve changes systematically. In CR users can suggest new nodes to the system, delete existing ones, tweak workflows by adding new steps, modify existing ones. Each element in CR has comment board that can be used for discussing specifics about it.
Note that it's free for public projects, so feel free to test it out.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 12.9 ms ] threadNodecosmos is our attempt to answer that.
It has three main features:
1. Nodes: they can represent a component of a system, an ingredient in a recipe, or any other type of constituent. Nodes can contain other nodes, collectively forming a tree that represents the entire system.
2. Workflows: they detail every interaction between nodes in a step-by-step format. As each node has its own workflow, it allows for a comprehensive design of both the big picture and specific details. By laying out the interactions between nodes visually, workflows allow users to understand not just what components make up a system, but precisely how these components interact to produce the desired outcomes. This is critical in innovation, where understanding and tweaking these interactions can lead to breakthroughs in system design and functionality.
3. Contribution Request: central to managing collaboration on projects. It represents proposal to merge a set of changes to the project. Contribution Requests clearly displays the differences between the proposed changes and the existing state of the project, ensuring that all modifications are considered and assessed carefully before integration. It facilitates collaborative decision-making by enabling team members to review, discuss, and approve changes systematically. In CR users can suggest new nodes to the system, delete existing ones, tweak workflows by adding new steps, modify existing ones. Each element in CR has comment board that can be used for discussing specifics about it.
Note that it's free for public projects, so feel free to test it out.