researchColony: Crowdsourcing Time & Funds for Research

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+## Project Description
+What inspired me to come up with this idea was hearing stories about rare diseases that only a handful of people have in the world without there being any research or doctors knowing anything about the condition. This project aims to bring together the symptoms of unseen diseases with scientists, researchers, doctors, and the general public to find out more and reward them for their work in discovering more about the condition.
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+Not only could this be applicable to rare diseases, this could provide insight on general diseases such as the flu to neighboring countries that don't have direct access to medical professionals.
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+We plan on expanding this project beyond the Medical field and into other research intensive domains, such as cryptocurrency research or even education where individuals may be able to improve the standard ways in which we learn!
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+## Applications
+### Medical
+* Someone with a __rare unknown condition__ may post their story and allow contributions of both funds and knowledge to help them.
+* A __group or organization__ may come together to share a larger story about planned parenthood for example, where research can be funded and crowdsourced to learn more about the issues.
+* Petition monetary support for possible organ donors or artificial limbs.
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+### Additional
+* Present problems among the different domains which require lots of collaboration and research. These will most likely be open source and community projects.
+* Allow individuals with different skill sets to provide insight for a story. Encouraging collaboration and diversity among the research projects. (The source of innovation)
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+## Current Features
+* Create new stories and view them all on the stories page
+* Request to be a researcher for a story (using an account other than the story authors)
+* Story author can then assign researcher and evaluator roles to a story
+* Researchers may then view the condition details and submit their work
+* Once the research is submitted, the evaluator can rate their work
+* At that time, the researcher will also be able to rate the quality of the story
+* After all ratings are in, each party will be requested to reveal their ratings
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+## Demo Video
+[researchColony: Crowdsourcing Time & Funds for Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lwfNCFhhA)
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+## Issue
+This closes the issue colonyHackathon#82
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+## Repository
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+The project code lives at https://github.com/ConnorChristie/diagnosis-colony
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+## Final Commit
+The final commit of our project for submission is:
+https://github.com/ConnorChristie/diagnosis-colony/commit/83a36dce684355e285a7d19e51ffbed0e94bcd65
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+## Team
+The project was built with contributions from:
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+- Connor (@ConnorChristie on GitHub, christieck@msoe.edu)