Portal:Quest Board

A quick way into The Portal Group Discord server is contribution. Here are things we need help with.

Quests
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Helpful Tasks

 * content=This is the spot for those who don't have expertise in STEM, or are busy with life, but still want to help us. Whether you have only 5 minutes or unlimited time and energy, you can help us and the community.

Explore and Catalog

 * Eric has a lot in his mind. Help us find and collect riffs, references, concepts, and neologisms that Eric creates, or that come up in relation to The Portal.

Transcript Editing

 * Some Portal episodes and many Eric Appearances are still in need of a transcript, or have transcripts that need further editing.
 * Have a look at our Portal Media spreadsheet to find the current status of any transcript.
 * Let Brooke or Aardvark know which you'd like to work on. They will provide you with the necessary materials.
 * Follow our Transcript Style Guide.

Wiki Editing
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 * Write a strong, one-sentence description of ideas on their wiki pages
 * Rewrite disorganized pages on the wiki
 * Build out pages that are stubs (underdeveloped).
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Praxis

 * content=Help to retell the story of our sciences to new generations of students
 * Read
 * Make a visualization from calculations in what you've read

Mathematics

 * Request visualizations of principles or constructions
 * Outline sequences of thought to reach a particular idea

Physics

 * Write pages on hard physical problems independent of mathematics

Engineering
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 * Onboarding to CAD for mechanical engineering
 * Contribute to realizable engineering challenge ideas to improve our world
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Programming

 * content= Build a useful piece of software.

Data Visualization (d3-js, chart-js, p5-js)

 * Make visualizations with the users.theportal.wiki data

Discord Bots (JavaScript)

 * Discord Pin Archive + Management Bot
 * Bot that cross posts from Eric's Instagram to the server
 * Bot that relays messages across servers

Instragram Bots

 * Bot that cross posts from Eric's Instagram to the server

Three-js

 * Make our Portal Map work similar to the "Follow Dragon" section on SpaceX's website.

Twitter Bots
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 * Twitter Archival Bot
 * Twitter Bot that responds to tweets from Eric containing keywords with wiki articles.
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Be Creative

 * content=Show us what you got!

Music

 * Learn a silly or fun drinking song, and record yourself playing or singing it, preferably with friends from The Portal
 * Make a song that incorporates the podcast's music

Visual Art

 * Are you an artist inspired by The Portal? Show us what you've made!
 * Help us make visualizations and animations to go along with Eric's riffs and mathematical concepts of interest
 * See what others have created on our Featured Artists page

Writing
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 * Write an essay, blog post, or twitter thread on a topic covered on The Portal.