The Goal

Create an open source WordPress self-hosted (not Wordpress.com) website to showcase a new product prototype we are building, a Climate Change Impact Planning tool.

The Climate Change Impact Planning Product

The software product will use satellite Earth Observations, big data, and machine learning to identify past climate change impacts and predict future impacts. It will focus on end users and stakeholders (such as municipal governments or insurance companies) who need to understand and plan around climate change impacts without requiring them to know the underlying science or technology.

The initial product focus is specifically on coastal erosion and sea-level rise. The expected high level product focus/features are:

1) Big data sets from satellites, including Earth Observation images

2) Data fusion with other terrestrial data sets such as photos, drone images, coastline measurements, flooding observations, etc.

3) Machine learning algorithms to examine the data and automatically identify past impacts (such as flooding or coastline erosion over time) and predict future ones

4) A set of technical components that allow end users to collect, view, modify, collaborate, and share the data products. Examples are a collaboration website, search engine, data warehouse, report engine, mobile application, etc.

5) Ultimately the idea is to make it easy to allow end user stakeholders to identify a range of climate change impacts in their geographic areas of interest, predict future ones, and improve their planning, policies, etc.

The Product Website

The site will provide public product information to prospective customers and partners, facilitate blog and social media campaigns that promote the product, list the product features and benefits information, allow webinar and newsletter signups, and link to online prototypes and betas. The product site may also allow restricted membership access to the latest code & releases and other semi-private information.

Your solution will include a deployment script to deploy the website along with any plugins and content.

Content and detailed requirements will be provided at the start of the project.

Your Contribution

Use your skills and creativity to design and build the product website using self-hosted (not Wordpress.com) WordPress and free (open-source) plugins. Create a cool theme for the new site.

Your work will be put to immediate use as we publicize our product development progress!