Quest Board
A quick way into The Portal Group Discord server is contribution. Here are things we need help with.
Quests[edit]
Helpful Tasks
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
- 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).
Praxis
Help to retell the story of our sciences to new generations of students
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
- Onboarding to CAD for mechanical engineering (elasticity and fluid sims)
- Affordable projects/kit concepts to understand physics principles in engineering
- Contribute to realizable engineering challenge ideas to improve our world
Computing Science
- Foundations of computing for physics, Numerical Analysis
- Geometric Complexity Theory
Programming
Build a useful piece of software.
Data Visualization (d3-js, chart-js, p5-js)
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
- Twitter Archival Bot
- Twitter Bot that responds to tweets from Eric containing keywords with wiki articles.
Be Creative
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
- Write an essay, blog post, or twitter thread on a topic covered on The Portal.