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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====
====Explore and Catalog====
* Eric has a lot in his mind. Help us find and collect [[Riffs_to_Animate|riffs]], references, [[Portal Concepts|concepts]], and [[Ericisms|neologisms that Eric creates]], or that come up in relation to The Portal.
* Eric has a lot in his mind. Help us find and collect [[Riffs_to_Animate|riffs]], references, [[Portal Concepts|concepts]], and [[Ericisms|neologisms that Eric creates]], or that come up in relation to The Portal.


===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 be useful to us and the community.
====Transcript Editing====
====Transcript Editing====
* Some [[All_Episodes|Portal episodes]] and many [[Content_by_Eric_Weinstein|Eric Appearances]] are still in need of a transcript, or have transcripts that need further editing.  
* Some [[All_Episodes|Portal episodes]] and many [[Content_by_Eric_Weinstein|Eric Appearances]] are still in need of a transcript, or have transcripts that need further editing.  
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====Engineering====
====Engineering====
* Onboarding to CAD for mechanical 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
* Contribute to realizable engineering challenge ideas to improve our world
====Computing Science====
* Foundations of computing for physics, [[Numerical Analysis]]
* Geometric Complexity Theory
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==== Three-js ====
==== Three-js ====
* Make our [https://theportal.group/physical-portals/ Portal Map] work similar to the [https://www.spacex.com/launches/index.html "Follow Dragon" section] on SpaceX's website.
* Make our [https://theportal.group/physical-portals/ Portal Map] work similar to the [https://www.spacex.com/follow-dragon/ "Follow Dragon" section] on SpaceX's website.


==== Twitter Bots ====
==== Twitter Bots ====
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* Make a song that incorporates the podcast's music
* Make a song that incorporates the podcast's music
==== Visual Art ====
==== Visual Art ====
* Are you an artist inspired by the Portal? Show us what you've made!
* Are you an artist inspired by The Portal? Show us what you've made!
* Help us make visualizations and animations to go along with [[Riffs_to_Animate|Eric's riffs]] and [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOOcZuT-uqD5_J0DwXHRT7vqs8WRg4qSX mathematical concepts] of interest
* Help us make visualizations and animations to go along with [[Riffs_to_Animate|Eric's riffs]] and [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOOcZuT-uqD5_J0DwXHRT7vqs8WRg4qSX mathematical concepts] of interest
* See what others have created on our [https://theportal.group/featured-artists/ Featured Artists] page
* See what others have created on our [https://theportal.group/featured-artists/ Featured Artists] page

Latest revision as of 18:51, 27 November 2023

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

Transcript Editing

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

Writing

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