eLife Challange

Suggested options

Chat client with scientific enhancements
World-map with university/department connectivity and information about paper output etc. This can be used for job searching of academics or for public outreach.

Chat client with scientific enhancements

Features and priorities

Basic chat client for text
Scripting capabilities
Publishing API hooks to:

to show information about people in the chat
to provide basic query functionality such as seaching publications by auther, finding paper by doi, etc. We can only do this if APIs are simple enough to use

Latex rendering
Links
Images + Gifs
Sharing data
Tables

Rough design

Software desgin

GUI design

Technologies

Syntax Highlighting for almost any language

CodeMirror

Latex rendering

MathJax
Do we need live rendering? See here
Do we combine render text and latex?

Jupyter

nbconvert -> TODO
enabling R -> TODO

Kafka

Is polling an issue?

Flask

Template ideas

APIs

eLife. In its current state not really usable.
general
Mendeley? Seems to be good if users are members of Mendeley, else not clear if using it is good.

Useful images

Look for beaker logo
Look for svg python
Look for svg r