some friends who work for a professional teachers' association want to offer an online competition for children:
1) children register (or get pre-registered) then upload their work
2) particular people have access to evaluate the work, possibly organizers can restrict who can evaluate which submission
3) anybody can access original submissions and read evaluations
4) there are moderators who can fix things and stop anybody who is trying to abuse the system
5) finally the evaluations gets added, up and possibly some stats run on them, maybe to eliminate bad evaluators.

They already have their static website, but now adding this sounds a bit tricky. I figure that points 1-4 must be easiest to implement by using an existing free forum software, just tweaking for access granularity and adding an evaluation options: those registered as competitors can make main posts, those with rights to evaluate particular submission can post responses to the main post.

Possibly the forum soft might need to be adjusted to provide for evaluation especially as the evaluation is not one-dimensional, but consist of several parameters. For simplicity of course we can have it as a single grade system - then evaluators just looks at their marks and derive overall mark from the components.

Any opinion if the "modify a forum" sounds to be a good idea? What kind of free soft I could most easily build this upon? Or any other suggestions?

Thanks, Normunds

So you want a "rate my picture" script?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

So you want a "rate my picture" script?

hm depends. If you think that there is a "rate my picture" script that can be reasonably easy extended to add customised access rights - yes.

I intended to write something simple for rating to add to a standard forum soft, but "rate my picture" sounds that it contains most of elements already, so probably the only bother will be to to figure how to control access rights and customise looks a bit.

Any pointers to that kind "script" you know about?

Never used one (tend to write things I need ), but I would guess they will have multiple levels of access.

There is Gallery that probably has a "ratings plugin" or Coppermine which can integrate with the usermanagement from several forum systems (phpbb, yabb, vbulletin, smf etc)

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Never used one (tend to write things I need ), but I would guess they will have multiple levels of access.

There is Gallery that probably has a "ratings plugin" or Coppermine which can integrate with the usermanagement from several forum systems (phpbb, yabb, vbulletin, smf etc)

hm, this in turn sounds not the thing I'm after. What I understood when your wrote "rate my image script" is kinda forum where people post their work and ask for review. Galleries for me mean somebody publishes all the content and then let people evaluate it. I need a setup where each person concerned publishes one input item, then other guys come and rate them.

But thanks anyway, it's a kind of a pointer. I will have a look if there exist that kind of forum/rating combo. Though rating part per se does not sound that complicated to write... and I would expect it to be slightly specific to pick 1:1 from some other code anyway.

And returning to the initial question - provided there is no perfect fit - which forum would you expect to be easier to adapt. The forum should not be complex - 90% of normal forum bells and whistles might be to much.

Probably a combination of SMF & Coppermine would be best. SMF is fairly basic (in less than useful "features" terms) but does what it needs to.

The "rate my pic" scripts are what usually runs the "HotOrNot" kind of "social media" websites. Where the egos of teenagers can be "massaged" (or deflated) by their peers deciding if they are "kewl" (or not) based on a provocative pose/picture

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Probably a combination of SMF & Coppermine would be best. SMF is fairly basic (in less than useful "features" terms) but does what it needs to.

great thanks, will have a look. probably will ask also at coppermine place, all the best, normunds

P.S. after some playing around with - looks like I could base everything on coppermine alone...