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Working Groups

Working Groups (WGs) preform vital support functions for the Public Lab ecosystem. Most WGs are open by nomination only, so if you are interested in contributing, read the description of each group to learn how to get involved.

organizers@publiclab.org - Public Lab organizers are community members who are leaders in the Public Lab community, and have an interest in the way our community collaborates and grows. Visit the Organizers Wiki Page to learn about how to nominate yourself.

web@publiclab.org - the web working group, focused on support of existing users of the Public Lab website, our browser-based software, and spam moderation. Email the WebWG if you would like to become a moderator of this website.

moderators@publiclab.org - the moderators group supports online and in person interactions, and manages the guidelines: publiclab.org/wiki/moderation. To become a moderator, email organizers@publiclab.org.

Graphs

We are recording the growth of these lists over time on this spreadsheet and graphing the results here to track community growth. (You can also see activity over time on the Google Groups about pages)

Guidelines

Public Lab's full moderation policy is located at https://publiclab.org/wiki/moderation, the portion regarding mailing lists is included here:

Please treat our mailing lists as a place of respectful conversation. Our lists have moderators to ensure civility. Moderators review the posts of all new members before approving them to post automatically. Some existing members may be placed into moderation if their posting pattern changes such that it violates our list guidelines (see below):

When posting to Public Lab lists:

1) Stay on topic
- stay on topic to make long threads easier to follow
- if you diverge from the main thread/topic/subject, consider breaking off into a new thread/topic/subject to help others follow along
- avoid sending one-line spurious responses that effectively "spam" hundreds of people and lowers the overall content quality of a conversation


2) Use clear subject lines when starting a new topic
- Subject lines are not the place for humor or euphemisms, although enthusiasm is OK.


3) Mind your tone
- since we are in a conversation in email form, maintaining a tone of respect is essential. Any of the following can result in a member having their posts moderated before going out to the whole list: aggressive tone, disrespectful tone, mocking tone, off-color tone
- a note on humor: expressing ourselves online in text is different from expressing ourselves in person by talking

Before you are placed into moderation, you will be notified on the pertinent list.

List management

As the # of topical/local lists grows, some consistency in spam handling, joining policy, and naming will be very helpful. Also, we want to just be careful not to let research-related conversations fragment. To this end, each smaller list has at least one moderator responsible for moving conversations to the appropriate list and "bumping up" topics of general interest by saying "Wow! Please take this extremely interesting conversation to the main publiclaboratory list!"