###Overview###

**Public Lab organizers** are community members that are leaders in the Public Lab community, and have an interest in the way our community collaborates and grows. Typically but not exclusively, these are people who are both key organizers in their local communities as well as key contributors to the broader Public Lab community through work on things such as the website and communications. Organizers often [host events](/wiki/developing-and-running-public-lab-workshop) or [moderate discussion lists](/wiki/moderators), and help shepherd the Public Lab community in other ways. The organizers list is always expanding; anyone can be nominated or nominate themselves, [see below](#how+to+join) for how to join.

Contact Public Lab organizers to add events to the <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/events">/events calendar</a>. 

###Organizers discussion list

The **Public Lab organizers list** is an email list for this group. It serves to connect organizers with each other and enable collaboration on overarching initiatives such as <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/spectral-challenge">#SpectralChallenge</a> and <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/barnstars">barnstars</a>. Typical emails are about upcoming events (sometimes there are speaking/workshop/travel opportunities), authoring articles/book chapters/op-eds, strategies for organizing, and other topics related to broad Public Lab community development rather than simply research (which is discussed on the <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/publiclaboratory">main Public Lab list</a>). 

###Quarterly Organizers Call
TBD for Q2, Q3, Q4 in 2014

###Weekly Organizers Call

The **Public Lab organizers call** is weekly on Thursdays. The time alternates between 9:20PST/11:20CST/12:20EST and 4:00PST/6:00CST/7:00EST. Check [this page](http://publiclab.org/wiki/2012-organizer-call-schedule-and-moderators) for the precise schedule. The calls last about 35 minutes. If you are an organizer, to join, please add Public.Lab on Skype and add your Skype name [to the Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14OEBr3btvkn8KzZyO5t-LFLbLbMXgGFL3v0W51nNp70/edit). 

###How to join

* Talk to an existing organizer -- any current organizer can nominate new members (person nominating provides statement about why they are nominating) and 2 "seconds" -- other organizers who say "agreed!"
* Nominate yourself: email a short statement about your work and the Public Lab mission statement to [organizers@publiclab.org](mailto:organizers@publiclab.org) (+ 2 seconds)

###Members (42)

* [Willie Shubert](/profile/willie) (Washington, DC)
* [Alex Stoicof](/profile/astoicof) (New Orleans)
* [Matt Pendergraft](/profile/Matt_P/) (New Orleans)
* [Nicholas Johnson](/profile/nicholas) (New York City)
* [Philip Silva](/profile/p_silva_82) (Ithaca, New York City)
* [Bryan Bonvallet](/profile/btbonval) (Boston area)
* [Karen Vale](/profile/karenv) (Plymouth, MA)
* [Will Ward](/profile/wward1400) (Boston area)
* [Stu Williams](/profile/straylight) (Australia)
* [Dana Bauer](/profile/geography76) (Philadelphia)
* [Natasia Sidarta](/profile/natasia) (New York City)
* [Becki Chall](/profile/becki) (New Orleans)
* [Dan Beavers](/profile/danbeavers) (Mississippi)
* [Pablo Rey](/profile/pablo) (Bilbao)
* Eric Kugler (New Orleans)
* [Kalyn Rosenberg](/profile/KalynRosenberg) (Mexico City)
* Sylvia Broude (Boston)
* [Shai Efrati](/profile/shaief) (Tel Aviv)
* [Don Blair](/profile/donblair) (Amherst, MA)
* [Oscar Brett](/profile/oscarbrett) (New Orleans)
* [Hagit Keysar](/profile/hagitkeysar) (Jerusalem)
* Mathew Xi (Oakland)
* [Cindy Regalado](/profile/Cindy_ExCites) (London)
* [Ricardo Abad](/profile/ricabad) (Mato Grosso Brasil)
* [Juan Pablo Torrente](/profile/juan) (Spain)
* [Ned Horning](/profile/nedhorning) (Vermont)
* [Scott Eustis](/profile/eustatic) (New Orleans)
* [Hunter Daniels](/profile/hunter) (New Orleans)
* [Chris Fastie](/profile/cfastie) (Middlebury, Vermont)
* Gabriel Jaime Vanegas (Bogota, Colombia)
* [Jessi Breen](/profile/jbreen) (Lexington, KY)
* [Pat Coyle](/profile/patcoyle) (Livermore, CA)
* [Gena Wirth](/profile/gwirth) (New York City)
* [Lela Prashad](/profile/lprashad) (New York City)
* [Ives Rocha](/profile/ives) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
* [Anita Chan](/profile/anita) (Lima, Peru and Champaign-Urbana, IL)
* [Michele Tobias](/profile/MicheleTobias) (San Diego, CA)
* [Shannon Dosemagen](/profile/shannon) (New Orleans)
* [Adam Griffith](/profile/adam-griffith) (Asheville, NC)
* [Sara Wylie](/profile/sara) (Boston)
* [Mathew Lippincott](/profile/mathew) (Portland, OR)
* [Stewart Long](/profile/gonzoearth) (Oakland)
* [Liz Barry](/profile/liz) (New York City)
* [Jeff Warren](/profile/warren) (Somerville, MA)

###Current Nominations###

_Please list your name if you are nominating and if you are providing a supporting nomination, list your name as well:_

* Example nominee name (second,third here)
  * Nomination text here

(To view old nominations in full, see http://publiclab.org/wiki/organizers-nominations)

###Resources

There is a shared Organizers Dropbox -- please contact the list to be added -- it includes some presentation materials and other useful stuff.

###Origins
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Formative research note on this topic http://publiclab.org/notes/shannon/4-26-2012/list-plots-organizers