This page seeks to briefly catalogue innovations created over time in offline and online community interactions. For current objectives and priorities, see the strategic plan for community development.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Community Development

2014

• PublicLabTV launched
• http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
• organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
• organizers welcome & orientation email
• organizers summit (pilot in June, full event in November)
• paper research notes, notepads
• community cards: "welcome to Public Lab" messaging printed on brown cardstock
• "Ask a Question / Answer a Question" tagging system see all questions
• new, simplified front page on publiclab.org
• ability to award a barnstar & have it displayed on awardee's profile page via dropdown menu on research notes
• subscribe to tag (RSS)
• co-authorship of research notes
• images supported in research note comments
• in-line wiki editing
• callouts on publiclab.org via @username send email notifications
• OpenHour / live call events is first community wide audio/visual channel
• barnstar brainstorming
• Event template and RSVP feature on research notes
• international edition of Grassroots Mapping Forum features XXX countries/regions
• chat room (IRC) integrated into all publiclab.org pages
• regional "umbrella" mailing lists created for northeast, midwest
• third top-level language specific list is created, Public Lab Portugues
• plots-spectroscopy list reaches 1000 members, surpassing grassrootsmapping as the largest tool-specific list
• publiclaboratory list reaches 3000 members

2013

• ability to comment on research notes
• ability to write one research note in response to another
• ability to "like" research notes, and "follow" them to receive email updates
• tabbed wiki pages
• "toolshed raising" event type
• lists created for software developers, education, and writing
• Mapknitter Club / Cartography Collective
• Start a chapter page created
• Guide to starting new projects
• PDF print stylesheets for wiki and research note pages
• research note templates
• Sign-up page integrated anti-spam questionnaire "Turing Test"
• publiclab.org launched, replicating all publiclaboratory.org features + adding user dashboard, profile pages, and supporting international characters (UTF-8)
• OpenID used across all sites to authenticate against one's PublicLab.org account
• plots-infrared list launches, along with plots-airquality and plots-waterquality
• publiclaboratory list reaches 1500 members
• creation of github.com/publiclab community repo

2012

• creation of organizers group
• creation of /lists overview page and tracking of list growth
• barnstars & publiclab.org/barnstars
• user dashboard when logged in on website
• kit boxes include "Welcome to the community!" messaging
• first sticker printed (CONFIRM THIS)
• illustrated guides translated into 10 new languages
• publiclaboratory list reaches 500 members, surpassing grassrootsmapping list

2011

• barnraising event type
• Grassroots Mapping Forum (print publication for offline data distribution)
• publiclaboratory.org launches, pioneering the "research note" and creating the wiki knowledge base (January 2011)
• publiclaboratory list
• laboratoriopublico list (Spanish)

2010

• grassrootsmapping list