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May 23, 2017 22:02
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2017
- last Annual Barnraising, shift to all "Regional Barnraisings" to focus on local issues (note)
- Fourth Regional Barnraising: Appalachia, held in Morganton, West Virginia (june)
- connected IRC, Riot, Gitter, and the non-profit Slack Channel #irc so that everyone can chat in the same place
- "first-timers-only" culture is re-iterated inside each Summer of Code project
2016
- (add more here!)
- began use of Gitter chatroom (november)
- Third Regional Barnraising: Los Angeles, held in Val Verde, California
- Code of Conduct published (july)
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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May 23, 2017 21:59
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2017
- last Annual Barnraising, shift to all "Regional Barnraisings" to focus on local issues (note)
- connected IRC, Riot, Gitter, and the non-profit Slack Channel #irc so that everyone can chat in the same place
- "first-timers-only" culture is re-iterated inside each Summer of Code project
2016
- (add more here!)
- began use of Gitter chatroom (november)
- Third Regional Barnraising: Los Angeles, held in Val Verde, California
- Code of Conduct published (july)
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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May 23, 2017 21:54
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2017
- connected IRC, Riot, Gitter, and the non-profit Slack Channel #irc so that everyone can chat in the same place
- "first-timers-only" culture is re-iterated inside each Summer of Code project
2016
- (add more here!)
- began use of Gitter chatroom (november)
- Code of Conduct published (july)
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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May 23, 2017 18:17
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2017
- connected IRC, Riot, Gitter, and the non-profit Slack Channel #irc so that everyone can chat in the same place
- "first-timers-only" culture is re-iterated inside each Summer of Code project
2016
- (add more here!)
- Code of Conduct published (july)
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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May 23, 2017 18:15
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2017
- connected IRC, Riot, Gitter, and the non-profit Slack Channel #irc so that everyone can chat in the same place
2016
- (add more here!)
- Code of Conduct published (july)
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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August 18, 2016 17:06
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2016
- Code of Conduct published (july)
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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August 18, 2016 16:21
| over 7 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2016
- Code of Conduct published (july)
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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June 08, 2016 20:19
| almost 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2016
- "Streaks" https://publiclab.org/wiki/streak (june)
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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May 23, 2016 15:49
| almost 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2016
- hastagging implemented by Ananyo
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers via public presentations & use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only" yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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April 26, 2016 14:42
| almost 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2016
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers (public presentations, use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only") yields new contributors
- Moderation improvements April 2016: basic guidelines posted at /moderation, all first time posters now moderated, moderators group expanded to mailing lists and website
- 4th top level language group created: China, via WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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April 11, 2016 20:25
| about 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2016
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases with implications for copyleft licensing
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann, and connected to org-wide evaluation "quantitative snapshot"
- outreach to developers (public presentations, use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only") yields new contributors
- Moderators group rebooted
- 4th top level language group created: China, using WeChat
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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April 06, 2016 19:15
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2016
- dashboard 2.0 launched
- modularization in codebases
- plan for user testing developed with @weatherpattern & @ann
- outreach to developers (public presentations, use of new github tags "help-wanted" "first-timers-only") yields new contributors
- Moderators group rebooted
2015
- Code of Conduct written for Annual Barnraising 2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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February 11, 2016 22:20
| about 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- by the end of 2015, there are 67 organizers from 11 countries
- publiclaboratory list surpasses 4000 members
- regional "umbrella" mailing list created for northwest; becomes the first regional list that is bigger than the list for the name-brand city (Vancounver) it encompasses
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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September 08, 2015 20:04
| over 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- SpectralWorkbench 2.0, including a Procedures System by Sreyanth
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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September 02, 2015 01:29
| over 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- illustrated guide to joining the Public Lab community by Molly Danielsson
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- first federal grant
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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September 01, 2015 23:51
| over 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- BP Oil spill -- short story at the top of this page
2009
- grassrootsmapping list (first posts in Spanish)
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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September 01, 2015 19:12
| over 8 years ago
This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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September 01, 2015 19:08
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
- http://grassrootsmapping.org/
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September 01, 2015 19:00
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This program area is dedicated to supporting Public Lab's unique combination of local organizing and distributed peer production.
Related website tags: community
Related program areas of the Public Lab non-profit: Web Working Group, Advocacy
Timeline
Here's a brief history of community infrastructure (online and off), and some notable milestones.
2015
- Public Lab's 5th Anniversary (read about it in GrassrootsMappingForum #7))
- Second Regional Barnraising: Midwest, held in Chicago, Illinois
- first ever Organizers Survey. Key topics: decision-making among organizers, active/inactive status.
- Organizers Welcome pack becomes a physical mailing, including printed Handbook and Event Packs (also new for 2015)
- Public Lab Fellows Program created in program areas Open Air, Open Land, Open Water
- MapKnitter2.0 launches
- WhereWeBreathe project on indoor formaldehyde monitoring and mitigation
- The blog is rebooted, reviving a type of narrative writing that had been somewhat lost since the shift from grassrootsmapping.org to publiclab.org
- Early versions of "Lending Library" based out of Portland leverages the shipping experience of our kits program and our non-profit access to discount USPS Library Mail rates for moving more expensive tools or calibration equipment around the community. Existing chapter-based tool exchanges continue as usual. Two Open Hours dedicated to this topic.
- the Public Lab non-profit organizes its programs into initiative areas -- Open Air, Open Water, Open Land and Civic Kits -- in order to enable cohesive community collaboration across hardware, software, expertise, and locale.
- plots-nyc (also NJ!) becomes first local mailing list to top 200 members.
2014
- by end of 2014, there are 62 organizers from 8 countries
- PublicLabTV launched at Barnraising 2014
- First Regional Barnraising: Northeast, held in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- organizers handbook (including undersigning of statements, and nomination of new organizers by sending one's own filled-in profile)
- "New organizer welcome & orientation" email is standardized
- Organizers Summit (event type piloted in June during regional barnraising, full event held in November at Annual Barnraising)
- 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)
- http://publiclab.org/tags lists popular tags on the site
- http://publiclab.org/stats shows a year of activity at a glance
- select the language of a research note or wiki page with power tag
- co-authorship of research notes via powertag
- 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
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
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