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8 CURRENT	warren	May 10, 2013 13:53 \| almost 11 years ago Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: to introduce interested people to using and/or making Public Lab tools to introduce the Public Lab community itself, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture invite the participants to join the broader Public Lab community create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab and can rely upon the community as a support network Fulfilling these goals simultaneously can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently it seems that this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. If a tool is still in the early planning or proof of concept stage, a more informal meetup or hackathon might be useful to explore possible solutions and try to achieve a proof of concept prototype. (i.e. workshops may be distinct from Barnraisings or hackathons which are intended to further develop the tool) Tips on Hosting a Workshop Introducing open source collaborative practices It's useful to bring a "welcome" handout introducing Public Lab and the concept of open source research. Explain how the Public Lab community typically works together; consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider showing how to post a research note ("it's like a blog") Fostering ongoing involvement with the Public Lab community It is very important to document workshops with photos and videos so that the results can be open sourced and shared with the Public Lab community. Consider: appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added, or using a common tag (like "saugus-landfill-mapping") for people to post research notes under Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge group. Consider: Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics, invite them to either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or to teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. Bring working versions of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides How to host a balloon mapping workshop Spectral Challenge "event model" Examples of Public Lab Workshops See many recent events, workshops, and meetups by looking for the "event" tag: http://publiclab.org/tag/event	Revert
7	warren	May 10, 2013 13:53 \| almost 11 years ago Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: to introduce interested people to using and/or making Public Lab tools to introduce the Public Lab community itself, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture invite the participants to join the broader Public Lab community create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab and can rely upon the community as a support network Fulfilling these goals simultaneously can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently it seems that this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. If a tool is still in the early planning or proof of concept stage, a more informal meetup or hackathon might be useful to explore possible solutions and try to achieve a proof of concept prototype. (i.e. workshops may be distinct from Barnraisings or hackathons which are intended to further develop the tool) Tips on Hosting a Workshop Introducing open source collaborative practices It's useful to bring a "welcome" handout introducing Public Lab and the concept of open source research. Explain how the Public Lab community typically works together; consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider showing how to post a research note ("it's like a blog") Fostering ongoing involvement with the Public Lab community It is very important to document workshops with photos and videos so that the results can be open sourced and shared with the Public Lab community. Consider: appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added, or using a common tag (like "saugus-landfill-mapping") for people to post research notes under Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge group. Consider: Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics, invite them to either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or to teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. Bring working versions of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides How to host a balloon mapping workshop Spectral Challenge "event model" Examples of Public Lab Workshops See many recent events, workshops, and meetups by looking for the "event" tag: http://publiclab.org/tag/event	Revert
6	warren	May 05, 2013 15:32 \| almost 11 years ago Basics Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: to introduce interested people to using and/or making Public Lab tools to introduce the Public Lab community itself, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture invite the participants to join the broader Public Lab community create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab and can rely upon the community as a support network Fulfilling these goals simultaneously can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently it seems that this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. If a tool is still in the early planning or proof of concept stage, a more informal meetup or hackathon might be useful to explore possible solutions and try to achieve a proof of concept prototype. (i.e. workshops may be distinct from Barnraisings or hackathons which are intended to further develop the tool) Tips on Hosting a Workshop Introducing open source collaborative practices It's useful to bring a "welcome" handout introducing Public Lab and the concept of open source research. Explain how the Public Lab community typically works together; consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider showing how to post a research note ("it's like a blog") Fostering ongoing involvement with the Public Lab community It is very important to document workshops with photos and videos so that the results can be open sourced and shared with the Public Lab community. Consider: appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added, or using a common tag (like "saugus-landfill-mapping") for people to post research notes under Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge group. Consider: Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics, invite them to either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or to teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. Bring working versions of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides How to host a balloon mapping workshop Spectral Challenge "event model" Examples of Public Lab Workshops See many recent events, workshops, and meetups by looking for the "event" tag: http://publiclab.org/tag/event	Revert
5	warren	May 05, 2013 15:30 \| almost 11 years ago Basics Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: to introduce interested people to using and/or making Public Lab tools to introduce the Public Lab community itself, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture invite the participants to join the broader Public Lab community create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab and can rely upon the community as a support network Fulfilling these goals simultaneously can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently it seems that this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. If a tool is still in the early planning or proof of concept stage, a more informal meetup or hackathon might be useful to explore possible solutions and try to achieve a proof of concept prototype. (i.e. workshops may be distinct from Barnraisings or hackathons which are intended to further develop the tool) Tips on Hosting a Workshop Introducing open source collaborative practices It's useful to bring a "welcome" handout introducing Public Lab and the concept of open source research. Explain how the Public Lab community typically works together; consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider showing how to post a research note ("it's like a blog") Fostering ongoing involvement with the Public Lab community It is very important to document workshops with photos and videos so that the results can be open sourced and shared with the Public Lab community. Consider: appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added, or using a common tag (like "saugus-landfill-mapping") for people to post research notes under Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge group. Consider: Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics, invite them to either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or to teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. Bring working versions of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides How to host a balloon mapping workshop Examples of Public Lab Workshops See many recent events, workshops, and meetups by looking for the "event" tag: http://publiclab.org/tag/event	Revert
4	warren	May 05, 2013 15:29 \| almost 11 years ago Basics Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: to introduce interested people to using and/or making Public Lab tools to introduce the Public Lab community itself, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture invite the participants to join the broader Public Lab community create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab and can rely upon the community as a support network Fulfilling these goals simultaneously can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently it seems that this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. If a tool is still in the early planning or proof of concept stage, a more informal meetup or hackathon might be useful to explore possible solutions and try to achieve a proof of concept prototype. (i.e. workshops may be distinct from Barnraisings or hackathons which are intended to further develop the tool) Tips on Hosting a Workshop Introducing open source collaborative practices It's useful to bring a "welcome" handout introducing Public Lab and the concept of open source research. Explain how the Public Lab community typically works together; consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider showing how to post a research note ("it's like a blog") Fostering ongoing involvement with the Public Lab community It is very important to document workshops with photos and videos so that the results can be open sourced and shared with the Public Lab community. Consider: appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added, or using a common tag (like "saugus-landfill-mapping") for people to post research notes under Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge group. Consider: Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics, invite them to either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or to teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. Bring working versions of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides How to host a balloon mapping workshop Examples of Public Lab Workshops ...	Revert
3	warren	May 31, 2012 21:32 \| almost 12 years ago Basics Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: to introduce interested people to using and/or making Public Lab tools to introduce the Public Lab community itself, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture invite the participants to join the broader Public Lab community create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab and can rely upon the community as a support network Fulfilling these goals simultaneously can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently it seems that this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. If a tool is still in the early planning or proof of concept stage, a more informal meetup or hackathon might be useful to explore possible solutions and try to achieve a proof of concept prototype. (i.e. workshops may be distinct from Barnraisings or hackathons which are intended to further develop the tool) Tips on Hosting a Workshop Introducing open source collaborative practices It's useful to bring a "welcome" handout introducing Public Lab and the concept of open source research. Explain how the Public Lab community typically works together; consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider showing how to post a research note ("it's like a blog") Fostering ongoing involvement with the Public Lab community It is very important to document workshops with photos and videos so that the results can be open sourced and shared with the Public Lab community. Consider: appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added, or using a common tag (like "saugus-landfill-mapping") for people to post research notes under Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge group. Consider: Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics, invite them to either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or to teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. Bring working versions of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides [[http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/host-balloon-mapping-workshop\|How to host a balloon mapping workshop]] Examples of Public Lab Workshops ...	Revert
2	sara	May 31, 2012 16:00 \| almost 12 years ago Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: 1. to train interested people in using and/or making Public lab tools 2. to introduce the concept of Public Lab, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture 3. involve the participants in the broader Public Lab community 4. create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab. Fulfilling these goals simultaneous can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently we think this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. Workshop should be distinct from Barnraising or Hackathon's which are intended to further develop the tool. Tips on Organization of Workshop Teaching about Open Source Print documentation for introducing Public Lab and the concept of Open source research. File attached below Explain the concept of Public Lab, consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider teaching how to write a research note Creating Feedback to the rest of Public Lab We have learned that it is very important to document Public Lab workshop with photos and videos so as to share the results back to the wider community. consider: appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge groups. Consider: Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics have them either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or have them teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. Bring different stages of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides [[http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/host-balloon-mapping-workshop\|How to host a balloon mapping workshop]] Examples of Public Lab Workshops	Revert
1	sara	May 31, 2012 15:59 \| almost 12 years ago Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop? This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: 1. to train interested people in using and/or making Public lab tools 2. to introduce the concept of Public Lab, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture 3. involve the participants in the broader Public Lab community 4. create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab. Fulfilling these goals simultaneous can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently we think this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. Workshop should be distinct from Barnraising or Hackathon's which are intended to further develop the tool. Tips on Organization of Workshop Teaching about Open Source Print documentation for introducing Public Lab and the concept of Open source research. File attached below Explain the concept of Public Lab, consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider teaching how to write a research note Creating Feedback to the rest of Public Lab We have learned that it is very important to document Public Lab workshop with photos and videos so as to share the results back to the wider community. consider: 1. appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop 2. running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge groups. Consider: 1. Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise 2. Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics have them either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or have them teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. 3. Bring different stages of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides [[http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/host-balloon-mapping-workshop\|How to host a balloon mapping workshop]] Examples of Public Lab Workshops	Revert
0	sara	May 31, 2012 15:57 \| almost 12 years ago Why Hold a Public Lab Workshop This page is intended to gather tips on planning, running and following up on a Public Lab workshop. Public Lab's workshops have multiple goals: 1. to train interested people in using and/or making Public lab tools 2. to introduce the concept of Public Lab, particularly the open source ethic and recursive research culture 3. involve the participants in the broader Public Lab community 4. create feedback so that participants in the workshop continue to share their results and research with Public Lab. Fulfilling these goals simultaneous can be a challenge. This page is for sharing issues encountered in workshops, offering advice on developing a workshop and as a portal for how to guides for workshops on specific tools When to hold a Public Lab Workshop? Presently we think this depends on the stage of a tool's development. Workshop are useful when a tool is at least prototyped so that participants can learn how to make and use a prototype. Workshop should be distinct from Barnraising or Hackathon's which are intended to further develop the tool. Tips on Organization of Workshop Teaching about Opensource Print documentation for introducing Public Lab and the concept of Open source research. File attached below Explain the concept of Public Lab, consider projecting the website so participants can see the website and become familiar with using materials from it. e.g. reading directions from tool pages, finding research notes. Consider teaching how to write a research note Creating Feedback to the rest of Public Lab We have learned that it is very important to document Public Lab workshop with photos and videos so as to share the results back to the wider community. consider: 1. appointing someone official "documenter" of the workshop 2. running a wiki page during the workshop so notes and thoughts can be immediately added Teaching to a Range of different Skills Public Lab's goal is to bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds to improve the quality of environmental health research. Therefore Public Lab often hosts workshops that include a range of people from different backgrounds. It is important to leverage that diversity of knowledge and not get stuck teaching to one knowledge groups. Consider: 1. Beginning with a round of introductions focused on why people have come to the workshop, what they hope to gain and how they hope to use the tools. Have them explain their expertise 2. Organize the workshop based on the expertise in the room. If you have a lot of people with technology skills such as electronics have them either work together to rapidly make and improve the tool, or have them teach others with less experience. This worked out great in a Providence's AS220 Thermal Flashlight Workshop. 3. Bring different stages of the tool to the workshop. If people are more interested in using rather than making the tool, then enable them to work with a finished tool to improve use of the tool. .... Tool Specific Workshop how to guides [[http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/host-balloon-mapping-workshop\|How to host a balloon mapping workshop]] Examples of Public Lab Workshops	Revert

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