First contact

• map of first contacts and pathways: http://publiclab.org/wiki/first-encounters
  • folks find out about Public Lab through: our kits, our web presence and social media, press coverage, heard about from a person, Kickstarter campaign, evangelism(?)

• types? reference from Sugar Labs

• too much information, yet lacks community presence/identity

Welcome moment

First contribution / activity

Building peer-to-peer bonds

Becoming an organizer

Developing organizer-supported chapters

Priorities

Growth:

• improve first contact experience
• integrate with Kits Initiative

Depth:

• develop better structure to become an organizer
  • Organizer Summit
• Make a strong translation model for our "communities of practice"
  • includes distributing resources
• include social process throughout online and offline
  • community asset mapping workshops, dialogue education facilitation, OpenHour, guides and distance learning, offline logbooks, etc