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Public Lab is always looking for support. There are things you can come and do "one of," but there are other opportunities to get more involved activities that help build out resources and support the community regularly. Read more about these opportunities below:
- Assist in a Research Area Review
- Help with Questions and New Environmental Concerns
- Support the Community
Assist in a Research Area Review
Research area reviews are ways we work to organize and synthesize information and materials on Public Lab based on topic areas. We are testing out a new way to do this. Currently, Research Area Reviews are run in three phases:
- Phase 1: Information Gathering
- Phase 2: Conveining
- Phase 3: Synthesizing
Current Research Area Review: Pipelines
Phase 1: May 15th- June 15th 2015
Phase 1 Activities:
| Task Type | Who can do this | Difficulty | Task | Can you do this? Great! Here's what you need: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden | Anyone | Easy | Go through posts in the area and make sure they are properly tagged | Materials on Public Lab are not always properly tagged, for this task we want to make sure anything about pipelines on the website is tagged "pipeline." You can use search, questions, and related tags to help find materials. |
| Share | Anyone | Easy | Post questions on the topic area you have, or that you’re not able to find answers to on Public Lab. | Post your questions here, be sure to tag them "Pipeline" |
| Garden | One person | Medium | Make sure the wiki page has clear format | www.publiclab.org/pipeline needs clear text and formatting. Support on this page |
| Research | Anyone | Hard | Help find answers to unanswered questions | Make sure all the questions are answered on this topic here |
Want to work on one of these tasks but need a little more help? Join us in the chat room!
Help with Questions and New Environmental Concerns
People often show up to the Public Lab community with questions about environmental issues. We could use help answering them!
- Help answer recent questions
- Subscribe to answer questions on a topic
- Newcomers who are concerned about environmental issues often post "Issue Briefs" as their first contribution to Public Lab about their concern. Follow the tag "issue-brief" to get alerts when new ones are posted. To support these new contributors, you can help to:
- Tag their material if it's not tagged,
- Ask supportive questions to help them flesh out their concern
- Post ideas on next steps the group could consider exploring under their issue.
Support the Community
There are others ways and working groups to be apart of to support the Public Lab community, below are some of the more active ways to get involved!
- Software Development The Public Lab website and others it supports are built open source online through our code contributor community. Learn more about how to get involved on the Software Outreach page!
- The Moderation Working Group helps to make sure that spam is off the website! This group does an important and simple task that keeps Public Lab clean of ads!
- Facilitation: The Public Lab community is always looking for help with facilitation. You can learn some of the facilitation techniques on this page. Specifically, we seek support in helping to direct research area reviews, hosting OpenHour and OpenCall, assisting with in person events, and helping people who need assistance to publish and share materials on Public Lab. If you're interested in becoming a facilitator supporting the Public Lab community email stevie@publiclab.org.
- Conduct Committee: This group helps to make sure the Public Lab Code of Conduct is upheld in all Public Lab spaces. Interested in joining the Conduct Committee? Email them at: conduct@publiclab.org
- Donate to Public Lab!
Reviews
This section was moved to https://publiclab.org/reviews ! Thanks!!!