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Overview
- https://publiclab.org/welcome -- Welcome! Start here.
- https://publiclab.org/stories -- short, exciting stories
- https://publiclab.org/blog -- the latest
Connect in-person
- https://publiclab.org/events -- has a Google calendar, and describes types of events
- https://publiclab.org/barnraising -- our major multi-day, retreat-style in-person event
Connect online
- https://publiclab.org/signup -- where you can signup for a publiclab.org account. Choose a username, agree to our Code of Conduct, and click through a captcha.
- https://publiclab.org/profile/ -- your profile page once you sign up. You can add tags such as interest or location, edit your bio, and upload a profile image or avatar.
- https://publiclab.org/subscriptions -- where you can control what tags (AKA topics) you are subscribed to, and adjust your email notifications
- https://publiclab.org/lists -- all GoogleGroups organized by Topic and Place. FYI, topic lists are slowly being phased out by website subscriptions to Topics:
- https://publiclab.org/topics -- topics and subtopic organization, always evolving!
- https://publiclab.org/forum -- the Community Science Forum, a print publication with illustrated poster-sized centerfold
- https://publiclab.org/newsletter -- monthly newsletter composed by staff, easy to understand
- https://publiclab.org/social-media -- a summary of social media channels on which Public Lab is active
- https://publiclab.org/feed.rss -- FOR RSS READERS ONLY
Who we are
The Public Lab community:
- https://publiclab.org/people -- the best place to see who's been active lately, and browse the map to see if there are any people near you
- https://publiclab.org/partners -- list of friends, partners and collaborators, updated annually in January
- https://publiclab.org/projects -- place-based projects
The Public Lab community is backed by a non-profit to focus impact on environmental health justice. All the following links pertain to the nonprofit:
- https://publiclab.org/about
- https://publiclab.org/plots-staff
- https://publiclab.org/jobs
- https://publiclab.org/donate
- https://publiclab.org/how-we-are-funded
- https://publiclab.org/board
- https://publiclab.org/nonprofit-values ("/values" redirects here)
- https://publiclab.org/nonprofit-initiatives -- deprecated in favor of https://publiclab.org/strategic-plan
How our community works together:
- https://publiclab.org/conduct
- https://publiclab.org/facilitation
- https://publiclab.org/moderation
- https://publiclab.org/values-statement -- created through this process
- https://publiclab.org/glossary -- list of terms used in the community
- https://publiclab.org/licenses + stub https://publiclab.org/attribution
- https://publiclab.org/privacy
- https://publiclab.org/anonymity
- https://publiclab.org/security
- https://publiclab.org/community -- a work area for all the pages tagged
community - https://publiclab.org/community-development -- a year-by-year timeline of features we've added
- https://publiclab.org/barnstars -- symbols of community appreciation
- https://publiclab.org/wiki/funding-partnerships-with-public-lab
- https://publiclab.org/wiki/ethics-and-politics and the more recent https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/10-29-2018/public-lab-developing-partnership-statement both address the formation of partnerships
Where we work:
- https://publiclab.org/places
- https://publiclab.org/region -- content within North America
- https://publiclab.org/locations -- _content by continent: Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and South America.
Getting started
- https://publiclab.org/welcome
- http://publiclab.org/issue-brief
- https://publiclab.org/new-projects
- https://publiclab.org/start-enviro-monitor-study -- advanced explanation of how to undertake an environmental monitoring study
Open hardware kits for environmental monitoring and exploration
- https://publiclab.org/kits -- the Kits Initiative, and home of Community Kits, the program where you can prototype your hardware project with the Public Lab community and distribute through our store
- https://store.publiclab.org -- where you can buy (and sell) Public Lab open hardware kits
Software for processing environmental data, and data archives
- https://publiclab.org/archive -- view all curated map data
- https://mapknitter.org -- go here to process aerial image data into maps
- https://spectralworkbench.org go here to process spectral data into calibrated spectra
- https://infragram.org go here to process infrared data into NDVI or other equations
Contribute to software, including the publiclab.org website itself:
- https://code.publiclab.org -- landing page for people interested in code, also see https://publiclab.org/developers
Further reading
- https://publiclab.org/media -- articles about Public Lab
- http://publiclab.org/annual-reports -- published by the nonprofit
- https://publiclab.org/suggested-readings
Community reach
Evaluating our impact:
By the numbers:
- https://publiclab.org/stats
- https://publiclab.org/stats/subscriptions
- https://publiclab.org/contributors
Website
- https://publiclab.org/website-basics -- learn about the PublicLab.org website features
- https://publiclab.org/website -- a work area for all the pages tagged
community
The Public Lab website has two main types of content:
- https://publiclab.org/wiki -- multi-author content, editable by anyone.
- https://publiclab.org/notes -- single-author content, also can add co-authors. Content only editable by authors
Navigating the Public Lab website:
- https://publiclab.org/dashboard -- redirects from publiclab.org when you are logged-in to show you a custom view of content. Redirects from publiclab.org/research
More ways to navigate the Public Lab website:
- https://publiclab.org/search
- https://publiclab.org/tags
- https://publiclab.org/tag/____ -- fill in the blank URL to view all content tagged with a certain tag
* - UNDER CONSTRUCTION https://publiclab.org/map - the map of all geographically tagged content on publiclab.org (not geographic data or maps)
Important pages that are both auto-generated by tags AND have an editable feature at top:
- https://publiclab.org/questions -- also see https://publiclab.org/requests for recent and urgent requests of all kinds across the Public Lab network, for those looking to pitch in on others' projects and needs
- https://publiclab.org/methods -- includes social and technical methods, also described below
Guidance on how to write, format, and organize content
- https://publiclab.org/wiki/authoring-help
- https://publiclab.org/power-tags
- https://publiclab.org/wiki-templates -- very helpful, deep guide for staff structuring content
- https://publiclab.org/wiki/methods -- excellent guides for posting new methods