help with PBS blog on non-staff contributions to Public Lab!

[sara wylie]

Hi All

Shannon and I are working on a blog for PBS about the non-staff members who've made significant contributions to Public Lab. 

We would like to show how public lab is being pulled together by a group of dedicated non-paid members so we'd love to hear from all of you!  We'd like to highlight individuals who have contributed in various rolls particularly including social media development, web-development, tool development and community development.

Please send us any thoughts you like, but here are three questions just to get ideas rolling:

Why have you contributed to public lab?

What have you contributed to public lab?

How would you like to see public lab develop?

We have to submit it tomorrow so if you could dash off some quick thoughts that would be amazing!

Sara

Apologies if you receive duplicates of this email!

[R.J. Steinert]

I just caught up on email after a busy launch week.  Here are my answers if it's not too late.

Why have you contributed to public lab?

With the dawn of the information age we are presented with an opportunity to reinvent the creative process of inventing.  In doing so, we have the power to influence what is invented and whom it benefits. As someone who seeks social, environmental, and economic justice, I see no more powerful way to work towards those ends than building tools that will help people reinvent the world around them.

What have you contributed to public lab?

In the past few months I've worked closely with Jeffrey Warren on implementing bug fixes and usability improvements on http://publiclaboratory.org.  The biggest driver for me to fix something is when I'm using something on the site that I find frustrating, it's very rewarding to be able to fix the issue causing me grief.  

How would you like to see public lab develop?

I believe that as long as the Public Labs community continues to seek out ways to make their work more available and accessible that the economics of engaging as an open community will continue to benifit all parties involved.

Be well,

R.J. Steinert

http://rjsteinert.com

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:29 PM, sara wylie <sa...@publiclaboratory.org> wrote:

Hi All

Shannon and I are working on a blog for PBS about the non-staff members who've made significant contributions to Public Lab. 

We would like to show how public lab is being pulled together by a group of dedicated non-paid members so we'd love to hear from all of you!  We'd like to highlight individuals who have contributed in various rolls particularly including social media development, web-development, tool development and community development.

Please send us any thoughts you like, but here are three questions just to get ideas rolling:

Why have you contributed to public lab?

I believe that making open science more accessible and efficient ... is a worth while goal.  I've helped out with the development of http://publiclaboratory.org because  ack for finding the right projects and the right people.