I’m at a sxsw panel on open science. Here are the presenters:
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Ariel Waldman |
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Kirsten Sanford |
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Jessy Cowan-Sharp |
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Natalie Villalobos |
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Tantek ‡elik |
How can you contribute and collaborate in open science?
You can go outside and look at birds! There are several websites that you can contribute to that will help scientists track bird population.
ScienceForCitizens.net is trying to bring together lots of different open science projects.
Galaxy Zoo is great for people at all different levels. You can classify galaxies from home. It gives you a picture of a galaxy, and you identify and classify galaxies. If you do a lot of them, then you unlock a button that tells the scientists when something about the galaxies looks strange, and they will help you do research on them.
Team Frednet is an open source team participating in the Google Lunar X Prize to build a robot that will go to the moon, get data, and send it back. They need help from lawyers, designers, and project managers, not just scientists.
Websites like infochimps will let you upload data about how you use the web.
Hacker Dojo is one of many hacker spaces throughout the Unites States. Hacker spaces have become a movement for open science.
Fold.it is a protein folding game. Playing the game helps scientists understand different ways that protein can fold.
