We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work. Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. We also host a once-monthly OpenHour call on a selected topic, generally the first Monday of each month.

The Public Lab website is supported and maintained by contributions from a robust community of coders. We have a process for welcoming first-time code contributors. Learn more at code.publiclab.org.

If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• A community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• A growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• You may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• A place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• To share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• To help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• To cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

How to use this website

Learn more about how to use the site, the different types of pages that exist, and how best to use them here.

Bienvenida a Public Lab

¡Estamos muy contentas de conocerte! Esta página es para dar la bienvenida a las recién llegadas.

Para la gente que llega por primera vez a Public Lab, hay muchas incógnitas sobre cómo está organizada nuestra comunidad, cómo colaboramos, nuestra cultura y las relaciones personales que alimentan nuestro trabajo.

Nuestra comunidad aspira a ser un lugar respetuoso. Por favor, lee y respeta nuestro Código de Conducta.

¿Quién es Public Lab?

Somos una comunidad abierta y una red a la que cualquiera puede unirse, ¡incluida tú!

Damos la bienvenida especialmente a la gente preocupada por los problemas ambientales locales, pero necesitamos todo tipo de gente. Este es un esfuerzo de investigación colaborativa que incluye activistas, fabricantes, científicas, tecnólogas, curiosas e híbridos variados de todo lo anterior.

Estamos alojadas por una organización sin fines de lucro con personal remunerado, pero nuestro trabajo comunitario no sería posible sin nuestra red de organizadoras.

Juntas, tratamos de entender y abordar los problemas ambientales que afectan a las personas, con técnicas baratas y accesibles de "Házlo tu misma".

¡Pero sólo funciona si todas compartimos nuestras ideas e innovaciones!

REGÍSTRATE AHORA

Empezando:

Hay varias maneras de empezar en el Public Lab. Hacemos una llamada abierta todos los martes para dar la bienvenida a las recién llegadas, y conectar a la gente con los recursos e ideas disponibles en Public Lab. Si estás lista para empezar ahora, mira algunas cosas que puedes hacer para empezar:

¿Tienes alguna preocupación o pregunta sobre el medio ambiente en la que te gustaría recibir apoyo? Aquí hay algunas cosas que puedes hacer en Public Lab:

• Publica una pregunta usando el foro de preguntas y respuestas.
• Publica un resumen de la cuestión sobre una preocupación ambiental para compartir y llegar a otras para obtener ideas.
• Busca métodos para obtener ideas de monitoreo ambiental.

¿Buscando contribuir con ideas, o apoyar la exploración ambiental de otras personas?

• Puedes seguir las etiquetas de los temas que te interesan y recibir alertas cuando la gente publique preguntas relacionadas con ese tema.
• Echa un vistazo a las solicitudes que la gente ha compartido.
• Ayuda a construir la base de código abierto de Public Lab. Visita nuestro github—code.publiclab.org.
• Haz una donación a Public Lab y ayuda a hacer crecer la comunidad y los recursos disponibles aquí.

¿Quieres saber más sobre lo que la gente comparte?

Aquí hay algunas buenas maneras de comprobar lo que la gente está haciendo:

• El tablero muestra una actualización de toda la actividad reciente en el Public Lab.
• Echa un vistazo a las nuevas entradas e historias en el blog
• Sigue a Public Lab en las redes sociales

Beneficios

• Una comunidad de diversas y útiles compañeras de investigación para pedir apoyo y consejo - al inscribirte en el sitio web puedes unirte a varias listas de correo.
• Un creciente cuerpo de investigación de código abierto y recursos para aprovechar en tu trabajo.
• Puedes usar, reutilizar, adaptar, mejorar y distribuir cualquier investigación de Public Lab sin tener que pedir permiso! (Descubre cómo en http://publiclab.org/licenses).
• Un lugar para publicar tu propio trabajo y construir un cuerpo de investigación en línea.

Responsabilidades

• Compartir lo que haces con el resto de la comunidad de investigación (a través de nuestra lista de correo y el sitio web: http://publiclab.org/join)
• Ayudar a otros a aprovechar su investigación y recursos del Public Lab.
• Citar nuestra comunidad (de la que ahora eres parte) cuando presentes o publiques tu trabajo si lo basas, o sacas ideas, de la comunidad de investigación del Public Lab

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community. For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. We also host a once-monthly OpenHour call on a selected topic, generally the first Monday of each month.

The Public Lab website is supported and maintained by contributions from a robust community of coders. We have a process for welcoming first-time code contributors. Learn more at code.publiclab.org.

If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• A community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• A growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• You may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• A place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• To share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• To help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• To cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

How to use this website

Learn more about how to use the site, the different types of pages that exist, and how best to use them here.

Bienvenida a Public Lab

¡Estamos muy contentas de conocerte! Esta página es para dar la bienvenida a las recién llegadas.

Para la gente que llega por primera vez a Public Lab, hay muchas incógnitas sobre cómo está organizada nuestra comunidad, cómo colaboramos, nuestra cultura y las relaciones personales que alimentan nuestro trabajo.

Nuestra comunidad aspira a ser un lugar respetuoso. Por favor, lee y respeta nuestro Código de Conducta.

¿Quién es Public Lab?

Somos una comunidad abierta y una red a la que cualquiera puede unirse, ¡incluida tú!

Damos la bienvenida especialmente a la gente preocupada por los problemas ambientales locales, pero necesitamos todo tipo de gente. Este es un esfuerzo de investigación colaborativa que incluye activistas, fabricantes, científicas, tecnólogas, curiosas e híbridos variados de todo lo anterior.

Estamos alojadas por una organización sin fines de lucro con personal remunerado, pero nuestro trabajo comunitario no sería posible sin nuestra red de organizadoras.

Juntas, tratamos de entender y abordar los problemas ambientales que afectan a las personas, con técnicas baratas y accesibles de "Házlo tu misma".

¡Pero sólo funciona si todas compartimos nuestras ideas e innovaciones!

REGÍSTRATE AHORA

Empezando:

Hay varias maneras de empezar en el Public Lab. Hacemos una llamada abierta todos los martes para dar la bienvenida a las recién llegadas, y conectar a la gente con los recursos e ideas disponibles en Public Lab. Si estás lista para empezar ahora, mira algunas cosas que puedes hacer para empezar:

¿Tienes alguna preocupación o pregunta sobre el medio ambiente en la que te gustaría recibir apoyo? Aquí hay algunas cosas que puedes hacer en Public Lab:

• Publica una pregunta usando el foro de preguntas y respuestas.
• Publica un resumen de la cuestión sobre una preocupación ambiental para compartir y llegar a otras para obtener ideas.
• Busca métodos para obtener ideas de monitoreo ambiental.

¿Buscando contribuir con ideas, o apoyar la exploración ambiental de otras personas?

• Puedes seguir las etiquetas de los temas que te interesan y recibir alertas cuando la gente publique preguntas relacionadas con ese tema.
• Echa un vistazo a las solicitudes que la gente ha compartido.
• Ayuda a construir la base de código abierto de Public Lab. Visita nuestro github—code.publiclab.org.
• Haz una donación a Public Lab y ayuda a hacer crecer la comunidad y los recursos disponibles aquí.

¿Quieres saber más sobre lo que la gente comparte?

Aquí hay algunas buenas maneras de comprobar lo que la gente está haciendo:

• El tablero muestra una actualización de toda la actividad reciente en el Public Lab.
• Echa un vistazo a las nuevas entradas e historias en el blog
• Sigue a Public Lab en las redes sociales

Beneficios

• Una comunidad de diversas y útiles compañeras de investigación para pedir apoyo y consejo - al inscribirte en el sitio web puedes unirte a varias listas de correo.
• Un creciente cuerpo de investigación de código abierto y recursos para aprovechar en tu trabajo.
• Puedes usar, reutilizar, adaptar, mejorar y distribuir cualquier investigación de Public Lab sin tener que pedir permiso! (Descubre cómo en http://publiclab.org/licenses).
• Un lugar para publicar tu propio trabajo y construir un cuerpo de investigación en línea.

Responsabilidades

• Compartir lo que haces con el resto de la comunidad de investigación (a través de nuestra lista de correo y el sitio web: http://publiclab.org/join)
• Ayudar a otros a aprovechar su investigación y recursos del Public Lab.
• Citar nuestra comunidad (de la que ahora eres parte) cuando presentes o publiques tu trabajo si lo basas, o sacas ideas, de la comunidad de investigación del Public Lab

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community. For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. We also host a once-monthly OpenHour call on a selected topic, generally the first Monday of each month.

The Public Lab website is supported and maintained by contributions from a robust community of coders. We have a process for welcoming first-time code contributors. Learn more at code.publiclab.org.

If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• A community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• A growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• You may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• A place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• To share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• To help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• To cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

How to use this website

Learn more about how to use the site, the different types of pages that exist, and how best to use them here.

Bienvenida a Public Lab

¡Estamos muy contentas de conocerte! Esta página es para dar la bienvenida a las recién llegadas.

Para la gente que llega por primera vez a Public Lab, hay muchas incógnitas sobre cómo está organizada nuestra comunidad, cómo colaboramos, nuestra cultura y las relaciones personales que alimentan nuestro trabajo.

Nuestra comunidad aspira a ser un lugar respetuoso. Por favor, lee y respeta nuestro Código de Conducta.

¿Quién es Public Lab?

Somos una comunidad abierta y una red a la que cualquiera puede unirse, ¡incluida tú!

Damos la bienvenida especialmente a la gente preocupada por los problemas ambientales locales, pero necesitamos todo tipo de gente. Este es un esfuerzo de investigación colaborativa que incluye activistas, fabricantes, científicas, tecnólogas, curiosas e híbridos variados de todo lo anterior.

Estamos alojadas por una organización sin fines de lucro con personal remunerado, pero nuestro trabajo comunitario no sería posible sin nuestra red de organizadoras.

Juntas, tratamos de entender y abordar los problemas ambientales que afectan a las personas, con técnicas baratas y accesibles de "Házlo tu misma".

¡Pero sólo funciona si todas compartimos nuestras ideas e innovaciones!

REGÍSTRATE AHORA

Empezando:

Hay varias maneras de empezar en el Public Lab. Hacemos una llamada abierta todos los martes para dar la bienvenida a las recién llegadas, y conectar a la gente con los recursos e ideas disponibles en Public Lab. Si estás lista para empezar ahora, mira algunas cosas que puedes hacer para empezar:

¿Tienes alguna preocupación o pregunta sobre el medio ambiente en la que te gustaría recibir apoyo? Aquí hay algunas cosas que puedes hacer en Public Lab:

• Publica una pregunta usando el foro de preguntas y respuestas.
• Publica un resumen de la cuestión sobre una preocupación ambiental para compartir y llegar a otras para obtener ideas.
• Busca métodos para obtener ideas de monitoreo ambiental.

¿Buscando contribuir con ideas, o apoyar la exploración ambiental de otras personas?

• Puedes seguir las etiquetas de los temas que te interesan y recibir alertas cuando la gente publique preguntas relacionadas con ese tema.
• Echa un vistazo a las solicitudes que la gente ha compartido.
• Ayuda a construir la base de código abierto de Public Lab. Visita nuestro github—code.publiclab.org.
• Haz una donación a Public Lab y ayuda a hacer crecer la comunidad y los recursos disponibles aquí.

¿Quieres saber más sobre lo que la gente comparte?

Aquí hay algunas buenas maneras de comprobar lo que la gente está haciendo:

• El tablero muestra una actualización de toda la actividad reciente en el Public Lab.
• Echa un vistazo a las nuevas entradas e historias en el blog
• Sigue a Public Lab en las redes sociales

Beneficios

• Una comunidad de diversas y útiles compañeras de investigación para pedir apoyo y consejo - al inscribirte en el sitio web puedes unirte a varias listas de correo.
• Un creciente cuerpo de investigación de código abierto y recursos para aprovechar en tu trabajo.
• Puedes usar, reutilizar, adaptar, mejorar y distribuir cualquier investigación de Public Lab sin tener que pedir permiso! (Descubre cómo en http://publiclab.org/licenses).
• Un lugar para publicar tu propio trabajo y construir un cuerpo de investigación en línea.

Responsabilidades

• Compartir lo que haces con el resto de la comunidad de investigación (a través de nuestra lista de correo y el sitio web: http://publiclab.org/join)
• Ayudar a otros a aprovechar su investigación y recursos del Public Lab.
• Citar nuestra comunidad (de la que ahora eres parte) cuando presentes o publiques tu trabajo si lo basas, o sacas ideas, de la comunidad de investigación del Public Lab

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community. For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. We also host a once-monthly OpenHour call on a selected topic, generally the first Monday of each month.

The Public Lab website is supported and maintained by contributions from a robust community of coders. We have a process for welcoming first-time code contributors. Learn more at code.publiclab.org.

If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• A community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• A growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• You may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• A place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• To share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• To help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• To cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

Learn more about how to use the site, the different types of pages that exist, and how best to use them here.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community. For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. We also host a once-monthly OpenHour call on a selected topic, generally the first Monday of each month.

The Public Lab website is supported and maintained by contributions from a robust community of coders. We have a process for welcoming first-time code contributors. Learn more at code.publiclab.org.

If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• A community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• A growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• You may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• A place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• To share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• To help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• To cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

Learn more about how to use the site, the different types of pages that exist, and how best to use them here.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community. For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. We also host a once-monthly OpenHour call on a selected topic, generally the first Monday of each month.

The Public Lab website is supported and maintained by contributions from a robust community of coders. We have a process for welcoming first-time code contributors. Learn more at code.publiclab.org.

If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• A community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• A growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• You may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• A place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• To share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• To help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• To cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

Learn more about how to use the site, the different types of pages that exist, and how best to use them here.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community. For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. We also host a once-monthly OpenHour call on a selected topic, generally the first Monday of each month.

The Public Lab website is supported and maintained by contributions from a robust community of coders. We have a process for welcoming first-time code contributors. Learn more at code.publiclab.org.

If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• A community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• A growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• You may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• A place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• To share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• To help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• To cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to help newcomers get started with the Public Lab community. For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how we're organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you! We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people, and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our work wouldn't be possible without our network of local organizers and community members. Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques. But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question & Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit code.publiclab.org.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (by posting on this website, see http://publiclab.org/join)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question/Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit our github.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question/Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit our github.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question/Answer forum.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit our github.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media
• Check out things going on near you on the maps page.

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Getting Started:

There are a number of ways to get started on Public Lab. We host an Open Call every Tuesday to welcome newcomers, and connect people to resources and ideas available on Public Lab. If you're ready to get going now, check out a few things below that you can do to get started:

Have an environmental concern or question you'd like support on? Here are some things you can do on Public Lab:

• Post a question using the Question/Answer system here.
• Post an Issue Brief to share about an environmental concern and reach out to others for ideas.
• Search methods for environmental monitoring ideas.

Looking to contribute ideas, or to support other people's environmental exploration?

• You can Follow tags on topics that interest you, and get alerts when people post questions related to that topic.
• Check out the requests people have shared.
• Help build Public Lab's open source code base. Visit our github.
• Donate to Public Lab and help to grow the community and resources available here.

Looking to learn more about what people are sharing? Here are some good ways to check out what people are up to:

• The dashboard shows a feed of all the recent activity on Public Lab
• Check out new posts and stories on the blog
• Follow Public Lab on social media
• Check out things going on near you on the maps page.

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

Sign up now

Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

[people:welcome]

How to use this website

...

Read more here about how to use the website.

We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome newcomers.

For people first encountering Public Lab, there are a lot of unknowns about how our community is organized, how we collaborate, our culture, and the personal relationships that fuel our work.

Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.

Who is Public Lab?

We're an open community and network that anyone can join, including you!

We especially welcome people concerned with local environmental problems, but we need all kinds of people. This is a collaborative research effort including activists, makers, scientists, technologists, curious people and assorted hybrids of all of the above.

We are hosted by a non-profit with a paid staff, but our community work wouldn't be possible without our network of organizers.

Together, we try to understand and address environmental problems that affect people, with inexpensive and accessible "Do-It-Yourself" techniques.

But it only works if we all share our ideas and innovations!

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Benefits

• a community of diverse and helpful fellow researchers to ask for support and advice -- by signing up on the website you may join several relevant mailing lists
• a growing body of open source research and resources to leverage in your work
• you may use, reuse, adapt, improve, and distribute any Public Lab research without even asking permission! (Find out how at http://publiclab.org/licenses)
• a place to publish your own work and to build a body of research online

Responsibilities

• to share what you do with the rest of the research community (through our mailing list and website: http://publiclab.org)
• to help others leverage your and Public Lab's research and resources
• to cite our community (which you're now part of) when presenting or publishing your work, if you based it on or drew ideas from the Public Lab research community.

Welcome Committee

The Welcome committee was created to do just that -- welcome people first encountering Public Lab, and provide a personal connection for explaining our culture, ethics, digital infrastructure, and organizational structure.

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How to use this website

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Read more here about how to use the website.