LSST EPO will be hosting an Online/Tucson BoFunconference on the topic of Citizen Science, September 12-13, 2016 with special guest Chris Lintott (Zooniverse).
For local participants, we’ll be in the Steward Building room N507 on Monday September 12 and the Scientific Conference Room (950 N. Cherry building) on Tuesday September 13.
I’m def interested in these topics, would probably participate remotely so hopefully BlueJeans can be set up for all the sessions and a detailed agenda published beforehand. thx!
i’m also interested in attending remotely (to the extent that i can, being on Hawaii time and also only being available on Sep 13). fwiw, i’m the lead of the existing Comet Hunters Zooniverse project.
If a slot remains open (or the moderator doesn’t join) at the designated time, we’ll pick one of the ideas from this community post or give Chris Lintott an opportunity to lead a discussion on a topic of his choice.
@benepo - not sure what i’ll want to lead there yet, but just checking about the GDoc link, so none of us get confused about time: when you say MST it’s actual MST, not Arizona time, right, so that e.g. 10.30 MST is 9.30 PDT ? (DST goes until some time in Nov, btw) thx!
@mssgill Thank you for requesting the clarification. Arizona’s time zone policy is annoying and evil, but alas we’re stuck with it for now. To your point, I was actually referring to Arizona time (versus MDT - Mountain Daylight Time). So 10:30 MST on Sept 12 is 10:30 PDT.
Well evil is rather a strong word there Ben, though certainly confusing for folks in other zones, yes!
In fact, the whole discussion of whether time should be changed at all is an interesting one (i read some about the history of why AZ doesn’t change when i was there) – i’d personally be a proponent of keeping it DST all year, but i know many how don’t agree with that.
Yes, my style of humorous tongue-in-cheek exaggeration probably doesn’t come across well in a digital medium. My apologies. Time zones are important and I’m sure Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts etc. had good reasons for their DST peculiarities.
I’ll try and attend some of this remotely too, thanks for setting up the BlueJeans and agenda!
Two ideas:
Where do the DM team need volunteer help from scientists? e.g. the DES team did a lot of visual scanning of raw exposures looking for residual problems from the ISR. If we have a list of things that professional members of the science collaborations could usefully do, some of them could be opened to the wider citizen science community to good effect.
An LSSTV station (on youtube or something) could produce daily programs that build up a following and both drive and reward citizen science participation. Discuss!
Regarding the YouTube idea, I’m curious to hear your thoughts on how it intersects with Citizen Science (I had considered YouTube more of a social media and passive learning experience versus the Zooniverse-style active engagement). That said, I know @josh has been tracking various popular channels like:
Ben - I’d be interested in participating/helping with the Tidal Streams project. A census of the frequency of tidal features and their morphologies, host galaxy properties, etc., would be a fantastic project. We would be happy to contribute our Subaru+HyperSuprimeCam data set toward prototyping this project! [I’ll make some nifty image cutouts of tidal features from our HSC data before the unconference.]
I’ve signed up in a time slot on the spreadsheet, and would welcome anybody else who is interested to join the conversation!
By the way - what is the provenance of the “Galaxy Streams” and “Tidal Streams” documents that are linked in your post above? We should get the authors of those involved in the conversation?
Good idea. @sjacoby put together a listserv a while back specifically for that citizen science discussion. I’m working with IT to get it reinstated, but here are the members in case you want to reach out to them with a personal invite (since I’m swamped with interviews and travel over the next week):
