Discussion questions

These are the 9 questions we are discussing at the summit now. We will be trying to get answers from the session and online (tweet with #cybersci or comment here) and build a citizen cyberscience manifesto. After the jump updated with notes from the session.

1. How can we reach 100 million volunteers?
• Make it competitive and appealing
• Offer a prize tangible incentive
• Identity or unique entry point for cc
• Deal with the gender gap
• Avoid image of just computers – create community
• Manage rapid back-end growth
• Turn credit into virtual money
• Package cc projects with software gains
• Lower the barrier  - computing as side-effect
• Treat citizens with resepect
• More media attention
• Improve the Wikipedia page
2. How do we involve the developing world
• Find out what they want to do
• Tailor your response 
• Equip the developing world
• Learn from north/south partnerships that work
• Enable participants/mobile phones
• Get CC into education
• Combine with low tech
• Pre-install CC software on computers
3. How to bring together thinking and computational volunteering?
• Dual Track projects (natural synergies)
• Finding more complex tasks that combine VC and VT
4. Where can we find sponsorship
• Approach more big companies
• Don’t sell as a free lunch
• Make the economic argument
5. What is the metric for success? 
• Solve a major problem
• Volunteer satisfaction and clear accountability
• Solve 3 to 5 minor projects in a limited time
• Use the metrics of the funding agencies
• Retention of volunteers
• Volunteers published in scientific journals
• More media coverage of discoveries by volunteers
• Brand name recognition
• Changing the view of governments
6. How can we avoid over population?
• Don't worry, the strong will survive
7. How to we reach 10,000 scientists?
• Charity engine
• Reduce barrier to entry
• Remove distiniction between professional and citizen scientists
• Disruptive data
• More marketing people
• More barbecues
• Open science
• Open data
• Open source
• Linked data
• Scientific journals
8. How to we get citizen cyberscience into schools?
• Involve mre students to these meetings
• Link CC to education standards
• Efforts to reduce fear of science
• Find advocate
9. How do we get appropriate communities together?
• Clearing house for best practices
• Learn from pen source community
• Create a CC journal
• Closer collab between citzens & scientists
• Engaging laypeople
• Organize in person events for volunteers