Another way of phrasing this question is, can you distinguish between those who have a background in biology/formal wet lab experience, and those who do not have biology backgrounds but have other technical expertise such as programming, engineering, experience with Maker-style projects. For the latter group, why were they drawn to DIYbio?
In DIYBio you have people who are biology experts, and are motivated by becoming more independent of institutions . On the other hand you have people who are good at making web apps or doing arduino projects, and are interested in applying their skills to biology-themed projects.
On Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:59:09 AM UTC-4, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
Looks good. You may want to add some questions on occupation and level of background in biology. How many DIYbio'ers are highschoolers vs professional scientists? Hardware engineers vs molecular biologists?--
On Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:29:35 AM UTC-7, Jarkko (kyb3R) Moilanen wrote:Hi,
I'm planning to conduct another survey under the Statistical Studies
of Peer Production. This survey will be conducted this fall (2012)
under Statistical Studies of Peer Production (project supported by P2P
Foundation).
Results will be used in my [2] PhD about DIY communities and is part
of larger research project which consists of annual surveys among
hackerspaces, makerspaces, fablabs, 3D printing community, diybio,
etc. Previous surveys have not been directed to one rising community
(DIYbio) directly. Aim is to 'fix' that hole and get more accurate
information about DIYbio community. Intention is to make this survey
also annual and repeat it every year to get longitudinal data as well.
With the results from this survey, community could get ideas about how
to make DIYbio more successful and easier to approach. For the record,
results from previous surveys have been published in several blogs and
web journals. Some results have already ended up in academic
publications. In other words, participating in this kind of work is
not in vain :)
And as always, all anonymized survey raw data will be open sourced,
eg. put available in Statistical Studies of Peer Production site.
To give community a chance to participate in the survey also in
defining the questions, I have started drafting the questions in
piratepad: http://piratepad.net/diybio-survey . I would appreciate a
lot if you would read the questions and give feedback to me (on this
list, in the pad or directly to me). Your feedback can be a question
that should be added, reformation of existing question or something
else. All input is important to me and to make this survey a success.
Plan is to put questions in LimeSurvey format as soon as possible, but
latest around 15th Sept. To reach that goal, all comments and
suggestions for the questions should be given before that date.
Another aim (timewise) is to launch survey 1st Oct 2012. Feel free to
spread the message to all whom it might concern.
Cheers,
Jarkko
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Jarkko Moilanen, M.Soc.Sc
PhD Candidate
School of Information Sciences
http://www.uta.fi/sis/en/index.html
Blog: http://blog.ossoil.com
Statistical Studies of Peer Production: http://surveys.peerproduction.net/
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