Re: [DIYbio] Re: DIYbio community focused survey questions

2012/8/27 Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com>:
>
>> Why and when is my interest too. One of my aims (of this survey) is to
>> be able to put DIYbio on the fabbing map, which has been defined by
>> Troxler.
>> http://surveys.peerproduction.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/troxler-modified-map-target-groups-3.png
>
>
> I never found that diagram to be particularly useful, actually. There are
> aspects of DIYbio in all four quadrants of that map. I usually tend to think
> of DIYbio as being in the top right quadrant, but then you also have places
> like BioCurious and Genspace that are providing infrastructure (lab space
> and equipment for use by membership), and there's people building Open
> Source DIYbio hardware, etc. You can pretty much take each of those ellipses
> and add "as applied to DIYbio" to them.
>
> The other thing you should clarify for yourself is whether you want to
> survey *people* involved in DIYbio, or
> DIYbio *projects*. That is, "Who?" versus "What?".
>
> I'm involved in some collaborative projects with a bunch of people with
> very different backgrounds - many of whom hadn't done any hands-on biology
> since highschool. So if you only ask about what the project is, you'll be
> missing a lot of very interesting information! I think the fact that there
> are so many people coming from outside biology and bringing novel ideas to
> the field is one of the most exciting aspects of DIYbio.
>

I do realize that, but you can't catch all in one survey. Otherwise it
blows up in the amount of questions. " you'll be missing a lot of
very interesting information!" That depends what ever is sought after.
Thanks for the thoughts and ideas. Some of them made me think.

/Jarkko

> Patrik
>
>
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> Indeed, you are right.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 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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