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.
Patrik
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> 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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>>> ---------------
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>>> 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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