Zooniverse research (2016-2017 archive)

Playground for Jim, Darren, and Aaron to build up a project analyzing volunteer management in the Zooniverse.

Action items for next meeting

 * Read Best Practices Guide (all sections) for Zooniverse Project Builder.
 * Keep doing classifications to familiarize with projects.
 * Find a structured/methodical way to read a bunch of talk/forum interactions between Science Team members and volunteers.
 * Suggested projects included: GalaxyZoo2, PlanetHunters, Snapshot Serengeti, SpaceWarps.
 * Take notes about the kinds of interactions you observe with an eye towards which ones might embody different leadership/management practices and styles (start w. Zhu et al's "shared leadership" categories and build from there) that could lead to different volunteer behaviors.
 * reading and lit review from Zotero directory

Pending Action Items

 * Build out planning document draft based on Aaron's rough rationale for the project.
 * More reading (start w Zooniverse and shared leadership then move on from there).
 * volunteer engagement
 * (shared) leadership
 * community management
 * citizen science
 * Kevin Crowston
 * Carsten Oesterlund
 * Andrea Wiggins
 * Rob Simpson
 * Chris Lintott (academic director of zooniverse)

Meeting logs
04-04-16: talked about predicted probabilities for unrelated projects; revised and updated work goals for next week. 03-29-16: laid out plans for the quarter; set some preliminary work goals.

Goals
Spring 2016
 * Fully developed planning document including a thorough analysis plan.
 * A cleaned up dataset (variables and measures that we can model; not just raw database records).