Revisions for Spectral Challenge
| 29 | warren |
February 14, 2013 22:21
| about 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Spectral Challenge 2013 is a call to makers worldwide to tackle real-world environmental problems with low-cost, open source spectrometry. We're talking about the dream of taking a device you've made into your backyard and testing for heavy metals, or oil contamination, or other toxins, without needing to have a PhD or knowing how to program. What's the prize?Spectral Challenge 2013 is like an X-Prize for DIY science, but it's CROWDFUNDED -- this means that if you really believe that these challenges would benefit our society, you should back them by donating to the prize pool! Also, get the word out to find pool contributions! How's it work?There are two challenges: Stage 1 and 2. Stage 1: ProcessStage 1 is about PROCESS: in order to solve problems like cheap toxin identification, we're going to need to get better at all sorts of things, like experimental design, peer collaboration, open source documentation, user interface... Stage 1 will be awarded on June 1, 2013 by an open voting process to the team which contributes the greatest to open source spectrometric PROCESSES, with the following emphases:
Stage 2: ContaminationStage 2 is still being refined, but it will focus on the identification of a specific contaminant. Unlike Stage 1, Stage 2 will remain open until it is claimed by a winning team. It may take months or years, but the pool will continue growing until it is claimed. An open brainstorm will help us decide exactly what that contaminant will be, and how entries will be judged.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
JudgingTBA Questions to answer before we launch (chris)Stage I How to enter: Is it necessary to have a team formally enter? Will this intimidate some teams? When you enter, do your earlier research notes count? Is it better to encourage posting of early results without committing to play the game? Do I have a problem with commitment? Stage II Implications of making it open ended (prize awarded whenever someone deserves it): 1) It’s like the XPrize. 2) Hard to know when someone has won. 3) You can make the challenge last as long as you want. 4) Could get exciting if the prize pool grows. 5) Does not encourage continuous posting of results. - how to structure incentives to post regularly 6) Can maybe be won immediately by one of many graduate students. - not if the challenge specifies “legible” “accessible” “minimal expert language” “doable by non-experts” and “affordable” etc etc - but if they document their process, that’s not a bad thing! |
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| 28 | warren |
February 07, 2013 18:24
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Spectral Challenge 2013 is a call to makers worldwide to tackle real-world environmental problems with low-cost, open source spectrometry. We're talking about the dream of taking a device you've made into your backyard and testing for heavy metals, or oil contamination, or other toxins, without needing to have a PhD or knowing how to program. What's the prize?Spectral Challenge 2013 is like an X-Prize for DIY science, but it's CROWDFUNDED -- this means that if you really believe that these challenges would benefit our society, you should back them by donating to the prize pool! Also, get the word out to find pool contributions! How's it work?There are two challenges: Stage 1 and 2. Stage 1: ProcessStage 1 is about PROCESS: in order to solve problems like cheap toxin identification, we're going to need to get better at all sorts of things, like experimental design, peer collaboration, open source documentation, user interface... Stage 1 will be awarded on June 1, 2013 by an open voting process to the team which contributes the greatest to open source spectrometric PROCESSES, with the following emphases:
Stage 2: ContaminationStage 2 is still being refined, but it will focus on the identification of a specific contaminant. Unlike Stage 1, Stage 2 will remain open until it is claimed by a winning team. It may take months or years, but the pool will continue growing until it is claimed. An open brainstorm will help us decide exactly what that contaminant will be, and how entries will be judged.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
JudgingTBA Questions to answer before we launch (chris)Stage I How to enter: Is it necessary to have a team formally enter? Will this intimidate some teams? When you enter, do your earlier research notes count? Is it better to encourage posting of early results without committing to play the game? Do I have a problem with commitment? Stage II Implications of making it open ended (prize awarded whenever someone deserves it): 1) It’s like the XPrize. 2) Hard to know when someone has won. 3) You can make the challenge last as long as you want. 4) Could get exciting if the prize pool grows. 5) Does not encourage continuous posting of results. - how to structure incentives to post regularly 6) Can maybe be won immediately by one of many graduate students. - not if the challenge specifies “legible” “accessible” “minimal expert language” “doable by non-experts” and “affordable” etc etc - but if they document their process, that’s not a bad thing! |
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| 27 | warren |
February 07, 2013 15:17
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Spectral Challenge 2013 is a call to makers worldwide to tackle real-world environmental problems with low-cost, open source spectrometry. We're talking about the dream of taking a device you've made into your backyard and testing for heavy metals, or oil contamination, or other toxins, without needing to have a PhD or knowing how to program. What's the prize?Spectral Challenge 2013 is like an X-Prize for DIY science, but it's CROWDFUNDED -- this means that if you really believe that these challenges would benefit our society, you should back them by donating to the prize pool! Also, get the word out to find pool contributions! How's it work?There are two challenges: Stage 1 and 2. Stage 1: ProcessStage 1 is about PROCESS: in order to solve problems like cheap toxin identification, we're going to need to get better at all sorts of things, like experimental design, peer collaboration, open source documentation, user interface... Stage 1 will be awarded on June 1, 2013 by an open voting process to the team which contributes the greatest to open source spectrometric PROCESSES, with the following emphases:
Stage 2: ContaminationStage 2 is still being refined, but it will focus on the identification of a specific contaminant. Unlike Stage 1, Stage 2 will remain open until it is claimed by a winning team. It may take months or years, but the pool will continue growing until it is claimed. An open brainstorm will help us decide exactly what that contaminant will be, and how entries will be judged.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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| 26 | warren |
February 07, 2013 15:12
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Spectral Challenge 2013 is a call to makers worldwide to tackle real-world environmental problems with low-cost, open source spectrometry. We're talking about the dream of taking a device you've made into your backyard and testing for heavy metals, or oil contamination, or other toxins, without needing to have a PhD or knowing how to program. What's the prize?Spectral Challenge 2013 is like an X-Prize for DIY science, but it's CROWDFUNDED -- this means that if you really believe that these challenges would benefit our society, you should back them by donating to the prize pool! Also, get the word out to find pool contributions! How's it work?There are two challenges: Stage 1 and 2. Stage 1: ProcessStage 1 is about PROCESS: in order to solve problems like cheap toxin identification, we're going to need to get better at all sorts of things, like experimental design, peer collaboration, open source documentation, user interface... Stage 1 will be awarded on June 1, 2013 by an open voting process to the team which contributes the greatest to open source spectrometric PROCESSES, with the following emphases:
Stage 2: ContaminationStage 2 is still being refined, but it will focus on the identification of a specific contaminant. Unlike Stage 1, Stage 2 will remain open until it is claimed by a winning team. It may take months or years, but the pool will continue growing until it is claimed. An open brainstorm will help us decide exactly what that contaminant will be, and how entries will be judged.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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| 25 | warren |
February 07, 2013 15:05
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Spectral Challenge 2013 is a call to makers worldwide to tackle real-world environmental problems with low-cost, open source spectrometry. We're talking about the dream of taking a device you've made into your backyard and testing for heavy metals, or oil contamination, or other toxins, without needing to have a PhD or knowing how to program. What's the prize?Spectral Challenge 2013 is like an X-Prize for DIY science, but it's CROWDFUNDED -- this means that if you really believe that these challenges would benefit our society, you should back them by donating to the prize pool! Also, get the word out to find pool contributions! (pool donate button here) How's it work?There are two challenges: Stage 1 and 2. Stage 1: ProcessStage 1 is about PROCESS: in order to solve problems like cheap toxin identification, we're going to need to get better at all sorts of things, like experimental design, peer collaboration, open source documentation, user interface... Stage 1 will be awarded on June 1, 2013 by an open voting process to the team which contributes the greatest to open source spectrometric PROCESSES, with the following emphases:
Stage 2: ContaminationStage 2 is still being refined, but it will focus on the identification of a specific contaminant. Unlike Stage 1, Stage 2 will remain open until it is claimed by a winning team. It may take months or years, but the pool will continue growing until it is claimed. An open brainstorm will help us decide exactly what that contaminant will be, and how entries will be judged.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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| 24 | warren |
January 24, 2013 23:01
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Introduction here: The Public Lab Spectral Challenge will address two tasks (let's put these in 2 columns): Stage 1: ProcessGoal: Support and encourage the hundreds of people getting spectrometers who want to figure out how to use them for something interesting
Stage 2: ContaminationEncourage those with some knowledge of spectroscopy, chemistry, or environmental contamination to establish protocols for using the PLOTS spectrometer to identify environmental contaminants.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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| 23 | warren |
January 24, 2013 22:58
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Introduction here: The Public Lab Spectral Challenge will address two tasks (let's put these in 2 columns): Stage 1: ProcessGoal: Support and encourage the hundreds of people getting spectrometers who want to figure out how to use them for something interesting
Stage 2: ContaminationEncourage those with some knowledge of spectroscopy, chemistry, or environmental contamination to establish protocols for using the PLOTS spectrometer to identify environmental contaminants.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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| 22 | warren |
January 24, 2013 18:59
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Introduction here: The Public Lab Spectral Challenge will address two tasks (let's put these in 2 columns): Stage 1: ProcessGoal: Support and encourage the hundreds of people getting spectrometers who want to figure out how to use them for something interesting
Stage 2: ContaminationEncourage those with some knowledge of spectroscopy, chemistry, or environmental contamination to establish protocols for using the PLOTS spectrometer to identify environmental contaminants.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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| 21 | warren |
January 24, 2013 18:58
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Spectral Challenge 2013The Public Lab Spectral Challenge will address two tasks: Stage 1: ProcessGoal: Support and encourage the hundreds of people getting spectrometers who want to figure out how to use them for something interesting
Stage 2: ContaminationEncourage those with some knowledge of spectroscopy, chemistry, or environmental contamination to establish protocols for using the PLOTS spectrometer to identify environmental contaminants.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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| 20 | warren |
January 24, 2013 18:57
| over 11 years ago
DRAFT PAGE FOR UPCOMING SPECTRAL CHALLENGE 2013: this page is under heavy development Spectral Challenge 2013The Public Lab Spectral Challenge will address two tasks: Stage 1: ProcessGoal: Support and encourage the hundreds of people getting spectrometers who want to figure out how to use them for something interesting
Stage 2: ContaminationEncourage those with some knowledge of spectroscopy, chemistry, or environmental contamination to establish protocols for using the PLOTS spectrometer to identify environmental contaminants.
Entering
Join Public Lab and reach out over the mailing lists to find collaborators, help and advice. Organize an event in your area to find collaborators and compare notes! (add link here to Organize an Event) TimelineStage 1: End of February 2013, when final Kickstarter spectrometers ship. Ends in 3 months (end of May) Stage 2: End of May, when Stage 1 ends. Ongoing -- open until somebody wins it FundingThis is a crowdfunded prize -- anyone may contribute to the Stage 1: Process pool or the Stage 2: Contamination pool. (or all funds are split between?) 80% of the pool goes to the winning team 20% of the pool goes to support the Public Lab nonprofit to:
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