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Design for a Thriving UX Ecosystem
As social media technologies and computer-supported, collaborative activities become more ubiquitous in people's work and everyday lives, UX professionals need to expand their skills and focus to take on broader experiences than just individual users engaged with single applications. It is crucial to understand people as social, cultural, and organizational components who are linked to other people, other technologies, and loads of information.
The UX field is primed to step beyond just designing applications, and it's time to start thinking about the UX ecosystems in which these users and applications exist. The best way to begin that transition is to think in terms of biology.
What Is an Ecosystem?
Biologists generally use the term "ecosystem" to refer to the deeply interdependent relationships between animals, plants, natural resources, and geography within a specific environment. In other words, there are no animals, plants, rocks, or rivers that exist in a vacuum; they are intricately tied to one another in complex ways and through sophisticated relationships. Changing any one of these actors within an environment can radically alter how the others behave individually and how they interact with one another.
This concept of systems of discrete but interdependent components is useful for UX professionals to keep in mind while tackling systems that link people and technologies through complex information spaces. It is helpful to synthesize the current knowledge of usability, information architecture, interaction design, and user research with the idea of a biological ecosystem. Doing so develops a richer understanding of how people work with one another and apply it to design.
The UX Ecosystem
In my own research for my doctoral dissertation and in the UX design work I do at The Nerdery, an interactive design and development shop near Minneapolis, I approach UX with this working definition of a UX ecosystem:
A UX ecosystem is a set of interdependent relationships that emerge between components within an information environment. These components include:
- People who are managing information, sharing data with one another, and collaboratively building knowledge for themselves or an organization.
- The goals and practices of these people, both as individuals and as collaborators.
- The digital and analog technologies that they use to share information and interact with one another in meaningful ways.
- The information that these people share and value for their individual and collaborative purposes.
UX professionals must seek to understand and design experiences in ways that stretch beyond individual users and their lone interactions with a website, application, or system. These individuals and their tools are always linked to a menagerie of other people, devices, and groups in the ecosystem.
Nobody works alone, and UX designers need to learn more about the relationships users maintain with other people and technologies. By seeking to answer questions like, "How do users form meaningful interactions with one another through their communication?" it is easier to design for a series of complex relationships embedded within a culture and implemented through numerous social practices and technologies.
The ecosystem asks us to see a digital space or product as a web of complex relationships through which people form meaningful experiences. These relationships are critical elements of the user experience. Tracing them can help us design better experiences for the people who use our products and make them stronger participants in the ecosystems in which they operate.
Three Major Implications of Ecosystems Thinking
Thinking about ecosystems requires several important shifts in a UX designer's work. The three items highlighted below are crucial starting points for UX professionals who take a more systematic approach to researching and designing for ecosystems.
Users as participants
An individual is not a user of a product. Instead, the individual is an active component in the management of information and production of knowledge with value to that user, the user's community, and his or her organization.
The illustration above is a generic model based on several projects our UX team has worked on at The Nerdery and was created by my colleague and research partner, Jonathan Lamb. The goal in these projects has been to map people and communication practices that The Nerdery is designing for. Using this practice helps illuminate how applications function as communication tools within relationships, and how different interfaces within the same applications are really tools for transforming information as it passes from one person to another.
This approach helped the members of our UX team realize that they weren't just designing for a user, or several different user roles. Rather, they were designing for a community with its own social standards and communication practices that were built on organizational roles and expectations.
Moreover, participants in this professional development community may come and go from the ecosystem at any time. When a participant leaves, the relationships within the ecosystem change in order to compensate for the loss. Information that moves within the ecosystem must take a different route, changing the ecosystem and the user experiences that are possible. A new person may take on the role left vacant by the person who left. Or an existing participant in the ecosystem may try to temporarily absorb the responsibilities of the vacant role until it can be filled by a new person. The community is also able to expand beyond the walls of the organization to offer professional development services to outsiders. So, the community can temporarily expand and contract at any time.
Interfaces as Mediating Proxies
Along those same lines, it becomes important for UX designers to see interfaces as more than on-screen interactive elements for a single user. In a discussion of technological innovations and their impact on UX, Sean Scott emphasized the possibilities of "building an ecosystem where each touchpoint adds to the experience rather than just repeat[ing] it." A person's experience now includes more and more devices that present information in unique ways. User interfaces become proxies that mediate communication between participants.
For instance, in the relationships traced in Figure 1, the same information may be presented to different participants through very different tools with different interfaces. Some may rely on their desktop computers, while others may rely on Android or iOS devices. Each presents not just design constraints in UI, but also technological constraints in how information can be managed, parsed or segmented, and distributed. The application is one tool through which this community may work to communicate and solve problems, but the community uses numerous other tools that are important for us to analyze and account for.
Relationships as Agents of Change
In this context, information is a dynamic and valuable resource that moves from one component to another: from person to person; from person to website; from website to paper; from paper to person; and so forth. Through this movement, information can and usually does change. In fact, this change is most often the point. Such ecosystems are intended to support change in some way.
I like to think of this change as a persistent evolution of the characteristics of both people and technologies within the ecosystem. This evolution sustains participants, other ecosystem components, and their goals as long as possible within the ecosystem. People want to improve their knowledge or their skills. The relationships through which participants interact with one another become avenues through which change is made possible. The tools UX professionals design are one of the vehicles through which these relationships are supported within the ecosystem.
In UX work, this means designing tools that ultimately help sustain this change. It means trying to help people improve the ways that they manage information within social spaces, not just as content within a UI. It means trying to help organizations improve internal communication and practices within and across departments. And it means trying to help businesses improve the ways in which they interact with customers and form lasting emotional and consumer relationships.
None of this is to say that designers can cast off their current processes or stop looking at individuals or single applications. It is more important to add to current approaches so that we designers are always aware that these people, groups, and technologies co-exist in a much bigger context. The individual's goals and motivations, routines and processes, and the tools that he or she uses are always interconnected with other people, technologies, and practices. And other ecosystem components become crucial to the user's experience with the applications, websites, or other tools UX professionals design.
As the UX field grows to include an ever-expanding array of disciplines, designers are better equipped than ever to think about User Experience Ecosystems. More and more, this work is tackling not just interfaces and workflows, but brands, communities, creative and social strategies, and cultural practices. By thinking about ecosystems, designers endow themselves with the ability to develop useful tools for looking at these elements as interrelated pieces that support participants who make use of the tools they so passionately create.
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Love the article, and not just because my degree was in biology! In a networked B2B space envisioning a collection of applications as a global ecosystem will help those struggling with "what application does this feature belong in?" versus thinking about how it fits into the users' tasks and relationships with their trading partners.
Those are great questions. I think of Service Design as another interesting and useful tool for exploring and designing ecosystems. When we get to dig into this type of research for our projects (it doesn't happen for every one), we're not always interested in mapping specific sequences of processes. Our goal is to map out as many people, web sites and applications, and devices that are relevant to people within a given space. We're mostly asking how those people collaborate to produce knowledge, and how they assemble other things around them to do that. Instead of looking at this as a linear set of processes that we can script out through the design of a single application, we want to know what the social interactions are like within their work contexts and how a new application might fit in. This way, we can identify how the site or app we're designing might need to interface with other tools, what information it needs to present to different people, and how it needs to do so. More importantly, we've been able to anticipate how the product we're designing might need to adapt to new developments within the ecosystem because we have a stronger understanding of how the people, technologies, and practices are interconnected.
For large-scale projects, I've become a big proponent of first mapping out the social and cultural relationships that people have within their digital spaces, and how they use the tools at their disposal within those relationships. This is often a HUGE logistical challenge in terms of time and money, so it's difficult to convince clients that the work is worth the investment. But for the projects we've been able to approach in this way, there have been significant benefits to both the product and the business.
Interesting article, but how do you see this as been different to Service Design? Or is the idea of an ecosystem a bridge that steps UX into the much wider world of designing for the complete end to end experience?
Great article, this is very much in keeping with my own feelings about UX design. During the early days of my PhD I found the work of Mark Weiser very interesting and much of the last 10 years for me have been working in Ubiquitous Computing. His notion of tabs, pads, and boards surround our everyday life with multiple interaction surfaces being worked upon at anyone time to complete a task. I love the focus on UX as an ecosystem, I was part of a multi-disaplinary group and as such worked with sociologist psychologists as well as other designers and developers like myself. This really helped me think much more holistically about my approach to system design and the user experiences that they afford. Some of the most prominent literature that I often drew from were, Lucy Suchman's, Plans and Situated Actions, Ervin Goffman's, Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, and Buxton's, Sketching User Experiences all of which I was reminded of by this article.


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An injury-time strike by Hal Robson-Kanu saw Fulham forced to settle for a draw in a thrilling contest at Reading on Saturday. |
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An injury-time strike by Hal Robson-Kanu meant Fulham were forced to settle for a draw in a thrilling contest at Reading on Saturday.
Dimitar Berbatov's late effort looked set to give Fulham the points, but substitute Robson-Kanu bundled home the equaliser in the dying seconds to ensure a share of the spoils at the Madejski Stadium.
Reading had led 1-0 at the break through Mikele Leigertwood's screamer, but second-half goals from Bryan Ruiz (61) and Chris Baird (77) put Fulham in front, only for Garath McCleary to make it 2-2 with five minutes left.
Berbatov (88) then put Fulham back into the lead with a curling strike and that looked set to give the Whites the points. But again Reading came from behind to draw level in the last few seconds of the game through Robson-Kanu.
Martin Jol made two changes from the side that had beaten Aston Villa last time out, with Mahamadou Diarra and Damien Duff replacing Steve Sidwell and Mladen Petrić respectively. Hugo Rodallega started in attack, with Berbatov deployed in a deeper role in front of the midfield four. Ruiz returned to the substitutes' bench after injury, but there was no place in the matchday squad for Alexander Kačaniklić. Former Fulham loan men Pavel Pogrebnyak and Nicky Shorey started for Reading.
And it was the ex-Whites pair who created the first opening of the game in the eighth minute. After Sascha Riether had half-cleared a Jason Roberts cross, Shorey picked up the loose ball and his clipped centre was nodded inches wide of the far post by Pogrebnyak from five yards out.
Fulham, for their part, were playing some neat, passing football. Inevitably, the main focus of their attack was Berbatov and it was the Bulgarian who had the Whites' first effort on 16 minutes, but his long-range strike flew over the target. Diarra then let fly on 26 minutes, with his drive from distance going well over the bar after Duff's corner had only been cleared as far as the Mali international.
Two minutes later, Reading were in front. Jobi McAnuff cut in from the left and played the ball across to the onrushing Leigertwood, who smashed a right-footed shot into the top left-hand corner of Mark Schwarzer's goal from 25 yards out. It was a fine strike, but Fulham will have been disappointed not to have picked up the late run of the Reading man free.
Fulham's best chance of the opening half came in the 37th minute. Duff wriggled into space on the right and floated a cross into the box. It was inch-perfect for Rodallega but the Colombian sent his header straight at Alex McCarthy from the edge of the six-yard box.
With two minutes of the half remaining, Duff met a Kieran Richardson cross but saw his shot go wide of the near post and proceedings then came to a close from an opening 45 minutes in which Fulham had failed to really get into gear.
Reading made the early running in the second half and Pogrebnyak couldn't make proper contact with a Jimmy Kebe cross after Schwarzer had failed to get fingertips on the delivery. Schwarzer then had to be alert to save at the feet of Roberts after the striker had bundled his way into the box.
Jol responded to Reading's early second-half dominance by replacing Rodallega with Ruiz on 58 minutes, a move which saw Berbatov pushed further upfield. The switch made almost immediate dividends with Ruiz hauling Fulham level with an absolute belter on 61. The Costa Rican collected Duff's pass on the edge of the area and hit a superb left-footed drive past a stranded McCarthy to claim his first goal of the season.
Fulham had the bit between their teeth now. McCarthy did well to deal with a dangerous Riether cross, before Berbatov twisted and turned but fired into the side-netting. Jol made his second change on 68 minutes, replacing Duff with Ashkan Dejagah.
Against the run of play, Reading fashioned a chance through Kebe, whose curler from just outside the box was saved by Schwarzer, with the Australian gratefully pouncing on the loose ball.
At the other end, Baird saw an effort before deflected just wide. But from the resulting corner in the 77th minute, the Fulham man met Ruiz's near-post delivery to flick his header past McCarthy for his second goal in as many weeks. The Northern Irishman injured himself in the process as he slipped upon landing and was substituted for Sidwell.
Fulham, however, couldn't hold onto their lead and with five minutes to go, the Royals were level when McAnuff's cross was slotted home from close range by substitute McCleary.
The action wasn't over though. Sidwell fed Berbatov just inside the box and the striker curled a superb shot past McCarthy and into the far corner.
But again Fulham couldn't hold on and when the Whites conceded a free-kick on the edge of the area, Robson-Kanu was quickest to react to Shorey's delivery and prod home the equaliser.
Competition: Barclays Premier League
Date: Saturday 27 October 2012
Kick-off: 3:00pm
Venue: Madejski Stadium, Reading
Attendance: 24,093
Referee: Michael Jones
Line-up: McCarthy; Cummings, Mariappa, Gorkss, Shorey; Kébé (Robson-Kanu 80'), Leigertwood, Tabb (McCleary 69'), McAnuff; Roberts, Pogrebnyak (Le Fondre 80')
Unused substitutes: Federici, Gunter, Pearce, Hunt
Manager: Brian McDermott
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Unused substitutes: Stockdale, Senderos, Karagounis, Petric
Manager: Martin Jol
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2 | Manchester United | 8 | 18 |
3 | Manchester City | 8 | 18 |
4 | Arsenal | 9 | 15 |
5 | Everton | 8 | 15 |
6 | Fulham | 9 | 14 |
7 | Tottenham Hotspur | 8 | 14 |
8 | West Bromwich Albion | 8 | 14 |
9 | West Ham United | 9 | 14 |
10 | Swansea City | 8 | 11 |
11 | Newcastle United | 8 | 10 |
12 | Stoke City | 9 | 9 |
13 | Liverpool | 8 | 9 |
14 | Sunderland | 8 | 9 |
15 | Wigan Athletic | 9 | 8 |
16 | Norwich City | 9 | 7 |
17 | Aston Villa | 9 | 6 |
18 | Reading | 8 | 4 |
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Annual to shrub [tree, vine], glabrous to hairy, generally aromatic. Stem: generally erect, generally 4-angled. Leaf: generally simple to deeply lobed, generally opposite, generally gland-dotted. Inflorescence: generally cymes, generally many in dense axillary clusters surrounding stem, generally separated by evident internodes or collectively crowded, spike- or panicle-like, occasionally head-like or raceme, subtended by leaves or bracts; flowers sessile or pedicelled. Flower: generally bisexual; calyx generally 5-lobed, radial to bilateral; corolla generally bilateral, 1–2-lipped, upper lip entire or 2-lobed, ± flat to hood-like, occasionally 0, lower lip generally 3-lobed; stamens generally 4, epipetalous, generally exserted, paired, pairs generally unequal, occasionally 2, staminodes 2 or 0; ovary superior, generally 4-lobed to base chambers 2, ovules 2 per chamber, style 1, generally arising from center at junction of lobes, stigmas generally 2. Fruit: generally 4 nutlets, generally ovoid to oblong, smooth.
± 230 genera, 7200 species: worldwide. Many cultivated for herbs, oils (Lavandula, lavender; Mentha, mint; Rosmarinus, rosemary; Thymus, thyme), some cultivated as ornamental (in California Cedronella, Leonotis, Monarda, Phlomis). [Harley et al. 2004 Fam Generally Vasc Plant 7:167–275] Moluccella laevis L., shell flower, historical waif in California. Satureja calamintha (L.) Scheele subsp. ascendens (Jordan) Briq. reported as alien but not naturalized. Salazaria moved to Scutellaria; California Hyptis moved to Condea, California Satureja moved to Clinopodium. —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Annual to shrub, ± gland-dotted, scented. Leaf: entire to serrate, margin flat or wavy; petioles 0 or present, often grading into blade. Inflorescence: flowers in compact clusters of >= 1 per main stem, these occasionally arrayed in panicles (rarely spikes); flowers 3–100 per cluster; bracts generally erect in a cup-like involucre or reflexed, reduced in size inward, leaf-like to membranous in texture, green or straw-colored to rose or purple, linear to ovate, acuminate to acute or obtuse. Flower: calyx 5-lobed; 4–25 mm; corolla white to purple or yellow to red, weakly bilateral, upper lip erect, 2-lobed, lower lip recurved, 3-lobed; stamens 4; style unequally 2-lobed.Key to Monardella
> 30 species: western North America. (Latin: small Monarda) [Elvin & Sanders 2009 Novon 19:315–343; Epling 1925 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 12:1–106; Jepson 1943 Fl California 431–444] Complex; study needed; many taxa intergrade; flower cluster width and bract orientation given for pressed specimens. Leaf length including petiole, if present. M. Brunell authored Monardella follettii (in part), Monardella odoratissima (in part), Monardella palmeri, Monardella purpurea, Monardella sheltonii (in part), Monardella stebbinsii, Monardella villosa (in part).
Unabridged references: [Abrams 1951 Ill Fl Pac Sts V III:648–660]
Annual, erect, branched. Stem: 9–65 cm, short gray-hairy (puberulent) or glandular-hairy. Leaf: petioled, 15–60 mm, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, hairs short. Inflorescence: flower cluster 5–30 mm wide; bracts 5–15 mm, narrowly to widely ovate, acute to acuminate, occasionally stiff-pointed, short-hairy, green to scarious between veins, veins converging at tip, cross-veins present or 0. Flower: calyx 5–7.5 mm, 12–16-veined, ± glabrous to scabrous externally, except generally with cluster of spreading hairs at base of sinus, densely ± appressed-hairy on inside of lobes; corolla 12–15 mm, rose to purple, hairy, tube exserted, tips of upper lobes with prominent gland; stamens exserted. [Online Interchange]
Stem: 9–30 cm, purple, glandular- or short-hairy distally. Leaf: 15–40 mm, ± lanceolate. Inflorescence: flower cluster 5–20(30) mm wide; bracts 5–7 mm, acute, cross-veined, outer short-hairy, green or purple-tipped, inner weakly scarious. Flower: calyx 6–7 mm, 13–14-veined; corolla 12–14 mm, purple.
Open, rocky, occasionally disturbed sites; grassy openings in chaparral, woodland; < 2000 m. s Peninsular Ranges; northern Baja California. [Monardella lanceolata A. Gray, in part in TJM (1993); Monardella lanceolata var. microcephala A. Gray; Monardella peninsularis Greene] Intergrades with Monardella breweri subsp. lanceolata in Peninsular Ranges. May–Aug [Online Interchange] {CNPS listed}
Previous taxon: Monardella breweri subsp. lanceolata
Next taxon: Monardella candicans
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With runs tough to come by thus far this season, the Braves have relied on their starting pitching. And manager Fredi Gonzalez will have right-hander Ervin Santana going against D-backs left-hander Wade Miley in the second game of the three-game weekend series at Chase Field on Saturday night.
With season-ending elbow injuries and Tommy John surgery for Brandon Beachy and Kris Medlen near the end of Spring Training, the Braves went out and signed free agent Santana, who is 5-2 with a 4.10 ERA.
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Miley, in his third full season, has been erratic. He's 3-6 with 4.85 ERA, far off his rookie 2012 season when he won 16 games and the D-backs took the National League West title.
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After giving up four home runs against the Reds on Sunday, Miley is second in among National League pitchers with 14 home runs allowed.
The D-backs' 27-year-old left-hander hasn't given up fewer than three runs in a game since giving up two in a win against the White Sox on May 10.
Miley is looking to turn his run of bad luck around against the Braves on Saturday.
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Despite his struggles, Miley has been fairly successful in keeping opposing bats off the ball. In his last two games, he has struck out a combined 20 batters, including a career-high 11 punch outs against the Padres on May 27.
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The Braves came into the series 23rd in the Majors with a .240 team batting average and 29th with 199 runs scored. Yet, they were tied for first with the Marlins in the National League East.
At times, the Braves have trouble scoring runs.
"Sometimes we do and sometimes we don't," Gonzalez said. "It is what it is. I don't even know what day it is. Today is Friday, so the afternoon game on Wednesday, they were asking if I was frustrated. Not really. Sometimes we score runs and sometimes we don't, but when we do we usually score a lot."
The game Gonzalez was talking about was a 2-0 home loss to the Mariners and Hisashi Iwakuma.
The Braves have only scored in double digits once this season, a 10-2 win over the Nationals at Turner Field on April 13.
"It's totally random and that's why you don't get frustrated," Gonzalez said. "It's the makeup of the lineup. It didn't start with this year. If you look at the history of some of our guys, they have a tendency to do that stuff."
Worth noting
• D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said he plans to start Didi Gregorius at second base on Saturday. Gregorius has played only 2 2/3 innings at second base in the Major Leagues, but worked at position in his last stint at Triple-A Reno.
• In six games vs. the D-backs last year, Braves left-fielder and former Arizona star Justin Upton batted .409 (9-for-22) with a two-run homer.
• The D-backs' winning percentage of .563 (18-14) is the third best in the National League since April 30.
• Craig Kimbrel recorded his 155th save on Friday night and passed John Smoltz as the franchise leader in that department.
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[edit] Noisebridge Boilerplate
At various levels of verbosity:
[edit] 100 words:
noisebridge hackerspace
Noisebridge is an open workspace dedicated to creativity and technology. Our guiding principle is "be excellent to each other". Noisebridge is a do-acracy so if you think something needs improving or fixing, go for it! Everything is available 24/7 for use by anyone, except our member shelves. If you like Noisebridge, please donate $10 in our donation bins around the space. If you use Noisebridge regularly, set up a monthly donation or become a member.
More on our crazy anarchist ways, with circuit diagrams : https://www.noisebridge.net/
Subscribe to our announcement email list: http://nburl.net/nbannounce
Or our discussion list: http://nburl.net/nbdiscuss
[edit] 200 words
noisebridge preamble
Noisebridge is a space open to anyone interested in the creative uses of technology. You and anyone else are free to use the space and most of its contents at any time: just ring the doorbell at 2169 Mission Street to come in.
Noisebridge is inspired by its fellow hackerspaces all around the world, from Alberta to Zurich. If you'd like to know more about how we work, and what we offer, visit the website at http://www.noisebridge.net/, or join the weekly Tuesday meeting at 8PM.
Noisebridge is solely supported by individual donations by its users. You can donate through PayPal on our site or in the donation bins across the space. If you use Noisebridge regularly, set up a regular donation. A $10-$40 monthly subscription is a great way to ensure Noisebridge stays around. You can also become a member, which means you can take part in decisions about Noisebridge -- but you don't have to be one to use our space.
You can also keep Noisebridge running by helping out in the space. Noisebridge is a "do-ocracy": if you think something needs improving or fixing, feel free to go ahead and do it.
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being a guide in which it is explained wtf
- What is Noisebridge?
We're a hackerspace, an open environment for makers, tinkerers, artists, to explore and teach technology, art, science and craft. We've been going since 2007. Noisebridgers have built space balloons, robots, scarfs, biosensors, food, and everything around you.
Who can take part?
Anyone, anytime. Noisebridge is open 24/7 for everyone to use. Yes, this means you! If you see something that might be fun, start hacking on it.
- How is it run?
Our first and only rule is "be excellent to each other". Our main way of organizing is "do-acracy": if you see something that needs to be done, just step in and do it. We're not big on formality here, and we think you might already be smart enough to help us. Yes, this still means you! Super-official Noisebridge business is made through consensus at our weekly Tuesday meetings at 8PM. Come along to find out more. Other events are listed on our website, https://www.noisebridge.net/
How is it financed?
As a 501(c)3 non-profit, we rely on donations, which are tax deductible. There are donation bins across the space. If you like what we do, please drop $10 as you go. If you use Noisebridge regularly, you should set up a regular monthly donation - we accept Paypal, checks, cash and bank orders. Any amount is gratefully received.
- How can I help?
Any way you want. Start a class in our classes, begin a cool project, wash a dish in our sink, or take out a trash. If you'd like to become more involved in the space, become a member! Members get shelf-space, the adoration of the crowd, and a greater role in deciding the direction of the space. See http://nburl.net/member for how to start.
- Where can I find out more?
Our website is a wiki at https://www.noisebridge.net/ . Read it for more information, edit it if you know something we don't. We think you do. We like you already.
[edit] It's Borken!
Things that are borken and probably need to be fixed:
Our Safety page is seriously out of date.
The touchscreens. Oh, my the touchscreens.
The Finance page oculd do with a refresh.
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Where do people go (or think they might want to go) when they want to find out news about noisebridge? (written 2011-06-20)
Twitter (1,500 followers)
Noisebridge announce (959 subs)
Noisebridge discuss (713 sub -- 1302 distinct addresses between nb-announce, nb-discuss)
Other Noisebridge mail lists: there are 38 lists as of edit (Miloh 23:33, 20 June 2011 (UTC))
Noisebridge front page (3,780,294 hits as of today, no idea of timeline or provenance)
Noisebridge wikipedia page (500-600 times a month according to http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Noisebridge )
IRC (120ish avg members, incl. bots)
Noisebridge blog http://blog.noisebridge.net/ (64 subscribers on GR)
Noisebridge aggregator https://www.noisebridge.net/planet/ (26 subscribers on GR)
http://5mof.net/archive/ blog (4 subscribers on GR)
From the Winter 2011 survey:
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Nb-discuss 38 39% Noiseb-IRC 4 4% Noisebridge 4 4% NB-announce 28 29% Other source 24 24%
...and how would you like to hear news about Noisebridge?
NB-discuss 19 19% NoiseB-IRC 1 1% Noisebridge 3 3% NB-announce 36 37% Other source 39 40%
[edit] To Be A Secretary
One of the things I want to do is to make sure that when I finally burn out as secretary, the secretary stuff can be passed easily onto another person, or else set off into lots of different roles, a bit like how the God Emperor of Dune did it.
[edit] What you should do
The 2300 extension on the internal Resources/Telephony phone systm should point to the secretary's mobile number. You should be able to do this by logging into the system that runs asterisk (currently it is pony) and changing the line marked 'Secretarial extension' in /etc/extension.conf to contain your cellphone.
Get your ssh key added to the secretary@pony account's authorized_keys so you can log into it.
[edit] Secretarial duties
[edit] Answer 'firstname.lastname@example.com' email
This should be primarily a redirection service, which is to say that the canonical secretarial email is:
(I think the answer is X but to be sure) I'm passing you onto somebody I think knows the real answer, who is Y.
[edit] Maintain the 311 number
[edit] Keep the membership log
[edit] Mail people when their 4 weeks are up on consensus
[edit] Keep the insurance up to date
[edit] Keep the membership rolls up to date
Actually, this is still effectively done by the Treasurer, but it should be the secretary's job.


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A Mag Job or "Magglio" refers to fellatio from a morbidly obese trashy whore wearing wrap around sunglasses made famous by major league baseball player Magglio Ordonez.
I flung open the door to find that land whale giving him a hard core Mag Job!
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It is what you get while playing the FPS game MAG while your significant other gives you either a "hand job" or "blow job".
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