grassrootsmapping - balloon and kite-mapping specific list. Lots of healthy overlap with publiclaboratory (859 members as of 5/2/2013)

plots-spectrometry - spectrometry and spectral analysis discussion list. Lots of healthy overlap with publiclaboratory (579 members as of 5/2/2013)

plots-infrared - near-infrared and vegetation monitoring discussion list. Lots of healthy overlap with publiclaboratory (23 members as of 5/2/2013)

plots-waterquality - discussion list for water quality related topics. Lots of healthy overlap with publiclaboratory (started ~Oct 13 2013)

plots-airquality - discussion list for air quality related topics. Was started for a project with EPA and is now open to all.** (started summer 2012, 14 members as of Oct 2013)

laboratoriopublico - la lista de correo en castellano -- inactivo por ahora

plots-dev - discussion list for programmers and code-related topics. (Started end of October 2013)

Local lists

Lists for announcing/coordinating local events and meetups, and asking for local help. These are shown as options upon registering at PublicLaboratory.org. Some consistency in spam handling, joining policy, and naming will be very helpful as the # of local lists grows.

Also we want to just be careful not to let research-related conversations fragment. Each list should have at least one moderator who's responsible for spam and/or willing to say "Wow! Please take this extremely interesting conversation to the main publiclaboratory list!"

• plots-amsterdam
• plots-baltimore-dc
• plots-boston (117 members as of 2/21)
• plots-butte - inactive?
• plots-gulfcoast (41 members as of 2/21)
• plots-norcal (94 members as of 5/31)
• publiclab-la (Los Angeles)
• plots-nyc (158 members as of 4/28)
• plots-philadelphia (new)
• plots-providence
• plots-skane (Sweden)
• plots-southeast

Topical Lists

• plots-education
• plotz-3d - Collaboration on using 3D printers that were donated to Public Lab by MakerBot Industries

Organizers list

• plots-organizers - leadership group of people interested in organizing and coordinating the Public Lab community (by nomination)

Working Groups (WGs)

• media@publiclaboratory.org - the media working group (by nomination)
• retail@publiclaboratory.org - the retail working group (by nomination)
• web@publiclaboratory.org - the web working group (by nomination)

Nonprofit arm lists

• staff@publiclaboratory.org - staff of the nonprofit arm
• board@publiclaboratory.org - board of directors of the nonprofit

Graphs

We are recording the growth of these lists over time on this spreadsheet and graphing the results here to track community growth. (You can also see activity over time on the Google Groups about pages)

Guidelines

(Draft) Please treat our mailing lists as a place of respectful conversation. Our lists have moderators to ensure civility. Moderators review the posts of all new members before approving them to post automatically. Some existing members may be placed into moderation if their posting pattern changes such that it violates our list guidelines (see below):

When posting to Public Lab lists:

1. Stay on topic
2. stay on topic to make long threads easier to follow
3. if you diverge from the main thread/topic/subject, consider breaking off into a new thread/topic/subject to help others follow along

4. avoid sending one-line spurious responses that effectively "spam" hundreds of people and lowers the overall content quality of a conversation

5. Mind your tone

6. Since we are in a conversation in email form, maintaining a tone of respect is essential. Any of the following can result in a member having their posts moderated before going out to the whole list: aggressive tone, disrespectful tone, mocking tone, off-color tone
7. a note on humor: expressing ourselves online in text is different from expressing ourselves in person by talking.

Before you are placed into moderation, you will be notified on the pertinent list.

References: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Code_of_Conduct_(Draft), https://hackpad.com/HOT-Code-1X2acHIN2HX