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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. They are comfortable with shared authorship of space and events. Whereas formal organizations have a harder time facilitating a shared sense of space and events. How are Workshop locations selected?

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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ExhibitFiles is a community-based site launched last month to encourage the documentation, sharing, and exploration of exhibits and the exhibit design process. There's no sharing of that information. Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , Enter ExhibitFiles. Why is that?

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. It's worth pointing out that there are many people out there who use Scratch to make things but don't share them with the online community. I'm one of them.