059: Science All The Things! with Pamela Gay




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/jameybash"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamey Hampton</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pamela Gay: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/starstryder"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@starstryder</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://www.starstryder.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">starstryder.com</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>01:13</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Pamela Podcasting, Since…well, FOREVER!</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.astronomycast.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astronomy Cast</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofastronomy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">365 Days of Astronomy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adam Curry</span></a></p> <p><b>02:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Pamela’s Superpower: Solving Random Problems with Software</span></p> <p><b>05:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Becoming a “Reluctant Coder” i.e. Coding Out of Necessity</span></p> <p><b>10:58 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Battlestar Galactica</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> =&gt; Greek Mythology =&gt; Space =&gt; Astrophysics</span></p> <p><b>14:52 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Doing What You Have To Do vs Doing What You Love To Do</span></p> <p><b>20:27 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Goal of Podcasting and Target Audience</span></p> <p><b>23:57 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Understanding and Knowing Everything: Good? Bad?</span></p> <p><b>26:03 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Outsourcing Work as a Personal Loss and The Internet’s Graveyard of Abandoned Projects</span></p> <p><b>32:06 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Open Sourcing Work Yourself for the Benefit of Others</span></p> <p><b>36:58 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Writing Software to Engage People</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cosmoquest.org/x/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CosmoQuest Citizen Science</span></a></p> <p><b>44:22 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Crowdsourcing Requires Trust but Garners Better Results</span></p> <p><b>48:02 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Motivation of Citizen Scientists</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/cosmoquestx"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@cosmoquestx</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Join Our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b>Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b>!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Are you Greater Than Code?</b><b><br> </b><b>Submit guest blog posts to </b><a href="mailto:mandy@greaterthancode.com"><b>mandy@greaterthancode.com</b></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Jessica:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The layers of people in software and people in software and how we’re all learning. It gets hard to separate the people from the technology. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, having goals you DON’T want to achieve.</span></p> <p><b>Coraline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Seeing crowdsourcing being successful.</span></p> <p><b>Ja</b></p>