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Welcome to the top-level wiki for Orcasound!

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1. Orcasound overview

Orcasound is a hydrophone network in the critical habitat of the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.

Orcasound is an open source community building free hardware and software solutions for bioacoustics and marine conservation.

Orcasound is powered by volunteerism. Some folks are divers, captains, or general volunteers who help their favorite NGO deploy and maintain a new hydrophone. Some are software designers and developers who contribute via hackathons, summer internships, or asynchronous teams. Others are retirees or working professionals who bring expertise in project management, data science, artificial intelligence, or bioacoustics to the table and build innovative new solutions for science and saving soniferous species.

Orcasound is a do-ocracy: if you can build it with open source tools and/or cheaper hardware -- and your innovative solution works for science and sustainability -- the tools don't matter so much to us.

2. Orcasound onboarding

Add intro here that is beyond what is listed in README.md?

Ideally we want to quickly route incoming volunteers through info here that everyone should have read to be part of a fruitful community, and then custom info to efficiently get them contributing.

How do you want to contribute?

2.a I want to join the UX Research and Design Team 2.b I want to join the Dev & DevOps Team 2.c I want to join Project Management Team 2.c I want to help pioneer open hydrophones and marine bioacoustic hardware 2.b I want to help maintain and expand the hydrophone network (deployments and maintenance)

• UX Research and Design Team Resources

3. Orcasound administration handbook

How is this distinct from DevOps and/or governance section? Maybe it's more of a practical guide or FAQ?

• How to add a node

  • Add intro.html file to S3/orcasite bucket
  • Add feed to live. or beta.orcasound.net
  • Add node and associated assets to Orcasound site(s), e.g. Portfolio/Project on Wordpress or new project page within orcahome
  • Add node to ML pipeline, e.g. OrcaHello (new instance, modify OrcaHello Moderator UI's location filter dropdown?)
  • Add display of new node in Google Analytics viz, e.g. Orcasound user data dashboard

• How to put node in maintenance mode?

• How to remove a node?

4. Orcasound listening handbook

Maybe this is more of a catch-all troubleshooting guide or FAQ aimed at concerned community scientists persona? Or a general FAQ broken down by persona?

Concerned community scientist FAQ:

• Player (Confirm/deny a loop?)

Professional conservation scientist FAQ:

• Moderation guide (for human or machine detections)