Crowdsourcing SETI - How you can participate

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The first phase of the Allen Telescope Array consisting of 42 antennas has been built at the Hat Creek Observatory near Mount Lassen. One of its major missions is to conduct radio SETI observations from 1 to 10 GHz. Because we now have our own telescope (50 years after Frank Drake's first search) and because we've moved our signal detection efforts from custom hardware to enterprise servers, we can now do things differently. We are moving out of the cathedral into the bazaar - which is Eric Raymond's way of saying that we are trying to involve the world in our searches. setiQuest is a global community that was launched to fulfill Jill Tarter's 2009 TED-prize-winning wish

"I wish that you would empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company."

Two years of ground work, and now we are finally ready to start working with all Earthlings. On March 1 we announced two initiatives

Open Sourcing: All of SonATA (SETI on ATA) software has been open sourced, and Citizen Science: A new app to help you help us find ET is undergoing beta testing

In this talk we will demo the app, and provide information to help you get started with both, the open source part and the citizen science part. We will also talk about the history of the project, and the future. More important, we will give you information on how you can engage with the community - asking an expert, or being the expert.

Speaker: Avinash Agrawal, SETI Institute

Editors Note:  The talk originally scheduled for this date, Earth science collaborative for ecological forecasting will not be held.