Thus far we've described three general projects under the umbrella of Fjorgyn - Flokk, Kameleon, and Mycelium. Each of these, in one way or another, tries to take advantage of the scale and power provided by the citizenry. If you think about it though, the folks involved in any one of these projects are likely the same. If I'm interested in helping develop the science around a coastal system near me, I'm probably also interested in activism around that same system. Indeed if Flokk is aware that I should be recommended a protocol or set of portals, it's not a far leap to say that I should be recommended the related activism too. The audience in Flokk, Kameleon, and Mycelium are all the same which leads to a rather useful summarization of Fjorgyn thus far:
Project Fjorgyn is fundamentally attempting to do just two things:
Create an active and engaged audience around biosphere stewardship
Facilitate the integration of this audience into biosphere stewardship
In other words, Fjorgyn is an ecosystem for the proliferation of citizen stewards.
The distinction then between Flokk, Kameleon, and Mycelium is not in what they are fundamentally trying to do or who they are trying to reach, but rather which step in biosphere stewardship they are trying to catalyze through citizen involvement. At the end of the day, they are different aspects and features of the same ecosystem.
This is a very useful thing to know because the features in each of these are only useful with the audience that surrounds them. In other words for Flokk to be valuable there have to be a lot of citizen scientists. For Mycelium to be useful there have to be a lot of activists. All of these projects are dependent upon large user bases. But what this summarization tells us, is that if we are successful at building an audience in any one of these areas we are effectively being successful at building out the audiences needed for the other areas as well. By solving this problem in one situation we more or less solve it in all three.
Thus, in the same way that our summary of goals divides into two points, the development of Fjorgyn divides into two as well.
Building out a community of engaged citizen stewards (using any or all of the areas identified)
Building out the features that integrate these stewards with the various areas of stewardship
This then consolidates the roadmap of Fjorgyn into one stream. Rather than building out three ecosystems we are actually building out one with three different feature sets. By building out any one of the feature sets we can build out the ecosystem and then, as we gain traction and development resources, we can expand into the other feature sets. All the while, the ecosystem is consistently getting built and the community growing.
Fjorgyn then is not about building citizen scientists, or citizen developers, or citizen activists in particular - instead it is about building full fledged citizen stewards.
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