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volunteers are the best resource this project could have. If you understood the project and you feel you can do something: propose it and be leader of that task. If you want help, it is good, we should speak a bit on how your skills fit the roadmap.
Do not expect to use the fbtrex infrastructure to investigate and follow persons. It is not intended for it, and the data released are protected as explained in the privacy model.
Personalization algorithm has a tangible impact on our digital and physical life. But their actions could look quite abstract. tracking-exposed want to make it practical, and your ability as a storyteller, graphic designer or video maker can fit this gap.
If specific for the context you lives, or generic for the Internet theorist, your contribution can be published on the fbtrex website, or in the medium page of tr-ex.
- long term: backend improvement, unit testing, distribution of the components (goal: scale)
- maintenance: visualization and statistics (goal: knowing what is happening in the system from any point of view)
- meta-data and analysis: the parser pipeline is one of the key assets of fbtrex. You can write a parser in your preferred language or technology. The parsers are self contained, distributed asynchronous job. They are not essential in the pipeline, and this is the simplest way to begin a collaboration. Telling us which functionality can help you in this development, would permit new supporters (finger cross!)
- visualization: figuring out how to give insightful visualization is a cross skill. We did some experiments with d3/c3 js, but the results either do not scale or looks horrible.
- web-extension: improve the client side is, maybe, the hardest task of the project. We have to deal with the constantly mutating Facebook HTML. The w-e runs in Chrome and Firefox. Has to be supported by other platforms.
Figure out privacy respectful way to do data reuse. You have to be a bit visionary and creative. We know Facebook data could be used to describe a portion of the society but has to find a way which is human-friendly. Think which phenomena you want to monitor, to understand and to map in time and space.
Search on the Internet for allies: Many groups among political activists had to use facebook because of the large outreach promises. Fbtrex investigates how much this promise fails.
Spread the web-extension for Firefox and Chrome browser as much as possible
write anything you feel related to the topic in our low-traffic page in Facebook,