Keenan Johnson
- @keenanjohnson
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Hey everyone, I am looking for problems I can help with! I'm a career engineer, and not an expert conservationist, so I've found that one of the ways I can support experts like yourselves is by doing things writing examples, templates and documentation etc for the different (usually confusing) software tools that are out there.I have a little bit of free time at the moment, and so if there is a problem you have, an example of something, a template you need or anything of that sort, I'd be happy to help create it and post it in the open-source world for you and others! Just let me know if you have any ideas!
13 December 2025 8:04am
Hey Keenan,
Could you use some help creating bat call spectrograms. Something that is easily viewable on mobile devices. That's something I often need to automate for posting audio calls to iNat.
Even better get iNat to do this auto-magically :D
14 December 2025 11:30pm
Hi Keenan,
Just writing to say, what a generous offer! I had so many needs a few years ago, as engineering knowledge is certainly critical to today's conservation challenges! While I don't have problems for you to support solving at the moment, I think this post is brilliant! One day, I would really love to engage with an engineer to help me develop a high-fidelity prototype of the design discussed in my past PhD research, exploring how to engage people with learning calls of critically endangered critters in gameful and playful ways. Given I don't know how to program, I used powerpoint, and conducted playtest explorations, but it would be great to expand on this further! Unfortunately, it's beyond my bandwidth at the moment. If interested in checking it out, a video of my Bristle Whistle Challenge, focused on learning a bit about Eastern bristlebirds:
Arky