- Embrace both centralized national programs and decentralized local programs
- Encourage creativity
- Encourage use of open-data standards and open-source software 
- Seek broad and diverse participation through local and traditional ecological knowledge 
- Maintain a cooperative and supportive environment for everyone, realizing everyone’s value to the advance in the field. 

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- Expanded efforts are needed to garner support for and recognition of citizen science as a discipline and an important form of volunteer service. 
- some guiding principles for the emerging community of practice

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