Currently, Mito only works in Juptyer Lab version 2.0. We don't work in either Jupyter Notebooks, Jupyter Lab 3.0, or Google Collab. However, we'd love to expand to those in the future.
Since we only support Jupyter right now, about half of the early Mito users are using it locally and the other half are using it on a hosted version of Jupyter Lab, which just makes it really easy to get setup without worrying about Python installations.
This is theoretically possible but practically the cost would be too high for an average consumer to do this right now. Right now, to learn about an organism's DNA, we'd have to first (1) sequence the DNA (actually read the raw DNA in) and (2) analyze the sequenced DNA. iGenomics is free and so the "DNA tricorder" software is free. However, the most affordable DNA sequencer as of now is the Oxford Nanopore MinION (https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion), which starts at about $1000. Oxford Nanopore is working on a more portable, and hopefully more affordable version, called the SmidgION (https://nanoporetech.com/products/smidgion) that they hope to have out within the next few years.
I'd estimate we are about 3 - 5 years away from hitting the point where ordinary people start to own DNA sequencers.
Worth noting, while DNA could be useful here, there's likely more affordable ways to differentiate between plants today.
I am using open-source video call platform Jitsi, which from my experience only worked fully reliably with Google Chrome (user feedback has been about issues with Safari/Firefox).
Great feedback with the desert cart :)
Interesting thing to think about with the meta topic! What is your perspective on that?
Perhaps establish the category as a (named?) thing, so comparison websites et al start listing and discussing? That process provides opportunities for blog posts, news articles, talks. Not my field - maybe this is already in progress.
For a tech audience, hmm...
Some tech meetups are hoping between conferencing setups. If ten+ people can be supported, perhaps offer it as a meeting venue. Also, some groups do "ambient" social, on slack or discord or such. Though my impression is small differences in onboarding friction have a big impact there.
Some fan populations, like around SpaceX, support a diversity of active communities (on reddit, facebook, websites), apps, video series, assorted small-scale commercial stuff, etc. Adding a "place to video chat about SpaceX topics" might fit right in. Events, like launches, might offer "try it now, rather than putting it off" activation energy.
Generalizing the above pattern of "might fit well with community niche X", perhaps ask current users "what communities/contexts might this be a good match for, and what might we do to support advocates/adoption there?". Perhaps think of the community advocate/champion, or the community itself, as being a customer or unit of adoption, and smooth that path?
