We are an entirely volunteer-driven project and rely utterly on people who are prepared to give a little of their time and expertise to help us move forward. Here is a list of things that we could do with some help with right now. To get involved, please contact either Brian, or John (Lloyd), our Co-Chairmen, or join the mailing list and post a hello message. We can arrange to meet the other volunteers and demonstrate the collections and artefacts.

• Virtual Reality Museum – it would be great to have a “VR museum” version of our physical displays, i.e. the nine cabinets in the Atrium, the exhibits on the walls of Floor 2, and the “Visible Store’ (G.055), all “positioned” in the detailed digital 3D-architectural model that is available of the USB building. (It would be interesting to arrange for this VR Museum to go “on tour” to headsets around campus including the Student’s Union.)
• Planning future exhibits – Do you have an idea for a story of the University’s history that could be told using our artefacts? Would you like to get involved in future exhibit planning? 
  • We are currently planning to convert one of the two displays that are devoted to Games Science to instead cover Newcastle’s Distributed Systems Research, e.g. The Newcastle Connection and Arjuna. 
  • And our ambition, when further resources become available, is to have an additional matching set of five cabinets, the other side of the main entrance to the Atrium, devoted to the achievements of, and exploiting interesting artefacts from, other Research Groups (from the School of Computing, and elsewhere in the University). Designing and planning such exhibits could start already.
• Interactive solutions – we want to make more of our exhibits interactive. This will involve programming embedded computers (Raspberry Pi) or microcontrollers and exploring technologies like e-ink displays, Infrared sensors, to activate individual LED lights
• Curating photos and videos – we are deploying sets of digital photo frames and video screens and need help to curate relevant photos and videos to display on them
• Cataloguing artefacts – we have some artefacts that are not yet catalogued, and need to be researched in order to get a description of them, take photos, etc.
• Building a site map for MOCA – The Roger Broughton Museum of Computing Artefacts website would benefit from a sitemap page that listed all of site’s various sub-page. MOCA is itself a historical artefact that we wish to preserve, but it could do with some “conservation”, e.g. the provision a convenient index, and identifying and fixing broken links.
• Slide Scanning – we have a large collection of historic slides to scan and archive.