Monday March 19, 2012

Collaborations

• collaborations: air quality sensing on balloon tether
• Water Canary meeting:
  • Are they going through with open hardware licensing? Have they published any designs yet?
  • details on how they’re doing spectral analysis, even off the record?
  • are they patenting anything? If so, maybe we don’t want to hear anything about their technology

Recent & Upcoming events

• NYC water hackathon this weekend
  • http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6447218/WaterHackathon.jpg
  • http://www.meetup.com/iotnewyork/events/50617532/
  • http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/water-hackathon
  • http://atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/kits/sds-kit.html-DIY kit for water quality liz wondering about getting kit to calibrate against?
  • http://atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/kits/do-kit.html
  • http://atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/kits/ph-kit.html
  • approach North Brooklyn Boat club about going in on equipment, confirming Ignite presentation wednesday deadline for slides
• DIY spectrometer--possible to look at luminometer--friday sensitivity
• iLand-Union Square and Washington Park. Research questions joining dance and balloon mapping. Eymund Oscar Jen Hundon organizing.
• upcoming events: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/landscape-infrastructure.html
• NYC March Mapping Madness http://doodle.com/eqb9edxy8ixnea6w

Fundraising

• Ars Electronica submitted
• SIP report due end of month? Draft due April 1
  • and a paper? links to lengths etc, and Jeff can start a doc today
• fundraising: EPA Citizen Science i've been approached by both Ned Horning (AMNH)-remote sensing online-and Darlene from science cheerleaders. Full disclosure: TreeKIT also going for this grant. Arlene-Jeff Boston-open source project Google Infrared imagery. Key to interpret imagery be on Public Lab site.
• Azavea Summer of Maps, responded, more returns later

Public Archive/Publications

• [from last staff call] Forum? Stewart co-ordinate https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nv8Xo5jlNTj--7_r_6ndbjEAMV3lUY-b2U-6IHn7zZI/edit forum template: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QQIOm47mwIzOL3td_d9cq6Jdy-rKv-tav9UTWjBeRhA/edit#slide=id.g450834c_0_4
  • sections:
    • photography--
    • interviews-shannon--Gulf Restoration Networks
    • tool features-Jeff illustrate IR?
    • maps-stew--chandeleur-islands--show bird count and species identification?
    • about the mappers-profile of chandeleur-islands Follow up on fishery?
    • editorial
    • community researcher writing piece
    • notes? letters to the editor..Yaro letter to editor?.
  • thermal flashlight tool feature from Sara, RISD group
  • Shannon lead on interviews section
• printing from archive - proper projection, white background, announcements
• http://citizensciencequarterly.com/

MISC

• Open source geiger counter - stew should/could we add this to public lab?
  • http://gigaom.com/cleantech/xbox-chumby-hacker-designs-open-source-geiger-counter/
  • How do we make our site more able accessible to people starting new research and development tools.
  • For staff meeting?
  • Ideas? ask general list? come up with review structure? come up with sets of values tech should meet? Sort pages by popularity current system?

Web

• Summer of Code follow up? Worth contacting the people who approached us? Students from Chris Walley class.
• remove from public email lists?

Organization

• MMM DC getting organized. Jeff and Stew to discuss virtual meet ups.