Friday, January 27, 2012

Collaborations

• Olin College update - Jean Huang - working with extremophiles and yeast
• Alex Kolker - lit review, test for false positives in the environment using paper
• Gulf Coast Restoration Network - End of Feb, 2 day balloon mapping training led by Shannon and maybe Adam

Recent & Upcoming events

• Revisit staff meeting dates- need WhereCamp date, other schedules posted on calendar
• TAC meeting boston March 3rd can anyone go?- Jeff yes
• Thermals Flashlight workshops Providence and London
• London Mapping Meet up?
• Springfield MA TAC Balloon flight?
• Oakland, LA meet ups
• Asheville - Warren Wilson College 9 FEB 2012 - Balloon Mapping
• Webster, NC - Cherokee Fish Weirs with Watershed Association of the Tuckaseegee River - Balloon Mapping - high school kids too
• Sprout - Spaghetti Dinner Thermal Photography January 30th/31st

Fundraising

• Kickstarter: last three days push- wait till April for next one
• Breadpig: storefront next week
• Submitted EPA Urban Waters grant for $60k
• Working on EPA EJ grant and 2 NSF grants for next week
• When can we have extended fundraising conversation? --Next Wednesday?
  • tool talk times on Friday- run a call in- do split up calls- different time of day
  • github for open hardware
  • need to do better bug tracking on the tools- consolidating documentation
  • joint staff/research community lead on each tool

Public Archive/Publications

• Google Public Domain license up and running- doing blog
• Liz, Sara, Shannon going to do thermal flashlight guide/video

Web

• archive for interview audio? Shannon, Jeff, Matt? All have audio- web server/downloads folder- Jeff doing more at Gowanus- voice recorder- doesn’t have vr anymore

Organization

• Health care: Jeff did you get the health care package? Sara will put together primer on how we each get started--cards for everyone, finding doctors etc...
• Workers comp!
• New Scientist-Thermal Flashlight-want to do a video
• When are we doing tool meetings? Next Friday during staff call
• Opening money Market- everyone said yes
• Filmmakers for doing challenge- three have said yes, others?

Field work this week

• Sara-would like to figure out follow up interview process for GRM--sounds like Jeff, Mat and Shannon have already done some interview--can we archive them somewhere?