Staff call notes 2 27 2012

Monday February 27, 2012

Stu met with Alex of Lumcon to discuss analysis---focus on one area with four maps taken at different times, stew based on Alex advise is going to try and use the maps to figure out:
- 1) land/water area, 2) color; green vs. brown, live/dead 3) vegetation species composition/distribution
- QGIS connection, GDAL experts?
UCL ExCiteS thermal imaging in london possible collaboration
GreenMap (in NYC) plans to loan out their balloon kit, pitching projects.
iLAB going in this week - collaboration with movement people. also DJ in london?
iSPY - “distributed surveillance game show” by Flux Factory

march mapping madness --
- e-mail list of people who bought kits -- Sara to email today
  - start from people we know in those areas?
  - send out to GM list-- who is in hot areas where lots of kits sold? (http://www.batchgeo.com/map/a0e5669a009a48eb1925686cc3769fbd)
  - virtual workshops for others https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkFw5SXgMHWTdDk0bktKQUc0M0JVdlI0dzdsUzNTTXc
- Poster for this?Jeff to design
- Dates and sites for trainings? NYC will know on Feb 28.
- kits for trainings?
- Research on where to get helium?
Put Pollution On the Map 2012: Call for Counter-Cartography. Jeff making poster. Chemical, biological, thermal, landfills, sewage outflows. raising awareness about pollution in addition to mapping.
- event possibly happening one month after our “welcome workshops” in march. Involve TAC, EWG, OGAP, Tar Sands, we can start running list of places that need mapping?

Library DVDs to Shannon in NOLA
Narrated map videos: pat coyle’s contact at Sunol, maybe Alex Kolker? to democratize interpretation
New Scientist article about to go to press

new consistent viewer/embed-code going out across MapKnitter, Archive:
- https://github.com/jywarren/plots-leaflet-viewer/issues
approach glow doodle about developing public lab version?

Hire accountant and book keeper--Jeff looking and we planning to post to the list.

Public Lab Wiki documentation