([Google Doc link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15zkK1Fe1mBCsrL_cms3ofDoQDQ-wZ8eEWzbiJTTa8Rs/edit?pli=1&hl=en#))

_7 voting staff present_

###Collaborations###

* thermal camera - Liz + Sara? meet at a hacker space? Discuss Liz's embarrassment about going to NYC Resistor and asking for help while trying to introduce Public Laboratory as awesome. Leif could alleviate this but he’s clearly busy.
 * November workday in NYC. 19 is happening, any other day? Or should I come up to pirateship in Boston? shannon sara and jeff will be around on the 19th/20th in boston---what about a jeff/sara/liz hack day on the 20th in boston? I think that could be really cool.

* Completely separate Rio thing (jeff)) - connect with CEDAPS. Liz lead and jeff seconds.
* need to do poster printing, or make progress on that front this week
 *  Rifle, Co, OccupyOakland, Boulder community garden
 * make page on printing, compare Lulu and Adam’s printing prices
 * http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/map-printing
*  Plan hack session in louisana H2S- 2nd or 3rd week in december Cocodrie

* PLOTS website collaborations
* Spectral workbench collaborations

###Recent & Upcoming events###

* Montreal show and talks
* http://dontflush.me/ecohacknyc/ “Where’d all that shit come from?” at this weekend’s #EcoHackNYC
* do we want to co-sponsor? partner? get funding? Sometime in the next 6 months.
* Eye on Earth Summit - thank you for videos and call for more- get things online by Thanksgiving
* Barataria map production this week,

###Fundraising###

* Grant writing due/Need letters of recommendation, etc. due by Dec. 15th
 * Figure out roles. then figure out people.

* VOSS (Jan 12th/13th)
 * virtual organizations as sociotechnical systems- Virtual http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10504/nsf10504.htm

* NSF (Jan 11th)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LwQT0zvhTK1jUpLnowDXnwcvBp3cPF9uq8ageCv688I/edit?hl=en_US
    informal science

###Public Archive/Web###

* Can we talk about GMF and direction to take with this (per Shannon/Mathew email)
how does the potential of harnessing GMF as a retail/artistic piece relate to the need to get maps distributed in the Gulf Coast and other mapping communities. ?
 * how does this meet our advocacy goals in the gulf coast? how can the maps be used to promote advocacy? raises larger question of timeline in gulf.
 * back/front gulf spill/protest mapping?
 * cut edge, no “newsprint” look.

**GETTING BACK TO THE GULF**

* http://www.newschool.edu/at/help/faq/printing/plotter.html
 * 2.50,  24x34
 * can do plots (bright white paper, sometime dye colors are oversaturated but OK) for 4.49,  34x44!
 * price out poster tube shipping.
 * Can we fit text and make it single-sided?
   * how it can be useful, cartographer’s notes,

* 11”x17” contextualization + map, newsletter
* mobile touch screen phones are problematic in the field

###Organization###

* November 11th off
* Marco - sysadmin for mediamatic in the netherlands

###Field work this week###

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