Barnraising 2013

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Conference Dates: October 4-6, 2013 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Travel Details: Free shuttle from MSY on Thursday PM & Monday AM

Location: LUMCON, a research station on the Gulf Coast in Cocodrie, Lousiana

RSVP for the barn raising here. (link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FmmZFUUn2fOe-xI9-gtWdge8C-nXCTS9G0D977YOwAE/viewform)

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What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers.

2013 Theme: Education: Many folks have been leading programs and writing curricula for Public Lab tools and field methods. This barnraising is dedicated to bringing these initiatives together and identifying a plan for growing education within Public Lab and with our partner organizations. By doing this we hope to better support knowledge-sharers of all varieties who are growing the community of people who can do their own environmental research.

Join the Education Working Group list:https://groups.google.com/group/plots-education

Join the Barn Raising mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/plots-barnraising

A human contact if you have logistical questions: Liz Barry (336-269-1539) or liz[@]publiclab.org; Shannon Dosemagen (504.239.4642) or shannon[@]publiclab.org; and Becki Chall, becki[@]publiclab.org.

Canoe time at the 2012 Barnraising (photo by Pat Coyle)

Planning Committees

Foodcom Jeff + [?]

Beercom Jeff + Becki + [?] (unwinding, downtime)

Gearcom + Scott + Mathew + [?] (organizing what equipment needs to be brought)

Doccom Liz + [?] (tweeting, documenting, reporting out to the online audience as things happen)

Media sharing Lots of people will be taking photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here, just edit this page and paste in the link below! Flickr tags: "publiclaboratory" and "barnraising2013". Please remember to share as Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org.

_PASTE YOUR LINKS HERE: _

Travelcom Becki head organizer, Jeff will be a driver, Shannon will be a driver + Scott can be a driver + [?] If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie, give us a heads up as to your travel deets in this google doc

Schedulecom Liz + [?] This COM will will collate ideas for sessions (add yours below) and create the schedule grid (embedded below). There will also be some open sessions for unconference-style organizing.

Session Ideas

Add your ideas for sessions here! Discuss on the Barnraising mailing list! Join Schedule Com to help turn these ideas into a real schedule (see embedded spreadsheet below)

Who's teaching what? Presentations of current educational programs in Public Lab
Who's documenting what? Presentations of curricula created around Public Lab tools, including Oil Spill Toolkit and the GeoJournalism Handbook.
Popular Activities as proven entry points to Public Lab that we could design curriculum around: http://publiclab.org/wiki/activities
Barnstars turn 1! (classic barnstars awarded for all barnraising attendees, learn how to add them to your profile page)
Public Lab value statement (draft started at Barnraising 2012)
http://www.gogamestorm.com/ for group discussion facilitation games (via Dan Beavers)
Raspberry Pi Infragram with Mathew. Buy/bring a Pi and Pi camera if you want to make one.
Flare spectrometry -- how to measure contaminants from gas flares (suggested by Jeff)
Making and launching small-run open hardware kits, crowdfunding (suggested by Jeff)
Your Idea Here :D

Logistics

LUMCON is generously accommodating our community descending on their research station, so please review their online handbook for visitors: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf

Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facility which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin.