Public Lab hosted the 2017 Barnraising November 3rd-5th at LUMCON in Cocodrie, Louisiana. The event drew 36 people from 12 states, and event brought participants from Germany and China.

Session topics for this Barnraising included:

• "Getting started" the beginnings of organizing in the face of environmental issues
• Facilitation techniques and Codes of Conduct
• Louisiana and coastal wetlands
• Existing data and citizen science
• Living with water
• Disaster response and recovery
• Community science for direct intervention/remediation
• Science in the face of denial
• Illustrated guides
• Underpinnings of technical development
• Building an antenna
• Methods and strategies for monitoring H2S
• The Public Lab website
• Microscopes and "how can communities visualize pollutants"
• Exploring problems can crowd sourcing assist
• Funding strategies for environmental monitoring
• Creating tangible games with environmental data

People coming to the Barnraising often want to share on deep topics of interest with each other. Lightning talks have become a way to engage with people's individual projects or topics of expertise that are more about decimating information (rather that requiring a sessions space where we build a collaborative environment of learning).

Lightning talks topics at the 2017 Barnraising included:

• Invasive species in Louisiana
• Exploring leaked emails
• Water born illnesses
• How codes of conduct affect email lists
• An oil monitoring project on Louisiana Beaches
• Games and building to promote learning about the environment

Questions

The Barnraiser

The Barnraiser is a daily paper print publication participants in the Barnraising work together to produce. Below are copies of the Barnraiser that came out of this event:

UPLOAD

Notes and photos that came out of the Barnraising:

[update:barnraising-2017]