Open Meeting

• sometime in April
• we should meet up a few days before to review - once we find out when the meeting is
• by skype or in person

The open meeting proposal should include:

• Your specific geographic site

  • site documentation - photos and some background/historical research

• Your specific social site -- who is there and will be affected by your work

  • interview with a local partner from your site, or perhaps an activist involved at that site
  • contact them and invite them to the meeting
  • use this as an opportunity to invite them to collaborate
  • you could propose presenting with them, or just invite them to come

• Your data set - or one you propose to take

  • if you have data, that's great! either test data, or from your real site
  • think of this as your "picture or map" of the data -- like the whiteboard exercise, but for real
  • if you don't yet have data, you can present a similar data set you find from someone else -- the EPA, for example
    • you may also present data which you are critical of, and would like to offer an alternative to
    • describe what's wrong with the data and how yours will be better

• Consider actions this might inspire -- what are the outcomes you imagine?

  • how do you want to implement it - print out the images and distribute them?
  • the process itself might be the most important, rather than the final image

Today's whiteboard exercise

Finally, by Friday, please write up a "Note" with the photo I took of your proposal.

• 3-500 words?
• next steps: will this be your proposal for the open meeting? What will you do now to prepare?

The photos are here: https://flickr.com/photos/publiclaboratory Please post this by going to http://publiclaboratory.org/note/add (you may have to sign up on the site if you haven't already)