🎈 Public Lab: Revisions for 'Staff call notes 1 16 12'

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warren

January 16, 2012 17:34 | over 12 years ago

Monday, January 16, 2011

today: arduino basics at Liz House w/ shannon, Leif, Joe
Water quality hackathon (March 9-10)
EcoHack- late April- 22nd- Liz- everyone ok with it, need to ask Sara and Jeff- Liz wants to bring thermal camera and several other tools
Pachube OpenLayers Mash-Up (quantitative + qualitative data)
pachube + ushahiti, real cool. Lock-in to Pachube. - way to send data back to our archives
Talk to RJ- Mt- did set up API to download data- set up for our site and then gets sent to P

Kickstarter how to videos, need to finish and post early this week
filling, camera protector, flying
has a bunch of compiling to do- instructions, Stu and Mat did bottle test
Mathew drank green hawaiian punch in the name of science
Pat Coyle gave ideas about redoing the camera mount
Mat finishing up today- video of them flying and filling the balloon- want to redo it- these three together will be the basic set of how-tos
Should do a series of follow-ups, turn balloon kits into map- someone invested in mapmaking
Organize people by region- get people in contact- regional + web meet-ups, setting up camera, how to shoot and launch, get everyone ready to fly- how we’ll get images back to PLOTS- goal is ¾
How to get them involved...
Create nested Google group for kickstarter folks- track...
Followup- regional meetups + webinars
getting people’s equipment, images, back to PLOTS
CLOSE OF KICKSTARTER ----> go to our store
for Friday 1/21
First assignemnt for them- build crash cage- send five rubberbands, send with a thank you card
Example of “pop-up store” with short 3-day sale
Assignment!

Signed public domain letter with Google
SOPA / PIPA - blackout?
http://vimeo.com/31100268
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/dec/23/sopa-stop-online-piracy-act
http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/confused-by-sopa-five-multimedia-explainers_b9466
As an organization, we should make a statement about this - Liz can get links together for what to put on splash page- timed/click through - Jeff?
Wednesday this week
Clashifier

Finalize staff meeting time- longer staff meeting to show each other tools/skills- tools/skill exchange, 4-5 days, 2nd/3rd week of April- Earth Day no, Easter no- April 8th, Adam no first week of April-
Boston- rent out a house
NY if we wanted to do around EcoHack
Cocodrie, LA - for barn raising?
could do Oakland ++++++
Aim for 2nd week in April/Oakland- overlap with a weekend- Where 2012- April 2nd-4th, Where Camp Thursday and Friday before it- April 5-10th in Oakland
Workers comp problem
Whoops today is a holiday

Saturday 21st January - Asheville Area - Collaborative mapping with Watershed of the Tuckaseegee River looking for Cherokee fish weirs in area rivers. . (rain date is the 28th)
wine testing meetup, pirateship, wed

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