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Monday, October 1, 2012

Shannon

• Goals: Get materials out for BOD meeting, balloon mapping tomorrow, barn raising (woohoo!), letter for Cindy, 4S presentation, fundraiser job description, website eval w/ Chris
• Accomplishments: OHS done, accounting pretty much done, annual report

Stewart

• BAAMA article, desktop spectrometer, archive updating/metrics
• LA maps wrapup

Adam

• Accomp - bought plane ticket to NOLA
• Goals - retail support

Mathew

• accomplishments: no longer in computer hell, not much else-- a little retail support,

Jeff

• Goals: final outreach KS, vacation days, spectrometry debugging and features,

Liz

• Goals: A lot of things to do
• Accomplishments: Survived the last 4 days of workshops, meeting w/ Design Trust- possible parallel to oil spill toolkit, which might be garden toolkit (Farm Hack, Farm Concrete- already discussions)

Questions

• Retail report done?
  • wednesday due
• Final receipts?
  • retail receipts still need organizing, right? -mathew
• Jeff- accounting questions? - upon return to MA

• next kickstarter -- point person? Jeff can do the video... but doesn't want to run the campaign.

  • thermal flashlight
  • Look at these as full/part time staff) roles:
    1. video: 1 month, october -- Jeff
    2. bulk ordering/sourcing and assembly (6 months) -- sourcing and pricing for 100, 1000 or 10,000 units known before launch
    3. updates/promotional events (40 days)
    4. comments and messages (3-6 months)
    5. outreach to blogs and press (40 days)
    6. Fulfillment of rewards
  • Thursday- deadline for decision
    • i said i think we can ship an arduino-based kit by christmas but we can debate that. A custom and completed device, definitely not. More like March/April. But we can ship a certificate or something earlier.
    • what if its a different person running the campaign? i mean so peeps dont think we are launching a new one before shipping the next one
    • another thought -- just sell an arduino shield as base reward
    • and not sure if we can wait another year for cold weather
    • we don’t have to do another kickstarter for months, dont worry! this one is a much simpler project
    • that’s the “completed device” version. a “kit” would be the early-shipping version
      • http://thermographer.publiclaboratory.org - and pre-calibration idea -- “hold up the flashlight to the camera to “read the calibration””
    • no, 3+ per year kickstarters is good idea - lets

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