Monday February 27, 2012

Collaborations

• Stu met with Alex of Lumcon to discuss analysis---focus on one area with four maps taken at different times, stew based on Alex advise is going to try and use the maps to figure out:
  • 1) land/water area, 2) color; green vs. brown, live/dead 3) vegetation species composition/distribution
  • QGIS connection, GDAL experts?
• UCL ExCiteS thermal imaging in london possible collaboration
• GreenMap (in NYC) plans to loan out their balloon kit, pitching projects.
• iLAB going in this week - collaboration with movement people. also DJ in london?
• iSPY - “distributed surveillance game show” by Flux Factory

Recent & Upcoming events

• march mapping madness --

  • e-mail list of people who bought kits -- Sara to email today
    • start from people we know in those areas?
    • send out to GM list-- who is in hot areas where lots of kits sold? (http://www.batchgeo.com/map/a0e5669a009a48eb1925686cc3769fbd)
    • virtual workshops for others https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkFw5SXgMHWTdDk0bktKQUc0M0JVdlI0dzdsUzNTTXc
  • Poster for this?Jeff to design
  • Dates and sites for trainings? NYC will know on Feb 28.
  • kits for trainings?
  • Research on where to get helium?

• Put Pollution On the Map 2012: Call for Counter-Cartography. Jeff making poster. Chemical, biological, thermal, landfills, sewage outflows. raising awareness about pollution in addition to mapping.

  • event possibly happening one month after our “welcome workshops” in march. Involve TAC, EWG, OGAP, Tar Sands, we can start running list of places that need mapping?

Fundraising

• Kickstarter $20 reward prints mailing

Public Archive/Publications

• Library DVDs to Shannon in NOLA
• Narrated map videos: pat coyle’s contact at Sunol, maybe Alex Kolker? to democratize interpretation
• New Scientist article about to go to press

Web

• new consistent viewer/embed-code going out across MapKnitter, Archive:
  • https://github.com/jywarren/plots-leaflet-viewer/issues
• approach glow doodle about developing public lab version?

Organization

• Hire accountant and book keeper--Jeff looking and we planning to post to the list.

Field work this week

• Jeff and Sara at TAC conference