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Shannon, Stewart, Jeff, Adam, Liz

Fundraising

• announce SIP (now public)
• announce Ars Electronica (now public: http://new.aec.at/prix/en/gewinner/#digital-communities)

Public Archive

• Poster -- 5-7 days
  • copyediting please! Liz. Going to press on Tuesday, probably. A day or two for proofs.
  • est. completion 6th of June
  • print files in Dropbox: plots/poster/print/semifinal-reverse.pdf
  • http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/posters
  • distribution of posters -- mostly Shannon, but at least 50 for each PLOTS member. Bookstores, libraries, etc.- develop a formal plan with this- Liz?
• http://publiclaboratory.org/map/western-carolina-university-cullowhee-north-carolina/2010-10-1 different fonts showing for field notes, change order to cartographer’s notes last. DONE!

Field work this week

• Jeff will try http://publiclaboratory.org/passenger-pigeon/ on flight into NYC on June 4th, arriving for Personal Democracy Forum

Collaborations

• Horeshoe crabs? i’ll respond and CC plots staff, jeff
• LUMCON?
• Barn crew Shannon/Adam/Liz/Sara

PLOTS: the organization

• locations - spawning co-working spaces like p.irateship.com, $250/month for 5 spaces in various cities?
• university partnerships - turning open source into an asset. new model of collaboration. shared ownership is core. “open source structure of participation” in class description.

Recent & Upcoming events

PLOTS website

• Gulf Coast blog posts today - Shannon
• blog post by Liz’s student - Washington Square Park map - for posting Friday May 3rd
• new publiclaboratory.org/events page
• reach out to mappers soon to solicit more metadata in the archive
• twitter

Next meeting at 10:00 Eastern on Tuesday 31th of May