Monday June 4, 2012

Adam

• VA project budget, kit hosting with RiverLink, that’s it.

Stewart

• ongoing, no new goal announcements today

Matt

*Goals * tool page * print and automatic mail for $1.10 for GMF * retail shop friendly packaging * kite balloon write up * UAV ethics discussion for forum

Jeff

• MapKnitter login semi-stable, needs testing -- please log in
• sysadmin next steps
• 56 spectrometer webcams ordered, 9 backorders, no refund offers accepted

Sara

• Goals
• Fundraising: Finish and send off Claniel LOI, finish draft of Cedar Tree
• Publications: Finish 4S draft--research interview each of the founders?
• Outreach: prepare for trip to france, order kits for EJ league, make TF for NJ guy, RPI talk
• Research: schedule next TF workshop, H2S bag making/ordering/organizing OGAP Megan meeting, Sharon also expressed interest in following up
• Website: mock up tool page redesign, implement subscriptions changes?
• Admin: reimbursements
• tenalli@hotmail.com (thermal flashlight)

Liz

• Review with Paula Zevin EPA of both Public Lab applications to the recent Citizen Science RFP
• Summer Event Calendar.
  • June 09 SurfRiders workshop in Jamaica Bay with Open Plans and Vizzuality. Kite Mapping.
  • June 17 iLAB workshop (in house) -- Brooklyn
  • June 19 EPA Citizen Science Workshop -- downtown NY
  • June 20 EPA Citizen Science Workshop -- NJ SARA. --Liz and Sara talk today
  • June 30 Kite Building (tyvek and bamboo) and Solar Balloon construction (painters plastic and carbon powder) Workshop -- Pfizer Building, Brooklyn
  • July 01 Kite Building Workshop -- Pfizer Building, Brooklyn
  • TBD - Map Knitter Workshop widely requested. Open Plans to host.
• New opportunities:
  • NYC Dept. City Planning Erick Gregory (a classmate and a Kickstarter kit buyer) thinking about holding community workshop in Bronx related to the Sheridan Expressway removal/remediation.
  • Cypress Hills planning getting started.
• Equipment:
  • getting more kite rigs from Charles Stewart, will be submitting reimbursements. $157 + manual order to the site (ask Mat). Also i want a flow form.
  • Jeff just got a nice $40 9-foot delta: “Dazzle Delta” NICE!!!
• workspace: current orgs include Nijel (Lela/JD), OpenIR (Arlene/Ilias), “In Our Backyards” (Erin/Brandon), 596acres.org (Eric/Paula)

Shannon

• Bone re-growth, raising white blood cell count, healing, applying bicycle brakes (ha thanks Adam)
• IEC fellowship app, arabella requests, 2 comp days (thur/fri), follow up with Houston, 2 grants, review Claneil letter for Sara, call H2s tomorrow, RPI on Thursday, SIP, transfering into quickbooks

Mathew

• web team updates
• GMF estimates, automailing
• repackaging retail kit, for thinkgeek and others
  • jeff is behind on this, sorry
• kite and balloon writeups
• UAV ethics follow up

Questions

• search bug in site?
• is place-specific calendar going yet? Prefix events with NYC in main events calendar.
  • not much conversation yet, but here is the planning page: https://github.com/jywarren/plots/issues/110
• SciStarter tool listings -- trail back to getting involved on listserve and via research notes.
• I need to buy more cameras - which ones? A495 (reaching end of life)
  • still available refurb or used for ~$50, but not in quantity
  • digic 3? digic 4? S90.
  • what kind of camera does he have? SD600, maybe something new also.
  • … take conversation offline? http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/camera-selection
• best price on flow forms?
  • what size? see above note of $40 Dazzle Delta 9ft kite - Jeff
• Ask RJ to join to web working group? --Jeff

Meetings

Miscellaneous

• Kite Machine people installed a microkite vending machine at Rockaway Beach (96th street).
• Bike Vending machine at base of Williamsburg Bridge is robust - could hold spectrometers?

Newsletter suggestions

• Format: Title in bold - less than a sentence please - http://link-to-more-info...
• less than a sentence please
• Collab w/ SciStarter
• Let people know about organizer list
• Claneil LOI (assuming finished)