Staff call notes 2 10 12

Friday February 10, 2012

WellWatch site with MIT Civic?
how to combine funding? create a sysadmin position for both
$75 per hour, 4h per week, 52 weeks = $15600
next steps - Sara talk to Civic, open a vote for PLOTS to spend 5K on sysadmin position,

good interview with Economist (web, print), forthcoming pitch to NYTimes, Time Mag online video piece.
open lab at Parts & Crafts Saturday
white house event (BOOOOORING)
dev seed meeting (mapbox account) - Tom McWright developing towards Clashifier (https://github.com/tmcw/classifiers)
india mapping? late February.

briefly (1 min) spoke with Gates Found. “media division”, showed them pat coyle’s 3d model and spectral workbench
NSF grant green engineering -- added to list
let’s schedule next fundraising meeting for organization-wide support. private foundations. (some chapter-based exceptions). Membership drive.
kickstarter sorting of names, planning for meetups.

next steps on finding accountant -- shan on it.
Google Summer of Code - DEADLINE TO APPLY TO BE MENTOR IN 2 WEEKS
March 11th deadline for mentor organizations, then students apply to those on April 8
next steps, read guidelines (email), look at accepted OSGEO projects for last year, crosspost to OSGEO list
Project ideas: dedicated WellWatch OSGEO project: scraper for all states. ScraperWiki?
Project ideas: H2S data processing into map?
http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/gsoc-2012
finish HELL DAY to-do list - Jeff/Shan
insurance people - Sara RI, Mat OR,
NYC trying to get it together - so much awesomeness going on! does anyone have a good Site organization system with local work groups?
team list? not yet
updating wiki -- have new pages linked from NYC page
description of roles for current community coordinators and for what positions need people to fill
staff meeting schedule for Oakland - Shan starting, Stewart.
Sara and Stew call with UCD today, PLOTS satellite program?

Public Lab Wiki documentation