March March 16, 2012

Collaborations

• Phil Brown Environmental Justice Research Group--breast cancer awareness, toxic avengers
• TXRX hacker space in Houston follow up--Air Alliance Houston--interested in working on sensor? figure out how follow up will work.
• ExCiteS england follow up
  • not super interested, derogatory thoughts on thermal flashlight
  • not seeking technical assistance, seeking recognition, networking.
  • we went to the top... start at the bottom?
• OGAP collaboration for copper pipe H2S test

Recent & Upcoming events

• Stu meeting with Catherine of Endpoint Environmental (SF) next week, Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA) Journal.
  • photos-- chance for 11x17 big image
• MMM update *online outreach for workshops
  • dev seed DC
  • seattle
  • NYC
  • online updates
• LA lab work
• SXSW update
• STS Davis update
• Water Hackathon NYC
• iLand NYC

Fundraising

• Meeting next week Tuesday morning
  • need promotions packet with offerings before where 2.0
    • mathew will write up notes on corporate sponsorship
    • other options? open bid systems?
    • jeff will reach out to designer at P.irateship
• Creativ grant
• Sara call with Johnson Foundation
• Shannon talking to Rockefeller found next week
• Make Magazine-Adam
• SIP writeup... (jeff + shannon, support from Mathew)

Public Archive/Publications

• Forum? Stewart co-ordinate
  • sections:
    • photography--
    • interviews-shannon
    • tool features-sara
    • maps-stew
    • about the mappers
    • editorial
    • community researcher writing piece
    • notes? letters to the editor...
  • thermal flashlight?
  • Shannon lead on interviews section
• printing from archive - proper projection, white background, announcements
• Ars Electronica--sara can draft
  • app--Shannon has the ap things

Web

• OHL adoption: 24%, need more pushing: http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/open-hardware-licensing
• spectral workbench/mapknitter syndication to Research Notes
  • RSS noise
  • too many spectra? separate? feedback
• kit arrived, so swap KS widget for a “buy balloon kit” widget? = YES!!!
  • how many can we say are in stock (manage delivery delay expectations)
    • Mathew: I will do an assembly order today - 2w to ship for 50 new kits
    • 50 kits available, can do another assembly order soon.
      • ask shannon about ordering more, get as much as possible, decide next week how many future units to get
• clarification on Thermal Flashlight homepage- http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/2-11-2012/common-cathode-variant-thermal-flashlight-code
• backups moving out of C4 servers - -back up process to amazon s3. several $100s a year. political problems with amazon.

Organization

• Follow up on General Liability Insurance
• more separation (verbally and in print) between “nonprofit arm” and community- always ask “who is WE”