###Upcoming Organizers Summit

Save the Date:: 11/19/15 is the next organizer's summit!

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###Previous Organizer's Summits

**When:** Thursday, November 13th, 2014, the day before the [2014 Barnraising](/wiki/barnraising) <br />
**Where:** [LUMCON](http://www.lumcon.edu/) in Cocodrie, Lousiana <br />

**Agenda:**

* Values Statement Redux from Barnraising 2013: opportunity to sort and categorize ideas that came forward last year and prepare for interaction with larger group [30 mins]
* State of the Community - stats on growth and depth of engagement
* State of the Regions - Organizer’s own updates and goal statements
* Asset Mapping “I can teach [X]” / “I’d like to learn [Y]” 
* The Organizers Handbook - a document which emerged after a regional gathering in June 2014, now ready for final review and debate on contested topics
* LUNCH!
* Brief presentation on 9 principles of Public Lab style, discussion
* Unconference (single track)

####Organizers Summit goals

(including some goals stated by organizers at the end of the entire Barnraising weekend)

* Dan: flare stare, drone with cameras, hydrogen ballooning, mapping sand fracking in picayune area
*  Ben: connect with petcoke activists, build Chicago chapter (evangelize, deploy, grow, make solid and resilient), expand my own knowledge of PL tools, find protege?, underwater drone + water quality with Fereshtah
* Jessi: Be present
* Ann: Alberta chapter / Canada, tar sands oil pipeline data-driven story, air/water quality. 
* Melissa: Vancouver chapter, focus through connection to project
* Don: connection among health/food/environ., history of development of tools, digital labor $$$ for work resources, in person meetup in Boston on state-of-art DIY water quality, start series of short videos of "how I found Public Lab and what it means to me"
* Jen: New England events like toolshed raisings, connecting housing with air quality
* Chris: distribute 3d printed aerial rigs to more people, design a 3d printable spectrometer
* Yagiz: Turkish chapter, food safety, 3d printed spec
* Catherine: Babbling Brook 2nd field deployment, journalism class, curriculum for step-by-step dataviz for Riffle and Coqui, path forward for OpenWater, 
* Dogi: env field deployment of RaspberryPi for live data
* Bronwen: Research Handbook for grassroots research, work with libraries and other institutions, Deadhorse Bay, promote PL research, Wikipedia editathon, 
* Liz: community development best practices, including improving the Organizers Summit
* Becki: Portland trial lending library with google form
* Scott: build a Dustduino for Gulf Coast
* Katie: Public Lab winter holiday party
* Cindy: Build UK Chapter
* Will (Somerville): ReplicateMe tag / SciEd tag
* Mathew: Public Lab TV sustainable business model
* Sara: H2S tool in Texas, science review of how DIY tools relate to other tools, online storytelling platform with public health, mapmill platform to connect citizens with agencies.
* Steve Hicks (visiting but not an organizer): Quality control, NSF funded science, agencies all over the US, reverse engineering water quality parameters from spectrometers, Public Lab P&C, PL stuff with kids and adults
* Stevie: friends, create two new Gulf Coast organizers and one new midwest organizer, learn more about organizer-led projects
* Cindy: documentary on Gowanus, UK chapter, PhD, write and read more research notes and connect with more people
* Katie: kid workshops, air quality, infrared camera
* Will Ward: facilitate discussion on how organizers make decisions and undersign/vote

####Collaborations emerging out of shared goals: 

* New and growing chapters: Yagiz (Turkey), Cindy (UK), Melissa & Ann (west canada and US northwest), Ben/Stevie (Chicago/midwest), Brazil (Ives, VJ)
* Curriculum on coqui: Catherine, Will, Katie
* Workshop structures for community development: Cindy, Katie, Will, Liz, Bronwen

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####Northeast Organizers Summit

* When: Friday, June 6th, 2014
* Where: [Tidmarsh Farm](http://tidmarshfarms.com/) in Plymouth, Massachusetts

The day before the [Northeast Barnraising](http://publiclab.org/notes/Hudonnoodles/04-30-2014/northeast-tool-focused-barnraising-june-6-8-2014), the Organizers Summit is set aside as a time to share ideas, brainstorm projects and share strategies.  The agenda is open and contributions to it can be made on the "talk" page of this wiki. Ideas include:

####- How do we share information and manage projects?
####- How do we support new organizers and grow our chapters?
####- What does Public Lab teamwork look like?
####- What are meaningful community + technologist interactions?
####- What are ways to turn data to action?

Add your thoughts, ideas and talking points to the [Talk](/p/organizers-summit) page!
Looking forward to seeing you then! 

_If you are not able to make it to the Summit in MA, there will be one held later in the summer on the Gulf Coast!_