Public Lab hosted the 2017 Barnraising November 3rd-5th at LUMCON in Cocodrie, Louisiana. The event drew 36 people from 12 states, and event brought participants from Germany and China. 

###Session topics for this Barnraising included: 
- "Getting started" the beginnings of organizing in the face of environmental issues
- Facilitation techniques and Codes of Conduct
- Louisiana and coastal wetlands 
- Existing data and citizen science 
- Exploring water monitoring tools ([notes here](https://pad.publiclab.org/p/barnraising2017-Mayfly))
- Disaster response and recovery 
- Community science for direct intervention/remediation
- Science in the face of denial
- Illustrated guides 
- Underpinnings of technical development
- Building an antenna 
- Methods and strategies for monitoring H2S ([activity used for this session here](https://publiclab.org/notes/gretchengehrke/11-02-2017/copper-sheet-hydrogen-sulfide-detection-activity))
- The Public Lab website ([notes here](https://pad.publiclab.org/p/barnraising2017-website))
- Microscopes and "how can communities visualize pollutants" ([Research Note on this session here](https://publiclab.org/notes/kgradow1/11-04-2017/prototype-build-for-barnraising-2017))
- Exploring problems can crowd sourcing assist
- Funding strategies for environmental monitoring 
- Creating tangible games with environmental data ([notes here](http://pad.publiclab.org/p/barnraising2017-Games))
- Mapping and monitoring plant biodiversity ([Research note on this session here](https://publiclab.org/notes/eustatic/11-06-2017/mapknitter-map-of-lumcon-barnraising-2017))

People coming to the Barnraising often want to share on deep topics of interest with each other.  Lightning talks have become a way to engage with people's individual projects or topics of expertise that are more about decimating information (rather that requiring a sessions space where we build a collaborative environment of learning). 

**Lightning talks topics at the 2017 Barnraising included:**

- Invasive species in Louisiana
- Exploring leaked emails 
- Water born illnesses 
- How codes of conduct affect email lists 
- An oil monitoring project on Louisiana Beaches
- Games and building to promote learning about the environment

## Questions

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##The Barnraiser
The Barnraiser is a daily paper print publication participants in the Barnraising work together to produce. Below are copies of the Barnraiser that came out of this event: 

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##Notes and photos that came out of the Barnraising: 

[notes:barnraising-2017]