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Friday February 24, 2012

Collaborations

• AS220-workshop, dinner talk, summer Public Laboratory research group, printing circuit board there.
• East Harlem Tutorial Program - Sara - contact with Jennifer.
• P&C and Nadya’s thermal flashlight circuit designs--winterization investigations.
• H2S collaboration at URI- fume hood and glove box
• kirk at RPI interested in studying us? encourage him to do a march madness event and to talk to mat.

Recent & Upcoming events

• 2010 google summer of code deadline in 2 weeks, Mentor apps due March 9
  • http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/gsoc-2012 - filling out our mentor app is priority-sara-like to see if we can get a wellwatch intern too? Let me know how to proceed?
• SF I Am Crime: Art on the Edge of Law! http://www.somarts.org/iamcrime/
• SXSW-- what tools to demo, how many fights/helium
  • support- feed contacts for mapping back to other people
  • how to get people to stick through mapping part, or how to matchmake cartographers with those who need map stitching
    • Stewart put email out to listserve
  • Sara will make thermal flashlight how to make video?
• Shan at Tulane env. law summit and Gulf Gathering next week
• March Mapping Madness- Vancouver, Austin, NY, Boston, DC, Philly (sara could travel)...email out to GM mailing list and surveys for interest (sam lead in Socal)- organize on the website- add to March Madness page- get involved box- so someone can just sign up: for real world, leading a workshop, or virtual meetup
• Virtual meet-ups for how to stitch, also for matchmaking mappers with needy groups, Stu lead
  • announce, make cohesive webpage for “get involved”
  • create a web form or Doodle to gauge interest
• possible NYC location partner StudioX
  • need: e-mail lists and surveys-
  • identify people who want mapping matchmaking, help them identify collaborative sites
  • Shannon and Stu coordinate on this with Mat in the loop
• Spectrometer presentation at Parsons March 5, theme of “Thingness of Energy” - Jeff help needed. WellWatch - Sara.
• RPI conference on citizen science March 15 deadline
  • I would be interested too. -mathew / stewart
• Sara/Shannon update on UCL citizen cyber science conference
  • got “most interesting student project” award.

Fundraising

• Kickstarter:
  • http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/balloon-mapping-kit-retail - list of things going into each kit- Mathew set up meeting with Topher
• Thursday next week

Public Archive/Publications

• Grassroots Mapping Forum:
  • planning sections: http://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1nv8Xo5jlNTj--7_r_6ndbjEAMV3lUY-b2U-6IHn7zZI%2Fedit (because this gets copied into a wiki page, we need full URLs)
• Look into nonprofit shipping/mailing prices
• Editor from list, ask Manpriya
  • or divide up editorial for the three sections (editorial & notes, site feature, tool feature)
• Should we change the name? long term consideration.

Web

• Stewart/adam date naming convention
• MapMill -
  • FTP issues and generally issues related to sysadmin need (only 2-3 gb of space on the server)
  • need for MapMill admins (there is no other way to get images into mapmill and has never been)
  • For GSoC?
    • propose Amazon S3-backed bulk upload based on a hypr3d-style uploader, visual archive. (s3 is pretty expensive),
    • chain of custody (perhaps not get too ambitious) (from the SD card to the server)
    • image checksumming that you take a picture of?
• Github feature request for site profile attributes, what tools you know
• Archive for stories?
• Thermal Flashlight wiki gardening?
• Github for software issues, web@ alternative in footer
• WellWatch Update- waiting for Lorrie

Organization

• Mat and Adam- gone time, contacts, etc
• SIP reporting? writeup?
• NYC general meeting on Tuesday
• do we have a digikey account? make a (wiki) page?
  • or futureelectronics, adafruit, sparkfun (mathew)
• Insurance dammit :(