Staff call notes 12 19 11

Sara, Shannon, Liz, Jeff, Stewart

VOSS- left off with Sara’s email: can focus just on Public Lab- need a theoretical framework that we are trying to illustrate- Recursive publics from Kelty- how we do this successfully with each of our tools- Sara and Shannon
NSF ISE- Sara finished section rewrite, diagrams, Jeff? Couple more hours and should be good to go- get ready for 5:30 today for Rupal

Thermal flashlightarama - 3 workshops in 2 weeks, next steps with EHTP and Gowanus water.
Ninya loepsky, boston-area green network, home insulation, Global Green- Nola and Cali- home insulation workshops, Green Opportunities, Anastasia in Asheville
New Town Creek - sum of contacts with RiverKeeper-bacterial strain- asked if PLOTS could test for it.
new standards for making assertions about what our data documents.
wiki page or research note on each trip? example: http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/newtown-creek
need to cultivate community around New Town Creek for ongoing investigation.
need to document Gowanus near Infrared image analysis process--through email with eymund.
overall: need to inaugurate site-based research meetings (not just data collection), example: Gowanus.
Shannon and Sara meeting at 1 today with Kathy Session?
Butte update
Rio - hold off on talking to Joe at UNICEF, what about Ed Jezierski at INSTEDD?
Retail. Kickstarter possible Jan delay
Uganda via UNGlobal Pulse, main contact is Christopher Fabian cfabian@unicef.org. Leif still interested in contracting through Public Lab. - Shannon talk to him about this and EPA.
Parsons collab for the fall with graduate

Thursday Website “gardening” 1-3 EST
open hardware licensing for tools
clean up pages - create a Tool page template -
- Context, need
- Concise desc. of tool
- Parts and price list
- Goals, next steps towards them
create formating for pages--research notes and data analysis
interlink related pages
document collaborators

Public Lab Wiki documentation