Staff call notes 9 10 2012
Adam
- Goals: Kickstarter outreach, site mailing list - no really, nail down a Roanoke date for talk Accomp: little
Mathew
- Goals: kickstarter outreach, finalization of assembly for 1.5 with amplifier, mailing of GMF through amplifier.
*Accomplishments: Kickstarter assembly mailout + all items in amplifier store, Revision of GMF pages on Wiki, kickstarter outreach, bringing in OHAB, PSAS to Mini Maker Faire PDX Note: Will be in La Pine Oregon on Thursday afternoon/friday morning, Mini Maker Faire Friday Saturday, @ XOXO saturday night with Kickstarter folks.
Jeff
- Done - KS, outreach, KS reward building, SpectralWorkbench work (and engagement) *Goals - Kickstarter to 100k, get on 4 major blogs, outreach to old KS backers, cheerlead barnraising with whole PLOTS community a bit, server restructuring (new archival server setup, colocation), build steampunk spec
Liz
- Vacation
Shannon
- Goals: Working on board meeting materials, barn raising material together for send out, blurb for Knight Fdn., Knight news local meeting, page for Ola, SciStarter interview
- Accomplishments: Barn raising and staff meeting planning, posting tools on SciStarter page, meeting w/ Knight folks
Stewart
- Vacation
- finished barataria annotations with Alex last week
- figure out what’s going on with CA workers comp.
- balloon mapping workshop in Los Angeles on the 23rd http://machineproject.com/archive/classwork/2012/09/23/public-labs-map-making-workshop/
Questions
- Stewart workers comp
- Please get requested info to Shannon for HR package
- Travel update for Knight - extra 10K - write as sponsorship through DCA - we buy our ticket for barnraising and send Shannon receipt.
- Look at BR budget- I think we can dedicate to paying for food for everyone. Potential sponsorship of housing.
- Who is outreaching to whom - send e-mail to Jeff
- Kickstarter? Kickstarter as our development assistance... http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/jywarren/public-lab-diy-spectrometry-kit/
- future kickstarters (jeff) selling dogs
- os kickstarter mechanism: http://everythingfunded.com/
- barnraising session on kickstarting/crowdfunding/small-batch preorders
- in grassrootsmapping forum as an article
- barnraising: also, “starting a chapter” discussion
- make different message strings for different tools in googlegroup ex. balloon vs spectrometer grassmapping is the balloon list...
Miscellaneous
*Helium availability is looking good in the southeast
Newsletter suggestions
- Format: Title in bold - less than a sentence please - http://link-to-more-info...
less than a sentence please
Stu: balloon mapping workshop in Los Angeles on the 23rd http://machineproject.com/archive/classwork/2012/09/23/public-labs-map-making-workshop/
GMF for sale in Breadpig http://breadpig.com/products/grassroots-mapping-forum-issue-2
Server fall cleaning, new racks, link coming