Public Lab Wiki documentation

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Stewart

• Goals:lots of archive maps to add this week, get desktop spectrometer ready
• Accomplishments, finding helium

Adam

• goals: updating WCU campus map, rekindle relationship with Riverlink, find funding for employment starting late summer 2013

Mathew

• Goals: book proposal, in Eugene/Salem currently- next week other work. week 21st- taking comp time

Jeff

• Goals: initial orders for postcard and kit spectrometers for Nov Dec respectively
  • stock, how much inventory to carry - its
    • conduit boxes ($3-4 ea) - alum or plastic - $3-4000 - $15,
      • $8.60 each - $8600
  • Divide up by reward for spectrometer KS- Mathew can take over postcards
  • Stewart & Jeff chat about some batch of to-dos for Stu to take over

Liz

• Goals: Teaching MapKnitter workshop (getting paid for), serve BayKeeper and RiverKeeper and a couple people from City PLanning Dept on city planning. Did Hudson River Fdn come in? $750 coming in from Parsons also.

Shannon

• Goals: BOD meeting, 990s wrap up, accounting setup, barn raising
• Accomplishments: same as above

Questions

• SD- email from Don (and TAC) about partnering on grants- want to review issues w/ TAC grant process- staff being paid for Public Lab work- should be doing Public Lab organizing- PL involved in writing of grant. PL involved in conversation- contributing time/resources back to PL community- per case basis- Shan fundraising grant/partnership
• Darlene (SciStarter)- cross listing onto their site
• Can we get people assigned to upcoming grants/funding ops?
• Want to ask Bobbie to join the BOD- opening of 2 positions.
• TAC person for barn raising