Staff call notes 3 16 2012
March March 16, 2012
Collaborations
- Phil Brown Environmental Justice Research Group--breast cancer awareness, toxic avengers
- TXRX hacker space in Houston follow up--Air Alliance Houston--interested in working on sensor? figure out how follow up will work.
- ExCiteS england follow up
- not super interested, derogatory thoughts on thermal flashlight
- not seeking technical assistance, seeking recognition, networking.
- we went to the top... start at the bottom?
- OGAP collaboration for copper pipe H2S test
Recent & Upcoming events
- Stu meeting with Catherine of Endpoint Environmental (SF) next week, Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA) Journal.
- photos-- chance for 11x17 big image
- MMM update
*online outreach for workshops
- dev seed DC
- seattle
- NYC
- online updates
- LA lab work
- SXSW update
- STS Davis update
- Water Hackathon NYC
- iLand NYC
Fundraising
- Meeting next week Tuesday morning
- need promotions packet with offerings before where 2.0
- mathew will write up notes on corporate sponsorship
- other options? open bid systems?
- jeff will reach out to designer at P.irateship
- need promotions packet with offerings before where 2.0
- Creativ grant
- Sara call with Johnson Foundation
- Shannon talking to Rockefeller found next week
- Make Magazine-Adam
- SIP writeup... (jeff + shannon, support from Mathew)
Public Archive/Publications
- Forum? Stewart co-ordinate
- sections:
- photography--
- interviews-shannon
- tool features-sara
- maps-stew
- about the mappers
- editorial
- community researcher writing piece
- notes? letters to the editor...
- thermal flashlight?
- Shannon lead on interviews section
- sections:
- printing from archive - proper projection, white background, announcements
- Ars Electronica--sara can draft
- app--Shannon has the ap things
Web
- OHL adoption: 24%, need more pushing: http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/open-hardware-licensing
- spectral workbench/mapknitter syndication to Research Notes
- RSS noise
- too many spectra? separate? feedback
- kit arrived, so swap KS widget for a “buy balloon kit” widget? = YES!!!
- how many can we say are in stock (manage delivery delay expectations)
- Mathew: I will do an assembly order today - 2w to ship for 50 new kits
- 50 kits available, can do another assembly order soon.
- ask shannon about ordering more, get as much as possible, decide next week how many future units to get
- how many can we say are in stock (manage delivery delay expectations)
- clarification on Thermal Flashlight homepage- http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/2-11-2012/common-cathode-variant-thermal-flashlight-code
- backups moving out of C4 servers - -back up process to amazon s3. several $100s a year. political problems with amazon.
Organization
- Follow up on General Liability Insurance
- more separation (verbally and in print) between “nonprofit arm” and community- always ask “who is WE”