🎈 Public Lab: Revisions for 'Public Lab Barnraisings'

Revisions for Public Lab Barnraisings

755	patcoyle	November 19, 2012 04:51 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube Pat Coyle's start of Barnraising Flickr set Pat Coyle's start of Playlist of YouTube videos Map from balloon flight: http://publiclaboratory.org/map/lumcon-cocodrie-louisiana/2012-11-04 Don Blair's Barnraising Flickr set LUMCON map of 82 stitched RGB photos at gigapan jpeg image of the above LUMCON map (41MB, 0.7 gigapixels) RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
754	cfastie	November 15, 2012 00:03 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube Pat Coyle's start of Barnraising Flickr set Map from balloon flight: http://publiclaboratory.org/map/lumcon-cocodrie-louisiana/2012-11-04 Don Blair's Barnraising Flickr set LUMCON map of 82 stitched RGB photos at gigapan jpeg image of the above LUMCON map (41MB, 0.7 gigapixels) RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
753	donblair	November 14, 2012 20:23 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube Pat Coyle's start of Barnraising Flickr set Map from balloon flight: http://publiclaboratory.org/map/lumcon-cocodrie-louisiana/2012-11-04 Don Blair's Barnraising Flickr set RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
752	gonzoearth	November 09, 2012 20:15 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube Pat Coyle's start of Barnraising Flickr set Map from balloon flight: http://publiclaboratory.org/map/lumcon-cocodrie-louisiana/2012-11-04 RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
751	warren	November 09, 2012 11:04 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube Pat Coyle's start of Barnraising Flickr set RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
750	warren	November 09, 2012 11:01 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube Pat Coyle's start of Barnraising Flickr set RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
749	patcoyle	November 08, 2012 23:29 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube Pat Coyle's start of Barnraising Flickr set RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
748	cfastie	November 07, 2012 22:53 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth Balloon launch at YouTube RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
747	cfastie	November 07, 2012 22:42 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ Flickr stream with the tag "barnraising2012" Chris F's Barnraising Flickr set A few aerials from a kite flight on Thursday Cocodrie sunrise at Photosynth RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
746	warren	November 07, 2012 17:55 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen how we did it the first time the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith Wetland restoration with volunteers civic science in volunteer restoration tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott the state of the art & future research directions ease of use and replicability designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers training new cartographers for Mapknitter how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren creating a usable assay building hacked devices for emergency response sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
745	warren	November 07, 2012 17:54 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
744	warren	November 07, 2012 17:51 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Media sharing Lots of people took photos, shared articles/readings, etc. Let's aggregate them here! Please remember to share Creative Commons Attribution at least. We can also host large amounts of files, just contact web@publiclaboratory.org. Shannon's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/recordandremember/sets/72157631949729478/ RSVP The 2012 Barnraising is now over! Join the mailing list to get involved in planning for next year. Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
743	danbeavers	November 06, 2012 03:11 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list Ten Points tool for charter writing: http://tenpoints.intertwinkles.org/publiclab What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here. Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here--	Revert
742	warren	November 03, 2012 14:35 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here-- Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here.	Revert
741	warren	November 03, 2012 14:08 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log (and Friday) Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Barnraising mailing list RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here-- Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here.	Revert
740	warren	November 02, 2012 21:45 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log Communal note-taking pad 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here-- Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! 3-day schedule Google Spreadsheet Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here.	Revert
739	warren	November 02, 2012 18:38 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log Communal note-taking pad RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here-- Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here.	Revert
738	warren	November 02, 2012 18:37 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log Communal note-taking pad RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here-- Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here.	Revert
737	warren	November 02, 2012 18:35 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log Communal note-taking pad (http://t.co/1bZP63Od) RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here-- Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here.	Revert
736	warren	November 02, 2012 17:01 \| over 10 years ago Dates: November 2-4, 2012 Location: Cocodrie, LA at LUMCON Info on Cocodrie: Cocodrie on Wikipedia Information on the 2011 barnraising A human contact if you have logistical questions: Shannon.. shannon@publiclaboratory.org or 504.239.4642 What is a Public Lab barn raising? This is the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together" rather than just presenting/talking. In the spirit of bringing a community together to collectively raise a structure such as a barn, Public Lab comes together to develop tools, toolkits, supporting materials such as guides and tutorials, test the tools and develop new research directions and projects. Participants represent a wide range of interests from technologists and designers to social scientists and community organizers. This page will be used for information pertaining to barn raising activities including schedule, travel info, etc. Quick links Chatroom - live coverage, also a place to ask questions! Chatroom log Communal note-taking pad RSVP Sign-up form Please fill out the required information on this form. Schedule Grid See the unconference-style schedule in the Google Spreadsheet Schedule Grid Travel Coordination If you'll be needing a ride to / from the airport, or from New Orleans to Cocodrie (or even just to give us a heads up as to your details), please add your name to the arrival times / departures list. You will be added to the list of scheduled rides Attendees List of attendees, updated 10.27.12 Shannon Dosemagen Liz Barry Scott Eustis Mathew Lippincott Stewart Long Adam Griffith Jeff Warren Dr. Alex Kolker- Saturday Oscar Brett Eric Kugler- Friday Sean Flynn- Friday AnnieLaurie Erickson- Friday Jessi Breen Matt Toups Chris Walley +2 Dan Beavers Phil Silva Leif Percifield Pat Coyle Cindy Regalado Don Blair Matthew Pendergraft Alexandra Miller Christopher Esposito Jeffrey Goodman Chris Fastie Hagit Keysar Claudia Martinez Mansell Jen Hudon Catarina Scaramelli --add your name here-- Reviewing the Grassroots Mapping Toolkit A series of 10-25 minute talks to frame where we're at with our most developed tool (balloon/kite mapping), and give focus to brainstorming the future. Civic Response to Deepwater Horizon & Looking Forward Shannon Dosemagen * how we did it the first time * the degrees of volunteer involvement and how we can improve * leveraging online volunteers while keeping locals in charge * sharing data online and offline The Gowanus Conservancy: Interfacing with the EPA Liz Barry * building civic science/gov't science relationships Wetlands Restoration and Long-term Monitoring Scott Eustis & Adam Griffith * Wetland restoration with volunteers * civic science in volunteer restoration * tracking progress & maintaining a data series over time The State of Kite & Balloons for Mapping Mathew Lippincott * the state of the art & future research directions * ease of use and replicability * designing for volunteer kit construction in emergency response Civic Cartography Stewart Long * Sharing the map-stitching burden across volunteers * training new cartographers for Mapknitter * how do we make Mapknitter more central field work? Groundtruthing Oil Contaminiation-- spectrometers in the field Jeff Warren * creating a usable assay * building hacked devices for emergency response * sharing back and integrating with mapmaking Proposed Unconference Sessions Add sessions you'd like to see -- we're doing at least part of this "unconference style" -- and put your name down next to sessions you're a fan of! Extracting and testing soil/water with spectrometers and lasers Jeff W Chris F Don B Pat C Starting a Public Lab chapter Shannon Jeff W Don B Cindy R Hagit Claudia MM Jen H Liz Crowdfunding: raising money and shipping open hardware prototypes Jeff W Chris F Don B Hagit Pat C Curriculum development for environmental monitoring tools *what workshop and lesson plans would help communities integrate PLOTS tools?* Shannon Phil Mathew Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Jen H Liz -- successful strategies for "first contact" workshops that yield ongoing engagement. Hydrogen Sulfide Hack Session Sara Shannon Don B Anyone else working on H2S issues! Usability of the Balloon Mapping Toolkit we'll go through the planning process and brainstorm ways to improve the rate at which people share back their planning, mapping, and mapping outcomes. Mathew Chris F: How about a special data entry form for notes about your recent mapping outing. Don B Cindy R: Feedback from community in London, UK hagit Pat C Claudia MM Designing publiclaboratory.org to capture the context of tool use we'll look at Mapknitter, research notes and brainstorm improvements to encourage people to post more info on flight planning, why to make maps, and see what lessons we can draw for other tools like Spectral Workbench Introduction to MapKnitter and/or alternatives For those new to Mapknitter, we could align fresh images if we get any, or discuss advanced topics. Chris F Don B Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM What is your experience with the PLOTS website (publiclaboratory.org)? Suggestions? Chris F Don B Shannon Cindy R: feedback from creating research notes Pat C Liz Measuring the effectiveness of DIY Science tools Guidelines for designing and implementing surveys and metrics for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of DIY science initiatives and technologies. Don B Chris F Shannon Cindy R hagit Pat C Claudia MM Aerial mapping demonstration Chris F. will try to arrive in Cocodrie on Thursday afternoon in time to catch the afternoon breezes with a kite and fly the PLOTS NIR camera setup around LUMCON. We can try again during the weekend. Chris F Oscar B hagit Pat C Claudia MM Creating a "Getting Started with PLOTS Tools" booklet Don B Shannon Cindy Hagit Jen H Liz Ethics of participation Cindy R Shannon Oscar B Don B hagit Claudia MM Jen H Wetland Plant Identification from Aerial and Satellite Photography Report back from the two 3-day USGS classes Scott is taking from the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA--with reference to existing Delta wetlands maps in Mapknitter Scott E Pat C Liz Alternatives, given helium shortage Pat C: kite kits like Matheww's Tyvek Deltas, UAVs, alternate lifting gases; lead time for helium, etc Cindy (we have a real serious shortage here in London, UK) Passenger Pigeon one-page flyer design storm Qr code for flight stats Jeff add your proposals here Grassroots Mapping Forum The Grassroots Mapping Forum will be used as a framework for documenting and continuing conversations started at the barnraising. We'll use Google Docs to take session notes and an interactive wall of sticky notes to plan out the next issue, set for printing in late November/early December. The planning page is here. View Larger Map Logistics LUMCON, who are so generous to host us, has an online handbook for visitors. Check it out: http://www.lumcon.edu/facilities/MarineCenter/VisitorHandbook.pdf Lodging Options The majority of people will be staying at the LUMCON facilities which has male and female dorms. They are $20 per night. If you are not comfortable spending the night in a dorm, the closest marina/lodge is TradeWinds: http://www.tradewindscocodrie.com/. If you are coming with a group of friends, there are also a number of "camp" options (which means large houses with enough sleeping room for 8+). There are also a number of lodging options in Houma (which is a bit of a distance away) and a couple of options in Chauvin. To prepay for lodging, use this button: Prepay for lodging Food All meals will be supplied by Public Lab. We'll plan on having breakfast each day prepared by LUMCON, sandwiches for lunch and cookouts on Friday and Saturday evenings. If you want to go out for some good cajun fare there are a few close-by places that Shannon will post information on. Travel to and from Cocodrie You should plan on flying into the New Orleans International airport. We'll begin by about 10 on Friday morning and end Sunday late afternoon so it might be safest to come in Thursday evening and leave either late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. There's a bunch of people in New Orleans with cars so the hope is that we'll just be able to transport people to and from New Orleans, but depending on flight schedules we might rent a transport van for the weekend or something. You of course are also welcome to rent your own car to explore the beautiful areas of Dulac, Chauvin and Houma in your free time. What you should bring (besides the usual) Mosquito repellant!!!! Sunscreen (we still have warm, sunny days in November) Mosquito repellant!!! (your friends in New Orleans will actually provide a whole bunch of options for repellant so you don't really have to worry about it) A good hat and sunglasses If you have rubber boots, bring them! A light rain jacket if it looks like rain that weekend Any materials that you want to bring for the barn raising sessions A Halloween costume if you will be in town for October 31 (email Liz to get in on the "Private Laboratory" lab coats) Supplies brown glass sample bottles (Jeff bringing) oil samples mineral oil spray bottles 2 liter bottle for Bunsen Burner White vinegar Southern Balloon Works 5' balloon (Shannon) spectrometer prototypes (Jeff) UV flashlight (Liz) 9ft and 7ft delta kites + gear Tyvek (Adam) nIR+vis camera pair etc (Chris) ... Weather Louisiana in November ranges from lows of 50 to highs in the mid-70s or so and we get about 4.5-5 inches of rain on average. A note on cell phones Check your cell phone coverage maps if you're worried about not being connected while in LUMCON. Verizon for sure reaches as should AT&T and Sprint, but those of you with TMobile and USCellular should check. There will be plenty of friendly folks with cell phones that you can use while you're here.	Revert

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What you should bring

Supplies

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What is a Public Lab barn raising?

Media sharing

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Schedule Grid

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Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit

Proposed Unconference Sessions

Grassroots Mapping Forum

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Lodging Options

Food

Travel to and from Cocodrie

What you should bring

Supplies

Weather

A note on cell phones

Attendees

Quick links

What is a Public Lab barn raising?

Media sharing

RSVP

Sign-up form

Schedule Grid

Travel Coordination

Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit

Proposed Unconference Sessions

Grassroots Mapping Forum

Logistics

Lodging Options

Food

Travel to and from Cocodrie

What you should bring

Supplies

Weather

A note on cell phones

Attendees

Quick links

What is a Public Lab barn raising?

Media sharing

RSVP

Sign-up form

Schedule Grid

Travel Coordination

Review: Grassroots Mapping Toolkit

Proposed Unconference Sessions

Grassroots Mapping Forum

Logistics

Lodging Options

Food

Travel to and from Cocodrie

What you should bring

Supplies

Weather

A note on cell phones

Attendees

Quick links

What is a Public Lab barn raising?