*Mapping trips in Louisiana and California, an incredible amount of work
done on the infrared/visible camera rig and beautiful community-generated
maps printed directly from MapKnitter... that's what the Public Lab
community has in store this week!*
*1) Infrared camera documentation is coming together. There have been a
bunch of great notes (some highlighted below) posted in the last week, but
an overview and guide can be found
here<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/dual-camera-kit-guide>.
*
* *
*2) A new place page has been posted for the Mildmay community in
London, UK<http://publiclaboratory.org/place/mildmay-community-london-uk>.
This project is being led by students from University College London
ExCiteS that have been working with the Mildmay Community Centre on joint
Public Lab and ExCiteS projects.*
* *
*3) You can now print directly from
MapKnitter.org<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/5-10-2012/print-maps-plo...>!
This was announced awhile back, but buried under a ton of other things that
were also happening, so we want to make sure everyone is aware.*
* *
4) *Hey San Francisco/Bay area mappers! *Tomorrow, Saturday 5/12, people
will be gathering at Delores Park at 1pm. Come and join to learn about
balloon mapping while making a map of the park. Contact
Stew...@publiclaboratory.org for more information.
5) *And Southeast Louisiana! *On Monday, May 14th, people will be mapping
at Big Branch. For more information or to join the mapping trip, contact
sc...@healthgulf.org.
As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
listserve or email your content to shan...@publiclaboratory.org to be
included in the next newsletter. Best wishes for your weekend, Shannon
-- Shannon Dosemagen
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
publiclaboratory.org
Really loving these weekly updates. You guys should actually have a
newsletter-only list (use Constant Contact or some free alternative)!
I think there are probably a lot of people out there who would be
interested in just getting regular weekly email updates in this type
of format that don't want to be part of a Google group (or don't even
know what one is).
On May 11, 1:48 pm, Shannon Dosemagen <shan...@publiclaboratory.org>
wrote:
> *Mapping trips in Louisiana and California, an incredible amount of work
> done on the infrared/visible camera rig and beautiful community-generated
> maps printed directly from MapKnitter... that's what the Public Lab
> community has in store this week!*
> *1) Infrared camera documentation is coming together. There have been a
> bunch of great notes (some highlighted below) posted in the last week, but
> an overview and guide can be found
> here<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/dual-camera-kit-guide>.
> *
> * *
> *2) A new place page has been posted for the Mildmay community in
> London, UK<http://publiclaboratory.org/place/mildmay-community-london-uk>.
> This project is being led by students from University College London
> ExCiteS that have been working with the Mildmay Community Centre on joint
> Public Lab and ExCiteS projects.*
> * *
> *3) You can now print directly from
> MapKnitter.org<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/5-10-2012/print-maps-plo...>!
> This was announced awhile back, but buried under a ton of other things that
> were also happening, so we want to make sure everyone is aware.*
> * *
> 4) *Hey San Francisco/Bay area mappers! *Tomorrow, Saturday 5/12, people
> will be gathering at Delores Park at 1pm. Come and join to learn about
> balloon mapping while making a map of the park. Contact
> Stew...@publiclaboratory.org for more information.
> 5) *And Southeast Louisiana! *On Monday, May 14th, people will be mapping
> at Big Branch. For more information or to join the mapping trip, contact
> sc...@healthgulf.org.
> As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
> listserve or email your content to shan...@publiclaboratory.org to be
> included in the next newsletter. Best wishes for your weekend, Shannon
> --
> Shannon Dosemagen
> Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
> publiclaboratory.org
I looked into this after your suggestion and currently, Shannon posts the
newsletter as a research note tagged "newsletter" each week. So, if you go
to:
you see them all, and if you click on one, you can subscribe (below the
post) to all research notes tagged with "newsletter" -- and get an email
update. Kind of obscure, but technically functional --
There is probably a better way to do this, or at least a more obvious way
to subscribe. It might be more of an interface issue than a programming or
software issue. I created an issue request for the website to discuss and
try other options:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Ed Borden <borden.edw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Really loving these weekly updates. You guys should actually have a
> newsletter-only list (use Constant Contact or some free alternative)!
> I think there are probably a lot of people out there who would be
> interested in just getting regular weekly email updates in this type
> of format that don't want to be part of a Google group (or don't even
> know what one is).
> On May 11, 1:48 pm, Shannon Dosemagen <shan...@publiclaboratory.org>
> wrote:
> > *Mapping trips in Louisiana and California, an incredible amount of work
> > done on the infrared/visible camera rig and beautiful community-generated
> > maps printed directly from MapKnitter... that's what the Public Lab
> > community has in store this week!*
> > *1) Infrared camera documentation is coming together. There have been a
> > bunch of great notes (some highlighted below) posted in the last week,
> but
> > an overview and guide can be found
> > here<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/dual-camera-kit-guide>.
> > *
> > * *
> > *2) A new place page has been posted for the Mildmay community in
> > London, UK<http://publiclaboratory.org/place/mildmay-community-london-uk > >.
> > This project is being led by students from University College London
> > ExCiteS that have been working with the Mildmay Community Centre on joint
> > Public Lab and ExCiteS projects.*
> > * *
> > *3) You can now print directly from
> > MapKnitter.org<
> http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/5-10-2012/print-maps-plo...>!
> > This was announced awhile back, but buried under a ton of other things
> that
> > were also happening, so we want to make sure everyone is aware.*
> > * *
> > 4) *Hey San Francisco/Bay area mappers! *Tomorrow, Saturday 5/12, people
> > will be gathering at Delores Park at 1pm. Come and join to learn about
> > balloon mapping while making a map of the park. Contact
> > Stew...@publiclaboratory.org for more information.
> > 5) *And Southeast Louisiana! *On Monday, May 14th, people will be mapping
> > at Big Branch. For more information or to join the mapping trip, contact
> > sc...@healthgulf.org.
> > As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
> > listserve or email your content to shan...@publiclaboratory.org to be
> > included in the next newsletter. Best wishes for your weekend, Shannon
> > --
> > Shannon Dosemagen
> > Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
> > publiclaboratory.org
Yeah, my point is really to make it easier for you to reach a more non-
technical audience. RSS and listservs are both kind of nerdy. You
guys are all about making technology accessible, right, so I'm just
saying that you might need a communication channel that is simply
straight-to-email, especially since Shannon is spitting these things
out that are super readable.
If a traditional newsletter-to-your-email-software route isn't
something you want to pull the trigger on right now, I bet you could
pull that RSS feed you just mentioned into something like Feedburner,
which offers the ability to have people subscribe by email. It gives
you a little bit of embed code which generates a "Put your email here
to subscribe" box and then handles the delivery of the RSS posts to
the email list automatically.
On May 17, 12:59 pm, Jeffrey Warren <j...@publiclaboratory.org> wrote:
> I looked into this after your suggestion and currently, Shannon posts the
> newsletter as a research note tagged "newsletter" each week. So, if you go
> to:
> you see them all, and if you click on one, you can subscribe (below the
> post) to all research notes tagged with "newsletter" -- and get an email
> update. Kind of obscure, but technically functional --
> There is probably a better way to do this, or at least a more obvious way
> to subscribe. It might be more of an interface issue than a programming or
> software issue. I created an issue request for the website to discuss and
> try other options:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Ed Borden <borden.edw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Really loving these weekly updates. You guys should actually have a
> > newsletter-only list (use Constant Contact or some free alternative)!
> > I think there are probably a lot of people out there who would be
> > interested in just getting regular weekly email updates in this type
> > of format that don't want to be part of a Google group (or don't even
> > know what one is).
> > On May 11, 1:48 pm, Shannon Dosemagen <shan...@publiclaboratory.org>
> > wrote:
> > > *Mapping trips in Louisiana and California, an incredible amount of work
> > > done on the infrared/visible camera rig and beautiful community-generated
> > > maps printed directly from MapKnitter... that's what the Public Lab
> > > community has in store this week!*
> > > *1) Infrared camera documentation is coming together. There have been a
> > > bunch of great notes (some highlighted below) posted in the last week,
> > but
> > > an overview and guide can be found
> > > here<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/dual-camera-kit-guide>.
> > > *
> > > * *
> > > *2) A new place page has been posted for the Mildmay community in
> > > London, UK<http://publiclaboratory.org/place/mildmay-community-london-uk > > >.
> > > This project is being led by students from University College London
> > > ExCiteS that have been working with the Mildmay Community Centre on joint
> > > Public Lab and ExCiteS projects.*
> > > * *
> > > *3) You can now print directly from
> > > MapKnitter.org<
> >http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/5-10-2012/print-maps-plo...>!
> > > This was announced awhile back, but buried under a ton of other things
> > that
> > > were also happening, so we want to make sure everyone is aware.*
> > > * *
> > > 4) *Hey San Francisco/Bay area mappers! *Tomorrow, Saturday 5/12, people
> > > will be gathering at Delores Park at 1pm. Come and join to learn about
> > > balloon mapping while making a map of the park. Contact
> > > Stew...@publiclaboratory.org for more information.
> > > 5) *And Southeast Louisiana! *On Monday, May 14th, people will be mapping
> > > at Big Branch. For more information or to join the mapping trip, contact
> > > sc...@healthgulf.org.
> > > As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
> > > listserve or email your content to shan...@publiclaboratory.org to be
> > > included in the next newsletter. Best wishes for your weekend, Shannon
> > > --
> > > Shannon Dosemagen
> > > Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
> > > publiclaboratory.org
well, i think we can do it well without too much trouble, and i agree with
your reasoning -- i was just suggesting the technical implementation. The
question of how to make it easy to sign up is the main one. I propose
taking this off-list for the time being and figuring things out in the
Github issue, mainly because there are a lot of possibilities and we don't
necessarily want to clog up the main list now that the topic is broached
and people have the opportunity to chime in:
> https://github.com/jywarren/plots/issues/158 On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Ed Borden <borden.edw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, my point is really to make it easier for you to reach a more non-
> technical audience. RSS and listservs are both kind of nerdy. You
> guys are all about making technology accessible, right, so I'm just
> saying that you might need a communication channel that is simply
> straight-to-email, especially since Shannon is spitting these things
> out that are super readable.
> If a traditional newsletter-to-your-email-software route isn't
> something you want to pull the trigger on right now, I bet you could
> pull that RSS feed you just mentioned into something like Feedburner,
> which offers the ability to have people subscribe by email. It gives
> you a little bit of embed code which generates a "Put your email here
> to subscribe" box and then handles the delivery of the RSS posts to
> the email list automatically.
> On May 17, 12:59 pm, Jeffrey Warren <j...@publiclaboratory.org> wrote:
> > I looked into this after your suggestion and currently, Shannon posts the
> > newsletter as a research note tagged "newsletter" each week. So, if you
> go
> > to:
> > you see them all, and if you click on one, you can subscribe (below the
> > post) to all research notes tagged with "newsletter" -- and get an email
> > update. Kind of obscure, but technically functional --
> > There is probably a better way to do this, or at least a more obvious way
> > to subscribe. It might be more of an interface issue than a programming
> or
> > software issue. I created an issue request for the website to discuss and
> > try other options:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Ed Borden <borden.edw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Really loving these weekly updates. You guys should actually have a
> > > newsletter-only list (use Constant Contact or some free alternative)!
> > > I think there are probably a lot of people out there who would be
> > > interested in just getting regular weekly email updates in this type
> > > of format that don't want to be part of a Google group (or don't even
> > > know what one is).
> > > On May 11, 1:48 pm, Shannon Dosemagen <shan...@publiclaboratory.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > *Mapping trips in Louisiana and California, an incredible amount of
> work
> > > > done on the infrared/visible camera rig and beautiful
> community-generated
> > > > maps printed directly from MapKnitter... that's what the Public Lab
> > > > community has in store this week!*
> > > > *1) Infrared camera documentation is coming together. There have
> been a
> > > > bunch of great notes (some highlighted below) posted in the last
> week,
> > > but
> > > > an overview and guide can be found
> > > > here<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/dual-camera-kit-guide>.
> > > > *
> > > > * *
> > > > *2) A new place page has been posted for the Mildmay community in
> > > > London, UK<
> http://publiclaboratory.org/place/mildmay-community-london-uk > > > >.
> > > > This project is being led by students from University College London
> > > > ExCiteS that have been working with the Mildmay Community Centre on
> joint
> > > > Public Lab and ExCiteS projects.*
> > > > * *
> > > > *3) You can now print directly from
> > > > MapKnitter.org<
> > >http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/5-10-2012/print-maps-plo..
> .>!
> > > > This was announced awhile back, but buried under a ton of other
> things
> > > that
> > > > were also happening, so we want to make sure everyone is aware.*
> > > > * *
> > > > 4) *Hey San Francisco/Bay area mappers! *Tomorrow, Saturday 5/12,
> people
> > > > will be gathering at Delores Park at 1pm. Come and join to learn
> about
> > > > balloon mapping while making a map of the park. Contact
> > > > Stew...@publiclaboratory.org for more information.
> > > > 5) *And Southeast Louisiana! *On Monday, May 14th, people will be
> mapping
> > > > at Big Branch. For more information or to join the mapping trip,
> contact
> > > > sc...@healthgulf.org.
> > > > As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
> > > > listserve or email your content to shan...@publiclaboratory.org to
> be
> > > > included in the next newsletter. Best wishes for your weekend,
> Shannon
> > > > --
> > > > Shannon Dosemagen
> > > > Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
> > > > publiclaboratory.org
