Public Lab community newsletter 5.11.12
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Shannon Dosemagen
May 11, 2012, 1:48:38 PM5/11/12
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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.
2) A new place page has been posted for the Mildmay community in 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! 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 Ste...@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.
6) Public Lab will be participating in an environmental justice encuentro in Houston next week. From Tuesday-Thursday, we'll be with Global Community Monitor, Air Alliance Houston and the Pacific Institute who will be doing community mapping and air monitoring at Galena Park and Thursday-Friday we will be at the encuentro, where I (Shannon) will be talking about the air column monitor that is in-development.
7) Finally, highlights of research notes from this past week:
* the Hills have Acne: passenger pigeon photos of drill sites out west (posted by eustatic)
* Flight-ready MK111 timer (posted by cfastie)
* Hamster ball air quality mapping: code and circuit diagram (posted by sara for byeongwon)
* Sketches for a self-contained, portable spectrometer using a Raspberry Pi (posted by warren)
* Stitched panoramas from the PLOTS IR tool (posted by cfastie)
* NIR proof of concept: Trout Lily (posted by cfastie)
* Map of the Arroyo Mocho neighborhood, Livermore, CA (posted by gonzoearth for Pat Coyle)
As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the listserve or email your content to sha...@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
Ed Borden
May 16, 2012, 7:34:48 PM5/16/12
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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
> *1) Infrared camera documentation is coming together. There have been a
> *
> * *
> *2) A new place page has been posted for the Mildmay community in
> London, UK<http://publiclaboratory.org/place/mildmay-community-london-uk>.
> * *
> *3) You can now print directly from
> MapKnitter.org<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/5-10-2012/print-maps-plo...>!
> * *
> 4) *Hey San Francisco/Bay area mappers! *Tomorrow, Saturday 5/12, people
>
> 5) *And Southeast Louisiana! *On Monday, May 14th, people will be mapping
> in Houston <http://ejencuentro.org/> next week.* From Tuesday-Thursday,
> we'll be with Global Community Monitor <http://www.gcmonitor.org/>, Air
> Alliance Houston <http://www.airalliancehouston.org/> and the Pacific
> Institute <http://www.pacinst.org/> who will be doing community mapping and
> in-development.
> *7) Finally, highlights of research notes from this past week:*
> ** the Hills have Acne: passenger pigeon photos of drill sites out
> west<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/eustatic/5-10-2012/hills-have-acne-...>(posted
> by eustatic)
> *
> ** Flight-ready MK111 timer <http://publiclaboratory.org/notes> (posted by
> cfastie)*
> ** Hamster ball air quality mapping: code and circuit
> diagram<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/sara/5-10-2012/hamster-ball-air-qua...>(posted
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!*
> maps printed directly from MapKnitter... that's what the Public Lab
> *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>.
> an overview and guide can be found
> *
> * *
> *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.*
> ExCiteS that have been working with the Mildmay Community Centre on joint
> * *
> *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.
> balloon mapping while making a map of the park. Contact
>
> 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.
>
> 6) *Public Lab will be participating in an environmental justice encuentro
> sc...@healthgulf.org.
>
> in Houston <http://ejencuentro.org/> next week.* From Tuesday-Thursday,
> we'll be with Global Community Monitor <http://www.gcmonitor.org/>, Air
> Alliance Houston <http://www.airalliancehouston.org/> and the Pacific
> Institute <http://www.pacinst.org/> who will be doing community mapping and
> air monitoring at Galena Park and Thursday-Friday we will be at the
> encuentro, where I (Shannon) will be talking about the air column
> monitor<http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/air-column-monitor>that is
> encuentro, where I (Shannon) will be talking about the air column
> in-development.
> *7) Finally, highlights of research notes from this past week:*
> ** the Hills have Acne: passenger pigeon photos of drill sites out
> west<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/eustatic/5-10-2012/hills-have-acne-...>(posted
> by eustatic)
> *
> ** Flight-ready MK111 timer <http://publiclaboratory.org/notes> (posted by
> cfastie)*
> ** Hamster ball air quality mapping: code and circuit
> diagram<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/sara/5-10-2012/hamster-ball-air-qua...>(posted
> by sara for byeongwon)
> *
> * Sketches for a self-contained, portable spectrometer using a
> Raspberry Pi<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/5-9-2012/sketches-self-conta...>(posted
> *
> * Sketches for a self-contained, portable spectrometer using a
> by warren)
> * Stitched panoramas from the PLOTS IR
> tool<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/cfastie/5-8-2012/stitched-panoramas...>(posted
> * Stitched panoramas from the PLOTS IR
> by cfastie)
> * NIR proof of concept: Trout
> Lily<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/cfastie/5-7-2012/nir-proof-concept-...>(posted
> * NIR proof of concept: Trout
> by cfastie)
> * Map of the Arroyo Mocho neighborhood, Livermore,
> CA<http://publiclaboratory.org/map/arroyo-mocho-neighborhood-livermore-c...>(posted
> * Map of the Arroyo Mocho neighborhood, Livermore,
> by gonzoearth for Pat Coyle)
>
> As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
> listserve or email your content to shan...@publiclaboratory.org to be
>
> As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
Jeffrey Warren
May 17, 2012, 12:59:27 PM5/17/12
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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:
Jeff
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Ed Borden
May 17, 2012, 6:48:46 PM5/17/12
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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.
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.
Jeffrey Warren
May 17, 2012, 7:18:26 PM5/17/12
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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:
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