Agenda

Follow ups from last meeting:

  • Microcontroller discussion (starting a local microcontroller meetup), and group buy update. Bring in your sensors for a mini show’n’tell
  • AQAL/RELP
  • makeptbo.ca
  • Peterborough Tool Library

New:

  • Condiments (Heinz Ketchup leaving Ontario)
  • National branding (t-shirts)
  • Leather keychain
  • Building Uni support teams for entrepreneurs (HR, Sales/Marketing, Finance)
  • Buy a beer for business advice program
  • What is Peterborough doing to attract and retain top talent?
  • Twitter bot (using the API)
  • Finding a co-founder
  • Business evaluations (i.e. Vancouver Island’s Green Business). What should Peterborough/all businesses be evaluated on?

Minutes

Kris, Pete, Bill, Ryan, Wes (plastics - injection moulding, engineering), Viren (milking equipment( robotics)), Lindsay, Warren (sustainable health care), Fraser, Sara (environment), Mark (social activism & change). (one fellow who came late and left early – chose not to self identify)

  • PRE-Meeting:
    • What don’t people like me? We don’t really have good societal feedback system on self-improvement
    • Kris mentioned Debugging our lives (pseudo-anonymous debugging)
    • Spirit asks how can I help? Ego is always wounded - Deepak Chopra
    • Timing is the difference between genius and insanity
    • Movie: Changing Lanes
  • Meeting: AQAL = ack-ual - All quadrants - All levels
  • A theory of everything based on the work of Ken Wilber
  • local Integral life practice support group exists on Facebook

RELP (a working title from Relationship, obvs)

  • a database and set of web based interfaces documenting community happenings
  • goal is to capture in one place all the great things that have gone on and are going on
  • this will hopefully show that individual things are not the whole story by a long shot - relationships exist and matter! community is strong.
  • already have an informal pool of sample data waiting for digitizing and have had preliminary discussions with a variety of organizations
  • need some technically skilled individuals, some data processing help, some funding/resources
  • currently studying ThinkMap as one interface
  • if engaged/interested contact Mark @perspicuity1

What to host on makeptbo.ca?

    • Transition Town - (already has sites: http://transitiontownpeterborough.ca/ and http://kawarthaloonexchange.ca)
  • locations - maps - Send Kris locations of makerspace related organizations in Ptbo to map out
    • They should be publicly accessible: (B!KE, Artspace (media lab), Sadleir House, Cube), Greenshop (sewing) on Hunter, The bridge youth centre (Bethune & Brock), Peterborough Art School, Fleming Tech Centre (20M skill centre), Endeavour Centre.
    • To consider/investigate: lost ways brewery, Jackson Creek press (@jacksoncreek)

Lindsay - organizing a Peterborough Tool Library talk this Wednesday, contact her to be included!

  • also some discussion of initial explorations with neighborgood.net site

Condiment discussion:

  • Ragu factory was in Peterborough,
  • Reggies - stopped using Heinz when they heard they were leaving. Got community feedback for recipes and make their own
  • Is there a test kitchen in or near Ptbo?
  • Leamington = Tomato heavy area - 4-7 hours away
  • Opportunities:
    • drunk ketchup -
    • alcoholic salsa
  • Fleming - culinary program -
  • Mustard is easier than sourcing tomatoes
  • Nourish - Peterborough classes
  • GreenUP classes (kimchi)
  • Food not bombs

Wool mill - Odessa & New Lisgard

Leather bracelet discussion

  • Bike tire with fun fur underneath -
  • attached to memory stick
  • Lindsay has leather working materials
  • Leatherbeaten in ptbo has leather working

  • Greg - (Fraser)

  • What attracts people to Peterborough?
    • People chose to come here for parks & greenspace
    • Build a makerspace (or several)
    • Doing something for someone else without expecting anything in return
    • Candace Shaw says - position Ptbo as a film centre
    • Be better than the best one anywhere
    • Run a Makerfaire
    • Collect all of the people & things and focus on them
    • More cost effective (park & rec)
    • Community
    • People can create their own position in a good community
    • It’s all who you know, doesn’t matter if you’re top of your game
    • Check out new Fleming Skill Centre
    • Is it a music industry here? drama/theatre?
      • What industries are provably here (not the ones we think there are)?
      • How do they compare with other similar cities?
  • Twitter Bot:
    • local dude Rob H (@rjhelms) built the @brazeau_salary bot
    • The f bomb (Carlton U student retweeting F bombs)

Black Phantom camera (Ryan’s friend)

  • PROJECT: Wes’ 6-8 month project proposal:
    • As a group we want to create a large community project over the next 6 months
    • Should include: sustainability, community, art, tech, spiritual.
    • Come up with ideas for the next meeting!
  • PROJECT: Microcontrollers
    • Huge demand, starting a separate group.
    • Group buy of Sparkfun Inventors kit ordered
    • Expect announcement in 48 hours for Microcontroller meetup – likely hosted at GreenUP

Some attendees thought this was only a Makerspace meeting, some thought it was only a Microcontroller group. Branding challenging of differentiating each?

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