Last meeting’s minutes for reference

NOTE: 7pm at the Spill - The Ideas keep flowing! FB event

Agenda

Opening Items

  • opening statements to frame the meeting
  • round of introductions
    • adding ideas to the agenda
  • picking next chair
  • Makerspace
    • Jan 23 - Toyhack - Makerspace kids - deconstructing toys with observer group
  • EC Power Plant Microcontroller group
    • demo and workshop at the Peterborough Innovation Talk at Market Hall on Tuesday January, 21
  • Repair Cafe [mailto:lindsay.stroud@greenup.on.ca Lindsay Stroud]
    • Require a space. Current locations are financially cumbersome.

New ideas (add yours!)

  • what is Ideas.ptbo?
  • Chicago zero-mile everything restaurant
  • peasants

  • Transition-Town Peterborough meeting this Thursday January 23rd at the Red Garnet.

  • openstreets - close down roads to automobiles for a certain-period Waterloo

From last meeting

  • Review tasks to care for and feed IdeasPtbo which have now been documented here and include some of Kris’s ideas to try

  • social grid - tracking initiatives, eliminating duplication, tracking progress - deferred

  • Left unexamined on Jan 6 (late start, out of time)
    • Streetcars in Ptbo
      • what would the new system look like?
      • there is $78-million price-tag associated with the parkway project. Could that money go to a streetcar project?
      • Toronto, San-Francisco, European cities of Peterborough’s size.
      • Light-rail, mag-lev, rubber-wheeled.
    • What’s up with TheMount - repurposing spaces - deferred
  • Group discussion based on Gadgets alone don’t make the future - this was a current event - dropped
    • Kris ideas - but he’ll be in YVR…dropped but not forgotten.
      • Twitter bot
      • Starbucks Cup Crusher
      • Stolen Item Database
      • wifi phone / serval
      • qr code t-shirts
      • webcam covers
      • modern mason jar
    • food - local urban
    • water - so many groups
    • Hamilton - Pittsburg reinvention

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