Last meeting’s minutes for reference

NOTE: due to Family Day this meeting is three weeks after the preceding meeting (we will continue with alternate weeks using this new anchor)

7pm at the Spill - Ideas - Peterborough, super mondo killer hyper mega meeting FB event

Agenda

  • today’s chair is Chris

    Opening Items

  • opening statements to frame the meeting
  • round of introductions
    • adding ideas to the agenda
  • review chair duties
    • pick next chair
  • Makerspace
  • EC Power Plant Microcontroller group
  • Repair Cafe [mailto:lindsay.stroud@greenup.on.ca Lindsay Stroud]
    • FB event - March 1! Spill Bar
    • meeting for repairers last Wed. "It’s a thoroughly post-modern group."
    • come in with your broken stuff and you will learn how to fix it
    • details on the Google Makerspace group
    • dovetails with idea of finding devices to play with, donating stuff
  • Textiles Hub has been renamed the Sew-cial

New Ideas and Notes from meeting

  • Social Landscape Map
    • to eliminate the silos of organizations in the community
    • commercial software for social mapping: Mark has been working up a speech/presentation for RELP (see below)
    • need a map of the central core of Ptbo initiatives: who does what, what are the services they offer
    • some of the larger orgs are maybe abusing some of their privileges while the smaller orgs are stifled because they’re all going after the same money
    • hell hath no fury like a charity protecting itself
    • are there too many vested interests? charity posts used as rewards for political vehicles?
    • a curious, socially charged citizen of the community maybe should document it, when one sees people in poverty and then the questionable aspect is happening.
    • question: is the point that the money doesn’t come out the bottom end of the funnel and actually serve the people it was meant to? yes.
    • status quo is if you don’t know somebody, forget it
    • can do it as a curious person, going in with an agenda
    • with funding, how many salaries does that cover? discussion of the ‘poverty industry’
    • there are 23 employment agencies in Ptbo, all publicly funded
    • Ptbo has the highest number of not-for-profit orgs in Canada
    • put somebody in the hotseat when asked questions in a curiosity mission, questions really need to be asked with what’s happening with poverty and homelessness in our community
    • you give money to United Way and feel good, and go away
    • log identification workshop mark updated

    • so many agencies developing jobs, but what jobs?

  • Podcamp 2014
    • Bill T attended a podcamp, where techies get together to talk about changing the world with tech
    • is radio one of these dying techs? no, now you can be a radio station
    • Ideas Ptbo podcast? good idea, what about Luddites? maybe a newsletter
    • rural areas already utilize bulletins, whose truck is broken down? you can listen and still do other things
    • shortwave has a lot of white space now because everyone’s online

    • for the coming apocalypse - seriousness - a windup shortwave receiver would be one thing to have

  • Climate Change concerns
  • RELP
    • movie clip, sound, RELP - the mapping database, showing everything and all interconnections - it’s a person identifier, about who you should talk to, * Lester saw this and said I want this to be the front end to an interactive movie
    • allows nesting of events

    • is this is a Conservative’s dream database of social activists? Harper already knows who they are :)

  • bring Streetcars back
    • the link above leads to two more sizeable pages on the wiki
    • urban transit infrastructure is a considerable positive public investment - more valuable than a parkway.
    • if there is interest we could start considering a new network and researching equipment suitable to Peterborough
    • idea is to get ptbo on the bandwagon about getting serious about transit with other cities our size, Gord up in Lakefield
    • Canadian electric railway map, click on it on the wiki, mark has been happily ‘gardening’ on it :)
    • uncle is an urban rail enthusiast, links for world and Canadian streetcar stuff going on

    • streetcars as an interesting response to the parkway

  • Mushroom home cultivation kits: looking for some "wood log identification skills" for ash, beech, oak, poplar

  • Air-powered cars

  • Personal power generation suit

  • Our [winter"](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=656899377689489&set=p.656899377689489&type=1&theater "new) as the jetstream alters course
    • giving up on agriculture all over

    • Mark gives epic description of why the jetstream has "no more ramp"

  • "Deconstruction Hub" as in Vancouver

  • ‘marketing’ of Ideas Peterborough - we’ve been invited to write a brief (300 word) post by @ptbo_canada / @neilmorton who contacted us via @halllenard
    • suggestion was that all the related initiatives - makerspace, ec power plant, sewcial, repair cafe, b!ke, and ideas peterborough could all use promotion and perhaps instead of a one off article we should consider a series that features one initiative each week but cross promotes too.
    • get the word out on opportunities in Ptbo, to get it out to a wider audience – networking is the biggest thing.
    • @Ptbo_canada twitter now has 10,000 followers

Carry forward from previous meeting

  • What’s up with TheMount - repurposing spaces
  • shared solar

Next Chair

  • Tammy

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