Peterborough: March 10, 2014
Last meeting’s minutes for reference
7pm at the Spill - Ideas - Peterborough, the many faces meeting FB event
Agenda
- today’s chair is Tammy - oops - double booked!! see last item…
Opening Items
- opening statements to frame the meeting
- round of introductions
- adding ideas to the agenda
- review chair duties
- pick next chair
Updates from related initiatives
- pick next chair
- Makerspace
- EC Power Plant Microcontroller group - happening March 11, 7pm, GreenUp (March break fun!)
- Repair Cafe - now has a FB page
- happened for the first time back on March 1
- next event Saturday, April 5, 3-6pm - watch for a FB Event
- Sew-cial
- Sundays 12-5, GreenUp
- a space where you can work on textile projects - big tables, some storage space stowing your equipment (if needed)
- come and create together - maybe learn some stuff - bring your machine(s)
- We’ve been loaned a serger and felting machine for all to use!
- Found this similar initiative happening in the UK
New Ideas
Meta - Ideas about Ideas
- starting with the question: What is a wiki?
- lead to a trip down memory lane - Hypercard
- then a quote from Lila by Robert Persig,
- which linked to this overview of methods for recording ideas,
- which lead back to the practical: how to wiki and the Reference Card
- which linked to this overview of methods for recording ideas,
- then a quote from Lila by Robert Persig,
- lead to a trip down memory lane - Hypercard
- (July edit) CBC Ideas Documentary The Great Book of Knowledge, Part 1
Convergence of Awesome Ideas
- discovered Integral Permaculture is a thing! It links Integral Theory and Permaculture, the core design of Transition Town.
- (For Mark this is bigger than when Occupy Love had a film launch in Boulder, CO (Integral Central) with Charles Eisenstein in attendance.)
Container Gardens
- the gardener is responsible for delivering everything - water, air (good soil structure), nutrition
- use a strawbale as a planter
- grow potatoes in a burlap sac - start with 1’ soil in the bottom to plant in then fill more dirt as plant grows - keep pushing greens up and new potatoes will sprout at each level.
- growing wall with a pump system
- herb and lettuce in pots
- compost teas - does it have to be complicated or can you just mix some compost with some water
- rubber snakes and owls to repel squirrels
- Thomas say avoid plastic utensils and containers like the plaque
Marketing
- video segment - Mark is willing to try recording a pitch at the Spill
- what about having Neil Morton as a guest speaker?
- people find remembering to go to wiki a bother - need to put content under people’s noses on Facebook and Twitter
Ways to help each other
- how to find out about all the initiatives
- how does one to stay abreast/ keep up/ find the stuff you liked
- RSS
- Facebook/Twitter
- Pearltrees
- tumblr
- A website the compares curation tools
- resume writing cafes
RELP
- again talk of social services mapping
Ideas being carried forward
- bring Streetcars back
Next Chair
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Tammy do-over