Attendees

  • Kevin
  • Ran
  • Steve
  • Chris
  • Kris
  • Katherine
  • Zee
  • Sasha
  • Luke

Ideas

  • Use existing infrastructure on the lions gate bridge as a community climbing wall
  • Sleep
  • The blue thing
  • Katherine: Did 4 months studying buddhism
  • Acute sadness - Dreams are relevant
    • Affirmations
    • Feelings of depression diminish your motiviation
    • Find an accountability partner
    • Suns out guns out
    • Habitica
    • Outdoor hammock society
    • Steve: I try not to go to the gym, I make my life a work out
  • Teachers need a way to fundraise - what can they build that is useful
    • The Brain Machine
    • Breakerfaire
    • Electronic Kits
    • Hydroponics for kids
    • DIY Vertical Window Garden
    • Auto kombucha device
    • Make furniture
    • Cell phone holder with wooden spoon for speaker
    • Laptop holders/stands
    • ADST
    • Vacuum cleaner robots
    • Battlebots
    • Wooden speakers with a plant growing out of it
      • Change the volume by touching the plants in different areas
  • Sasha - Planned obsolesence
    • Access to internet universal human right
    • Gov should step in to make sure there is regulation on frequency of upgrades on cellphones/computers to prevent ‘planned oblesecence’
    • Companies used planned obselescece to sell more products but also causes more garbage.
    • supply chains
    • Documentary on building your own cellphone in China
    • Neo Freerunner phone 10 years ago. Can upgrade the bits as you want.
    • Regulation-must apply to allow changes in compatibility to charging plugs etc with less frequency
    • Mandate support for older devices
    • Problem is globalization, if Canada does it, then people with go with other companies/countries.
    • Mandate software support-maintain updates on older phones. Companies are incentivized to upgrade. Why support fraction of people who use older software
    • Older machines have security issues-must update for this reason
    • Ex:Windows XP no longer updates security. Warned all users, all info is now open to hack. 15 year life span.
    • Hack your old phone to think its a new phone??
    • Hack your computer with parts to update your speed/prevent theft cuz no one will want it!
    • ultra low satellites
      • SpaceX
      • Facebook
  • Canadian hosted tools for slack etc
  • FOIPPA 30.1