May18,2011
From Idea Meetings
Contents
Agenda[edit]
- Independent media
- Co-working space
- Urban gardening
- Registration process. Not everyone is on Facebook, perhaps we can have a form for new people, if they want notifications via:
- Facebook (over 100 people now!)
- This wiki
- Email list
- Other _________
- ALPR
- press release
- Protest Against Protests
- puppet
- Mini-bill cards - Do want want cards made all of URLs on them? ie. for Ideas, ASC, Makerspace and IdeaWave on them so we can hand them out? Would you pitch in $10 for this?
Minutes[edit]
- Attending: Scott, Jamie, Evan, Kris, Heather, Nancy, Kevin, Kurt and others
- Pre-meeting discussion
wifi in schools[edit]
- School Disctrict 61 documents
- Discussion tabled for lack of reliable scientific evidence
- Heather committed to providing evidence to Kris that t-shirts at Walmart have embedded RFID
Meeting Plans NOTE 8 pm until August 17[edit]
- Meeting starts at 8 pm until August 17
- Update calendar to show 8 pm time
Independent media[edit]
- Tabled to next meeting as no-one to bring the discussion forward
Co-working space[edit]
- Not really a good space that's not a bedroom to work for nomadic workers
- Other cities have co-working spaces
- Evan is trying to either find or create a co-working space. Contact Evan Willms 250.661.6401 coworking@evanwillms.com - may be good to start cheap and small and grow
- Principles: collaboration, community and openness
- Two people at Victoria Real Estate Board are actively looking for a space and possible subsidies
- There is a co-working space in Rock Bay--there is high turnover--most either find it too expensive or use it to start up a company and then get too large - Jamie may be able to find out who
- Raincoast Business Centre - but those are offices -- so not a social environment
- Datatech at Quadra and McKenzie, Evergreen at Borden and McKenzie
- There are others who are looking for this kind of space
- Goal is less $300 for anytime access to a co-working space
- Some have a full-time and/or drop-in rates
- Model could be co-op, non-profit, or corporate
- Co-op model means that people have more individual buy-in
- UVic has Centre for co-operative studies
Urban Gardening[edit]
- Looking for shared garden spaces
- Lifecycles gardens life-cycles sharing backyards
- Oak bay limits the size of your garden
- Balcony farm
- Kris' hops are growing 1 foot/day--looking to move his hops to his ultra-modern condo
- Island Grains
- Chickens - crackdown on urban agriculture - Rules changed passed as food safety, only industrial agriculture is ok - so that birds, chickens, turkeys - all animals can't be slaughtered on your farm, they have to be slaughtered elsewhere. Local farmers are not raising animals because it's not cost-effective to ship animals to Vancouver to be slaughtered. As opposed to open-air slaughter as show in Food Inc.. People are not raising chickens.
- Illegal milk runs in Vancouver - the industrial food lobby doesn't want us to have locally raised animals
- Do-it-yourself slaughter your own live chicken
- What grows quickly that you can harvest regularly: get planters that are designed for balconies (boxes): spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, peas, rosemary, oregano, radishes
- You cannot grow strawberries from seeds, need to get the stolons
- UN Agenda 21 on sustainable development
Registration Process for Ideas Meeting[edit]
- Not everyone on Facebook, twitter
- Maybe have a form for meetings so that we can know for meetings what is the best way to access/notify people about meetings times and changes - let's have a sign-up form
- Mediawiki hook and a facebook hook
- Ryan Steele had set up a way to amalgamate different contact methods for ideas vic - Kris for contact
ALPR[edit]
- Kris part of Privacy and Access Committee for BC Civil Liberties Association
- BC Civil Liberties does have an issue with all the surveillance taking place
- Within 100 days no more will the government will need warrant or subpoenas to gather information from private companies
- Kris talked to director for policy for BCCLA - if we do the ALPR demo, they can do a joint release
- We need to make the demo polished as well as sooner rather than later
- Kevin to provide Kurt with sample video to run through the ALPR software
- Kurt will optimize the software so that it can be run from a laptop and provide reliable real-time recognition of a video stream
- Once the software is set up and working we'll make a day of collecting data
Protest Against Protests/Protest To End Protests[edit]
- Puppet with protesters
- Accountability - we now civilian oversight
- Mocking protesters, not going against the police
Mini-bills[edit]
- Possibility of Awesome Shit Club going into schools
- Mini-bill card with the list of projects associated with the ideas club
- 500 for $50
- Promotion of ideas meetings by mini-bills
- Mini-bills may be too large to carry in a wallet
- ideasvic.ca website is available
Island Hack-a-thon[edit]
- Some island cabins are available from friends
- Could we set up a hack-a-thon at one of these cabins?
- What could we work on for two days
- Others skills besides programming could be useful