May18,2011

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!)
- Twitter
- 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?

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

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

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

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

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