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If you're near Davis on Wednesday or Thursday, the Public Lab is
having events on the UCD campus.<br>
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<td>Fwd: Public Lab for Open Technology and Science in Davis,
Thu Apr 5, 4pm</td>
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<td>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:28:52 -0700</td>
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<td>Michele Tobias <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mmtobias@ucdavis.edu"><mmtobias@ucdavis.edu></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:geographystudent@ucdavis.edu">geographystudent@ucdavis.edu</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:geospatial@ucdavis.edu">geospatial@ucdavis.edu</a>,
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Please forward to those who might be interested...<br>
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The Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science is starting
a chapter at UCD. Kickoff events include a kite aerial photography
demonstration on the quad Wednesday at noon (weather permitting) and
an info/organization meeting Thursday at 4:00 in 1246 SSH
(Deathstar). More information is below. (If you have a balloon air
photo kit and want to demo on the quad, let me know.) :)<br>
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best,<br>
Michele<br>
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please forward:
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<div>Public Laboratory is setting up shop at UC Davis!</div>
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<div>Come see community mapping projects using DIY balloon and kite
technology. Hack a roomba to monitor air pollution. Make a
spectrometer out of a $10 materials that plugs into your laptop.
Brainstorm ways to connect the issues you care about to techniques
for doing something about them. </div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://publiclaboratory.org/"
target="_blank">The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and
Science</a> (PLOTS) is a community which develops and applies
open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation.
By democratizing inexpensive and accessible “Do-It-Yourself”
techniques, Public Laboratory creates a collaborative network of
practitioners who actively re-imagine the human relationship with
the environment. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://publiclaboratory.org/tools" target="_blank">http://publiclaboratory.org/tools</a></div>
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<div>We are joining forces with the Science & Technology Studies
Club to bring together critical thinking, civic science, and
making things. Actively seeking engineers, scientists, computer
scientists, social scientists, artists, humanists and nonhumanists
to hack a better world. All skills you have or want to learn are
valuable.</div>
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<div>Geography grad students Michele Tobias and Alex Mandel have
documented <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/micheletobias/11-21-2011/occupy-uc-davis-nov-21-2011"
target="_blank">the pepper spraying protests with balloon-lofted
cameras</a> and chart beaches for erosion. They will be
demonstrating kite-mapping technology, weather permitting, in the
quad Wednesday, April 4, at noon. </div>
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<div>We will have an initial organizing meeting this Thursday, April
5th, 4pm at the STS room 1246 SSH. Co-Founder of Public Lab,
Mathew Lippincott will talk describe its successes, opportunities,
possibilities. Let us know if you are interested, spread the
word. </div>
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<div>Map to SSH 1246: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tinyurl.com/1246ssh" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/1246ssh</a><br>
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Additional directions: 1246 SSH (aka Deathstar), easiest way to
find<br>
it is to enter the parking lot between Young & SSH off A St.
At the<br>
end of the parking lot turn right and walk between two buildings.
Off<br>
to your left is a sliding glass door. 1246 is inside to your left.<br>
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Joseph Dumit, Director<br>
Science and Technology Studies<br>
Professor of Anthropology<br>
University of California, Davis<br>
One Shields Avenue<br>
Davis, CA 95616<br>
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mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dumit@ucdavis.edu"
target="_blank">dumit@ucdavis.edu</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://sts.ucdavis.edu/"
target="_blank">http://sts.ucdavis.edu</a>
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