I’ve been involved with Public Lab (and Grassroots Mapping) since 2010, when I wrote to Jeff Warren after seeing the diydrones post showing his map of a settlement outside Lima, Peru. Public Lab is doing a Kickstarter campaign for aerial photomapping kits, from small lifting kites and balloons to the classic larger ones. Jeff, Stewart Long, Mathew Lippincott, and others in the Public Lab community helped me learn simple aerial photo mapping techniques. They also helped me start a grassroots mapping program to map the 40-acre Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development … [Read more...] about Public Lab/citizen science
Public Lab/citizen science
CWC TVW Critique groups run year round
At our last meeting of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Writers Branch this season, President, Patricia Boyle, asked me to speak about our STEM critique group. I was happy to. As my members page indicates, in part: Patrick D. Coyle journals and writes memoir and personal stories about travel and sustainable development. His short memoir, Time of Your Life, won first place in Impressions, the Las Positas College 2015 anthology. Other memoirs have been published in the Voices of the Valley: Word For Word, Encore, and First Press, California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch … [Read more...] about CWC TVW Critique groups run year round