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at 19:30 + +## Meeting Minutes + +Tonight's meeting followed [Victoria's Green +Drinks](http://www.greendrinks.org/) meeting. An update on the municipal +mesh networking project, the meraki units are not ready for prime time +yet. Also, we attended the city hall planning for the downtown core and +an update was provided. + +[Earthling](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/User:Earthling +"User:Earthling") spoke about [EarthChurch](http://www.earthchurch.net/). + +A manager from [Victoria Car Share Co- +op](http://www.victoriacarshare.ca/) came and spoke about their +program. The summary is $400 deposit, $10/monthly and 2.55/hr and $0.38/km +when using a vehicle. The fleet consists of ten cars, two trucks and a +minivan, and 9 or 10 more vehicles will be added in the new year as part +of a deal with dockside green. Vehicle maintenance, repairs, cleaning, +insurance, administration, and even fuel is provided by the co-op. + +We went slightly off-topic at this stage and into general discussion. Mostly about: + + * [XO Giving](http://www.laptopgiving.org/) Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. + * Population control; should we start to limit it, or do we benefit from more intelligent people being born to join the intelligent people collective. + * Ideals; instead of happiness, perhaps "being present" is what really matters. + +The URLs that were mentioned: + + * [CouchSurfing](http://www.couchsurfing.com/) is a free international Internet-based hospitality service, and currently the largest hospitality exchange network. + * [WWOOF](http://www.wwoof.org/) organizations compile a list of organic Host farms that (from time to time) welcome volunteer help. There were two negative experiences shared, but it was agreed that in order to appreciate the good you have to have the bad :) + * [Global free loaders](http://www.globalfreeloaders.com/) The Worldwide Free Accommodation Network. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2007-11-20-November-20-2007.md b/_posts/Victoria/2007-11-20-November-20-2007.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e33e321 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2007-11-20-November-20-2007.md @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Nov20,2007' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Nov 20, 2007 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2007-11-20' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Nov20 +- '2007' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Order beer +* Update on wireless mesh networking/meriaki units +* Update on marketing (posters) +* Creation of [Projects](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Projects "Projects") +* Discuss compensating presentations longer than 20 minutes with a beer + +## Presentation + +The presentation will be called "Life Hacks" (a la the website Mind Hacks). I +am going to propose a practical methodology for dramatically improved quality +of life via improved processes. I suspect that I will use a software +development analogy - drawing parallels from my work in software engineering +and quality and process improvement to the subject of life re-engineering. A +bit of psychology wrapped around a geeky metaphor. + +What I propose each potential attendee do is prepare one Life Hack that has +dramatically improved the quality of your life that we can discuss after my +presentation. + +Format for your Hack: + +1. Describe an area of your life that you determined needed improvement. Try a one sentence description that is clear (and catchy!) +2. Describe the technique you used to try and improve the area. +3. Describe the results of your life hack... + +Thats about it - I will talk about a particular process for increasing the +quality of life (which I will invent this weekend) We can share about +different Life Hacks that we have tried out and the results of them --- perhaps +we can come up with a plan to try out someone else's hack in your life for the +week... + +This will be documented on the project page: +[Debugging_our_lives](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Debugging_our_lives +"Debugging our lives") + +## Meeting Minutes + +* We had two new members at our meeting +* add a link to [wiki syntax guide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page) +* Our presenter proposed flash cards, but other members proposed we install SVN or some type of CVS, and start to log our bugs. +* We now have a dedicated table if we call on Tuesdays, and even better, we get half price apps if you're with the Yashy Idea Society! +* We discussed project planning your life, vs some members who live mostly by participating with chaos +* There was a recommended book, "Your money or your life" +* We should agree on how IP issues will be handled, it was suggested we use creative commons for our meetings, the same as is used on this wiki. +* At the beginning of our meetings, we will now have a language portion, where all members say a word in a different language (or something like sign language), to be used by the end of the meeting +* We discussed if we would compensate speakers with a beer, and voted against this idea + +It was propose that we follow the software development piece of debugging, for debugging our own lives. + +* ban the word "and" from bug reports, otherwise it could be multiple issues, and perhaps even [E-prime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime) +* bugs (problems needing debugging) must be atomic + consice +* We tend to prioritize elsewhere, and often debugging ourselves is not even on our priority list +* one of the challenges is determining the actual bug, and not looking elsewhere +* evaluate/debug your marriage annually +* ask an expert to determine a bug +* get someone else to debug your bug +* try cognitive therapy instead of traditional +* you choose your own bugs and prioritize them, no one else cares about your bugs but you +* choosing the right tool, such as: + + painting + intuition + meditation + dreams + luck + prayer + reading + luck + consulting with experts + + +* find bugs that have already been resolved + +We agreed that reflection/meditation time should be a required part of your +day, and most of us don't dedicate any "quiet time". It was suggested that +getting to know your intuitive, non-rational side should be more of a +priority, and only using your rational side as a tool. One member mentioned +that for any irrational fear he has had, he challenged it head on and it +resulted in great growth. We touched on the term "Social currency" which I +would like to see the group discuss further, perhaps it will tie in with the +image consultant next week. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2007-11-27-November-27-2007.md b/_posts/Victoria/2007-11-27-November-27-2007.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5cc4f90 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2007-11-27-November-27-2007.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Nov27,2007' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Nov 27, 2007 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2007-11-27' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Nov27 +- '2007' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Order beer +* Updates on [Projects](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Projects "Projects") +* Presentations + +## Presentation + +* Mirror Mirror image consulting will be presenting and answering questions +* Discussion on "social currency" + +## Minutes + +These are the loosely noted minutes, feel free to edit if you attended. + +* We judge each other the moment we first see each other. When looking at pants, people prefer dark wash & straight legged +* We will formulate a plan to contact the head of various UVic faculties to speak +* It was suggested we are a grassroots think tank +* It was brought to the table if we should incorporate spanking as the masons do. Like most things, this makes sense in context. +* Any non-commercial organization can use this wiki to provide information about their organization, as long as they agree to allow discussion on the subject, and there is no link to buy. (A link can be provided to the organization's website) +* [Model Mayhem](http://www.modelmayhem.com/results.php?group_id=1&country=CA&state=British+Columbia&dist=5&zip=&sort=joined_time&display=detail&namesearch2=&age_from=1988&age_to=1956&gender=Both&from_feet=3&from_inches=0&to_feet=7&to_inches=11ðnicity_id=Any&skin_color_id=Any&hair_color_id=Any&hair_length_id=Any&eye_color_id=Any&test=&searchtype=profile&submit=Search) is a website for non-commercial models/photographers +* A talk was requested, "How to start a social group" +* Open question to the society, what talks would you like to hear? +* The last member to get to the table is the secretary (minute taker) for the night. +* At the end we brought up the idea of keeping the discussion groups to 6 people. So if there are 8+ people, the other two would start a new table, for example. This will be discussed on the mailing list. +* The speaker should sit at the head of the table to maximize voice projection. Up to 9 people should be able to sit at our reserved two table space +* We will send the manager a thank you card, for making us one of two groups that gets reserved table seating, and the only group to get "Happy hour" outside the scheduled time. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2007-12-11-December-11-2007.md b/_posts/Victoria/2007-12-11-December-11-2007.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..994dedb --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2007-12-11-December-11-2007.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Dec11,2007' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Dec 11, 2007 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2007-12-11' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Dec11 +- '2007' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Order a beer +* Update on the Ottawa YIS meeting +* Discussion on the (non) convenience of financial institutions + +## Minutes + +* I realize that I wasn't the last one to arrive and yet still took minutes... +* [steampunk workshop](http://steampunkworkshop.com/) +* [Christian Science Monitor](http://www.csmonitor.com/) was recommended by a couple members +* One of our members is a card carrying member of the "compassion club" where he gets medicinal marijuana. He mentioned how sativa is the more mentally stimulating strain of marijuana, yet indica is the type most users get "off the street". +* wonder if THC could be a replacement for ridalin +* discussion if we should be replacing marijuana with alcohol for legal purchase. Not many violent crimes committed by marijuana smokers. +* [anandamide](http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32240) +* [Hemp hearts are apparently great for lowing blood pressure, and if you have arthritis](http://www.hempfood.com/info/hemp-hearts.html). If you're in Victoria, the hemp & clothing company sells them in a big yogurt container. +* society is consensus +* In Ontario, it was suggested that consensus is a lot more narrow due to density. The idea is that most people must do the same thing +* If marijuana was legalized in Canada, Americans would cut off trade due to their "war on drugs" +* We discussed proxy voting +* We had a long talk about how not many projects are coming out of the society, because not good information is going in. We need to start clearly articulating our questions and discussion if we want better results. +* **Project** : Research why does Halifax financially sustain from its [recycling](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Recycling "Recycling") program when no other city in Canada does? +* **Project** : We would like to make a hydrogen powered [blimp](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Blimp "Blimp"). +* How are you? No one cares, it is simply a social pleasantry +* Edward Debono has a book on quantifying conversation diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2007-12-18-December-18-2007.md b/_posts/Victoria/2007-12-18-December-18-2007.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a16a4f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2007-12-18-December-18-2007.md @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Dec18,2007' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Dec 18, 2007 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2007-12-18' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Dec18 +- '2007' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1 Agenda +2 Minutes +2.1 Main presentation +2.2 Other discussion + +## Agenda + +The general manager of [SPUD](https://www.spud.ca/) Vancouver Island +will explain the SPUD program and answer our questions. + +## Minutes + +### Main presentation + +* [Spud.ca](https://www.spud.ca/) buy from local producers, provide delivery service +* Other organizations mentioned: CityFarming Lifecycles - tree fruit project 1/3 +to owner, 1/3 to org, 1/3 to charity +* Carbon footprint available, goal is to become carbon neutral 10% by 2008 +* Each spud group is a separate incorporation -no plans on going public yet +Looking at delivery franchises +* Part of two coops Keating Farm Coop Values Chain Coop Long discussion ensues +about Cooperatives and their business model +* Discussion ensues about “chain of value” and how money flows back to the +farmer to encourage farming on Vancouver Island +* Questions raised about transparency of profit inside this business model and +answered +* Coop was working with “coop consultant” to setup. Group suggests looking at +other coops to avoid common problems. Again it is noted that this group has +already hired a consultant to do just that. +* Discussion of values chain and example given of sheep farmers and processors +* Group moderator mentions an interest in setting up IT for group in order to +become part of value chain. +* Discussion about profit margins on goods, growth opportunities, limitations to +growth, affordablilty of foodstuffs offered. Discussion about lowering +production costs on food. +* Discussion about “what is organic”. Good looking group member raises question +about the different classifications of goods “certified organic” “transitional +organic” “non-certified organic”. +* Spuds.ca is not interested in carrying non-organic(cally produced) food. +* Discussion on meat as food (natural, locally produced) by a member with +farming experience. Discussion of non-traditional meat sources and sale +through spud.ca +* Discussion on the food inspection agency and locally produced meat. +* Summary of spud.ca +* Guest leaves + +### Other discussion + +* [QR codes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code) could be used for food item nutritional information +* [Crannog ales](http://www.crannogales.com/) +* Why isn't there mutton bacon? +* One of our members can't drive, it was suggested he join the cost-effective co-op, and hire a homeless person with a licence to drive him around, which would probably end up cheaper than taking a taxi, and thus creates some employment +* Discussed how people determine the value of their time when calculating costs +* [History of Christmas](http://www.cracked.com/article_15719_pagan-orgies-human-sacrifice-bizarre-origins-christmas.html) +* [Confessions of a slacker](http://gridfarm1.undergroundfilm.org/media/march2006/1032334_lar.mov) was just given a million dollar budget to become a feature film +* Movie: [Ghost Dog](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/) +* [Aesop's fable](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables) have an interesting history, and are not the "child friendly cartoons they're made out to be" +* [The sin of onan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onan) is interpreted by oppressors as suggesting masturbation is evil, but it can easily be argued that is not the point of the story at all +* draw jam -- blog +* **Project:** [pirate drive-in](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Pirate_drive-in "Pirate drive-in") diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-01-15-January-15-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-01-15-January-15-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..599a226 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-01-15-January-15-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan15,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 15, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-01-15' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan15 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + + * Order beer + * Presentation by Craig C on his [Axial Flux Electric motor ](http://www.saers.com/~craig/pmg/TurquoiseEnergyMPMG.html) as well as his mechanical power transmission assembly for the demo wave powered electricity generator + * Answer the [Junta questions list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto#The_Questions) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-01-29-January-29-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-01-29-January-29-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94969e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-01-29-January-29-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan29,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 29, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-01-29' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan29 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Order beer +* Marria from [Fieldstone Community Farm](http://fieldstonecommunityfarm.org/founders.htm) will be presenting + +## Minutes + +* open question, "What do you want to be doing in 5 years?" +* talk about the movie Rambo - violence, gore, simulated rape + +### Main Presentation + +* Fieldstone community farm +* To teach people with a developmental disability about organic farming and to assist in their self-actualization +* staff +* volunteers recruited from people living on limited and low income +* farming is the topic +* heritage [Canadian seed exchanges](http://www.seeds.ca/ev/evpage.php?lang=EN&p=5) +* [Victoria's seed saturday](http://jamesbaymarket.com/getgrowing/seedy_saturday.htm) +* steward a farm +* steward a property bequeathed to The Land Conservancy, foundation etc. +* therapeutic llamas +* Fieldstone would use volunteers, many living on limited and low income, to work with developmentally challenged people to learn about organic farming, and improve their own lives by developing leadership and mentoring skills, as well as better nutrition with the produce they bring home +* Richard Leblanc's organization offered synergy, but some question whether the two populations were a good fit +* the reason many people do not volunteer is because they are not asked +* [Quality Of Life challenge](http://www.qolchallenge.ca/) has shown that if an inclusion policy is in place, people living on limited and low income are better able to volunteer (provide them with the resources and a welcoming atmosphere) +* several related existing initiatives for different populations in the community discussed +* there will be a fundraiser for Fieldstone Community Farm called Fieldstone Soup on March 6 at the Ambrosia Centre on Fisgard St. Local chefs will each prepare a course from local ingredients with samplings of local wine, beer & cider. Details are posted on [Fieldstone Community Farm](http://www.fieldstonecommunityfarm.org/) +* Island Chefs Collaborative and its support of local farmers was discussed +* discussed some of the issues that developmentally challenged people face, some of her common sense approaches she's used to help them to develop independence, and how these strategies have become the foundation for her current initiatives +* member discussed his own experiences with using a rehabilitated drug addict (the good and the bad) and some of the ideas he has for skills development and employment +* member asked if Fieldstone would consider doing other short term, simpler activities on several different farm sites until the resources have been gathered that meet the goals (question around insurance feasibility) + +* Discussed the process of fundraising dinners. Should we try to organize a regular one with different charities in mind? +* Customer service - Why doesn't it exist? Is it worth any effort in trying to remediate? +* ABS brake system - speaker is wondering if anyone is familiar with ABS brakes, as the pressure seems to be going, is it OK to disable? diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-05-February-05-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-05-February-05-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6816d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-05-February-05-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb05,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 05, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-02-05' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb05 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Minutes + +As there was no agenda in advance, one member brought a copy of the [Junto +Questions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto#The_Questions) +which we went over. + +1) + +* The internet has created many pleasurable reading events, perhaps making this question obsolete +* Interesting to see what questions still have value and which have been deprecated +* housing/heating books as one member recently bought a house. Looking into wireless thermostats, is there anything more advanced/stable than x10? +* hepatic interfaces - terminals which you read by feel +* mobile computing - must look away from whatever else you are doing +* **Book** Plasticity of the brain +* upside-down glasses; apparently the brain adapts within an hour +* XS Cargo has bluetooth headsets for $20 this week. What about attaching to your wrist, or behind the ear, or anywhere else with nerve endings. Then get a nearby computer to send text -> morse code (CW) to the device. How long until you can understand what is being sent? Can one get into a position where they can interpret several at once? +* How many wpm does a person average for voice, braille, cw, typing, reading? + +2) + +* only dirty stories. No. Microsoft vs copyright. +* Recent cocaine flights that go down, the suggestion they are CIA torture planes. Coincidence of parent company acronym "DBA". +* medium is the message +* blogs -> restrictions +* media priorities +* masses vs niche + +3) + +* Vehicle manufacturing plants +* GM in Oshawa +* Ford shut 3 today +* Just-in-time model: no market for failover -- bottom-line vs worker +* It's just business -- mortgage -> writeoff to bankrupcy +* Once laid off, you realize people are not priority, the bottom-line is. +* Reallocate to higher position +* Keep the bottom 25% of your society working, or they will kill you and eat you. +* Standard of living is relevant to your environment + +4) + +* Cheney - Halliburton & War +* Blackwater +* Belinda - Daddy's money (Magna) +* Local techies with infectious greed + +5) + +* Venture capitalists +* Get a good reference, it's all about reputation and who you know +* Find the richest person you know, use their lawyer/billing + +6) + +* Rescuing the [CP Lawn bowling club](http://cplawnbowling.org/) + +7) + +* Intermporant + +8) + +* One member completed a month of alcohol detox. Value of temperance < heightened value of intemperance + +9) + +* Ephedrine hydrochloride + +10) + +* One mutual acquaintance going to Japan +* One member heading to Edmonton next week to visit in-laws + +11) + +* Girls looking for servicing +* City influence + +12) + +* Many people flying in for privacy and security conference + +13) + +* Cousin; RCSS is the same night + +14) + +* Copyright. +* Dmitri Skylarov - DeCSS - better left unsaid? +* archery + +15) + +* Copyright. +* Lawn bowling +* US Patriot act +* Liberty is evolving +* Loss of liberty is because of stupid people in charge +* All the time, I just don't give a shit. Everytime I watch the US news as well as the Canadian news. +* Nit picking member is still at the table + +16) + +* negative action vs. positive action +* What could be done so that everyone would care to elect smart people? +* run by experts vs. political flack + +* sweet fuck all, you can do shit +* rifle + +17) + +* member is a pimp + +18) + +* nothing wrong with it +* public reputation is what matters +* truth is more important +* one member states they do not ever lie +* social ties? +* Every side has an out anyways + +* We ended the meeting here as it was only going downhill. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-12-February-12-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-12-February-12-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20880c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-12-February-12-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb12,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 12, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-02-12' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb12 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Minutes + +There were no minutes taken this meeting, as the meeting was a practical. +Several members brought in their [XO +Laptops](http://www.laptop.org/) and +we played with their collaboration options. They were not very intuitive for +adult techies :) We had 4 guests. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-19-February-19-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-19-February-19-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c1beae --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-19-February-19-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb19,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 19, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-02-19' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb19 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +Discussion on +[satellites](http://hackepedia.org/?title=Satellites) + +## Minutes + +* As one member recently purchased a house, and another was negotiating the purchase of a house, the discussion was based around home and land ownership +* All members seem interested in creating edible gardens +* Discussion around using hydroponics on vertical tubes with 'shelves' throughout, wondering how high one can go (with peas, for example) +* As most of us are transplants, we are going to look into what advantages we have locally being in such a moderate climate with extended growing season +* There seems to be a 'back to basics' mood for most members, being as self-sustaining as we can. +* Wondering if there is any reason why we keep grass on our lawns, and not make them completely garden. +* One member brought his new macbook air to demonstrate diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-26-February-26-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-26-February-26-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be44527 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-02-26-February-26-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb26,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 26, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-02-26' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb26 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +File transfer night. + +Bring your laptop and/or external storage to swap files with other members. +This can be software, video, audio etc. Individuals are responsible for +ensuring they are only offering up legal files for downloading. + +## Minutes + +* Most members are not so concerned with taking minutes, perhaps as an incentive to attend the meetings +* Moving forward we will still meet weekly, but once a month we will organize a guest speaker +* There is no sense in "wishing you'd done something differently" as the universe to you travels only on one path, there is no alternative +* One member brought their macbook air, one brought their [XO Laptop](http://www.laptop.org/), and one member brought their [eee PC from Asus](http://eeepc.asus.com/). The macbook was extra expensive, very sharp and crisp screen, only one USB adapter, battery less than marketed, and many problems installing software to "make it useful". All 3 of these members have the XO laptop, it's cute, meant for children so the keyboard is very small and the computer doesn't look very serious. Screen is not that crisp/sharp, and because of cost (under $200) it's limited resources, although it does come with 3 USB ports and is actively being hacked by thousands. You can install any linux based software on it. Finally, the eee was the favourite of all, it is very small, yet powerful, and an amazing display. The owner uses it as a skype machine. It is colourful, intuitive, and also runs linux software. +* Once you prioritize how you ant to be perceived by others, it's only a matter of time until you are. +* There was a special $15 3 course meal this evening for [www.tourismvictoria.com/dine/ Dine around Victoria] so most of us participated. It turns out our meetings are also on 1/2 price wine by the glass which didn't hurt :) +* Some members are aware of all social interactions and cognitively choose on all integrated actions (usually by those are borderline aspergers and have a hard time discerning social cues) +* We discussed using fuel cell technology for home storage, as one member is actively working on a hydrogen powered sailboat, and one member is looking at energy options for his new home. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-04-March-04-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-04-March-04-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d256d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-04-March-04-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar04,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 04, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-03-04' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar04 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Order beer +* Open discussion; bring the ideas you're passionate about + +## Minutes + +* house purchasing discussion +* pirate radio + +Asked three members what things they carried on them without warning in +advance: + +windows ce device 8 keys (car house condo condo-common laptop) keyfob - +building access wallet - reduced from 20 to 3 cards recently, if not often +used bluetooth headset + +business card carrier wallet card wallet notepad passport phone (pda) pager +keys - in wallet (3 wallets in total) 2 usb fobs pens lighter multitool eye +contact holder mininun! knife bag with laptop + +keys cell wallet watch camera emergency cd + +* two members no longer wear watches now that they have alternative devices that carry the time + +Then we discussed what a good geek should carry: + +ham radio camera wire copper, stiff flashlight + +Then we moved on to what we should have in case we go into a state of +emergency: + +9mm/weapon ham radio generator (multi fuel) helium balloon chair zodiac/pull +chain boat tsunami zones? wood fire starter water purification locator beacon +flashlight bank records + +* discussed Think [geek t-shirts](http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/) +* [CanSecWest.com](http://www.cansecwest.com/) is coming up + +* Member showed up late to show off his battery innovation, made from scratch. [Turquoise Energy](http://turquoiseenergy.com/) battery he calls it. + + 6.25 volt + 400 amp + 50 amp hours + 312.5 watt hours + life cycle - indefinite + + 70-75 dollars in material cost + + Should take 7-10 days for materials to integrate before it can be fully tested. Member will present in two weeks time on results and details. + +* gas spectrometer - Where to buy? +* "Thats the trouble wth chemicals, they all do different things" +* Where to get certain chemicals +* How to grind monel, or find monel powder? +* danger/safety with batteries - chance to explode + +* For importing use DHL, then USPS, never UPS + +* What fun things do you do outside of work? how much time? + +1. all of it +2. a lot - 20 hours on projects - information gathering +3. 20-40 hours + +1. need a life +2. not happy, but have to eat +3. have a life - it takes a lot of time (5-10 if wife is in town) - lower priority + +financial expectations (and others) of our partners is the male expected to +provide (in full) during maternity + +* Members discussed business venture greedywalrus.com. and financial models + +1. monthly/yearly (cosco) +2. offer the cheapest one that makes me money option +3. advertising model (froogle) +4. sell the ip + +* futureshop model + +* Will try to organize a Yashy Idea Society online chat diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-11-March-11-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-11-March-11-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e45b26 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-11-March-11-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar11,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 11, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-03-11' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar11 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + + * Order beer + * Meeting will begin at 19:00, after [Green Drinks](http://www.biothinking.com/greendrinks/index.php?country=Canada&city=Victoria,%20BC) monthly event (which is from 17:00-19:00) + +## Minutes + +[Visitor's +website](http://audioofamber.com/) + +[Another visitor's web hosting +company](http://www.theorem.ca/) + +* $80/year +* 300M +* 1000m/month + +[Pirate_drive- in](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Pirate_drive-in +"Pirate drive-in")[ existed +locally](http://www.guerilladrivein.ca/history.php) + +* One member said you should have your head facing north when sleeping, so the blood goes to your head because of magnetic pull. This must be the opposite in the Southern hemisphere. + +* One member challenged us to create a lightweight portable hammock stand holds 300 lbs. + +[camra.ca](http://www.camra.ca/) a local real ale advocacy group + +[W3 Validator](http://validator.w3.org/) Type your website into this one, +and see how proper/accessible your website is + +[Hackepedia](http://www.hackepedia.org/) + +* * * + +invention technology company (money!) living to work or working to live + +* work hard for more money + +from that you can buy a faster car that you don't drive faster + +president says "go shop " immediately after 911 + +we live in a culture of consumption + +social status - tie to life longevity + +social status - is not class + +There are other means to increase ones social status other than money: + +* respect of your peers +* stable social networks +* leisure time +* stable health care +* social safety net + +THESE are measure of success of your children and life expectancy + +money can create negative impacts unlike the others + +* How much you walk is the biggest determinant of your health + +with no skills in Canada: + +* work in the oil fields of Alberta or Yellowknife +* pornography or gambling industries +* stupid people compete here - obviously low hanging fruit + +* I'd rather be more interested than happy +* Rich people don't have better ideas + +* Are you spending more time (trying to) acquiring wealth than doing things that are +* TV etc, how many distractions do have that prevent us from doing interesting things like + +reading books, hikes + +* Golfing makes you spend your day chatting with maybe 3 people +* Basketball = more people, thus more disussion + +* The 3 ways someone becomes rich: inherit. pursued. lucky. + +* Wealth is the enemy of quality +* Important and interesting work comes out of being constrained +* One needs to find the balance between + +* Constraints you have from not being wealthy open the same doors if you're interesting + +* Grants (usually) suck, your work is politics +* Wealth - above and beyond the necessities + +* Unless you have specific things that require riches to accomplish you probably won't get wealth. +* Those that won't meet their objectives, they're probably just seeking riches + +negatives of someone being rich - + +* we need to remove the need for consumption + +* Status fundamentally makes one happy, riches are one minute resource for that + +* social status - attempting to get rich, shows you're trying to hard to get social status because you don't have it + +* social status and wealth is not interchangeable suggests one member + +* money = currency or resources?!!? +* fundamentally, all commodities are currency (Money is backed up by some central bank in some nation) + +[Sapir Whorf +Hypothesis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir- +Whorf_hypothesis) + +* One visitor accused a member of trying to modify the argument yet avoiding the main point + +* * * + +* We should create a facebook event +* We should have a social/bbq +* Check out lawn bowling + +creative vs social technical people are more creative? it's a freedom thing -- +creativity + +pushing social boundaries some of the time you will fail to be safe is to be a +social animal diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-18-March-18-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-18-March-18-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90984ac --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-03-18-March-18-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar18,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 18, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-03-18' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar18 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + + * Order beer + * ~~Member will present the results of his handmade battery~~ It will be another week due to issues. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-08-April-08-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-08-April-08-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1d9528 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-08-April-08-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr08,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 08, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-04-08' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr08 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +As it appears there have been no meetings recently, there have. Just no one is +stepping up to the plate to take minutes. As such, I will at least try to +summarize the meetings so you get a sense of what the meeting was about. + +* We followed [green drinks](http://www.greendrinks.org/) +* Talked about emergency preparedness again. + +What type of emergencies are you, or should you be prepared for? Under the +current climate the biggest fear is an economic/social emergency. One member +is talking about building an emergency kit and storing it under water, near a +remote island we could sail to + +* Discussed a few of us taking sailing lessons and buying a communal sailboat +* We are going to try a 10-mile diet, based off the 100-mile diet idea. +* We discussed going vertical instead of horizontally because we have small properties. Perhaps eavesdrop fed tubes. +* We should meet with [Compost BC](http://www.compost.bc.ca/) and get their feedback +* One guest is starting a sensor company, he will work with a few of our members next week to test his accelerometer device +* One guest is visiting with the National museum conference diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-15-April-15-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-15-April-15-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6ff54d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-15-April-15-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr15,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 15, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-04-15' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr15 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +* From a landlord perspective, it's worth researching if month to month is worse than short term leases in terms of notices to vacate +* When you're confrontational, people stop talking to you, as well as listening to you +* It's not about winning. If your point of view is different, the direct approach doesn't work +* What is the goal in discussion? Is it to win? You might get exactly what you expected, or not at all what you expected. +* The best solution is to make the other person's will yours +* Nothing to do with winning or losing +* You want to frame your opinion as your opinion +* Compromise is another way of (members differed): + +1. losing half +2. gaining all + +* In the glass is half full analogy, the engineer sees the glass as twice as tall as it needs to be +* People expect you to be confrontational if you're on a stage +* [Chocolate rain](http://youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-29-April-29-2008.md b/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-29-April-29-2008.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..deea196 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2008-04-29-April-29-2008.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr29,2008' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 29, 2008 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2008-04-29' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr29 +- '2008' +- Victoria +--- + +## Minutes + +* how much heat/energy can we get off human/animal waste? +* 200 foot deep geothermal heated house on Vancouver street, what was the permit process to utilize aqueducts that deep? +* While houses average $220 sq/ft, a guy in Metchosin built his house for $100 sq/ft and off the grid +* 500sq/ft handles human compost +* [BCSEA](http://www.bcsea.org/) ran the tour of energy efficient homes +* Cobb house in North Saanich, a tour every 2nd Sunday +* claw/stray/mud house +* straw requires stucco on both sides with no gaps? As wet straw can ignote +* differential power is coming +* What is the difference of fuel, oil, electricity and wind? +* What was it last year? 5 years ago? +* A device that measures wind over time, like a power meter +* Unlimited clothes line bylaws in Ontario in order to save power +* storing geothermal heat using "sterling engine" +* How to test optimal geothermal depth (dig to water source then test differential temperature) +* What are the effects of multiple geothermal users; what is the impact of geothermal on its environment? (impacts on soil, water, the frostline) +* "drake landing" near okotoks in Alberta using bore holes to store heat during summer and release during winter; How does this impact its environment? - unknown at this time +* look up link at Vancouver street house that uses supposed non toxic glycol +* $3500 grant from federal government along with proposed provincial grant +* net metering in BC: sell at 5.4 cents and buy at 8 cents; different in Washington where one can sell at a profit +* buy used photo voltaic cells in California where government is subsidizing cost and purchase to sell over border minus GST diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-05-05-March-05-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-05-05-March-05-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af79a54 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-05-05-March-05-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May05,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 05, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-05-05' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May05 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +We had a demo of a MakerBot: + + + +We also discussed: + +* [the Return of the Canadian DMCA](http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5009/125/) +* the rental of a hackerspace/makerspace diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-06-02-June-02-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-06-02-June-02-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d74a4de --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-06-02-June-02-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jun02,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jun 02, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-06-02' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jun02 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +* Discussion around the upcoming conference +* Demo of the "Simon says" software written at the May 26th hack night. The hardware was a USB controlled dance dance revolution (DDR) mat. The plan is to publish the software on github. +* Herb did a talk on OpenData (slides and links to follow I hope!) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-06-09-June-09-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-06-09-June-09-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2f44bc --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-06-09-June-09-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jun09,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jun 09, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-06-09' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jun09 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## Planned Agenda + +* Creation of a TV commercial for the IdeaWave conference (with CHEK tv) +* Creation of a DIY HD tv antenna. [Hackepedia entry](http://hackepedia.org/?title=Ota) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-14-July-14-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-14-July-14-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d50a7ed --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-14-July-14-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jul14,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jul 14, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-07-14' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jul14 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## Discussions + +* Shipping container hotel or house +* Government grants (SRED, IRAP) +* Solar cooker demo +* Creation of the [awesome_shit_club](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Awesome_shit_club "Awesome shit club") + +## URLs mentioned + +* [Nerd Dinner](http://nerddinner.com/) +* [Shipping container hotel](http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/08/22/travelodge-shipping-container-hotel/) +* [Container City](http://www.containercity.com/) +* [Victoria community micro lending](http://www.communitymicrolending.ca/) +* [Victoria used boats](http://victoria.en.craigslist.ca/boa/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-21-July-21-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-21-July-21-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad33229 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-21-July-21-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jul21,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jul 21, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-07-21' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jul21 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## Items discussed + +* Plugin for a browser that logs all keystrokes, so you don't lose data, or an AJAX mediawiki (we lost our changes, had to redo) +* How hard/easy would it be to model GHG emissions with population and consumption? +* What software does Pecha Kucha Vancouver use for videos to sync with powerpoint? +* How does one crop horiz/vert in HD videos? +* UVic legal clinic to look at [ASC](http://www.ideawave.ca/ideas/index.php/Awesome_shit_club) +* Hardware optimization for Virtual guest OS' + +## URLs mentioned + +* [Neal Stepheson](http://www.nealstephenson.com/) (author of Snow Crash) +* [Clock of the Long Now](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now) +* [Book Crossing](http://www.bookcrossing.com/) +* [EcoGeek](http://www.ecogeek.org/) +* [Pecha Kucha - Vancouver](http://www.pechakuchanightvancouver.com/) +* [Nearly Free Speech](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/hosting) +* [Names Pro](http://www.namespro.ca/) or [RegisterYour](http://www.registeryour.ca/content/pricing.php) for .ca domains + +What happened to + +* [kuro5hin.org](http://www.kuro5hin.org/) +* [Slashdot](http://www.slashdot.org/) +* [Ars Technica](http://arstechnica.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-28-July-28-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-28-July-28-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c59aa3a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-07-28-July-28-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jul28,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jul 28, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-07-28' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jul28 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +* [Animated unemployment maps](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x18hrNp--NM) +* [Global Economic Crisis - Book](http://www.amazon.ca/Global-Economic-Crisis-Depression-Century/dp/0973714735) +* [Aptera](http://www.aptera.com/) +* [BC Civic Address Geocoding Service](http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/geobc/services/geocoding/index.html) +* [GeoBC kmz/wms info](http://archive.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/dm/wms/index.html) +* [IMAP BC](http://webmaps.gov.bc.ca/imfx/imf.jsp?site=imapbc) +* [shp2kml](http://www.zonums.com/shp2kml.html) +* [Atomospheric Hazards for BC](http://pyr.hazards.ca/download-e.html) +* [A weather app for the Nascar crowd](http://freakyweather.com/) +* [XLS2HTML and some polygon links](http://freegeographytools.com/2007/xls2kml-another-excel-to-kml-converter-with-a-few-extras) + diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-04-August-04-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-04-August-04-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4c7be4 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-04-August-04-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug04,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 04, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-08-04' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug04 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- +* Rona offering wood cut for 32 cents a cut if you offer the plans with wood + +"You should never read the comments section of a newspaper" - TB + +* How to make good online comment systems (Metafilter, Slashdot) + +## URLs discussed + +* [Mutual UFO Network](http://www.mufon.com/) +* [Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet)](http://www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/) +* [Metafilter](http://www.metafilter.com/) +* [Slashdot](http://www.slashdot.org/) +* [Eightfoldlogic](http://www.eightfoldlogic.com/) +* [Google.org](http://www.google.org/) +* [Google.org Rechargeit](http://www.google.org/recharge/) +* [penisland](http://www.penisland.net/) +* [Dreambank](http://dreambank.org/) +* [Half Bakery](http://www.halfbakery.com/) +* [Google wifi](http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=30814) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-11-August-11-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-11-August-11-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9e3fca --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-11-August-11-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug11,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 11, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-08-11' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug11 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## URLs mentioned + +* [Pligg](http://www.pligg.com/) +* [Idea Torrent](http://www.ideatorrent.org/) +* [Uservoice](http://uservoice.com/) +* [Openmind](http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/1785-OpenMind) +* [VoxPopuli](http://www.eldos.com/vp/) +* [BetaEasy](http://www.betaeasy.com/) +* [Tor](http://tor.eff.org/) +* [Victoria Free-Net](http://victoria.tc.ca/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-18-August-18-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-18-August-18-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8306993 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-18-August-18-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug18,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 18, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-08-18' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug18 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +* How should we take minutes? + +Google voice and Jott translate voice to text + +* Should someone interested in LAMP type systems learn perl, python or php? or flash or html5? +* What should I use for a CMS? Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, Django +* TV show web application, some legal issue discussion +* [Awesome Shit Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) + +## URLs mentioned + +* [Jott](http://jott.com/) +* [Google Voice](http://www.google.com/mobile/voice/) +* [Future Salon meetings](http://www.accelerating.org/futuresalon.html) +* [San Diego Future Salon](https://www.socialtext.net/futuresalon/index.cgi?san_diego_future_salon) +* [ActionScript 3](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html) +* [HTML5](http://html5demos.com/) +* [Boxee](http://www.boxee.tv/) +* [torrent episode downloader](http://www.ted.nu/) +* [XBMC](http://xbmc.org/) +* [Google TV](http://www.google.com/tv/) +* [Tokbox](http://www.tokbox.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-25-August-25-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-25-August-25-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bcb0ec --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-08-25-August-25-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug25,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 25, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-08-25' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug25 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## URLs mentioned + +* [idea connection](http://www.ideaconnection.com/) +* [odesk](http://www.odesk.com/) +* [remote staff](http://www.remotestaff.com.au/) +* [Trapster](http://www.trapster.com/) +* [oiko credit](http://www.oikocredit.org/) +* [mag lev turbine](http://magturbine.com/) +* [BC Campus](http://www.bccampus.ca/) +* [Punk math book](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1541803748/punk-mathematics) +* [Math for primates podcast](http://www.mathforprimates.com/) +* [Femto cell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell) +* [cleanblueoceans twitter](http://twitter.com/cleanblueoceans) +* [fountains twitter](http://twitter.com/tgifs) +* [twitter captkd](http://twitter.com/CaptKD) +* [Trapster](http://www.trapster.com/) +* [Continental divide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Divide_of_the_Americas) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-09-08-September-08-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-09-08-September-08-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca60061 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-09-08-September-08-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Sep08,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Sep 08, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-09-08' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Sep08 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## URLs discussed + +* [Fab labs](http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/11/fab_labs_neil_g/) +* [Khan Academy](http://www.khanacademy.org/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-09-15-September-15-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-09-15-September-15-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..459a10f --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-09-15-September-15-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Sep15,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Sep 15, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-09-15' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Sep15 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +Projects on the agenda: + +* [awesome_shit_club](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Awesome_shit_club "Awesome shit club") +* [hackerspace](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Hackerspace "Hackerspace") +* [learning](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Learning "Learning") +* [Cider](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Cider "Cider") diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-10-27-October-27-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-10-27-October-27-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8ac0ea --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-10-27-October-27-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Oct27,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Oct 27, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-10-27' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Oct27 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +* [Beer bike](http://bicycling.about.com/od/thebikelife/ss/bierbike.htm) --- How do we make this legal in Victoria? +* [We feel fine](http://wefeelfine.org/) +* [Ask Metafilter](http://ask.metafilter.com/) +* [Photo Synth](http://photosynth.net/) +* [Google Panoramio](http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/03/googles-panoramio-launches-photosynth-like-flythroughs/) +* [3d camera](http://www.ptgrey.com/products/spherical.asp) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2010-12-29-December-29-2010.md b/_posts/Victoria/2010-12-29-December-29-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3bd2e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2010-12-29-December-29-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Dec29,2010' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Dec 29, 2010 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2010-12-29' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Dec29 +- '2010' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Keg/Beer discussion +2. Awesome Shit Club +3. Makerspace updates +4. Hackathon +5. Wikileaks Discussion +6. G20 Discussion +7. Xen/VPS hosting +8. MESH Network +9. Radio antennas that are easy to do-it-yourself (DIY) +10. Misc +11. Upcoming Events + +## Keg/Beer discussion + +Derek had given a presentation on brewing beer out at the makerspace. He +started a batch to be drinkable in time for the AGM and had asked folks to +bring non-screw-cap bottles to the meeting tonight. Instead folks gave him +suggestions for alternatives to using bottles. + +Alternative from Kris & Tyler to using bleach (which is messy): Oxyclean +(without the "Blue flavour crystals") or Diversol. For santiziation: +[starsan sanitizer pdf tech sheet](http://www.fivestarchemicals.com/wp- +content/uploads/StarSanTech.pdf%7C) + +One member mentioned that he has a refrigerator that is a kegarator that he +has set up to hold both a home-brew and a commercial brew and he's augmented +it to include a touch screen computer with maybe the following features: + +[OSS dance dance revolution - stepnation](http://www.stepmania.com/%7C) +(PS2 controllers to USB) + +[OSS guitar hero - frets on fire](http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/%7C) +(Mats already acquired that are USB) + +He'd like to be able to tell how empty/full the kegs are - suggestions were: + +1. bend sensor (Derek has a few extras of these and offered them) +2. spring weight +3. measure capacitance from outside the keg + +## Awesome Shit Club + +1. Kris gave Tyler money to be an awesomeite +2. we still could use a few more participants - judges and submitters + +## Makerspace updates + +1. membership OK, need to build it soon +2. bank account is waiting on the board of directors so paypal also on hold; incorporation papers need to come through +3. forge is almost ready. we just need a blower (hair dryer?) and a propane regulator. +1. regulator needs to be able to handle taking 20-30 psi down to 10.5 inches of water; (according to wikipedia: 1 inAq = .036126 psi, or 27.68089 inAq = 1 psi) +4. lasercutter coming! (not makerspace equipment yet, but available to use with help) +5. may have a loaner TIG welder (for e.g. aluminum) and Bridgeport CNC mill for metal machining +6. makerbot is in there ready to use, ask Derek for an intro lesson +7. need to plan classes starting in jan +8. will do a late jan/early feb publicity push; BCIC has a blog that Derek follows - posted a week and a half ago that they were looking for local innovation stories so maybe they'll cover the makerspace +9. fully functioning wood shop is in place +10. may get a test bench from Camosun +11. Krista science writer may attend ideas meeting and may be a source of promotion; Tyler says she is now working at project Neptune +12. Derek is making a pitch for small community-funded tech shops (there are some commercial ones e.g. TechShop. If we can get them going here in Victoria, we can compete on a more level playing field with places like San Francisco +13. projects forming, please express interest +1. bioluminescent seafood + 1. culture bacteria from seafood and play with luminescence media + 2. Is there a market for glowing beer? + 3. Meredith Patterson has made GlowGurt (glowing yogurt) +2. arduino-based quad copters! + 1. Tyler knows a fellow working on them now from autonomous arial + 2. four rotors can hold 1 kg or so of payload (e.g. a camera) + 3. course this summer; professor runs mechatronics every other year; buys LOTS of arduino boards. Will order out mech and drive systems - focus instead on the programming side + 4. can get in on a group buy of hardware + 5. Aras (a MakerSpace fellow) and Derek will both be taking the course +3. lettuce machine + 1. Thomas interested in this - a project Derek worked on last summer in California + 2. Aeroponics as opposed to hydroponics; using mist rather than water bumps up growth rate by 25%; also uses 95% less water + 3. piezoelectronics already manufactured for ponds; not too expensive to make the mist; lighting is the big cost + 4. 60 day growth cycle from start to harvestable head of lettuce + +(btw. note from Derek. I was full of it on my explanation of the igem data +storage project. It was DNA based. It required sequencing to get the data out. +They didn't grow the colonies for long enough to have the non-functional DNA +be lost. [http://2010.igem.org/files/presentation/Hong_Kong- +CUHK.pdf](http://2010.igem.org/files/presentation/Hong_Kong- +CUHK.pdf) The live encoding schemes I was talking about are more similar to +the bacterial computer work reported in the last couple of weeks here: +[http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/12/scientists-create-computer-programmable- +bacteria/](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/12/scientists- +create-computer-programmable-bacteria/) ) + +## Hackathon + +1. Herb says he is planning to have the next Hackathon take place January 22nd, starting at 9 am and maybe going as late as 9 pm +2. Tyler suggested Herb hook up the fellow from the last hackathon with the giant touchscreen with Derek's VISID lab at UVic (Visual Interactive and Design) +3. Derek says his lab generally uses java-based visualization tools rather than flash or javascript. A mini-webapp would be best for the hackathon projects. +4. Herb thinks Nelson of CGI will offer space again +5. BC Legislature minutes ("Hansard") will soon be available via XML +6. Herb apparently effected policy change with a simple phone call to a fellow at the Queen's Printer. He noted that bclaws.ca is almost unusable as the license message only provides for the narrowest possible use - you can't even print out a copy for a friend. He asked the fellow if the data could be made available via XML and the allowed usage broadened. And it may come to pass as a result of the call! The biggest benefit is that you could do a DIFF on the XML files and see what laws have changed - currently there is no practical way to do this. + +## Wikileaks Discussion + +Meredith Patterson is collecting responses to the cables - if you review them +and have feedback, forward it to her. + +* [Cablesearch](http://cablesearch.org/) +* [Creative Commons-licensed anthology of short critical responses to the diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks](http://www.allthecitizensmen.com/%7C) + +## G20 Discussion + +* [Movie about G20 related info](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geM4DbAG7NI) +* [Ombudsman Statement](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3jlxN_fzA) + +## Xen/VPS hosting + +* [prgmr is accepting clients again; you get full access - your own kernel +etc. but maybe no freeBSD yet implemented on it](http://prgmr.com/xen/) +* [Slicehost](http://www.slicehost.com/) +* [linode - nice fully-automated interface including full rebuild of virtual +machine almost immediately by clicking a button](http://www.linode.com/) + +## MESH Network + +1. Didn't actually happen in December after all as the MarketSquare folks got too busy so Tyler got to enjoy the holidays. Courtyard is in suspense. One is up in HipBaby. +2. Logging shows a couple of hits a day which is remarkable as there is no advertisement that it exists and it is not in a convenient location (no place to sit). +3. Liam hopes to have the official launch the 3rd or 4th week of January. +4. Bridging and quick failover appear to be working fine. +5. You do see the splash screen again whenever you hit a new radio but this is good for the sponsors so letting it remain. + +## Radio antennas that are easy to do-it-yourself (DIY) + +* quarter-wave dipole +* yagi-uda +* [Make an HD tv antenna](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jun09,2010) + +## Misc + +* [Alone in the Wilderness](http://www.dickproenneke.com/alone_in_the_wilderness.html) +* [YouTube Version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss) +* how to see all of your unread emails in gmail + + label:unread + +Derek wants to try to integrate his Zeos hack with Kris's brain machine. + +1. Kris built it as part of a soldering class taught by Mitch Altman (founder of the noisebridge and other hackerspaces and perhaps coiner of the phrase "virtual reality". Drill through sunglasses and install LEDs that you hook up to a prebuilt board which makes them blink at various speeds over a 15 minute cycle. Synchronized with audio sent to your ears at the same time. Wear them with your eyes closed and start the cycle - takes you from alert to meditative and back in 15 minutes. Those who tried it said it definitely messes with your head. (Classic zen meditation recommendation is 24 minutes so maybe just stretching out the cycle a bit would make it easier to use productively. Kris said he hooked up a DV9 (?) so can reprogram it from a computer.) Tyler noted that the subliminal advertising attempts in movie theaters (flashing "buy popcorn" during a film) were shown to be completely ineffective. A member (Kris?) recommended a book call Risk by Dan Gardener - Science and Politics of Fear - most things we fear are not rational. Head vs gut reactions. Gets you thinking about what you really should be afraid of but aren't, and vice-versa. +2. Mitch shows up with a bunch of boards in a bag. the hardware hacking space at noisebridge built a unit that when you push a button it turns off nearby TVs. Then had it premade in China and now 3 years later is up to a quarter of a million dollars US. Now there is also a TVBeGone Pro version which works up to 150 meters. Mitch teamed up with another person and now it's a 3e6$ empire. +3. Lisa mentioned her brother wanting to turn off nearby car radios. Tyler had the great idea of maybe possible now by hacking the bluetooth interface now present on many cars. + +openID - provides one login that you can then have manage access to many sites + +1. many sites support it e.g. wordpress sites, disqus etc. +2. google and facebook do support it - but only as providers - they won't accept it +3. Herb wants to be his own openID provider; wishes all the major sites would accept it +4. zimbra is an alternative to gmail + +IPs almost all consumed + +1. Nortel in bankruptcy; might free up its address range. + +Kris had a neat idea for tickets from old events and forward planning for new +events. + +Wordpress 3.03 needs to be upgraded immediately to 3.04 due to a new exploit. + +## Upcoming Events + +* [Next Ideas meeting](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan05,2010"Jan05,2010") +* OpenDataBC Hackathon on January 22nd 9am-5p.m. +* [Awesome Shit Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) --- January 26th 7pm-10pm diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-05-January-05-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-05-January-05-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f700f9a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-05-January-05-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan05,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 05, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-01-05' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan05 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +* 1 Agenda +* 2 Awesome_shit_club +* 3 Makerspace +* 4 TheBrainMachine +* 5 Ideas from the attendees +* 6 Zeo +* 7 Misc +* 8 URLs mentioned + +## Agenda + +* Soldering and [Brain Machine](http://makezine.com/10/brainwave/) demo +* [Makerspace](http://www.makerspace.ca/) updates +* [Awesome Shit Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) updates + +## [Awesome_shit_club](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Awesome_shit_club) + +* Kris described how this works - $50 to be a judge. Cool realtime voting display tech used last time. +* Victoria sumbitted an item +* Tyler says happening 1/27. Still looking for submissions and judges. +* every submitter does a 5 minute pitch. +* awesomites have one or maybe two weeks to join. No deadline set yet. Tyler will let us know. +* awesomites donate the money; awesomers do the pitches. +* let Tyler know at banker@awesomeshitbclub.com, also submissions@awesomeshitclub.com + +## [Makerspace](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Hackerspace) + +* Kris described how this works, then Derek arrived and gave more info. +* [makerspace main page](http://wiki.makerspace.ca/wiki/Main_Page) +* one attendee has started to build a mendel device - like a cupcake makerbot but with a larger build volume (200x200x400 mm). He also studied Maya last year so has good 3D s/w knowledge. Derek's lab has a mendel they've been struggling with and hopes to collaborate with the fellow. +* Lisa asked about 3D scanners (wants to scan hands) - Derek mentioned there are laser scanner kits - $150 - HD webcam, laser, big white board, and some software. Camera builds a depth map on the computer. Also the makerbot can use a phone to project interference. Also Derek mentioned using a laser pointer and a ps3i webcam. Used to scan faces. His lab got a Kinect; another attendee is getting one for his birthday. + +## TheBrainMachine + +* Kris needed to resolder 4 wires that had broken solder joints - and DID thanks to Derek bringing a soldering iron to the meeting. +* Kris passed around his soldering badge he received from Mitch Altman +* maybe make badges for speakers at IdeaWave conference +* [hackers on a plane](http://www.hackersonaplane.info/) \- Nick Farr created this group. Pay x amount. Fly somewhere with other hackers and do something cool. Kris happened to be in Tokyo anyhow so went and met them as well as Mitch Altman. Mitch was giving soldering calsses - Kris already knew how to do it but took the class anyone. +* The attached 9 pin serial adapter allows you to modify the firmware (frequencies and timing). + +Brings you in at an alert frequency. Takes you down to a meditation frequency, +then back up in 15 minutes. Freq sent to 4 outputs - one red led to each eye, +one to each ear. Your eyes are closed but your brain will interpret in more +colors, geometric designs, or the like. Can be intimidating. Do turn off if +you feel uncomfortable. Don't do if you are epileptic. Unconvinced that the +headphones do anything, more of a reference. + +* John decided to try it first in front of the group. It was entertaining hearing his commentary. ("Getting some greens & blues", "Nightclub scene", "freaky") + +## Ideas from the attendees + +* John Oughtred (twitter)- perfumed dryer sheets - maybe time-release capsule - rubber balls at Gentle Earth - hard wax filling - released into laundry - maybe new brand "DryerBalls" - new scent +* Victoria Westcott (twitter) - ["Locked In A Garage Band"](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/victoriawestcott/locked-in-a-garage-band-feature-film) movie - [kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/) funding; coming of age comedy - throwback to breakfast club or 6 candles. A bit more hope and depth. Set in 2010 in Victoria. See teaser on Kickstarter - give money and can get name placement and DVD. 10 grand executive3 producer credit. only 20 grand total budget. 10 day shoot. April 2011. Might end up shooting in vancouver. Victoria was a teacher, became a business person hiring teachers for London. Now helping w/the business side of the movie. Her sister is the screenwriter - a Praxis award-winner. +* kickstarter - glyph minitripod - 75k$ - only needed 10k$. Anyone with an idea should consider kickstarter. Another independent film is going for 100K$. "Cube" was an indie canadian movie that was good. And maybe some gov funding. +* any gov grant funding? Not trying for that. There are a lot of strings attached to that. +* Kris mentioned a good Punk Math kickstarter project. Victoria knew about another math short video. Secret number between 3 and 4. +* Kris mentioned that YouTube picks the exact middle minute of the video by default. Another fellow said you should be able to choose from a few. Or even upload a higher resolution thumbnail of your own choice. +* Kris talked about the [ideawave conference](http://www.ideawave.ca/). + +## Zeo + +* Derek built his own open-source eeg device but this little Zeo device is much better. He wears a little headband and it tracks his state in one of four catagories. +* is hackable via serial port. Can get data into a python program. Can try to train your brain to get into different states. Can read while sleeping, also can do realtime. Eye muscle movements are far stronger than brain waves so hard to use while givng a demo while you are chatting about it. +* wants to try it with someone wearing Kris's BrainMachine and without. +* He's trying to build a lucid dream trainer. +* $160 is the cost of the item. +* [My Zeo](http://www.myzeo.com/) + +## Misc + +* We should put up an air balloon like [LASA](http://lanarkspace.wordpress.com/) +* Lady that says Kris needs to lose eight, next to Planet Thai on Lo-Jo +* Bring suica/t-money cards next week +* Can we make payments with cell phones yet? bluetooth? +* SMS payment system in Africa +* A twitter feed to summarize lifehacker + +"The ones who yell the loudest are the least helpful" - Gillian + +For next week, try to create a qr code for your personal vcard on your phone +(if you have one) or laptop/digital device. + +## URLs mentioned + +* [How Twilio works](http://www.twilio.com/how-twilio-works) +* [Remember the Milk](http://www.rememberthemilk.com/) +* [Evernote](http://www.evernote.com/) +* [43 folders](http://www.43folders.com/) +* [xkcd](http://xkcd.com/) +* [Green Drinks Victoria - Facebook group](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6340726711) +* [Locked in a garage band on Kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/victoriawestcott/locked-in-a-garage-band-feature-film) +* [Victoria Spoken First festival](http://www.victoriaspokenwordfestival.com/) +* [Lucid dreaming application](http://blog.myzeo.com/forum/zeo-raw-data-library/lucid-dreaming-application) +* [Bitcoins](http://www.bitcoin.org/) +* [Victoria's Secrets - Facebook Group - Discussion tab](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25939286735&v=app_2373072738&ref=ts) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-12-January-12-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-12-January-12-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0777f74 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-12-January-12-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan12,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 12, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-01-12' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan12 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Homework +2. QR Codes +3. Bitcoin +4. Ham radio/APRS +5. Misc/URLs + +## Homework + +* Generate a QR code of your business card (vcard format) and bring it with you. (Google "generate vcard QR code" for several sites that do this) +* Download QR code scanning software for your smart phone + +Tonight instead of exchanging business cards, we will save trees and scan QR +codes instead. It will be interesting to see how the different smart phones +react + +## QR Codes + +Nokia bar code scanner: couldn't open the latest QR code + +i-nigma software: couldn't open the new type of bar codes, were showing "3.0" +instead of the content (on both iphone and Nokia) + +Quickmark was the clear winner, worked on Nokia and iphone, was able to +generate and read the latest QR codes + +Can we compress content into QR-codes, like a book? + +[Maximum lossless compression](http://www.maximumcompression.com/index.html) + +We decided to see how much we can fit into a QR code. It turns out 2000 bytes +is the max on the latest QR codes. So we decided to test out lossless +compression on text documents and then run into a QR code. + +Not much software out there for decoding QR codes. + +Some interesting findings; the first 4300 bytes off the Wikipedia +steganography page compresses to 2000 bytes with bzip2 or 2027 bytes with +gzip. - Kris + +Tyler working on a decoding tool (QR Code -> decompress) + +## Bitcoin + +21 million being created + +This isn't good - TB + +not an issue, because you can go down 8 figures below 1 +[[1]](http://www.bitcoin.org/faq#How_divisible_are_Bitcoins) +\- RS + +[Free bitcoins](https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/) + +Are currencies controlled by communities or government? + +the value of $5 is if I'm willing to part with it and if you're willing to +negotiate for it - DN + +the expansion of money comes from loans - DN + +No currency you can't create more of will ever succeed - TB + +Current exchange rate is about ~~50~~ 35 cents USD for 1 bitcoin +[[2]](https://mtgox.com/trade/history) + +## Ham radio/APRS + +GPS -> TNC -> Ham radio -> APRS + +[APRS Finland](http://aprs.fi/) + +[Google APRS](http://www.googleaprs.com/) +(shrink and scroll) + +[Spy Numbers](http://www.spynumbers.com/) + +[Numbers Station](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station) + +[The Conet Project](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project) + +## Misc/URLs + +[Save Mary Lake campaign](http://www.savemarylake.com/squaremetre/index.php) +Nicole looking for interviewees and hosts + +Dave talking about how he's been using Firesheep at local coffee shops + +Don't use the same password for all of your accounts + +Is it better telling people how bad information security is? + +Discussion of BC liquor law reform; + +[Flock](http://www.flock.com/) was bought + +[RockMelt](http://www.rockmelt.com/) social media browser + +[PhoneGap](http://www.phonegap.com/) + +Adobe apps that are cross-compiled are allowed again in the app store +[(source)](http://www.macworld.com/article/154007/2010/09/adobe_google_app_store.html) +\- Ryan + +Big discussion about students with tech, should we provide tablets to all students? + +BC Hydro still uses IE6 - Gillian @gndv + +[Scientific Victoria](http://scientificvictoria.org/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-19-January-19-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-19-January-19-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2214bc --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-19-January-19-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,270 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan19,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 19, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-01-19' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan19 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Upcoming events +2. Net Neutrality and DPI +3. Music discussion +4. Transit Apps discussion +5. WordPress & Blogging Software discussion +6. ATM Hacking, University Patents, and related topics discussion +7. URLs and discussions + +## Upcoming events + +[OpenDataBC](http://www.opendatabc.ca/?app=content&page=odbc_hackathon_1101) +this Saturday! Sane location as last time - CGI Victoria; Herb trying for a +smaller group but still lots of people are coming. + +[Awesome Shit +Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/next- +event-january-26th-2011/) next week! $800 so far; 16 judges. + +## Net Neutrality and DPI + +[Shaw has DPI well deployed.](http://www.deeppacketinspection.ca/isps/shaw-communications-inc-shaw/) Telus doesn't. + +* Vince (or maybe Vint) Cerf - worth reading - still working for google. Pro-net neutrality. Notes that Canada is more regulated than the U.S. What will happen here if IPSs unduly throttle traffic? There is regulation on wired-line but Wild West on wireless traffic. Supposedly you can't throttle it unless meet a bunch of conditions. +* U.S. _can_ apply restrictions to wireless (as opposed to wired-line) e.g. different tiers of wireless browsing. Discriminating on maybe just protocol. +* problem is metering end users - deep packet inspection was originally just for billing management. Usage-based billing DPI aficionados - Telus does not use DPI; Shaw said usage-based billing is a new revenue source. Economic measures over technical measures. Small IPSs being forced into usage-based billing. For example, execulink out of Kitchener has not laid its own infrastructure, so it's getting hit hard. Having your own fiber better - avoid colocation costs. +* business model of providing the actual infra vs providing services (e.g. hosting, phone service, content) that uses it. Large ISPs doing it all; maybe better if the infra became a public utility. +* Cranbrook has two providers - one did their own 4 Gig wireless, the other went with Telus. NOw the city is doing its own tunneling in order to help its local businesses. Cranbrook only has 20-30k residents. +* What would it take to deploy fiber in Victoria? +* Maybe will be a good thing for WIMAX +* Now, not so many small ISPs left e.g. uniserve, islandnet. +* Chris Parsons is a doctoral candidate at UVIC working in Deep Packet Inspection. If it has to do with digital networks or surveillance, he's in there. Majoring in PoliSci. MA in philosophy (I think) and 7 years in IT. He is dogging Rogers about their traffic management solutions. If encrypted or maybe thought peer to peer, they will throttle or drop the connection. Letter sent to CRTC - Rogers updated their policy. Now they say you must use appropriate known port numbers. You can go to a web page of theirs and see the full list of port numbers and registered programs. As if many end users could do this! + +[Roger's network management policy](http://www.rogers.com/web/content/network_management) + +* Jay noted that at one point Telus was going to embrace PGP for throughput improvement. +* Comcast maybe moving to P4P. Don't look at any content. Can set up nodes within their own network. Avoids cost, congestion. Maybe is why ISPs still using usenet servers when instead can use something like google groups for messages. +* Why Rogers such a draconian policy? Ties to media companies. Rogers is at the forefront of pushing triple and quad plate bundles - phone + cable + digital TV + movies. Rogers online is not really too good (small selection compared with e.g. Netflix; streaming instead of download) If you sign up for netflix over Rogers, you will get a hugely higher bill. +* Bell is at the forefront on protecting phone environment. Wants to choke out DSL resellers. +* Would be cleaner/better if the business of making and selling bandwidth was separated from the business of selling content - otherwise there is too much possibility of unfair competition. +* [DOCSIS 3.0](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS) would be hugely better - $150 new cable modem per subscriber - don't have to lay anything - it just works. But the large infra-owning ISPs aren't doing this - they'd rather charge for scarcity than increase supply. +* docsis hacking is a possible way to piggyback on extreme internet bandwidth. +* Amsterdam city consortium has rolled out its own infra. Any ISP can come in & hook up to the terminators. +* Ownership of the infra should probably come back to the govt - like public right-of-ways. Need to move away from the facility-based competition. Based on owning infra is the competition, rather than on providing serivce. +* Usage-based billing will force providers to build or get out. +* Considering the pipes analogy: IPSs have other ways to make money than e.g. natural gas companies and their pipes. E.g. websitehosting, 10$/month wordpress. +* Shaw filed a complaint with the CRTC against netflix saying they are a broadcaster. +* Chris wants random audits of compliance with CRTC terms. Now only individual complaints result in checks. +* Do the ISPs actually give you what they promise (in terms of bandwidth)? If can prove not, can nail them for false advertising. +* What he'd like to see: + * Website showing what the ISPs promise, side-by-side + * Crowdsource what is actually happening. Needs a tool for this. +* Maybe the tool could be a hackathon project. Jay will send what he's got for requirements (buried in some long email thread) to Kris. +* Can **you** measure and test if an ISP is throttling? Contact [Chris](http://twitter.com/caparsons) +* Kris did a similar kind of test by repeatedly downloading a large file and timing how long it took. Graphed it out & sent it to his ISP as a complaint as it showed he was not getting anything like the maximums they'd promised and mere days later it was improved 3x. !!! +* If Chris could get the data, armies of lawyers such as the folks at [The Public Interest Advocacy Centre](http://www.piac.ca/) and [CIPPIC](http://www.cippic.ca/) (mostly lawyers plus Kris) would chase down the violating ISPs. +* CRTC is pressured a lot by the government (and by interested parties who push the govt to push the CRTC). Small ISPs have complaints; large ISPs are asking for increased permissions. +* CRTC hearings are interesting in that the system is set up such that the public telcos pay the public advocate costs up to some amount. The net neutrality hearings blew way past the typical amount. Chris gets included in a lot of the work because (a) he's interested and (b) as a student, he's an inexpensive resource. +* One person asked: Could the ISPs being purposely injecting latency into a particular user's connection? Conclusion was that this is not likely. +* In North American especially AT&T the problem is signal congestion rather than bandwidth congestion. Apple phones were always calling in their location, then shutting down to conserve battery life. 4.2 upgrade to iphone ameliorates this by calling in less frequently. AT&T claimed victory, but really it was just Apple fixing their OS. + +[Teraspan](http://www.teraspan.com/) + +[Save Our Net](http://saveournet.ca/) + +ISPs having us pay for mild upgrades is like buying a car and having to pay +per mile traveled. Or to add a gas tank to your Pinto. + +(In regards to net neutrality/DPI ) "You can only cry or laugh or drink" - +@caparsons + +## Music discussion + +* Jay A demonstrated his [Mondo Wi-Fi Revo](http://www.revo.co.uk/) +* [Groove Shark](http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/) The mystery is how this is legal... +* [Musicovery.com](http://musicovery.com/) +* [Pho email list](http://www.onehouse.com/pho.htm) + +## Transit Apps discussion + +[BC Transit Victoria is now on Google maps](http://goo.gl/maps/xUkn) + +* BC Transit recently released their data to Google Maps. Interesting as they did not release it to any local requesters. +* Vancouver buses have GPS on them; Victoria buses have it, too, but had to shut it down as Victoria _doesn't own their own data_. Instead it was owned by the companies that installed the GPS units. Some cities use the GPSs to display realtime estimates of arrival time at bus stops. How great would that be!?! Vancouver had 4 digit codes you could type into your cell phone and know when the next bus will arrive. Victoria you can only know the scheduled time. +* Guelph buses have GPS but it isn't accurate so not useful. +* Herb likes the "where is your bus" portland/seattle app. Portland is always ahead thanks to a university project that got their transit apps going. +* [one bus away](http://www.onebusaway.org/) +* [Bus Snap](http://www.bussnap.com/) Kris worked on this and there are two neat ideas of his in there. The Vancouver version kept all the data server-side. Try to sync some data up out to cellphones. Kris said he likes to work on apps if one or more of three things is true: + * It has the potential to be extremely popular; go viral + * Get rich + * Does something unique +* in the case of bussnap, it was (so far) the third element. The unique cool thing it does is do notifications. It uses the GPS on your phone and, as you near your stop, it vibrates to let you know that your stop is approaching. +* bussnap is not (yet) monetized. Model is location-based advertising - when you get off the bus, local advertisers would pop up. + +## WordPress & Blogging Software discussion + +Wordpress which claims openness, completely contradicts everything they've +said they said they stand for: [Read the Wordpress.com/Quantcast stuff in +Chris' privacy +policy](http://www.christopher- +parsons.com/blog/privacy-policy/) (WPstats uses Quantserve with no notice) +Millions of people got roped in overnight with no notice. + +[Ghostery](http://www.ghostery.com/) +Tracks all who is watching you. Is how Chris discovered that Quantcast had +been added to his Wordpress site. He found a plug-in that blocks the Quantcast +plug-in. He can dodge this bullet because he hosts his own WordPress server; +most users probably have Wordpress hosting their sites so they are stuck. + +[Windows Live Writer](http://explore.live.com/windows- +live-writer?os=other) The best single-user blog client - a Microsoft product! + +Microsoft used to have blog hosting but ceased it and pushed folks over to +wordpress - so even more people got hit by the Quantcast stuff than might've +otherwise. + +## ATM Hacking, University Patents, and related topics discussion + +Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge University Computer +Laboratory, [demonstrated in January how they could modify a supposedly +tamper-proof chip and PIN terminal to play Tetris using a very old +exploit](http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security- +management/2007/02/06/researchers-devise-chip-and-pin-crack-39285787/) +Professors at Cambridge are fighting to allow the student to do what he should +be able to do for research. Part of their defense is that it is not his +Intellectual Property (IP), it's the University's. + +Students can't monetize their innovations, they have to negotiate a deal with +a private sector group created by each university so the university own the IP +and profit from it as well. + +Universities sit on patents as well. + +U of T has a patent bank. Companies will donate a wing to get the use of the +patent, the student does not get a cut but did get the education. + +The academic journals have an even better scam. They create no content, and +don't pay the authors anything. They charge for the publishing of papers +(including extra for color in online-only journals!) and distribution of the +journals. They even charge authors for copies of their own articles. There +aren't very many academic publishing houses left, so it's an oligopoly +situation. + +French news documentary shown in real time the hack on the chip & PIN in an +"isn't this cool" context. Banks had known about the problem for 2 years but +hadn't fixed it. + +Brazil has great security - way ahead of North America - because the smart +poor people are very inventive. Chris notes that if you do online banking +there, the systems will grab all the information about you - your browser, +traceroute, etc. He used a different OS than usual and got a phone call +immediately. + +[ISPI clips](http://www.privacynews.com/) +privacy related articles and sends them out. Every day there are many many +breaches. Distressing. + +Millions of dollars are lost, but the culprits are rarely pursued. Instead the +banks just eat the loss in order to minimize publicity and the concomitant +loss of trust. + +Easiest way to do ATM fraud, create a fake ATM (the full thing) instead of +carding, but a larger up front cost. + +## URLs and discussions + +[Traffic signal preemption in +Victoria?](http://twitter.com/dochazmat/status/27872167609769985) + +[Opticomm](http://www.opticomm.com/) + +[Missing Wikileaks file for ISPs in +Canada](https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/isppractices- +copy.zip) + +Why won't [WINE](http://www.winehq.org/) +(windows emulator) run a USB camera? Kris suggests using the free VM software +[virtualbox](http://www.virtualbox.org/) +instead as a solution. Requires maybe a closed-source plug-in for the +virtualbox. Will have to have Windows CDs & install them onto the virtualbox. + +Herb's video posted today. Kerfuffle in school boards trying to ban wifi. Ban +being opposed by [Scientific +Victoria](http://scientificvictoria.org/). +This fabulous new group is trying to increase the use of science in public +decision-making. They also support the ban on minors going to tanning salons. +(If adults want to give themselves skin cancer, they can go right ahead!) The +group's currently being led by a fellow with a background in law enforcement +who is marvelously articulate. + +[Guns don't kill people, knives +do!](http://www.krisconstable.com/isnt- +blaming-the-weapon-a-little-premature/) + +[VIRCS](http://www.vircs.bc.ca/) + +Social services have been decimated on Vancouver island the last couple years + +Is there a way to publicize this? + +Motivators aren't always financial; doing good for the community, interesting, +fun, exciting, social benefit + +Tyler noted that View Royal's public website was much more accessible than any +others he checked when trying to pull rezoning data. [View Royal -- All +RSS](http://www.viewroyal.ca/) + +We had a short round of a version of the classic Apple debate - curated garden +vs open source. Jay thought Apple should build in open source compatibility. +Most folks argued against this. There are open source options freely competing +- openmoco, android. MAC OS has a much smaller variety of hardware it must run +on, so Apple can afford to produce a better quality UI, and does. Big problem +acknowledged is that the Apple curated environment is allowing contacts and +geoloc to be sent out. VLC on the iphone? Uses a lot of battery. Ubuntu - +multiple monitor support known to be dicey, but once you get all the right +drivers and video cards, it is solid. + +Doing everything for free (blogging etc) has netted a lot more benefits than +being behind a paywall - @caparsons (Interviews, being flown all over for +conferences etc) Chris's M.O. is rather like a very successful character in +Charles Stross's book +[Accelerando](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_\(novel\)). + +Gene controversy over IP e.g. in Brazil. India similar with crops - ok to +ignore IP if needed by their citizens. + +Haitian Farmers Reject Monsanto Donation - Monsanto has made some deal with +the Haitian government to supply their termination seeds perhaps against the +farmer's will and best interests. + +[OpenDataBC email +list](http://groups.google.com/group/opendatabc) +Great work being done here! + +[Open Knowledge +Foundation](http://okfn.org/) A +bubbling cauldron of goodness! + +US Supreme Court has just accepted a case that will decide whether +corporations are allowed to reject freedom of information requests based on +their right to privacy as "corporate citizens." + +[pinboard](http://pinboard.in/) a +delicious replacement Interesting cost model, based on users + +[diggo](http://www.diigo.com/) +another delicious replacement diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-26-January-26-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-26-January-26-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc79f67 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-01-26-January-26-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan26,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 26, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-01-26' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan26 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +[Awesome Shit Club - Round II](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/next-event-january-26th-2011/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-02-February-02-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-02-February-02-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..902209b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-02-February-02-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,243 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb02,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 02, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-02-02' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb02 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Broadband testing tool - CP +3. ASC follow-up +4. IdeaWave updates +5. Canadians for a reasonable, competitive and secure internet +6. Makerspace updates +7. Internet IDs in the US, Canada as follow-on +8. Project discussion +8. 1 Ideas for projects time +9. Misc + +## Agenda + +* [ASC](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) follow-up +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) updates +* Canadians for a reasonable, competitive and secure internet - KC +* Broadband testing tool - CP +* invite to come up to makerspace for annual general meeting on Saturday at noon - learn to weld, play with the laser cutter, then when done with the machines drink homebrew! Directions on makerspace.ca(sorry, I can't actually make it to the meeting tonight, though. Derek) + +## Broadband testing tool - CP + +* Chris & Will discussed the tool. + +## ASC follow- up + +* GetOnTheDoc bus won. Was a good meeting last week. +* electoral reform + * first one was using the fun clickers + * last week's was instant run off + * non-instant runoff + * different models resulted in different winners. + * STV - shot down recently province-wide. + * 5 pts, 4 pts, 3 pts, etc. add & winner up. But may not be linear in the judge's mind. + * repeated lowest out - but takes a while. +* next meeting is the last Wednesday of March +* Every 2 months. Get the $50 in in order to have time to do all the things. Need date at least a month out. + * If get 20 people sooner, then is a month from that date. Could be more frequent if gets going. Was standing room only last time. +* Latest - last wkd of March. Wants money before EO this month. +* banker@awesomeshitclub.com; awesomeshit@awesomeshitclub.com can (re)submit. +* 1st one - only 2-3 solid ideas. This one 4-5 solid. +* GotOnTheDoc will have awesomeshitclub right on the outside of the bus. +* awesome foundation in california. Now in a dozen places in NA. Latest is in Toronto. More strict model 10 at 100 each. + +Ours is more fun. Physical forum. We were able to hook up some ideas with +useful connections instead of just awarding our cash. + +## IdeaWave updates + +* marketing cards logo on one side QR code on the other side. + * 500 made. put 'em in strange places. +* still accepting talks - until 50 are published. Only 21 so far. +* scholarships for students - $500. 2 right now. Have enough $ for 5. +* less than 100 tickets left for sale. +* wash dc someone coming. 2 from ontario. + * dc - 1x/wk writes a song in her kitchen ideawave.ca has link to her. +* Talks about DOING something as opposed to blah blah blah +* No PR talks unless swag + +## Canadians for a reasonable, competitive and secure internet + +* Kris laid out the issues. + * **Usage-based billing** ; Causes a problem for example for the competitive DSL providers in Ontario eg techsavvy. techsavvy says no caps. But the Bell subsidiary (bellsympatico) is capping it. 25 vs 200 g. Bell started throttling techsavvy. + * CRTC came out & said will allow usage-based billing. At rate x - only 25G. + * Kills competition says Kris. Will says no, not really. Last mile out to customer - copper to dslam in closet to bell network to provider eg techssavvy. Charging just over the last bit. Which Bell doesn't have to pay for. + * Also mandated that Bell must allow alternative dslam providers so long as room in closet. Giant capital cost. Kris did use a non-capped, no port-restricted ISP in Ottawa. Head of provider did not pay them 'cause not getting what he'd paid for. + * Stifles netflix and streaming video. $2/gig. **Cheaper to buy an SSD, copy data on to it, mail it, and throw away.** Yikes! + * Providers over here in B.C. have taken as signal to follow this lead. Now telus, etc. bandwidth caps being enforced. Shaw income going up. + * Chris says is supposed to reduce congestion. However Shaw looking at it as a way to generate revenue. + * Dirty pool as major providers are also often content providers. For example, Bell IPTV included in basic option vs pay extra for netflix. + * user-based billing at [stopthemeter.ca](http://openmedia.ca/meter) \- over 200K Canadians signed on. + * most companies pay for bandwidth. Free peering agreement. Exchange of service just not dollars. + * Legal struggle between Level 3 & netflix can provide some insight. Some discussion of if this case is broadly relevant or an anomaly or ? (Acronym note: Content Distribution Network = CDN.) + * question of if there really is a bandwidth constraint - is in last mile in some places in the country + +* Kris brought the discussion back to **Net Neutrality**. Privacy concerns. Online banking & such do use HTTPS, but most of internet traffic uses HTTP. Most cleartext over the internet. Techies in the field understand the issues, but the general public often does not know what is going on behind the scenes to make the internet work the way it does and where problems might lie. + +* Kris thought it would be a good idea to start a new group to help keep up the momentum generated from the UBB issue. + * He has a good network - can interconnect silos of interested individuals. + * General mission statement - _Canadians for a reasonable, competitive, and secure internet._ Does not exist today. Kevin points out that "Reasonable" is a loaded word with the telecoms. Kris says yes, the lawyers he knows says it is loaded as well. Kris using it for non-techies - opens the question. It's just a placeholder. Why isn't it "reasonable"? Will suggests 'secure' is not a hill worth dying on - ie not winnable. 'Reasonable' as in price and availability. + * Kris - has a select group to start out. Tiered thing - core group advisors board, then other folks as well. + * Kris thinks if more regular users know what's going on, then they will care more. + * Kris: conference call next week his new group to determine what want to do, what to contribute. Set up Wordpress site & have industry-known folks participate. + * Kevin - list of folks may already be known - some listserv in academia. + + * Kevin says [SaveOurNet](http://saveournet.ca/) is a huge coalition; might be a good group to either work with or align with. They came up with the 200K signees. Has also resulted in action at the government level. Maybe no need for a new group. + * Kris says he hasn't followed it much. But he has contacted the SaveOurNet fellow Steve. Maybe could be a really good collaboration. + * Kevin notes that OpenMedia has many aspects, not all we might want to participate in. + * Chris says, who works with Steve at SON, depends on tools. Some technical deficiencies accepted in order to reach a certain audience. SON has public front-facing focus. + * Lisa suggests maybe Kris's group could be the experts backing up the front-facing SON group. + * Maybe the need, says Will, is for a group that does audits. *** Kevin says asking [Measurement Canada](http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mc-mc.nsf/eng/Home) (does eg liters of gas) - maybe expand their role to internet bandwidth. + * Power parallel? Will asks who determining kilowatt hour? Not known. + * Competition Bureau also could have a role. But they only release data when all completed. Similar to Privacy Commissioner - also can't tell until completed - but they only tell the individual at the end. Is a complaints process. + * Kevin working it since 2006 - no action from the competition bureau. + * Kris good idea have the tool automatically email the complaint if service is not provided as advertised. Will suggests maybe have a Facebook app do it. + * question of how to file a complaint - do you need a lawyer? + * Industry Canada has done some of that - has consultations out. Request comments esp wrt digital economy. But doesn't mobilize people. People usually motivated only when it gets to "will my bill go up?" Then needs to be explained very clearly. +* UBB only matters for maybe 6% of the market. But imposes a business model. Only an issue really in Ontario right now. +* Will is a Board Member of the Net In Situ Society. Free wifi across the city. Node in market square now. Looking to put in more. Not an ISP. Don't control any bandwidth. Find businesses where folks across the street hang out and drink coffee. Then the biz can buy access point and bandwidth. NISS loads some firmware. Captive portal local biz advertising. We get then maybe ubiquitous wifi around the city. Would ISPs try to chase down all the local businesses via Terms of Service? Maybe get the ISPs themselves to work it out. First go to an ISP to give an exclusive to provide the service. + * [Roofnet](http://www.comclub.org/roofnet/) suggests Kevin. Commodity routers - some protocol. High gain antennaes on commodity routers on wireless backbone. + * No upstream unfortunately in Victoria - no PoP. In Vancouver can go to Pier1 and have lots of backbone for upstream. Teracespan runs asphalt cutter & lays fiber. Multiple fibers going wherever so not a problem if cut with a backhoe. Hooks up finally to the internet through some other org eg Pier1. ** Carrier hotel - gov't sponsored bldg usually - peering point for major networks. All come into one PoP. Can put n/w equipment - connect to multiple ones. But we don't have that in Victoria. +* [TILMA](http://www.tilma.ca/) is in the way of the gov't just investing in a PoP as public works - economic rights of investors interfered with. City-wide wifi would run into this problem. +* Chris: Canadians for Competitive Contemporary Internet Service - CCCIS +* Kris: Tech Crunch - infographic - buy SSD HD for $180, send through Canada post, copy over the info, toss the HD. Image has gotten a lot of coverage. Need to make it more simple for people to understand. Kevin asks - how do this really? Kris - use infographics and start - Oatmeal business model. +* Rob said dominant thing he picked up was that he needs a good graphic for the overall internet. + * Kris - analogy is flying. The oligarchy of 5 IPSs - don't peer with each other for various reasons. Usually they peer with American companies. Kris used traceroute tool & could see that traffic ran through 3 American states to get to his neighbor. This was in Ontario. (Not like this in BC says Will.) + * a couple of ISPs have the railroad line cable. Shaw bought the company that bought the company that bought old Phonola infrastructure. + * Layers would be good - physical model first, then Billing, Logical (see better layout description below) + * (Acronym note: AS# = numbers of the actual peers) + * at each layer, use the metaphors and lay out the issues. + * catch is that a good map is a career: network engineering. + * problem is when you distill too far you get pushback as missing essential details. E.g. OpenMedia. + * at each entry point, Chris suggests, have little synopses about the issues at that level. Click here to understand more. Then differing levels of explanation. + * For the definitive Peering article - see ArsTechnica - 9 pages. Readable. (You won't find a detail like DSlam on that.) + * So infographic good and follow-through to detail even more. +* Rob says model is HowStuffWorks - between little kids and super-technical people. Kevin points out too hard to do all at once. Not really layered - more like different views/perspectives. +* Will - need a good graphics designer. Like the oatmeal guy. + +simplified structure of the internet + +"Map of the internet" + +* physical model +* billing model +* logical model + +at each layer introduce the metaphor + +leave out bits that are not absolutely necessary + +[IX Maps](http://www.ixmaps.ca/) + +Drill down from infographic + +Push media through trusted channels like business associations + +Infographics: + +* Here's how to make an internet +* Here's how to become an ISP +* Staff of the CRTC +* Start a a telecom? + +CRTC maybe more like CIRA with public elections + +* Kris points out widely different **privacy laws** apply if Canadian email goes through US states - patriot act. [IX Maps](http://www.ixmaps.ca/) U of Toronto - uses traceroute. Identifies big carrier hotels throughout Canada. Documentary evidence showing NSA is listening to all of these. Eschelon, Carnivore, and Warrantless Wiretapping. Andrew Clemet and Nancy Peterson project. +* ? how much to build a new internet? Legal issues preclude some alternatives. Incumbents and small guys have to follow same rules. Wimax though - regulated or not? Shouldn't it be based on the scope of the ISP e.g. just Victoria. Must be national no matter what. One company is trying to do it. Buildings, yes; home users, no. Reason is you need a billion dollars. +* anyone try to purchase a DryPair - copper with no service on it. Can put your own DSL on it. Can get to a PoP directly and pay a reasonable rate there. But no longer possible to buy the drypair for any reasonable rate. +* Gateway access ([Gateway Access Services](http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-44.htm)) goes back to problem of no one can really compete with Bell. So gov't requires Bell to resell their service. Eg techsavvy GAS Gateway Access Service. Resellers. So, reviewing hat CRTC decision. Not about UBB in general. Probably won't affect us in B.C. Is a very political issue now. Retail vs Wholesale. Regulation is allowing the Wholesalers to turn into Retailers says Liam. Competitive ISPs are now just affiliate marketers. +* Will: set up for his parents in Comox (where the ISPs said they would not provide coverage) a rocket stick with $100 network gear (and valuable expert knowledge of network engineering) to prevent malware from suddenly causing their usage to go over the 6G Rogers cap and causing his folks to have a crazy bill of thousands of dollars. Rogers provides nothing to measure your bandwidth nor limit it so it can't go over the cap. Neighbors have satellite internet instead, but this is super expensive. + +[Fatport](http://www.fatport.com/) + +[American national ID](http://the- +classic-liberal.com/internet-national-id-card/) + +(discussion of this last item is in follow-on below) + +## Makerspace updates + +* got our laser cutter running! + * CO2 laser. Has a viewing window with right color to block the beam. Tyler R. waxed orgasmic about the laser cutter. Chassis is metal - stops the beam. + * World divides into two - things that can fit into the lc and things that cannot. +* TylerR is working on the electrical so the woodshop is down until Thurs or Fri +* Welder is up and running +* there's a new soldering station at the space now +* Pricing structure - 100 full, 50 space, also a day use fee. +* Gingerly books Will has - takes you through the industrial revolution - caused makerspace to go down the path of getting the forge. Now have a stick welder. Wants an oxyacetylene torch to cut his railroad tracks. +* touch screen table +* quad copter - search youtube for "aggressive quad copter maneuver" +* boats in the summer +* annual general meeting on Saturday! + +* homebrew to drink (after using the tools rather than before though, thank you!) +* some intro to welding mini-classes +* some quick intro to the laser cutter demos +* a few awards to hand out +* talk about projects to make for the makerfaire +* noon on Saturday, directions on makerspace.ca +* no drop in fee on Saturday, so come play with us + +[Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM) + +## Internet IDs in the US, Canada as follow-on + +* [Obama pushes for internet ids](http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/09/obama-administration-moves-forward-with-unique-internet-id-for-a/) +* Could be Single sign on for gov't sites. Likely not go further. +* Some members think it will be extended across the country. fb connect is high up the food chain in those discussions. Some opposes the idea but think has so much weight that it will happen. +* Others say not a chance in hell. Not enough technical know-how in the relevant gov't agencies, Liberty alliance, anti "mark of the beast" folks wouldn't let it go through. +* Wired PoP can already track users adequately; WiFi 3G WiMax is where the providers and governments would like more control. +* Trying to enact a law must sign on with an ID authenticated by the gov't. +* Electronic password driver's license for the internet. Login credentials for foreign nationals. Set up in Italy now. +* ICOW involved in futures standards setting. Will start pushing out online identities standards. +* Push for standardized electronic ID signs you on through Eurpoean internet. Spanish system baseline. Ported into Italy. ICOW set up so that stdds set up in Spain drawn up in Europe then pushed out worldwide. But not equal US standards. Obama handing commerce dept authority to create online id for US Trusted IDs in cyberspace. +* Trusted digital identities. +* Spin is SingleSignOn to save the hassle of having to learn lots of passwords. Is really 3G - barrier to wifi guys. Satisfies homeland security and carriers, but screws everyone else. + +## Project discussion + +30 minutes from each meeting (8-8:30?) allocated to a project of some kind. It +can be a one night only thing, or perhaps a project that escalates over a few +sessions. Some ideas: + +* 4 week learn basic French +* 4 week learn to solder -> actually solder a kit together +* Programming intro +* Ham radio course + +### Ideas for projects time + +* pick monthly themes and develop 4 session, each 30 to 40 minutes, one session per meeting. +* video clips of each session +* crossover with Maker Space or with Wayward school from Awesome Shit Club. + +## Misc + +* [Captive portal for mesh mesh](http://laurascotten.com/meshmesh/) +* [McAfee](https://www.mcafeesecure.com/RatingVerify?ref=www.theignitorstore.com) +* [All the crypto you need to +know](http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/attachments/135_crypto1hr.pdf) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-09-February-09-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-09-February-09-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62ed73e --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-09-February-09-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb09,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 09, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-02-09' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb09 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1 Agenda +2 minutes + 2.1 Internet Usage Overage Prevention Tool + 2.2 Internet Usage Statistics Tool + 2.3 MeshMesh + 2.4 Security, Compliance + 2.5 Introductions + 2.6 OpenDataBC + +## Agenda + +* Project time during meetings +* MeshMesh Update +* ASC voting system sucks (electoral reform) +* livestream - our own channel + * I got already a channel up focusing on streaming Free(CC) material, anyone want to get onboard? [Fabianhjr](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fabianhjr&action=edit&redlink=1 "User:Fabianhjr \(page does not exist\)") 12:49, 9 February 2011 (PST) +* LEDs in Africa + +## Minutes + +### Internet Usage Overage Prevention Tool + +Lisa asked Will about packaging his overage-prevention solution that he +created for his parent. Will said it might be skookum. Requires Ubiquity M2 +hardware (~$100) + +* Chinook - West Coast Native American trade language words: + * skookum - desirable and good solution + * hyah muck a muck - high chief - derivation of "High Muckity-Muck" in ENglish + +### Internet Usage Statistics Tool + +Chris Parsons told Herb Lainchbury about Kris Constable's idea to form a group +of experts (with a really long name) for keeping the internet secure, +reasonable, etc. + +* Chris's internet usage tool would fit in nicely with that. He is still hoping to have it built. Will described the 3 parts of the tool he's building. + +1. server component for people with enough bandwidth and good low cost +internet connection. Takes an OP with lots of ports. +2. flash application +3. master server with list of people running it. + +* Master finds folks, does port scan. Then connects to randomly chosen number of ports and shoves data back and forth. See if it decreases, or what if open lots of connections that mimic peer-to-peer. +* Would like to do traceroute, but browsers don't support/allow traceroute from clients. So instead use paratrace - does traceroute in revers. +* maybe can see jitter, hops, latency (in one direction). +* get those stats and package them up and send them to the master server - along with who connected and the bandwidth. +* include/involve Steve Anderson - the fellow championing Stop The Meter. + +* Will suggested a flash imbedded tool to help it spread throughout the internet. e.g. Herb could put it on the OpenDataBC website. When some one runs the widget on OpenDataBC it would load to the client's browser, then communicate with the server, get instructions for tests (nodes, etc.), run those tests, then send the results back to the server. + +### MeshMesh + +Something Chris P. thinks would be fabulous. Independently massively +monitoring bandwidth of individual. E.g. Bell Canada today noted their +sottware was ineffective at tracking charges. Why would they admit to that? +Must've gotten caught. AT&T was caught - iPhone user doing no using at all but +getting charged. + +* WiMax cap 25/G - make sure meshmesh not go over so as not to cause problems for the folks providing the nodes back into the internet. I.e. - legitimate need to monitor. Could report that data back. +* Deep packet inspection deployed by Bell Canada for billing, but not working too well. +* Stage 2 - othe rinteresting variation - desynch of protocols. Battle already fought in interusion detection of exploits. Beatable. + +Liam noted that MeshMesh is operational. + +### Security, Compliance + + +New fellow showed up and held forth about security and compliance work he's +been doing and done, eliciting vast quantities of interesting commentary from +the other security folks in the room. + +* Guy - I break into things for a living. + * Penetration testing. HIPA. Provincial government privacy, etc. Companies have a legal requirement to do due diligence so if dealing with PII you must show you are compliant. PIPA = Canadian HIPA. + * Transfer between HP/EDS and EDS Advanced Solution (Canadian) took agency and supported initially Min Finance (tax and RMS). 4e9$/year going through that app. Transfer technology from workplace technology services (the IT branch of the whole province of BC). Guy did business continuity and such for B.C. Working on a project now as a result of the transfer being somewhat mismanaged in that a lot of corporate knowledge was lost. New business analysts trying to reverse engineer how everything works. 3 class 3 networks, 3200 subnets, ~8000 line ACL all managed...MANUALLY!!! + * recommended BCBids - RFPs and RFQs and bids. + * GRC - doc of business process. Uses BPMN (XML for business processes). Can even create a program using BPMN. Will already outputting to XML so maybe can integrate with this new format. + * looking for a tool to put more intelligence behind Visio diagrams. Will suggested some alternatives to Visio for drawing (Inkscape - vector drawing), [Gliffy](http://www.gliffy.com/) (browser-based icons - rejected by Guy as back-end is on the internet so not secure enough), and [ [http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/](http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/) Omnigraffle]; Lisa suggested [System Architect (IBM)](http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/systemarchitect/). +* Long diversion into discussion about the [HPGary news](http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/02/07/hbgary-federal-hacked-and-exposed-by-anonymous/). + * Mark Vicinovitch Zero Day. Greg Hogland - did some good work on security but hacked anyway. + * HPGary said had infiltrated anonymous. So anonymous hacks them - releases 60k emails. Social engineering got access to a laptop. Email to firewall admin - knowing root account password asking can you open up a port for me. Admin does, thinking it's the president of the company. Game over. Took over twitter account & said wouldn't give it back unless he did various silly things. Best reporting is at [DailyKOS](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/6/941730/-Anonymous-pwns-HBGary-Federal) + * anonymous DDoS'd all the folks that stopped supporting wikileaks - nailed Visa, MasterCharge. Tried to take down Amazon, but Amazon has more bandwidth than god right now. + * FBI started kicking down doors - made 'em madder. + * Asange sort of dictatorial paranoid delusional. Even worried about people who AREN'T out to get him. + * internal politics of wikileaks is maddening. Collateral murder. + * ioerror on twitter - US member who figured out the freezing memory trick. + +* Short diversion into church drupal templates and sermon sales. !!! + * Drupal templates for churches are quite good. + * sermon texts provided similar to "write my term paper" - name the topic, get a sermon - outsource to India. + * Liam mentioned the confession app. Vatican came out against this. + * web based raiki? Maybe on the smartphone? Will threatens to build this if he can't find a job. + * Guy pointed out that there have been leukemia clusters near power lines. Most everyone else pointed out that you have to be directly under or otherwise very close (inverse square law) to a high power line to see this effect, but it is real. Barbed wire fence along power lines can electrify the fence. Causes a noticeable drop in the power transmitted. +* Will noted he had trouble getting his touch-sensitive phone to sense his touch. Liam noted that there are [etouch gloves](http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/12/03/echo-touch-gloves-let-you-use-your-iphone-or-touch-in-the-cold/) for this. Pointed out Will would only need one. Will said he could cover the one glove in sequins and be the coolest guy ever. +* whalemeat reported to be really tasty... + +### Introductions + +In light of the new attendee, we went around the table introducing ourselves. + +* Lisa - American, Oracle DBA, up helping her 92-year-old step-dad. Hoping to become a landed immigrant. Enjoying Ideas Meetings, Makerspace, Hackathons. +* Will - Cansec West organizer. Was doing penetration testing. Mostly does static analysis of source code and binaries. Checks for and assists with refactoring for scalability and performance. Usually goes into vertical market, refactor an fix code base with or without security vulnerabilities or scalability. Working on MeshMesh. Board member of Makerspace and Ideawave Conference. + * March 10-11-12 ballroom size faraday cage. pwn2own part of cansecwest. $125k in prizes. All major browser manufacturers. Google added $20k for chrome. Does not have the economy of scale to make badges as cool as the ones at defcon. +* Herb - software developer. OpenDataBC founder. Architect. Self-employed. +* Dave - manages data warehouse for govt for day job, entomologist by training. +* Liam - MeshMesh. IT Support Specialist. Office stuff - really easy. Drupal on the side. + * a buddy told him he charges $300 to set up a website using joomla templates. +* diversion on the VIatec launch party... Suggestion of having two fb pages - one for work, one for non-work. You may or may not want your family to post to one or both... +* Chris - whale watching captain. Seasonal job. Summer yes, winter no. Marketing and small innovation projects during winter months. Nonprofit with Coast Guard Auxiliary. Victoria Marine Rescue Society. +* Guy - GRC consulting compliance regulatory aduting. Break into things. Try to help stuff work better. Hihg brpofile clients. 1984 he first touched a computer. Dad was a unix guy. Likes to hike, interested in alternative medicine. Suggested Chris above hook up with Brock Henson - Saanich emergency preparedness program. Communication team. wireless site. Supports the EOC (emergency operations center). +* Chris Parsons - doctoral candidate at UVic PoliSci. Studying technologies, policies on provacy and surveillance. IT services involved or not in monitoring and mediating communications. Key tech fetish for dissertation is deep packet inspection. Comparative analysis between Canada, US, and UK. + * He was guest lecturing today. Students ask him - "My >>roommate<< uses peer-to-peer...what can 'they' see?" The students are largely clueless about the social political implications/effects of technology. He gives the "Shock and Awe" lecture on network technology. +* Ernie - local network support and setup in Victoria. Pioneered with maintenance packaging. Makes sure backups are happening. Remote administration. Off-site over-the-internet backups. Phase two - all done remotely. Branching out so can travel. Using server farms. Hoping not to have his business model destroyed by UBB. Bought a remote backup company. Backups encrypted. +* Kris - ... (man of mystery - our fearless leader - fresh from punch-tasting... Spelling of his name story may have been wikileaked...) + * next week speaking on transborder privacy and security issues politics. Reboot comm conf gov't people in privacy and security. This year he's speaking on "The Naked Traveler" panel discussion with 5 people on it. Trying to focus on an area not so much covered - the economic impact. + * Still researching it. Latest announcemnet from feds creating new scanner less x-rated. New border security deploying and not deploying back & forth. Supposed to re-allow nail clippers. Small pocket knives have already been re-allowed. + * long diversion into allowable weapons, murder rates, Russians in Saskatchewan, corkscrew in the eye, platic knife plus pitchfork-size fork combo humor. Weapon vs tool - depends on intent - determined by the police on the scene. + * Wakaw, Saskatchewan has/had a higher murder rate than Toronto + * [Canadian knife legislation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_legislation#Canada) +* Tyler - punch testing. Software developer, database-ish lately. At least partly responsible for Awesome Shit Club. MeshMesh co-instigator. Makerspace. OpenDataBC developer. + +### OpenDataBC + +* Next Hackathon will be Feb 19/20 - the weekend before the ideawave conference. Not yet sure where. Has locations for March, April, May. +* created Open Usability Index. + * Usability doc. Get away from opendata or not label - focus on usability instead. Must satisfy three things to be truly open, but few can score true on all three, but want to give credit for at least partway. + * Created spreadsheet with sample weightings. + * pushing these docs out to the OpenDataBC google group (around 80 members) including some high profile folks. (and to the Open Knowledge fellow who asked to see it) + * rating the datasets does not require too much technical sophistication. Folks interested in helping provide feedback to the Provincial government only have to go in and look at the doc. Anyone can participate. The gov of BC brought 10k datasets to the hackathon before last. We've rated (mostly Dave) 3700 at the last hackathon. (Dave Nikolejsin - Citizens Service Deliver) +* Will send out to google group and dates for the next year in advance. +* Guy suggested contacting Nikolejsin. Herb has. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-16-February-16-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-16-February-16-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..141d62a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-16-February-16-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,209 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb16,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 16, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-02-16' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb16 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Pre-Meeting +3. DIY Dryer +4. Fun Encryption Story +5. Email Security +6. Kris Naked Traveller presentation +7. Canadian Internet Sovereignty +8. Hackathon +9. Recommended Reading +10. Lawn Bowling +11. crowd sourcing Kris' future +12. URLs +13. Back + +## Agenda + +* crowd sourcing Kris' future +* DIY clothes dryer (see [Facebook discussion](http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_172722036100923)) +* practicality of a privacy commons to simplify privacy statements on websites (for basic intro, see: [http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/thoughts/thinking-about-a-privacy-commons/](http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/thoughts/thinking-about-a-privacy-commons/)) +* Fees + * After 3 meetings to check us out, it should $5 per visit or $30/year social membership at the [CP Lawn bowling club](http://www.cplawnbowling.org/). With a social membership you are not permitted to bowl without a $5 usage fee, but can participate in all of the social activities including Ideas meetings. + * Acknowledge Herb and Tyler for upgrading to Full membership ($150/year) in support of the club, and to encourage the continued usage of the clubhouse. + +## Pre- Meeting + +* Ernie is setting up a* VOIP system. Kevin has done this & was able to provide a lot of useful information. +* Facebook group for Ideas Meetings - suggests join this. + +## DIY Dryer + +* [Wikipedia Clothes dryer page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_dryer) +* [Dryer image](http://www.appropedia.org/File:DIY-clothes-drier.JPG) + +* Brian discussion on DIY clothes dryer. Can we use pressurized air to create heat? +* Current dryers - how do they work? +* 2 kilos CO2 / load current tech. as per wikipedia. +* Note: one fellow's coworker randomly moved decimal points & reversed pos/neg signs in wikipedia ariticles & some never yet updated. +* maybe if more vacuum to reduce boiling pt. comparable to freeze dry food. Sublimation. Pumps and vessel rqts to lower pressure adequately. large container is part of the problem. +* pulling the water out - creating vapor. spin first +* creating the vacuum has comparable energy rqt to heat. +* maybe create the vacuum in something like a sack instead of a rigid vessel - air pressure helps - 10 psi outside and lower in bag. Squeeze the water out. + * medical membrane allows air but not water at back end to protect pump. +* but - this method wouldn't really DRY the clothers. +* air drying is slow. problem for kris is the stiffness. How to make it not stiff. +* no wrinkles and stiffness problem, while focusing on a low energy requirement. +* herb maybe constantly jiggling clothesline. + * maybe hook to your car. Get pulled over & asked about driving erratically? Say just drying my clothes. & not really erratic - optimally calculated for laundry. +* delicate cycle - no heat. takes longer but no heat. + * again is a wait factor. +* add a small amount of fabric softener - reduces need for ironing. +* liquid CO2 - clean without requiring ANY dryering. But high energy rqt for the CO2. + +what about improving dehumidification. + +* [Peltier device](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling) for dehumidifier improvement? (Peltier device is an electronic solid state device that creates heat on one side & cold on the other - can use to produce electricity from a temperature gradient.) +* keep the air heated by pull the water out some way as a side cycle. + * maybe heat dessicant out again. + * too much resistance to push humid thru the medical membrane. + +maybe try to reclaim the heat out of a dryer. Use to heat house or stirling +engine to turn tumbler. + +Chris mentions that hemp doesn't wrinkle very much. + +## Fun Encryption Story + + * Kris at conference w/CIPPIC. (This group - essentially a bunch of lawyers plus Kris for the technical side - they produced a white paper of DRM research.) (Note: Federal Privacy commissioners 2k6/7 50K deal.) The conference was CFP in Montreal. In elevator w/big white-bearded fellow. Going to party, Kris asked him for a ride. Rental GPS address industrial district. Get lost en route. Started talking crypto. Turned out that the fellow was Whit as in [Whit Diffie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie). Lost in Montreal w/Whit Diffie! He is the 'D' in [DH key exchange of PKI keys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange). Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Kris was still using PGP a lot. So he asked Whit if Whit would key exchange with Kris. Kris at that time had one of the top keys in Canada using a pseudonym. Surprisingly, DH says he doesn't use that technology anymore although he uses Mutt for email. But he finally agreed he would do it with Kris. Kris was going to send him the steps so he could do a key signing w/him. + +## Email Security + +* Kevin asked: what do people use for email security? Kevin used to use s-mime. He uses google apps - no good security yet available for google apps. Someone Kris knows knew a gnu hack. Smime for firefox. Gmail has support - add-ons - can turn on arbitrary, then an add-on to an add-on. +* two factor authentication just released for google accounts - recommended that you use this. +* CP - some folks are concerned about Google's two factor authentication from a privacy point of view. Are you willing to allow Google to have your phone number? Yes. "Do no evil" so what more do you want. If you don't care about the phone number then you can have authentication. Is worth the trade off. +* Actual implementation - starts any time log into email or any google account. Will get asked for extra factor. But for other devices, can generate a one-time password for example for an account on a mobile device. Can use it for the intial setup. If interactively logging in, provides a one-time code - generated for you automatically. Still can use regular SMTP. Log in to gmail, say setting up a device, provides you one for this device. Log in - enter your challenge code. SMS or reload iPhone app. +* similar tech was deployed on WoW a while back. Occasionally accounts hacked. +* 10 codes - challenge codes. Store away some where. (email to yourself :) physical or maybe a tatoo. If forget, can provide to get password back. If you forget the codes, well, maybe you shouldn't be playing with this technology. +* For google apps there is a support team. one fellow did get forum help. +* sms problem in Android. Sometimes will send it to a totally diferent number than you intended. Jeff says - maybe is a stay in touch "feature". + +## Kris Naked Traveller presentation + +Kris gave us a practice run of a speech/presentation he'll be giving tomorrow +evening. 10 minute talk. no ppt. We all gave him lots of feedback. :) + +## Canadian Internet Sovereignty + +Kevin asked, related to the ongoing topic of net neutrality activism, what did +anyone think about the ICE seizures? + +ICE = U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This agency has been working +with one or more US judges to seize domains in com net and org registries. +They have been acting on anything that comes on the internet over the border +into the U.S. which they believe is a violation of U.S. policies such as on +copyright or inappropriate photos of children, etc. Essentially allowing +"seize at border" law to be extended to seizing domain names. + +Seems mostly to be a particular agent in charge of these - perhaps not a +technically savvy guy. Fifth round of seizures now. Tube sites, streaming +sports. Happened to a bunch of torrent sites, but they were up & running again +in no time on .info. + +Today a DNS providers domain that had 84,000 sites on it was seized. Person +going to these sites would find a notice that it was seized for child porn. No +trial, no due process. + +1st: locate canadian compaies that were impacted. See if can find a lawyer - +libel suits. 2nd: get CIRA (canadian internet registration authority). not +just .ca. Federally mandated gov't body mandated to run canadian internet +sites. CIRA is now holding a governance of the internet forum in the near +future (next week). Maybe put together a well-worded stmt. Maybe would get +discussed. Poss into Industry Canada. Threaten to create a single issue party +to push this issue. It's a sovereignty issue. Set up mirrored root servers for +Canadian ISPs? Discussion of best political strategy to get something through. +If nec, reach out to Open Media. Steve Anderson if we have 5 people and maybe +CIRA interested then he'd help. Verisign - should they really be a root +signatory? Lisa says (tongue in cheek!) hey, we (Americans) built the +internet, we should have the right to manage it. .ca was more expensive and +restrictive to get a .ca. Was a hard-core fellow operator in UBC that made it +difficult. BrokeP on twitter. DNS-sec has same pblm - need mass adoption in +order to roll over to it. Canadians would deploy their own balkanized DNS +servers. Timothy Wu and Jeff Goldsmith. series of national networks. National +DNS servers. Ideally you would want failover to another country. ITU Lisa does +not believe that the UN is a truly neutral body. ITU - are they part of the +UN? Don't think so. Is some tie maybe. ICANN - how is that selected? ICANN +overly dominated by the US. Now just a little bit better than special +advisory. What is Canada doing to ensure its sovereignty on the internet? + +CP suggests 3 issues for the experts group 1) DNS 2) audit the ISP 3) privacy + +Kris's original: a) competitive b) reasonable c) secure + +digitalpolicy.ca volunteered by Kevin + +Canadians for a free soveriegn internet + +like Jennifer Stoddard - literally setting precedent for the world. + +Have the CRTC require ISPs to maintain DNS registris. Industry Canada +regulates internet in Canada now, not CRTC. We are concerned about ICE +siezures - 84,000 sites have been tarred with the brush of child pornography +without any due process nor any trial. Is CIRA concerned about Canadian +internet sovereignty? Patriot act was re-approved by Obama admin. was +originally rebuffed in the senate. harder to revisit and change than let go +forward with a brief workaround. kill switch pulled due to Egypt happening. + +spending money on small frigates rather than worrrying about this policy issue +on digital sovereighty. + +we agreed to work on a statement and send it forward. + +how make dns takeovers a political issue? + +* have a reporter bring it up. A few possible reporters suggested. + +Set up a google group - one member "volunteered". Call it: "Internet Policy +Canada" + +jeff williams speaking at ideawave next week. + +## Hackathon + +hackathon next Saturday at Board and Banker pub from 11 am to 5 pm details at +[OpenDataBC](http://www.opendatabc.ca/) + +## Recommended Reading + +Susan Landau - "Surveillance or Security: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping +Technologies" + +## Lawn Bowling + +* younger people not bowling as much +* evening events - also wine tasting once a month. Need to show revenue. +* after you have come here a few time it's time to contribute - either $5/shot. or be a member. $150 can come anytime, not just IdeasMeetings. $30 membership also an option. Very cost-effective if you come every week. +* Lawn bowling is really fun. Kris showed us his...lawn-bowling balls.... +* three or four of us immediately signed up. We say "Thank you Canadian Pacific Lawn Bowling Club!" & thank you to Herb & Tyler (& Ernie & Kris) for taking out full memberships. + +## crowd sourcing Kris' future + +* Chris suggested Kris be the CEO and top techie for a national privacy coalition group. We all agree. However Kris says this is a non-starter. He's tried to make it working on privacy issues, but it's not enough to stay afloat despite the fact that he's technical advisor for several non-profits and does a lot of other related privacy work. +* Kris will probably have to get a day job like the rest of us working stiffs. + +## URLs + +* [Freelex was just launched by my friend @depepi](http://freelex.eu/) for the privacy commons discussion diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-23-February-23-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-23-February-23-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..947c4fe --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-02-23-February-23-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb23,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 23, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-02-23' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb23 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Crowd-sourcing Kris' future round II +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) +* From roughly 8-9p.m. I've invited Christopher Bowers, who will be offering at no cost his [What's Gone Well Today](http://www.conversationworks.ca/whats-gone-well-today/) program with our group. I went through the session last night with the official advisory board and thought this would be a fun exercise for our group to try. +* Any updates on the DIY dryer? +* DIY clothing dresser; RFID door opener? motion activated door slides? How would the ideal dresser look and function? Perhaps larger with a bar with hanger for suits like an armoire? +* Update on [ASC](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) +* Canadians for an awesome internet +* We need an ideas meeting logo! +* I got a convenient travel laptop, help me come up with a clever hack to replace the lit logo on it +* Projector and screen for IdeaWave. + * NS just offered hers: [TDP S25 projector (Pdf)](http://www.toshiba.ca/web/pdf/TDP_S25.pdf) and a [InFocus SC-PD-80](http://www.frontierpc.com/SC-PD-80.html) screen. Issues to resolve: + * 3.3M is max projection distance and + * The retractable screen has no brackets, so need a way to mount the 19.5lb screen + * LM just scored one as well + * Hotel to offer 6' screen at no cost +* Personal DB project - KC + +## Minutes + +* [ctheory](http://ctheory.net/) +* RFID discussion - privacy implications, +* places are watching uniqueness of phones while you're in a store instead of RFID +* bluetooth: if it's on you can find it, even if not in discoverable mode +* If you agree to a privacy policy of an org, they can run DPI on you +* EFF tracks updated to privacy policy +* How much would one person have to read in privacy policies for one year? contract? EULA? agreeement? +* [Open Media](http://openmedia.ca/) +* [Save Our Net](http://www.saveournet.ca/) + +Designers are all for pay, we need to find entrepreneur type designers like we +are for tech and business + +* [CIRA event in 2 days, sign up!](http://cira.ca/one-week-left-to-register-for-national-event-on-future-of-the-internet/) +* Jon Ronson - Them (Book) +* Bilderburg group +* WGWT +* [OpenDataBC](http://www.opendatabc.ca/) --- Clary Shirky Model - not an official organization +* [Jinni](http://www.jinni.com/) +* [Scraper Wiki](http://scraperwiki.com/) +* [NeatDesk](http://www.neatco.com/products/neatdesk) +* [Snap Scan](http://www.snap-scan.com/us.html) +* [Scan Snap](http://scansnap.fujitsu.com/ss_products.html) + +Reverse what grocery stores do to us; log what we spend on groceries, and tell +us week to week what each grocery is compared to last week; most expensive or +cheaper? open receipt standard? qr code? + +* [InDinero](https://indinero.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-02-March-02-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-02-March-02-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f1d774 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-02-March-02-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,390 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar02,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 02, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-03-02' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar02 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Notes +3. Minutes + 3.1. Ideawave + 3.2. Point of Sale Systems + 3.3. Makerspace + 3.4. Chris Bowers What Went Well Today + 3.5. Good Latino Restaurants in Victoria + 3.6. Job News + 3.7. Wine Tasting + 3.8. GeoGeeks + 3.9. IdeasMeetings Calendar + 3.10. Find Lost Remote Idea + 3.11. Store Products map + 3.12. Reverse engineering hacking class + 3.13. open data + 3.14. batteries + 3.15. solio + 3.16. ham radio + +## Agenda + +* Kurt Lenfesty will chair this meeting +* IdeaWave follow-up; the good, the (was there bad or ugly?) + +## Notes + +* It was brought to my attention that we need a process for determining when to take things to a sub-group. For example, Canadians for an secure, competitive internet has taken over the last several meetings, and not everyone is interested in this specific project. Maybe once something takes over an hour of discussion, those interested take that project offline? +* As we're getting more a more diverse crowd, we need to note when we're getting more technical than required for a high level discussion. We need to make an effort to introduce anything technical in a way that everyone can understand and participate, otherwise it should be taken offline with those who are familiar with that subject matter +* Note from Kurt: The way that I'm going to try and conduct the meet is go through the agenda items and try to minimize the high-level and in-depth discussions. The first thing I want is for everyone to get an overview of the ideas brought forward (and cover off any other agenda items). Then we can either break into subgroups to for those in-depth/high-level discussions, or get into more depth as a group. + +## Minutes + +### Ideawave + + +Kris gave his review + +* broke even already 2nd year; was ewxpecting lose two years in a row +* ridiculous momentum +* social media paticipation tweeting crazy that trending ahed of new premier kristie clark trended higher +* energy level of all atneiis good. +* no complaints about the content +* Year in Science BC .ca +* #ideawave hashtag +* 2 emails next day + * one from a doctor - post-conf depression + * no real goad w/conference yet beyond get a unch of critical thinkers in the room - maybe a better summary +* submissions from all over North America based on just fb and twitter +* flying in on your own dime, hotel, etc to speak for 10 minutes. +* incubator, ideasx conf +* washington dc how to survive as an artist "Hello the Future" + * guitar and nerdy song per week. + * she's even posted a song about ideawave [http://www.hello-the-future.net/](http://www.hello-the-future.net/) +* poss in advance submit a video. +* maybe a virtual ideawave in six months livestream and ustream then allow remote participation +* better financially. +* 6 months virtual, 6 months real world +* great format Ken - every half hour chance to talk to people; 3 ten minute slots +* Kurt was more energized by ideawave than tedx rebroadcast +* maybe a weekly event? Jennifer Fluke & he maybe do a TED talks evening +* want more? come to these weekly meetings +* maybe once a month have a speaker. +* [http://www.ted.com](http://www.ted.com/) +* some talk about TED. +* ignite - lightening talk. 5 minutes. 20 slides peckakutcha +* 6'40" slides pechakucha created out of Japan 20 slides 20" each 6'40" total +* must apply to get it. One per city. proprietary. once every compule months. Design focssed. Supposed to be but last one here was food centric. +* ? fully subscrbed but rom seemed empty. +* told 170 capacity so kept it at 150. 40 tags paid but not collected. +* All East coast folks didn't come in due to planes being cancelled. +* MC was really god. Morgan Cranny. Actor and comedian with a science background. +* his vibe Kurt points out encouraged us to be social. +* one woman told him the 15 used for introspection rather than communication. +* snacks? but that's where conferences make their money. +* The hotel makes the money off the catrign. +* have speakears say which corner they'd be in during the break. +* videos - need contact info for people an put on their page. +* maybe a wiki for the presentations and POC info. +* 1 video/week and release all 50. one month for editing. this year 3 cameras to need to edit together. +* finish up last year's first then start 2011. +* maybe give the person the videao. Two people recorded their talks. Would prefer the didn't. +* may have a no video policy next year. +* maybe they have to include Kris's logo. +* Guy: why do you want them to go to your website? Depending on goal. Graeful Dead approach. System tehory - adaptable and flexible. Let othe rpeople propgate it for you. +* low self-esteem, radical self interest, psychologist - high value of low self esteem. Apologies to Olympic medalist. (Liam's review) +* David & Jenn arrive. +* Guy who do you choose to follow. Inidiviudals more than organizations. Kris as the org as opposed to Kris as himself. As himself can have opinions and favorites. +* Kurt - you made clear that he didn't choose them. Lunched w/rower. Discovered the amatuers were ore interesting that the professional motivaltional speakers. + * Talks he thought would be good weren't and vice-versa. +* Other members said: raincoaster, autistic, etc. all amazing talks. Bread talk. +* Harder to follow folks w/a lot of information. +* maybe pass on to less is more suggestion to potential speakers. +* brian white, ian souter, and craig carmichael specifically invited and encouraged as he knew they were doing cool shit. + +batteries - these actually get better for 4-8 uears. driving these cars 10 +years later. Best for solar collection. + +* 2 negative things per Kris - + * on-the-fly wanting to speak. took a hard stance. + * over ten people came up usually w/partner asking if can come in free in order to just watch/record the one talk. +* Kurt - maybe 10$ for three? But maybe could blow out attendance capacity. +* 20 tix short of selling out entirely. +* put a note in to explictly say family members must also buy a ticket. + +### Point of Sale Systems + +Guy's interested on working on one of these + +point of sale systems - tie in via EDI to suppliers. + +problem is they are closed an don't give people ability to manage their own. + +Unsecure and not customizable. + +not encrypted nor secured in a standardized way. + +The electronic till which does POs and invoices. track in realtime, logistics +of waht is being procured, used, in stock. + +K used one. More you put in, more useful it is. But restaurants don't. +Dinerware says Liam Microsoft CEO due to dissatifaction w/Squirrel Systems. +Dinerware - Crystal Reports, Access, Excel. Super customizable. $5k/terminal, +800 additional. + +one dealer in Victoria - Dutch guy. + +Most using Orca Dynamics sells POS services and hardware. Sells M'aitre de and +Squirrel. + +Dinerware - operational costs minimal. Runs on XP. + +Dineware - all IP, can set to h/w level encryption. DHCP server. + +Kris huge need; Will and he have talked about it as Kris has run a restaurent. + +Existing ones are very hackable. + +Credit cards included so violation FIPPA. PCIDSS also in force. + +Doctor's offices open wirless networks. + +Must do due diligence towards security - not specifies exactly what. + +IDEA: open system for small business owners low operational cost. Customers +order food and drinks via push buttons or smart phones even with in advance of +arrival ordering. real time analyitcs. can control it. no need for customers +to wait for the waitress. + +What do you need to move forward? + +Not much. Need some dynamic API that wil allow the user to create the menu. +Template that customer can use. Drupal, Liam says, cash register app which +could be adapted. + +Why important to Guy? Wants to support small mom & pop businesses. + +Liam: just for inventory an dacurate tracking - not enough impetus to +implement a real app such as Guy is describing. They wouldn't know what to do +with it and would need someone to manage it. + +Guy: using iphones or smartphone barcode scanning. For inventory. Still ahve +to tag everything think Liam. E.g. produce. + +TAKE TO SUBGROUP + +Ernie also interested in working on the in-advance order. + +Liam: dine-in Victoria has this for about 20 restaurants. + +Kris: wouldn't have used in his restaurant - customers love the in-person +sales, owner generally leery of tech, logistics - maybe no seats available. + +Prepay over the phone to reserve the table. + +### Makerspace + +soldering class - $10 for the class; $30 for the day + +website needs help to tell + +redirect from makerspace or victoria.makerspace.ca to drupal.xxx turn off is +annoying. Could use some TLC. + +### Chris Bowers What Went Well Today + +Chris Bowers WGWT - he has a march 14th evening open. He's contacted two +people. If you are interested, let Kris know. $40. Invite only. Really good +social networking execrcise. Choose the quesiton you want to ask. They do it +stragtegically such that you answer your own question. +www.conversationworks.com Kris & Kurt both said that the questions were really +good. Forces you to go deep. "If you can ask the question, you know the +answer". Ernie. + +### Good Latino Restaurants in Victoria + +Cafe Yucatan - Mexican+Italian + +Hernandez - 5 tacos 5 bucks + +Porta Amigo van end of U st downtown + +new one in Cook Street Village + +place in the old Pig building View between Blanshard and Douglas + +### Job News + +Guy took a f/t gig w/BeanStream. 5-7 bard & banker celebration + +### Wine Tasting + +Josh redneck sommelier once a month wine tasting. <= 20 people. 2 nights now +instead of one. Coupld spots left for tomorrow. Themes. "There's really good +wines there?" + +### GeoGeeks + +Geogeeks meeting tomorrow also + +### IdeasMeetings Calendar + +Kris just embeeded a google calender on the victoria ideasmeetings page + +please add anything + +wayward school classes coming up + +### Find Lost Remote Idea + +Kris been thinking about the makerspace last couple of days. From meeting +Mitch Altmann inventor of virtual reality. Made a "brain machine" Tokyo hacker +space project. soldering. + +TV Be Gone guy - "Brain Be Gone" Self-meditation device. Commecially available +now. (see minutes from the earlier meeting where this was first discussed & +tried - a few folks tried it again tonight) + +Cinema Seven All-For-One hackable remote only $20 + +1. some cheap universal remote with LEDs and beeping sounds +2. replace light switch with two-in-one. +3. keychain fob have them blink and make noise to you + +Liam three small trasnmitters & traingulate. idea is provide the remote so not +need glue antying on. Some wall-mountable item that talks to existing control. +wall mountable sticks to outside. 5 mm extension so that switch protrudes? No. +maybe frame around switch - matte black, silver, gold metal colors What do you +need to take this idea to the next step? + +* how far it can reach, use practically to test it. +* Bug Mitch or someone to design the circuit for him - maybe the noisebridge guys would do a cut for him. +* FM trans and FM receive relatively easy. But some circuit to have the receiver know what to do. + +### Store Products map + +Thrify's cameras for tracking patterns, not theft. + +Costco idea. But probably they want you to wander through. + +an idea you'd bring to costco. + +### Reverse engineering hacking class + +Will - new idea - one of the speakers - Jeff malware at Microsoft. Hiring +vulnerability researchers. Neither K nor W have done in 10 years. will start a +class in it. Deep at beginning. Assembler. Then is just getting tools to look +in right spot. + +### open data + +myrep app progress fellow from open parilament has given us a test set of data + +### batteries + +more discussion about the Nickel-Iron batteries + +U of Alberta guy might redo lights + +need to turn of computers at night to save power. + +### solio + +solio - social mandate to give one away for every one purchased. + +charger. dozen power adapters. USB device. + +good for hikers. Suction cup, tent peg. + +### ham radio + +Kris suggests more people get ham radio licenses so he has someone to talk to. + +Ernie - why? Herb - the apocalypse. Liam - what is your plan for the +apocalypse dinner party conversation - people do hae a plan. Skills to +acquire. Make bread so if cut off from the mainland. + +K - guns & ammo -then you get everyting you need. + +Earthquake kit? No, you? Yes. What's your address. + +alcohol becomes currency says Liam. + +ham radio two states of emergency. Both of them in Ottawa declared stae of +emergecyn. peole were getting shot for generators. All sold out in a couple of +hours. + +Cell phone networks shut down overloaded. Ham radio folks called in. + +100 question mutliple choice exam, but bank of questions is public. Just know +the 500. Industry candada has a downloadable random question generator. Within +two weeks of goofing around to get basics. do the exam. Get license plates for +less money. VE7 BC VE7BNE is his unique plate. basic; was didital, was morse +code (continueous wave), advanced now just b and a if coul send and receive +for 3 minutes, allows you more than 30 mHz 2 m wavelength basic just your +city. worldwide that bounce HF ionosphere, under 30 mHz 10-60 meters long Now +just need 10% extra marks on exam to get advanced. Basic 250W output, advanced +1KW output. Could even have onw repeater. Not have to be physically present. +Basic range: VFH and UFH + +HF under 30 mHz VFH 32-~250 UFH >300 + +Basic - anything over 30 mHz. Ernie - each freq range has different pros & +cons. + +most ppuler 144-148 2 meter. Omni Local. Morse code easier than voice. Morse +or cw can go further than voice. Middle "single side band" truncates your +ovice range to extend range. with 50 Watt radio in voice - everywhere in +Victoria. Double in side band. Europe max 700 on side band. Using 2 m can +bounce off the moon. Yagi antennae double sided cone. Longer and more teeth is +more directional. 3 elemtns he has at home, 45 dgree angle. Earth Moon Earth +build 20 foot long yaggi's aiming right at the moon. Then bounces back to the +earth again. One fellow tried sending an email - picked up by Stanford and +sent back tohim. + +HF - bouncing off ionosphere. Matters on season and time of day. D, E, F +layers of ionosphere. Sun creates it. Also 11 year solar cycle. 5 W power - +could get thousands of km. Directional, though. + +Can buy a kit. Used available, too. Friendliest community ever. His first was +$25. Got a better one for $150. Now a fancy 1K one. He has a handheld - can go +wherever. Depends what you want to do. Recommends basic exam with over 70% +score so can do anything. Then get all-band all-mode radio. Kris enjoys +contesting. eg 2 day rush ones. Talk to as many people in two days as +possible. not a conversation - just a log. CQ is "is anybody there". ham radio +code. CQWWW Wallpaper chaser. Certificates. eg 5 people from calgary radio +assocation. Send in log & get a certificate for your wall about that. all +provinces award. DXCC. 100 countries for minimum level. If all 100 on all 5 +bands, people on 25 islands, etc. + +ham radio geeks pioneered all the cool wireless technology in use; cannot use +ham for commercial use TAPPER - Tuscon amateur radio group APRS - automatic +position reporting system - uses ham radio to transmit lat/long to all +listening radios (hooked up to GPS) Need a Terminal Node Controller (TNC) +modem to connect the GPS to the radio. + +heavens-above.com - tells you all the satellites available. Number system +ranks by brightness. Can see some with naked eye. + +DX - long distance - chasing. If you go to an obscure grid square, people want +to talk to you. FN25 = Victoria. Grid square and name. + +QSL card - name and pictures. HF game. If not in a contest, you might exchange +QSL cards. + +rac.ca/callbook - look up call signs. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-16-March-16-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-16-March-16-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39e5c3b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-16-March-16-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar16,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 16, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-03-16' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar16 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +Topics Covered + +* CanSecWest +* [http://www.metasploit.com/](http://www.metasploit.com/) +* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-DSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-DSS) +* Bluetooth scanning and exploiting +* Script that looks for your Bluetooth MAC address and locks down all of your machines when you leave home diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-23-March-23-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-23-March-23-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..989736a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-23-March-23-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar23,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 23, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-03-23' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar23 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +* Talked about the Times-Colonist: City editor and Editor in Chief leaving/left +* embedded journalism +* Where's the investigative journalism + +* #yyj Twestival tomorrow [http://victoria.twestival.com/](http://victoria.twestival.com/) +* TED talk martini party email kurt.lenfesty@gmail.com Friday at 7pm +* Awesome Shit Club moving to the last Wednesday of April (27th) - 14 awesomites right now + * Rob mentioned we need contact info, for references + +* [F.lux](http://stereopsis.com/flux/) monitor highlighter +* [Axure](http://www.axure.com/) for wireframing +* [Dreamwaver](http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/) + +* Kris read about MBEST app + +* Rob presented an idea about a newswire for all non-profits +* Kurt with an idea based off the book cryptonomicon - how can 2 people communicate with compromised cell phones. QR codes using onion layers? + +* Steganography discussion +* [Outguess](http://www.outguess.org/download.php) +* [Error correction on a CD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction#Applications) + +* [Kinjoe](https://www.kinjoe.com/) from Allison who is not here! +* [Mozilla Glow](http://glow.mozilla.org/) watch in real time as people download firefox + +* ViaTEC discussion: highly polarized discussion + +* Ernie is here, runs [Info Tech Vancouver Island](http://infotechvi.com/) + +* [digitalpolicy.ca](http://www.digitalpolicy.ca/) discussion + * Rogers has no image to discuss + * Rogers blocking World of Warcraft for using P2P... another legal usage of technology that saves their pipes being throttled + * Shaw charges a premium to open port 25 (SMTP) + * Telcos have a loophole so they don't have to disclose hardware depreciation (capital expenditures) + * Use twitter, not email or contact forms for contacting such organizations; it's on public record so they actually respond, and in a timely manner. Without such pressure, emails, phone calls and forms are often ignored or not respected. + diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-30-March-30-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-30-March-30-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..081fd9d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-03-30-March-30-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar30,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 30, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-03-30' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar30 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +* Bitcoin discussion +* Is there a limit in Canada that banks have to have in reserve compared to what they loan? in 1992 it appears to have went to 0? +* Bumped CHMC's limit because of US economy + +* Complaint driven report system for privacy +* Vancouver CCTV cameras doing facial recognition +* Police cars in BC doing facial recognition +* Victoria police doing ALPR (automatic licence plate recognition) which logs all platers for 3 months + +* [ALPR example](http://alpr.unrest.ca/) +* [Big Wave Dave](http://bigwavedave.ca/) +* [APRS](http://aprs.fi/) +* [PIPS ALPR](http://pipstechnology.com/) + +* A company version of Facebook - who owns the companies? The social graph of board executives. (and subsidiary companies) +* Take company data, overlay it over the board executive social graph +* The revolving door in the US +* Create a standard template on wikipedia +* Corporations Canada search for "inc" and you get +413k corporations, scrape the directors? +* [Eurion constellation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation) With things that this logo exists on won't get copied or printed on certain devices + +* What does it take to be in a parade? +* [Byron Sonne](http://friendsofbyron.alteeve.com/index.php/Main_Page) + diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-06-April-06-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-06-April-06-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21989ef --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-06-April-06-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr06,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 06, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-04-06' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr06 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. Attendees + 2.2. Pre-Meeting - What's Happening + 2.3. Shaw's Email Server Tax + 2.4. Ideas for a Better Internet + 2.5. ALPR + 2.6. MISC + 2.7. Books + 2.8. Hosting + +## Agenda + +* Shaw charging a $60 fee to open port 25 +* [Ideas for a better internet](https://spreadsheets0.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dGZmSEoyb3R4YkFMWVVVT0VJdzd3YXc6MQ) + * Decentralization, BitDNS(Based on Bitcoin) allows for the decentralization of Domain Names without losing legibility. ie somone can register google.bit and have the resilience of the Bitcoin Protocol[[1]](http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1790.0) +* Automatic licence plate recognition (ALPR) project (We're going to try emulate what police cars are doing, and setup a demo of what we can do with 3 months of such data) + * Plate format and info it shows[[2]](http://www.canplates.com/bc.html) +* Response to police abuses during the G20 + * Gather names of those involved. + * No badges[[3]](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/nearly-100-toronto-officers-to-be-disciplined-over-summit-conduct/article1784884/) + * Queen and Spadina example of intimidation tecniques[[4]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSJ2xtTKF9s) + * Movies and Clips[[5]](http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSecretStore) +* Innovation Station +* non-profit press release website + * AnonNews?[[6]](http://www.anonnews.org/) +* quadcopters! (I can't actually come this week, but I'm going to do a quadcopter parts buy next week and will announce a set of tutorials at the makerspace. If anyone wants in they should let me know! -Derek) + +BTW --- Kurt asked me about costs and this is what I sent him: + +Arduino is about $30 sensors are between $80 and $200 depending on what +options you choose motors and speed controllers run $60-$120 or so depending +on size and power batteries are $15 to $40 depending on size battery charger +is $50 or so for a nice one (or use the one I'm buying to keep at the space if +you just want to fly out here) transmitter/receiver is between $50 and $250 +depending on options, or can use a $60 pair of XBee radios and a couple of wii +controllers + +Have a hard time getting away for less than $300, but could go much higher +depending on design characteristics. + +* all grain brewing class at the makerspace (again, I can't come this week but Kris and Tyler if you guys want to just set a date and tell me what it is I'll get announcements out and get people signed up! -Derek) + +## Minutes + +### Attendees + +1. Kris - newly moved downtown, internet privacy guy +2. Chris - UVic grad student - interested in internet security & legal issues (Deep Packet Inspection) +3. Ernie - network support, phone systems & pbx +4. Matthew - at UVic CompSci +5. Kevin - s/w dev +6. David - prod dev & design from +7. Lisa - Oracle DBA - in the states (skyped in) +8. Fabian - (skyped in) +9. Kurt - s/w dev + +### Pre-Meeting - What's Happening + +* Makerspace? Kris - needs access to a truck; would like to donate/loan the space all of his brewing equipment and fridge with two taps. two full all-grain setups (one is Tylers). Kris doesn't have room for all of the equipment in his new, smaller space. +* This week - yesvictoria - young entrepeneur society - hasn't gone himself yet. Found out about at silent acution support japan. Bid on everything - alcohol may have been involved. Meeting tomorrow. *need note in wikicalandar +* Tomorrow 8 pm QV Bakery. Two-three boards of a game called Settlers of Catan. Sort of an easier version of Risk. Is fun. +* Friday - Mike Delamont in town this week due to awards. 7 & 9 God is a Scottish Dragqueen (Atomic Vaudeville show - Kris on board) $15 at vic event center. +* Makerspace - couple of events this weekend - including Derek bringing a video camera to record some videos to spice up the makerspace home page +* Nanaimo hackathon at end of month. Folks need to register to participate. +* Epsilon - got hacked on Friday - so Kris avoids registering for anything. +* Tungle.com - effective service. But is in cloud so providing your name and contacts. Mac plug-in sucked in his adrbook without asking. Unfortunate. +* Chris Parsons - needs what questions would you pose to ISPs at a CRC hearing. +* TED party on Saturday night. TED talk with greatest talk ever sold. +* Derek - will be ordering quadcopter parts. Tutorials coming up at makerspace. +* Tronapalooza (during cansecwest.com) - iphone controlled fighting quad copters. Plus unlimited booze. Nothing bad could happen. 1 kg - video camera and a paintball gun. Face recognition. + +### Shaw's Email Server Tax + +* Kris just moved. Wants to set up own mail server again. Shaw said he had to pay to get static IP and port. residential - same speed but no static and port is closed. Asked twittered them about it. He said I pay $60/month for one IP and spammers could do that too. They had no answer for him. He bought a VPS (?) in Vancouver. $12 in Vancouver. Has it running but he can't connect to it. 25 outbbound blocked as well with shaw so he can't connect to it. !!! Basically a $60 tax to run his own mail server. Try to combine all useful angles. Shaw's hidden internet tax Chris said. IMTP stuff or anti-competitive. Security ITMP's don't count they say. Seems like a complaint should be filed. Crhis said security waiver was really the DPI used by MTS-Allstream. Used just for security. Shaw might say ITMP decision would justify their block. CRTC 2009-657 says Kevin. This policy decision may look like it supports port blocking, but doesn't based on how the decision was arrived it. Kevin says nothing in 657 saying that security ITMPs are any different than any other ITMPs. Kris also wants to go on the angle that Shaw can no longer state that they are offering internet service - rather a limited access network provider. Becomes what defines "internet" service. * Broadband same as rocket stick? + * CRTC policy - the big net neutrality victory in Canada. + * 657 appears to be intended to support traffic shaping, rather than close specific ports. This was the response from Shaw. + +"Reserved for Shaw's mail server" + +* Chris suggests use [Bernier's wording](http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/02149.html) to support anti-competitive. +* 4 pm Feb 17th - tweet to kevin from shaw help. +* Kris - pay tax or they want to be able to read and log all his emails - which is a privacy concern. +* Ryan - Devil's advocate: + 1. unless encrypting, email plaintext anyway. If encrypted, shaw can't read it. + +so no extra security running your own over theirs. they're doing packet +sniffing anyhow. Or could. And shouldn't. + + 2. they aren't preventing you from doing it, they are just charging you extra. Maybe needed as people don't configure their computers to prevent them from being turned into spambots. + +657 says: ITMPs used for nw security or deployed temporarily for nw integrity. +Protect folks from spam and illicit materials. Are a necessary part of an ISPs +operations. So CRTC not addressing these. If overzealous or overbearing, then +would fall under the rest of the ITMP regulations. Shaw claiming 25 is for nw +security to prevent a spamfest. (per Chris P.) + +Kevin's email to use port 25 to prevent phishing. So helps security. + +Kris getting penalized for being competent in a sea of folks who aren't. + +Ryan - problem is not enough competition in the marketspace - no alternative +provider. Techsavvy - 6 IPs and nothing blocked. Lots of mail servers don't +accept mail from folks without legit reverse. Kris could do reverse on the fly +on his DPS. Can also do on Shaw. Full computer on fat pipe in Van for +$12/month webserve.ca . Shaw wanting $60. $90 for static IP, unblocked. +Residential vs. Business cost varies over time. + +Fabian VPN even less. No long-term contract. So even cheaper if on US soil and +part of Patriot Act. + +Kris'll be drafting something by tomorrow. + +Ryan - maybe propose a solution? Lisa - maybe a prove you are competent test. + +Kevin - might use in ways that aren't just email - could also be check-for- +validity. Problem for him offering a service that rides on top - he and all +his clients would have to reconfigure to handle the wacky change. Kevin - +maybe just go into webpage and uncheck the blocked ports - done. + +### Ideas for a Better Internet + +[http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/](http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/) -- Chris P. + +* Berkman Center at Harvard Law School & Stanford CompSci. +* Looking for proposals that would improve the internet - esp infra, security, literacy. Goal of making the internet a better place for everyone. +* Harvard & Stanford students will chip in & then work with technologists to make something happen. +* You don't get any money if you win, but you get access to a long list of high profile folks. Tim O'Reilly, White House Susan Crawford, etc. +* Kris - (not too surprisingly) suggested ISPs should stop blocking 25? +* Kevin - suggested the original competitive secure internet concept that the ideas group has worked on before - the doc already routed & signed. +* Deadline is 12 pm PST April 15th. One week! +* Kevin - CIRA cira.ca charter to promote Canadian internet. + +* Kris - (re: securing the internet suggestion) knows the 5 guys in Ottawa who were intially hired by a guy to secure 5% of the internet. Worked on frees/wan. IPSEC for linux. Now called opens/wan. + * Common problem eg firesheep - packet sniffing around for years. This would prevent that. If you download wireshark or tcpdump (non-graphical). + * firesheep collects the session cookies (also gotten w/wireshark if tech proficient). If IPSEC, wouldn't happen. But organizations tend to want to look through your stuff. + * Sniffers could not read the package contents. Still would know next IP address-based step from header + * can work around that using TOR - [https://www.torproject.org/](https://www.torproject.org/) TOR.EFF.ORG. IOERROR in twitter. Jackob Applebaum. Uses encryption, but also onion routing. Encrypts data five times. Hops and takes off layers one at a time. If watching, you only see a couple of nodes. Chris P. papers came out last year to circumvent onion routing by setting up incredibly well-resourced routers. usually between 15-30 hops per tracerout, but TOR uses five of its own specific nodes. + +* Lisa suggests accelerating the spread of IPv6 usage + +* Kris - also on epsilon breach - "reasonable" - we are past the point that personal info is stored unencrypted. + * Kevin - devil's advocate - must store keys somewhere. Likely on the same box as holding the data. Should be using SSL to access the database. Makes it hard to work with and doesn't add much security. + +* Ryan: What about modifying browsers to let you know if insecure site? + * Kevin: Browsers are supposed to read the P3P policy, but it doesn't really get used. + +* Chris - trying to create some kind of typography describing privacy at a site. 3 icons, various formats that would instantly inform a websurfer a la the Creative Commons model. To make it clear what is the level of privacy. + * Would be a voluntary implementation - "Privacy Commons". + * Article 29 working group inthe EU says you can have a multi-stage privacy notification - short, medium, and longest. + * Kev: why would this work any better than P3P? + * Chris: P3P was hard to figure out, this won't be. + * Kev: only people who will deploy it are people that think they'll look good. + +* Fabian - bitcoin for DNS. Decentralized. Would prevent domains from being seized. + * [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5489.0](http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5489.0) + * [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1790.0](http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1790.0) + * there are some things out there like this. Can even create our own on top of the existing one. + * Kevin: How doing root servers? Is peer-to-peer that does validation against other peers. Longest bit-chain is the winner if contention. + * Microsoft could just release a version of windows that does bitcoin mining & earn all the gold themselves. + * There were a few guys that tried to create distributed DNS solutions in the wake of the seizures. + +* group took time out to watch a video on youtube.com - search on ciranews + +* Kris had a problem with privacy early on and had a bunch of domains highjacked... and never got them back even though the law was changed. + * ICANN policy requires that the domain owner be contact-able within a reasonable amount of time. + * Discussion about use of anonymous email and name info on domain registrations. You can do it, but you couldn't represent yourself in court. + * Problem of the government vs commercial sector being in charge of DNS. + * If someone sues you and you don't reply, you will likely lose. + +* Current lawsuit at supreme court. Pissed off Wayne Quirks. John didn't do anything but linked back to potentially defamatory content. + +* Need to be able to pop up a site to exercise free speech that might piss off a powerful entity such as the RCMP. If it's taken down, just pop up another one like a gopher. + +* Use eg anonymizer remailer. Send article to lots of activist websites rather than have own personal website. Send out to multiple sites all at once. + +* Best option to find a California publisher. + +* One fellow got a warning email just for writing about how to remix a song using garage band. + +* Kevin: hiding your identity is hard on the internet. + * maybe go to an internet cafe, pay for time, then anonymous email, then send out your "hot" content to activist sites. + +### ALPR + +privacy commissioner said if keep for only 3 months its okay, so folks doing a +project to show how that could be a problem after all. + +* ALPR discussion + * We're building a tool to demo the privacy implications of storing such data for 3 months, which is what we understand the privacy commissioner has authorized. + * Kurt giving an update on the software end. We're looking for people to opt-in for the demo. + * Even sample sets have false positives, and all of the current technology will. + * What is the argument police have for using this technology, and storing it? Are police doing data mining? Have they been audited by privacy commissioner? + * [ALPR video at the bottom](http://www.unrest.ca/Politics/alpr-canadas-big-brother-the-federal-database-thats-keeping-tabs-on-vancouver) notice the bridges and island used as examples in the end) entrance/exit points + * You can't obfucaste your plates, even if for cameras; the precedence isn't detailed enough to mention physical viewing only + * Do we want a law enforcement process that automates the catching of summary offices and traffic laws? + * Go after cases that you can win and set precedent and then go after what you care about/leverage it + * Rob has agreed that Dave can stare at him indefinitely; context on viewing and/or recording is important. Looking vs stalking for example. + +### MISC + +* What if we all emailed our ISPs and asked what information they provide law enforcement and under what conditions/requirements? warrant? subpoena? +* Large ISPs say no to providing law enforcement personal info, until the phalanx of lawyers hears that law enforcement is willing to pay the big $$. Small ISPs say no, but can't afford to say no when $$ is discussed +* Pawn shops won't verify your item that was stolen is there, unless you provide a police report numb +* Bank machines rely on GPS data/access to work to verify timing? +* 8 year old pepper sprayed - What if parents did this to their kid? +* water levels high in California with iodine/radiation from Japan? +* [Byzantine Attacks on Anonymity Systems”, Nikita Borisov, George Danezis, Parisa Tabriz, Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices, 2007 is here](http://research.google.com/pubs/SecurityCryptographyandPrivacy.html) +* [Highly highly recommended from Chris!](http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Privacy-Theory-Technologies-Practices/dp/1420052179/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302155182&sr=8-1) involves cracking tor + +### Books + +* Understanding privacy - Dan Solove +* Contextual integrity - Helen Nissenbaum + +### Hosting + +* [3z](http://3z.ca/) \- Kevin +* [Linode](http://www.linode.com/) \- Dave (Tyler B. has recommended this site as well) +* [Webserve](http://webserve.ca/) \- Kris (Kris had entered websense.ca, but that is not the same) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-13-April-13-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-13-April-13-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b590480 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-13-April-13-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr13,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 13, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-04-13' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr13 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. Attendees + 2.2. PreMeeting + 2.3. Discussion of English political debates yesterday + 2.4. Projects from last meeting (ALPR) + 2.5. Victoria's community calendar + 2.6. OpenData + 2.7. Makerspace promotion ideas + 2.8. ASC + 2.9. Wordpress.com + 2.10. Home automation + 2.11. Powered bike trailer + 2.12. For Next Week + +## Agenda + +* Discussion of English political debates yesterday +* Projects from last meeting (ALPR) +* Victoria's community calendar +* Makerspace promotion ideas +* Home automation +* Powered bike trailer + +## Minutes + +### Attendees + +1) Kurt +2) Ryan +3) Ernie +4) Kris +5) Fabian (skype) +6) Lisa (skype) +7) Kevin +8) Chris +9) Herb +10) Derek (skype) + +### PreMeeting + +* Kris already had a dubious experience with the VPS service he was trying. +* Ernie talking about home automation questions. Kris may have some useful knowledge from being the Nortel Home Automation club president. +* Fabian - how about a 3D model - spy movie animation. +* Kurt setting up a webcam for the ALPR discussion + +### Discussion of English political debates yesterday + +* Everyone decided to vote Bloc next year. (Joke) +* Police say need Harper...but crime has gone down in the last couple of years. +* michealgeist.ca - if reelected w/i next 100 days he'll impose a surveillence state. A campaign promise. +* Fear-based agenda. +* Discussion about how coalition governments function. Also could have a liberal minority gov't with support of some one other party. Not the same as a coalition. +* After the last election Harper got the support of xxx. +* Last time Harper lost the confidence of the house, Harper went to the governor-general and xxx +* Prorouge the house. (Have 'em go away until they can come back and make nice) + +3 choices _ priorougt, call another election, or appoint another party. + +* Harper making it sound like a coalition vs a confidence motion. +* Could be a liberal gov't w/support of NDP rather than a coaltion gov't. + * primary diff is? Who all gets appointed to cabinet? NDP would get some kind of rights via some contract. +* [ShitHarper - went down today](http://www.shitharper.com/) +* [Unrest](http://www.unrest.ca/) +* Folks discussed how to decide for whom to vote. Party vs. person. Strategies. Whether and how to donate money. +* Question of MPs that have strong enough principles to maybe switch parties if necessary. +* What do they think of electoral reform as a litmus test question. +* One fellow found that the senators did listen and accept a suggestion from him when he bothered to go all the way to Ottawa to make it. Senate costs taxpayers $9e6/yr. House of Commons mostly about getting in its sound-bites. +* Nolan report - Justice Taliano in Ontario. Struck down a couple of provisions. References the Nolan report. An effort of the Senate. + +### Projects from last meeting (ALPR) + +* Privacy Commission okayed a three-month trial, but this is already not good. +* Oak Bay - 10 risk points, Esquimalt at night + 10 risk points. +* Scenarios via Google Maps - demo of project to show that three months of data could constitute a huge invasion of privacy. +* Violent crime in Japan - GPS driving can route you around the bad areas. But does then stereotype those areas. +* [polymaps](http://www.polymaps.org/) +* DEMO + +### Victoria's community calendar + +* go to ideas meetings then victoria chapter. +* Kris changed it from a calendar format to an agenda format. +* Has given a few other people edit access with some guidelines. Events should be: + * victoria-based, + * non-profit, + * community-based. (ie not a conference) + +e.g. 4square day on Saturday, babes go bare head-shaving... also calendar can +now be embedded in more places. + +### OpenData + +* Kris shmoozed a BC Transit fellow & might get the opportunity to present a business case for opening BC transit data. +* survey of heatmaps +* Victoria just collecting this sort of data. Want to make it open data. Herb following this. +* Kevin talked about a website [crimemap](http://www.bbc.co.uk/truthaboutcrime/crimemap/) + +### Makerspace promotion ideas + +* Lisa thinks maybe Kris could hook Derek up with his CBC reporter connection. +* Kris will redo the makerspace.ca website. Members only drupal, public facing on wordpress. (Kris worked at the site last weekend & made a shelf. Was very satisfying.) +* Lisa hasn't heard back from Tyler B. Tyler did email Kris about posting ASC. +* Derek will make a video. Kris suggests a local videographer - maybe trade 1 month membership for her working on a video. Nicole. +* Need list of upcoming classes to lure participants. +* Kris contacted John Adair about all-grain brewing for teaching as his own recent experience is skimpy. +* Makerbot class can happen soon per Derek. +* Derek found old info from Tyler, sent to Kris & Lisa. (Does not include T's dreamhost access) + * Kris will take fist cut on making changes then let Lisa also have access. +* Derek just finished building a quadcopter. Could teach about it. But components are expensive. $300 in parts. Could build one collectively. +* Derek using sparkfun sensor. +* Kris got to do quadcopter fighting with some commercial ones at CANSECWEST. +* What is the space? collection of everyone's fun tools plus some more that have been purchased. Two garage bays. One is the office - has computer, makerbot, laser cutter. The other has the woodworking and other messy tools. Vinyl cutter. +* How to participate? Unlimited monthly use keyholder $100, Unlimited monthly use with a keyholder present $50 (6 months min), day passes $25 or $20 can't remember which. +* Electronics classes. PHP classes if enough interest. Brain machine. +* Ian's soldering class went great. (He's actually a professional solderer!) +* Tyler R. just brought an oscilliscope so could do an electronics test bench class. +* jtag use - +* Kevin would like to see java dev eg Kurt. Kevin could show PHP dev. +* Kevin got to test drive Kris's brain machine. Kris described it again - see earlier minutes for the full description as we've done this before. + +### ASC + +* 15 or 16 people in the pot chipping in $50 each. Room for 4-5 more awesomites. +* doors open for submissions. Go to [asc](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) + +### Wordpress.com + +* Chris P. says Wordpress was hacked. Recommend everyone using this in any way (incl. AOL, TED) should change passwords asap. Techcrunch. + +### Home automation + +* Ernie asking - Anyone know any good ones? +* Perhaps not quite ready for prime time yet at the entry level +* [X10](http://x10.com/homepage.htm) is the existing entry-level spec. Derek's had more luck w/RS45 serial port driver but required specialized h/w. + * both Kris & Derek have some of the X10 components. E.g. firecracker set. Light switches to dimmers. + * Kris had some good past experiences with X10. $200 can do whole house. Fun for simple things - not for security. Lights&stereo on/off. + * Derek had problems. Fridge on/off would confuse his lights. Changed channels & eliminated that problem. But plugging things in would affect other things. +* Control4 - even more expensive and possibly also higher quality. +* [misterhouse](http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/) PERL demo from a while ago. Serial port for X10. +* Ubertooth Kris says is coming out soon & will change the bluetooth landscape. Kevin talked about scanning for bluetooth mac addresses. +* istumbler - on airport. Kris found a local n/w of a high profile individual, but at least they had WEP. +* bluetooth is very hackable. Not recommended for home security. + * Kevin showed some bluetooth specifics. +* some discussion about googling and finding folks home security cameras, poor password protection on security cameras, etc. by Kevin and Chris P. + +### Powered bike trailer + +* Kurt has a friend who is a farmer who had to buy a car to haul things, wonders if there is an alternative. +* Kris also curious about bicycle rules. Must be human-powered to avoid motor vehicle act. Electric bikes CAN be so compliant. Trailer would need same workaround. also need governed speed max of 32kph. +* Kevin would need some feedback control. +* Other folks brainstormed considerations and suggestions. +* Segways are banned most places in BC - not human-powered +* Disabled folks can use scooters most everywhere. + +### For Next Week + +* we will try videoconferencing software found by Fabian; everyone should try downloading the client from [https://www.ekiga.net](https://www.ekiga.net/) +* Also, Lisa signed up for a Skype subscription that will allow group video conferencing. However everyone on the call must have Skype 5.0 or higher running. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-20-April-20-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-20-April-20-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c32334 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-04-20-April-20-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr20,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 20, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-04-20' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr20 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Large sign printing suitable for a billboard (or in pieces) +* [BC Green Party AGM](http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/node/508) +* [Peninsula Co-op Election](http://coopactionnetwork.ca/) +* Time lapse map of diminishing peninsula farmland +* Where is our equivalent of NRA? +* Possible FOI re ALPR - draft? Contact Info. Commiss., too? +* Electric or air powered roto-tiller +* Virtual IdeaWave +* iPhone stalking +* ComodoGate +* Why shouldn't companies sell personal information? + +## Minutes + +11 members (4 of them guests) + +* ALPR - Let's do an FOI request and see what data they have, and what they're doing with the data + * Hit vs non-hit data + * What applications are using it? Local LD? RCMP? Homeland security? private sector? Other orgs? + * Is it a modular based system? + * Purchase order/receipt + * "This is how we plan to use the system" (part of the RFP) + * What is the criteria for VicPD to pass from a test system + * What is the criteria to be hot data? Which DBs is it sync with? Information sharing agreements? + * Classifications of hit data/How many plates form the hit data list? + * Are there audits to ensure inappropriate access doesn't happen? + * What is expected growth of this system? + * How many non-hit plates have been stored in general? + * Has non-hit data ever been used in court? + * Who can access hit and non-hit data? + * How many plates are scanned in a day? + * Privacy Impact Assessment + +* Rob: Ministries claiming PharmaNet data in a database isn't a record, it's only a record when it leaves a DB into something, like a spreadsheet. +* [BC FIPA](http://fipa.bc.ca/home/) +* Definition of "Record" from FOIPP: "record" includes books, documents, maps, drawings, photographs, letters, vouchers, papers and any other thing on which information is recorded or stored by graphic, electronic, mechanical or other means, but does not include a computer program or any other mechanism that produces records; + +* IdeaWave virtual to launch in a few weeks + +* Comodogate + * [Kevin's site](http://www.unrest.ca/) + * Either EFF was wrong, or Microsoft is not patched! + * Kevin working with Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) + * Google has not done any public/press release about this! + +* Where is the Canadian version of the NRA? + * CFIB apolitical-ish (non-partisan) but have a lot of influence + * [Vote Net](http://votenet.ca/) + * [Project Democracy](http://www.projectdemocracy.ca/) + * Kurt: Want a group that has the clout, "We'll vote this way, on this single issue" + * [Ducks unlimited](http://www.ducks.ca/) + +* iPhone hack + * Stored unencrypted on your phone and cell + * Kevin has over 60,000 MAC addresses and geo-location data of those MACs! + * cell location: timestamp, lat and long, vert, speed, course, confidence, primary key + +* Lawn bowling club MAC: CREATE TABLE WifiLocation (MAC TEXT, Timestamp FLOAT, Latitude FLOAT, Longitude FLOAT, HorizontalAccuracy FLOAT, Altitude FLOAT, VerticalAccuracy FLOAT, Speed FLOAT, Course FLOAT, Confidence INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY (MAC));0:16:1:f4:82:66|322628506.246397|48.42065298|-123.36552011|208.0|0.0|-1.0|-1.0|-1.0|50 +* [Google map of this location](http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=48.42065298+-123.36552011&ie=UTF8&ll=48.42034,-123.365446&spn=0.001275,0.004066&z=18) + +* Wifi in schools +* Peanut butter in schools + * Lack of scientific evidence that is valid +* What makes people crazy? + +* Is there a way to remember all of the steps you've taken on a VPS, so when you need to clone/reset it you don't have to do a full install again? diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-04-March-04-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-04-March-04-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b33d46 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-04-March-04-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May04,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 04, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-05-04' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May04 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Ideas as a political party + * Electoral reform: Can we agree on an electoral process? + * Firearms registry vs Gun licence +* Acquiring something leuco dye or something thermochromic +* Making [this](http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6985/711b24812ec1513c7af6bda.gif) +* Creating political / governance / monarchist movement to accelerate re-claiming of our country in which 60% of our people voted for change +* Electronic voting + +## Minutes + +* Results of election kind of depressing +* Some perspectives on Elizabeth May + +* Electoral reform + * NDP and Green are pro-electoral reform - proportional representation + * European parliament has proportional representation + * STV (Single Transferable Vote) might be able to game it + * Ontario tried mixed-member proportionate (some members elected directly, some proportionate) + * Maybe convert Senate to a proportional house + * Conservatives likely to open constitution changes to abolish senate + * Could imply revising the Charter of Rights of Freedoms -- remove privacy + * Change recall legislation so that the minimum requirement to pass is 75% of voter turnout from the previous election, not 60% of citizens when fewer than that actually vote. + * Blue Bridge referendum example of voting + * Kurt's system of 10... perhaps modified based on Kevin's polling maps + * The opposition can walk out of the house and the Governor General can dissolve the house + * 100 days until warrantless wiretapping is allowed + * Civil test to allow for voting instead of a voting age of 18 + * Example of double-barreled survey [City of Victoria Official Community Plan Survey](http://www.shapeyourfuturevictoria.ca/get-involved/ocp-draft-feedback-survey/) \- questions should be single questions, hard to interpret - how governments survey the public to manipulate the question to get the answer they want. So the Official Community Plan just provides justification for the plan without actually getting valid public feedback + * Citizenship test would likely mean much younger voters, 10 or 12... although more easily to propagandize. + * Robert Heinlein had the concept of citizen and non-citizen + +* Firearms registry vs Gun licence + * Conservatives committed to remove long-gun registry + * 2 day course to buy and use guns + * Criminals are not using illegal firearms + * Police respond differently if there are guns + * Requirement for long-gun registry -- was that evidence-based + * Science has not always got things right, which is why science-based arguments don't carry as much weight + +* Creating political / governance / monarchist movement to accelerate re-claiming of our country in which 60% of our people voted for change + * Viewership of the Royal Wedding indicates some love of the monarchy + +* Electronic Voting + * Kevin figured out a way to inject CAs into an NSS directly without trust/popups + * Propose an e-voting system, publish it, and we'll show you how to compromise it. + * Kurt: fake people can donate to political campaigns, so people wanting to go over the limit just use fake names + * Revenue Canada: Would they be willing to give out the aggregate data showing if the ratio shows that they are using fake people + * Bill C24 in 2003 -> Accountability act of April 11, 2006: Removed donations by corporations and unions; + * Does an election have to happen within 12 hours? + * Vancouver (Christy Clark) says she wants it to go forward + * fairvote bc against e-voting + +* Credit card fraud is huge + * CIO of BC said at Reboot Privacy and Security conference this year that CC companies are moving responsibility from them to merchant and customer + +* Under 100 meteres cubed is the all of the gold that has ever been mined + * Tyler thinks gold is useless even though he trades in it, Kevin disagrees + * Pre-1983 pennies are all copper -- thus worth more than a penny + +* HTML5 frameworks + * [z-type](http://mozillalabs.com/gaming/) + +* The suggested death of Obama + * It is suggested: + * He was unarmed + * In Pakistan; what if Pakistani special forces took out their high profile targets on American soil diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-11-March-11-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-11-March-11-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d871594 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-11-March-11-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May11,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 11, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-05-11' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May11 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda + 1.1. We're meeting at 8pm this evening instead of 7pm! +2. Minutes + 2.1. ALPR + 2.2. Shaw Port 25 + 2.3. Proportional representation + 2.4. Electronic Voting + 2.5. Independent Media + 2.6. Kris' chalk board + 2.7. Gardening + +## Agenda + +### We're meeting at 8pm this evening instead of 7pm! + +* Call for ideas/agenda items +* ALPR project update (automatic licence plate recognition) +* Best process for resolving the Shaw port 25 blockage +* Best process for getting proportional representation implemented (failed in BC twice, and the UK last week) + * [Fair Vote Canada](http://www.fairvote.ca/) (a member from this group may join us) + * [http://nationaldayofaction.ca/?p=47](http://nationaldayofaction.ca/?p=47) + * [http://leadnow.ca/majority](http://leadnow.ca/majority) + * electronic voting +* Meeting dates, times and location +* Kris' chalk board +* Creative ways to develop more interactive independent media in Victoria +* Gardening + +## Minutes + +* Around the table: Kris, Nicole, Carol-Lynne, Rob, Eric, Wendy, Heather, Jay, Bruce, Brendon, Brian, Rob, Nancy, Kevin, Kurt and others + +* History of ideas meetings + * 4 years ago at Canoe club + * Part of recent article in Focus magazine + +### ALPR + +* Police have automatic license plate recognition software piloting in Victoria. We'd like to show a test case (proof-of-concept) of how that system operates and the privacy and societal implications of that kind of system and the information it collects + * Rob has questions that we'd like to ask to gather information about the system as it exists and how it will be used. + * Robbins parking has a very secure parking for a stealth vehicle -- could they be have a surveillance vehicle? Could they have a private ALPR system? If they are gathering information that that ties vehicle information to GPS location and pictures of drivers which may violate privacy legislation + * Illegal to take pictures in Canada -- licence plate, identifiable individual, location -- and there's the right of publicity, and laws against the collection of information. + * [Privacy Legislation in Canada](http://www.priv.gc.ca/fs-fi/02_05_d_15_e.cfm) + * [sample ALPR discussion from Kevin](http://www.unrest.ca/Politics/alpr-canadas-big-brother-the-federal-database-thats-keeping-tabs-on-vancouver) + * We'll provide a list of the questions that we've come up with and put them in the minutes for review + * Investigation of ALPR starts with phone calls to privacy commissioners and then Freedom of Information requests + +### Shaw Port 25 + +* Kris [blogged his concerns](http://www.krisconstable.com/shaw-ca-breaking-the-internet/) yesterday about Shaw breaking the internet + * Shaw blocks port 25 for everybody except themselves, both inbound and outbound + * Port 25 is used for email + * Why do we allow Shaw the exclusive ability to log and store our emails? + * Kris feels that he is being punished/taxed for being a technical person who knows how to set up and use email + * What strategy can we use to convince Shaw and others to open up port 25 + * Two agencies in Canada who are responsible for making Canadian internet open, competitive and secure: the [CRTC](http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/home-accueil.htm) and [CIRA Canadian Internet Registration Authority](http://cira.ca/), but neither one seems to be doing their job in this regard + * Kris is putting together a CRTC complaint + * CRTC has made it much harder for citizens to make complaints + * Might be better to wrap it up into a bigger complaint + * May help if it's refined enough to put into an infographic--Rob and Kris and Carol-Lynne can dialogue over email to formulate the issue into a way that can be presented in an infographic + * Perhaps put together 5 net neutrality pre-issues + * For example, email traverses through the US because Canadian internet providers do not want to peer with each other + * Oligarchy of ISP's has dark fibre running along railway right-of-ways, but we can't use it because the ISP's don't want it to be used + * Get Chris Parsons involved when he's back in town + * NDP picked up the digital vote [Vote Net, which acts as a voting lobby](http://votenet.ca/), the Conservatives will need to respond to that in order to maintain their power + * Review again when Chris comes back... + +### Proportional representation + +* Fair vote Canada wants to move from first-past-the-post system to proportional representation, which is fairly common in democracies around the world + * First-past-the-post system distorts election results + * Wendy was part of the first Citizen's Assembly about the voting system + * Proportional representation is very hard to understand; if voters don't understand they vote no to change + * 3 major families of voting systems that are proportional + * Proportional Representation List (PR List) - when you vote, you vote for a party - used in a lot of countries in Europe + * Mixed systems - one is Mixed Member Proportional - combination of electing an MP and electing a party list - so each person has two votes - would require re-districting to drop the number of ridings + * Single Transferable Vote (STV) - divide the ridings into groups and votes are ranked. STV was a bad choice of words + * Minority governments would increase co-operation and stability because a 2% in the change in popular vote would not mean the difference between a minority and a majority, it would just mean 2% more seats + * Voting Counts: Electoral Reform for Canada - available for download at [FairVote.ca](http://www.fairvote.ca/) + * UK was voting on Choice Vote, or Instant Runoff voting, votes are ranked. However, this does not produce proportional representation + * Problem with proportional representation is that parties out of power do support it, but once they are in power or close to power they don't want it (because they prefer to have absolute power in a majority government) + * For proportional representation to be implemented, you'd need to win the streets -- people need to be deeply unhappy with the current voting system + * Kris will introduce Wendy to Steve Anderson of [OpenMedia/Save Our Net](http://openmedia.ca/) + * [National Day of Action for Electoral Reform](http://nationaldayofaction.ca/) + * People seem to have an inherent love of fascism, first past the post + * People don't understand the difference between the Canadian and US electoral system, and how parliament really controls the government, not the other way around (the Prime Minister is beholden to parliament, not the other way around) + * How do you get people concerned about corruption in elections? For example, the recent Central Saanich election in which the crown had the potential to lay 19 charges, but decided not to + +### Electronic Voting + +* Flaws covered in previous meetings: it's completely insecure + * Every single electronic voting box in the world has been hacked + * With electronic voting there is no way to prove tampering + * Need link: vimeo electoral reform steve poole + * BC Citizen's Assembly did not approve of online voting machines + * Vancouver City Council: one councilor voted against it on security grounds, but the rest said "We don't care" -- and how do you counter that argument + * Electronic voting may be a means of disenfranchising the poor and those who don't have access to technology + * Peninsula Co-op election will be online using wireless -- wireless is quite easy to hack -- which is a opportunity for corruption + * Vancouver city election is in November + * Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun -- Kris can talk to her and see if she's interested in article re hacking + * There's an entire industry around computer security + * Vancouver City Council committee meeting minutes would likely have presentations by security professionals indicating how corruptable electronic voting is + * Tag line: People have to be really stupid to approve electronic voting + * See [Kevin's blog on the subject](http://www.unrest.ca/Net-Neutrality-and-The-Internet/electronic-voting-impossible-dangerous-irresponsible) + * [Greg Palast](http://www.gregpalast.com/) has some good articles on the issue of reform + +### Independent Media + +### Kris' chalk board + +* His condo has 4 foot racing stripe -- several coats of magnetic paint and several coats of chalk paint + * Ideas for what to do with chalk board -- ideas challenge to have a section of the chalk board -- what would you do with that space + * Fun sharing space, what could we do with it? + * Or some presentation that incorporates the chalkboard + +### Gardening + +* Kris has an area of his condo that gets very hot -- good for growing hops? + * Place has high ceilings, so would vertical gardening work diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-18-March-18-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-18-March-18-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90851b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-18-March-18-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May18,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 18, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-05-18' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May18 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. wifi in schools + 2.2. Meeting Plans NOTE 8 pm until August 17 + 2.3. Independent media + 2.4. Co-working space + 2.5. Urban Gardening + 2.6. Registration Process for Ideas Meeting + 2.7. ALPR + 2.8. Protest Against Protests/Protest To End Protests + 2.9. Mini-bills + 2.10. Island Hack-a-thon + +## Agenda + +* Independent media +* [Co-working space](http://evanwillms.com/2011/victoria-entrepreneur-hub/) +* [Urban gardening](http://thetyee.ca/Books/2011/05/17/BalconyFarm/) +* Registration process. Not everyone is on Facebook, perhaps we can have a form for new people, if they want notifications via: + * [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_172722036100923) (over 100 people now!) + * [Twitter](http://twitter.com/#!/ideasvic) + * This wiki + * [Email list](http://lists.ideawave.ca/listinfo.cgi/vic-ideawave.ca) + * 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 + +* Attending: Scott, Jamie, Evan, Kris, Heather, Nancy, Kevin, Kurt and others +* Pre-meeting discussion + +### wifi in schools + +* [School Disctrict 61 documents](http://vcpac.ca/remository/Issues/WiFi) +* 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 + +* Meeting starts at 8 pm until August 17 +* Update calendar to show 8 pm time + +### Independent media + +* Tabled to next meeting as no-one to bring the discussion forward + +### Co-working space + +* 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](http://www.bcics.org/) + +### Urban Gardening + +* Looking for shared garden spaces +* [Lifecycles gardens](http://www.sharingbackyards.com/browse/Victoria,%20BC&welcome_box=2) [life-cycles sharing backyards](http://lifecyclesproject.ca/) +* Oak bay limits the size of your garden +* [Balcony farm](http://thetyee.ca/Books/2011/05/17/BalconyFarm/) +* Kris' hops are growing 1 foot/day--looking to move his hops to his ultra-modern condo +* [Island Grains](http://www.islandgrains.com/) +* 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.](http://www.foodincmovie.com/). 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](http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/) + +### Registration Process for Ideas Meeting + +* 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 + +* 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 + +* Puppet with protesters +* Accountability - we now civilian oversight +* Mocking protesters, not going against the police + +### Mini- bills + +* 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 + +* 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 diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-25-March-25-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-25-March-25-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8efe6e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-05-25-March-25-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May25,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 25, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-05-25' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May25 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. Attending + 2.2. The Great Johnson Flood + 2.3. IdeaWave student scholarship plaques + 2.4. ALPR Update + 2.5. In Camera Discussions + 2.6. Mental Health in BC + 2.7. Tech podcast + 2.8. Moved to June01,2011 Meeting + +## Agenda + +Start at 8pm! + +* Independent media +* RFID chipping of the population + * Is it likely? + * How can we profit from it? + * Is this a good candidate for a makerspace project + * [Definition of research](http://gmodcentral.com/dictionary/define.php?word=research) \- note it's about quality, not quantity or gut instinct. +* Island Cabin Hack-a-Thon +* Mental health in BC - What if a doctor diagnoses you as requiring medication, what process is available to challenge this? +* [RF/MW radiation concerns](http://www.iaff.org/hs/Resi/CellTowerFinal.htm) +* VirtualWave (in camera) +* ContractorScheduler (in camera) +* Buying Media (in camera) +* The great Johnson flood +* IdeaWave student scholarship plaques +* ALPR +* Tech podcast + +## Minutes + +### Attending + +* David, Kris, Jay, Kevin, Larry, Dylon, Ernie, Heather, Nancy, Rob, Kurt + +### The Great Johnson Flood + +* Kris had 2 days to get hops from old space to new space +* Cut through condo building irrigation system pipe digging new ground for hops space +* Irrigation system kicks on overnight through busted pipe for an hour +* Pushed out dirt into hops container +* Hops may survive + +### IdeaWave student scholarship plaques + +* Gave out 5 scholarships at last ideawave in February +* One student has high school graduation ceremony June 1 +* Would be nice to have a custom idea, something made by Makerspace +* Kris check makerspace -- laser cutter is getting pretty good with marble and granite +* We can get a traditional plaque made within a week +* Matrix Marble in Duncan might have what we're looking for +* Vancouver Island Slate - geological slate from Vancouver Island +* Maybe a flat beach rock +* Kevin has a diamond cutter and a flat polisher + +### ALPR Update + +* Rob did connect with Chris with updates to FOI questions and requests for documentation +* Rob can supply anyone with the document for feedback +* Rob will call and submit to both provincial and federal privacy commissioners, RCMP, Victoria Police +* BC Civil Liberties will try to partner with us for a press release +* Kurt needs Kevin's video to run as test data through the system +* [lumenera high performance facial and body recognition](http://lumenera.com/) +* [Identix (former visionics)](http://www.l1id.com/) +* Another company Visiphor (former Imigis) +* Kurt would like to pilot facial recognition as well -- Kurt to do some research on facial recognition +* FOI could take a while, but officially it's 30 days, so let's be ready for a demo in 30 days +* Our ALPR demo/research is a template for other kinds of technological/investigative approaches to other kinds of surveillance +* Potential for benefit is outweighed for potential for abuse, what is the best balance +* There is a shift where the government is becoming more and more secretive where Freedom of Information requests are getting slower and slower +* Kris will Rob give a virtual introduction to Darrell Evans [BC FIPA](http://fipa.bc.ca/home) +* Follow the money as to who's driving technological invasions of privacy +* DDoS of Freedom of Information requests -- have lots and lots of requests +* Herb would have some ideas about opening up government data + +### In Camera Discussions + +* VirtualWave +* ContractorScheduler +* Buying Media + +### Mental Health in BC + + +* In BC you can be put into care under medication for the protection of you or others or might be subject to mental deterioration (see Sections 22, 25 and 39 of BC Mental Health Act) +* [BC Mental Health Act](http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/00_96288_01) +* Mental disability pays better than welfare +* If a person has a mental health issue, the police can pick you up without charge, and a doctor can put you into care + * Normally a doctor would issue a form 4 and get you picked up, or a nurse and social worker, for 48 hours can keep you in care, and then a doctor needs a sign-off. + * There is no legal criteria for what constitutes a psychiatric examination + * The requirements are very loose +* The political problem -- the only people that learn about it: 2 groups - 1. if you are victimized by it 2. if you are trying to victimize someone with it -- so either the person affected or the family of the person being put under forced care and medication +* People have bought into the biochemical model, although the evidence of the efficacy of psychotropic medication treatments is either very weak or shown to be less effective than other alternatives (no medication, or other forms of treatment) +* How can you change this model? + * In the Yukon + * took away the forced treatment + * if you are an immediate physical danger, you can only incarcerated but not treated + * a person can provide advanced directives as to what treatment they would accept in given situations +* Roger Whitaker's talk about Anatomy of an Epidemic is that when people are treated with drugs (anti-depressant or anti-psychotic) then they are more vulnerable to re-occurence +* People who have been protesting about mental health act want a different protocol +* Medication at the first intervention is not the best idea -- better to see if they come out of their state on their own +* These cases are not publicized +* Families are often supporters of existing legislation +* Precedent cases are hard to come by partly because if you say you are actually not crazy then you are not technically challenging the legislation +* What to do? + * [write your own "What to do when I'm crazy directions" My own advanced directive](http://mycanadianshield.ca/) + * The advanced directive would be something that could challenge the existing law if it was not followed + * If you are held under the mental health act then your options for outside contact are limited since you haven't been arrested (so access to lawyer is not required) + * BCAA group for being crazy, roadside assistance, number to call, or something like [[Seattle Solidarity Network](http://www.seattlesolidarity.net/)], support group to call + * Rosa Parks moment: Change policy by having piece of paper to challenge existing mental health process when it goes awry + * Case where someone has been put away for political reasons, there is no legitimate definition of crazy + * Protest Against Protest Craziness Protest + * Perhaps look to marginalized people who must take medication to receive mental health disability (which pays better than regular welfare or disability) -- a living wage that provides for healthy food + * [Together Against Poverty Society](http://www.tapsbc.baremetal.com/) has advocacy for those with mental issues who need help + * Mental Health Law Program only gov't funded program to represent involuntarily committed + * [MHLP](http://www.clasbc.net/mental_health_law_program.php) +* Conclusion: Start a "Write my own advanced directive" campaign +* [Book: Not in our Genes about the subjectivity of intelligence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_in_Our_Genes) +* [Book: The Tyranny of Kindness](http://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Kindness-Dismantling-Welfare-Poverty/dp/0871135787?tag=duckduckgo-d-20) about how non-profits don't provide justice in their attempts at charity + +### Tech podcast + +* There are lots of podcasts out there such as [This Is My Next](http://thisismynext.com/) +* Areas of interest + * Sustainability, such as of a product such as a Dell laptop + * What does sustainability mean? + * What does it mean to build in a sustainable framework + * The tech industry basically ignores sustainable products + * CNET has a sustainable green technology +* How could we take that idea or make it better? + * Critical reviews of product reviews + * Video may be better than audio + * Reviews, such as what is the car that is completely hackable + * Written component has value +* [the show with ze frank](http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/) example of a video blog +* [The Story of Stuff Electronics](http://storyofstuff.org/electronics.php) example +* Focus on the content and let the community grow naturally +* Answer questions like: What are the parameters that make this device sustainable and what makes it poorly sustainable + +### Moved to [June01,2011](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/June01,2011) Meeting + +* RFID chipping of the population +* RF/MW radiation concerns +* Conspiracy Conference +* Independent Media diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-01-June-01-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-01-June-01-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4de756b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-01-June-01-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/June01,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: June 01, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-06-01' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- June01 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. Attending + 2.2. Meeting Space Scheduling Conflicts + 2.3. Island Cabin Hack-a-Thon + 2.4. CIRA Board Members + 2.5. Moved to June08,2011 Meeting + +## Agenda + +Start at 8pm! + +* Board member (Lorne C) of CPLBC coming to talk about scheduling conflict +* DDoS of FOI +* Indepedent Media +* RFID chipping of the population + * Is it likely? + * How can we profit from it? + * Is this a good candidate for a makerspace project + * [Definition of research](http://gmodcentral.com/dictionary/define.php?word=research) \- note it's about quality, not quantity or gut instinct. +* [RF/MW radiation concerns](http://www.iaff.org/hs/Resi/CellTowerFinal.htm) +* Conspiracy Conference + * goldbugs conference +* Island Cabin Hack-a-Thon +* Logo discussion + * [Submission from @GDGeek](http://imgur.com/a/5UhPb) +* The precautionary principle and cell phones as carcinogen - Larry + +## Minutes + +### Attending + +* Kris, Lorne, Ernie, Jacob, Kevin, Kurt + +### Meeting Space Scheduling Conflicts + +* History + * This group may have been pushed around by the scheduling of the club + * Lorne is here to discover what the issues are around the scheduling + * The club went through a crisis when the city wanted to remove the club + * The club pulled through the crisis successfully + * The club has a policy and procedure manual that outlines how activities are scheduled + * There is conflict on Wednesday night between the lessons and the ideas group + * Club shows utilization and membership to win the political battle to keep the club going + * The traditional culture is that there was bowling and a social component + * Kris' vision is to have a diverse group of people bringing positive energy through activities and some people bowl + * The priorities of the board is to get people out on the green bowling and increase membership through lessons + * Most lawn bowling clubs usually suspend all non-lawn-bowling-related activities during the course of the season + * The traditional lawn bowling club model may not keep the club sustainable in the long run -- the club may be better off trying to be more inclusive + * The ideas group are the heaviest users of the club, and the only group that uses the club year round +* What does the ideas group want? + * The group traditionally meets at the same time and same place for such a long time that there is inertia to keep that the same + * Kris would like to have some mixing between lawn bowlers and ideas group attendees + * The plan right now is to go back to meet at 7 pm at the end of August +* There is some perception that the people who are paying $30 to use the clubhouse who are taking away time away from lawn bowling + * There seems to be a perception that only one group can use the clubhouse at a time +* Alternatives + * Have the ideas group rent the space for the year and take that proposal to the board + * The board would like to accommodate all groups + * Ideas group may be pushed out if it's moved to a model where they are charged for using the space -- the club would lose the revenue of those social members + * The club members don't want to feel that they're being taken advantage of +* Can the ideas group participate in the upkeep in the club? + * Difficult to organize volunteers -- often takes more work to organize than to do the actual work + * List of work that needs doing would be helpful +* Change process + * Some people may not be appeased no matter what we do + * Maybe if everyone participates in the process then changes will go more smoothly + * Calendaring system now works based on the priorities of the club (lawn bowling, new members) and other activities are a lower priority + * It seemed that the social activities got squashed without notification by the new process + * In the scheduling perhaps justify the slot of having ideas group using the time + * Would help to know about all the events that are happening at the club + * The board does not recognize that the ideas group is part of the schedule +* Going Forward + * Board needs to understand the value of utilization by the ideas group + * Better communication about what different groups are doing + * Participation by ideas members in club work as needs arise + * Stronger ties with the club board can help to improve understanding + * Perhaps more ideas group members participate as board members to have ideas group principles kept in awareness - would need 4 full members to join the board + * If you come to ideas group more than a few times they need to join the lawn bowling club as a social member + * Ideas group can write a [letter](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Letter "Letter") to the board or attend the board meeting to present the case of why they need to be valued + * Propose a new activity type (that's not an event at $10/head) where the ideas group can fit in with a mix of member and non-member groups + * What does the club propose to bring in new young members? + * Shift the perception of the club to be one of community building, not just lawn bowling + * When the lessons are over (on June 8), then the ideas group should be able to move to 7 pm (if in fact, the lessons are over) -- and the board meeting would be after the end of the lessons +* Other optional locations + * Union Club -- problem: no jeans + * Bar -- too loud, people without disposable income would only drink water +* Ideas to Increase Club Participation/Utilization + * Social group to do some lawn bowling + * Hack-a-thon at the ideas space + * Try to push the priority of increasing membership and utilizing the club space as much as possible + * Try to get some ideas group members on the board in the fall + +### Island Cabin Hack-a-Thon + +* Kris may be going to the Mayne Island hack-a-thon this weekend if anyone wants to go + +### CIRA Board Members + +* Kevin is running for CIRA +* Kris is thinking of running +* See [CIRA nominations](https://elections.cira.ca/2011/en/nom_com_nominees.html) +* Chance of getting on the board is lower, but over time we can get people on the board -- it's a long-term agenda +* Challenge is getting enough people to vote +* First people need to become CIRA members +* Need 200 people as CIRA members to vote for Kevin in September +* [How to become a CIRA member](https://member.cira.ca/en/member.html) +* Have a campaign to become a CIRA member - registration drive +* Need an info-graphic of CIRA registration steps +* Kevin could use some graphic designer support to promote his campaign +* [Kevin's campaign site](http://kevinforcira.ca/) +* People need to fill out form on Kevin's site so that he knows who his supporters are and how to contact them + +### Moved to [June08,2011](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/June08,2011) Meeting + +* DDoS of FOI +* RFID chipping of the population +* RF/MW radiation concerns +* Conspiracy Conference +* Independent Media +* The precautionary principle and cell phones as carcinogen - Larry diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-08-June-08-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-08-June-08-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19e87ef --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-08-June-08-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,213 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/June08,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: June 08, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-06-08' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- June08 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. Attending + 2.2. Bitcoin + 2.3. Publicly available searchable criminal and traffic records + 2.4. CIRA election and Membership + 2.5. Online music services + 2.6. RFID chipping + 2.7. Conspiracy conference + 2.8. The Ideas Ideal + 2.9. Hackathon + 2.10. Ideas Victoria Logo + 2.11. Dangerous Precautions + 2.12. One Day Websites Business Idea + 2.13. Lost and Found + +## Agenda + +Start at 8pm! + +* DDoS of FOI +* The [letter](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Letter "Letter") +* Indepedent Media +* RFID chipping of the population + * Is it likely? + * How can we profit from it? + * Is this a good candidate for a makerspace project + * [Definition of research](http://gmodcentral.com/dictionary/define.php?word=research) \- note it's about quality, not quantity or gut instinct. +* [RF/MW radiation concerns](http://www.iaff.org/hs/Resi/CellTowerFinal.htm) +* Conspiracy Conference + * goldbugs conference +* Island Cabin Hack-a-Thon +* Logo discussion + * [Submission from @GDGeek](http://imgur.com/a/5UhPb) +* The precautionary principle and cell phones as carcinogen - Larry + +## Minutes + +### Attending + +Lots of new people! + +### Bitcoin + +It's amazing, decentralized, anonymous, can't be stopped or taxed! The silk +road sells banned pharma using bitcoin memorydealers.com accepts bitcoin as +payment (growing list of other accepters here: +[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade)) +mtgox.com is the main exchange (mega chart: +[https://mtgox.com/trade/megaChart](https://mtgox.com/trade/megaChart)), +also mtred.com is a mining pool affiliated with users of reddit (there are +several other mining pools, deepbit being the largest at present) + +Bitcoin network is a p2p network consisting of those computers running the +client software. New bitcoins are awarded to contributors (aka miners) who +also are using their processing power to validate previous transactions stored +in the block chain (which is a ledger of transactions shared across all +clients). Validating the transactions includes a cryptographic proof-of-work +where certain results will be awarded (sort of like a lottery) brand new +bitcoin for successfully 'discovering' the next block in the block chain. Real +time network stats can be viewed at +[http://blockexplorer.com/q](http://blockexplorer.com/q) + +Bitcoin resurfaced... in the conversation... Lulzsec have given their bitcoin +address publicly, and a donor gave them $7k in bitcoins recently. Lulzsec have +just taken things down just for fun, and taken down Sony repeatedly. + +### Publicly available searchable criminal and traffic records + +Jody Patterson's blog A Closer Look [http://www.closer- +look.blogspot.com/](http://www.closer- +look.blogspot.com/) Prov gov has a website showing the criminal record of all +BC residents, driving infractions, back at least as far as 1998 and no full +name is needed for the search: +[https://eservice.ag.gov.bc.ca/cso/esearch/criminal/partySearch.do](https://eservice.ag.gov.bc.ca/cso/esearch/criminal/partySearch.do) + +### CIRA election and Membership + +Cira membership difficulties Cira is the governing body to regulate all .ca +domain names, internet policy in Canada and more @KevinSMcArthur is running +for election to be on the board. A person must register to be a member of CIRA +ahead of time to vote in the election in September. DNSsec is poorly managed +with root certificates and SSL certificates, and allowing for many security +problems in trusting domains/websites Country code TLD domain seizures are now +being requested, and cira is watching rather than being active with this. +Check out kevinforcira.ca for more information and to sign up for +announcements and key information as the election nears, digitalpolicy.ca has +some information from past meetings regarding Internet policy and more Who +gets to decide who is legal and who isn't + +### Online music services + +Herb went to GoogleIO and they gave outt Android tablets GoogleMusic is a new +service where you store your music in the cloud, access it on all your devices +by streaming and just by signing in. So what happens with unlicensed music +files, are you turning yourself in just by signing up? Mentioned similar site +called grooveshark lulzsec has been pwning sites just for fun... or the lulz +of it + +### RFID chipping + +There was a guy about 5 years ago that had one implanted in his wrist and how +doesn't use a key for his car or house These can be ordered online easily just +by searching “RFID body chip” and similar Note that 1/5 of US pop. need food +stamps to live, so it could be easy to force those to have RFID just to get +their food. Possibilities include RFID chipping criminals when they're +released into a community. RFID is usually 10ft range, but can be extended to +30ft with a special antenna Could put scanning points at airports, ferries, +border crossings, and other choke points rfid.org can buy a reader/writer +device for under $500ish Would you be interested in having an implanted RFID? +Benefits are: memberships and entrance to places with memberships. Imagine +something 1mmx3mm in size. Makerspace project to make a card or slim case to +hold a bunch of RFID's, numbered slots to hold all the memberships. Visa and +Mastercard have already implemented RFID cards. Can buy metal wrapper to fit +over a card which is a Faraday cage to protect the rfid so it's not scannable +unless the card is removed from the cage. WSIS recent keynote speaker with a +RFID enabled passport and refused to show it by removing it from its cage to +show to the guards to let him in, and was held up. + +### Conspiracy conference + +open to people that are conspiracy theorists and have them submit talks +similar to ideawave. It could turn into a very notorious event. There are so +many people out there that have their ideas or beliefs or conspiracies and +could air them and gather like minded people and inform others of the +information. This would be a great way to generate revenue and provide a +sustainable conference At the end of each talk there is some kind of +vote/hands up, where people say whether they think it's true or not, or +conspiracy or not. Each registrant gets a login to vote for each talk they +attend and maybe comment. Fantastic discussion about misc conspiracy theories +arose, some theories, and some... ;) + +### The Ideas Ideal + +Some summary of the group arose in conversation: Something like: Collaborative +group of extremely critical thinkers, launching ideas into real world projects +that make a positive difference to the world at large. “The purpose of the +Ideas Meetings is to descover our own purpose...” Or, “To choose individually +what matters to us, and that would forward the mission of our group together, +or the theme of our topics. How would we work together to support our +individual goals and humanity at large? Everything seems an inclusive topic, +with inclusive input from individuals which is indicative of critical thinkers +and showing that no one is blindly supporting any ideal; we actually discuss +and consider ideas for/against all ideas, and often times people are swayed in +their original “slant” by considering other “sides” and seeing something new. +There are 3 types of people: those that care only about themselves, their +community, or humanity at large. Taps.bc.ca is a place to register to +volunteer in the community For example, there are starving people in 1st world +countries that are often overlooked in favour of 3rd world country conditions +and starvation. Denmark(?) has set up their national infrastructure in which +every person has a bare minimum income of $30k/yr, and is one approach. + +### Hackathon + +Looking to organize a Hack-a-thon on Galiano sometime in the summer. Let's +look for middle weekend in each of: July _________________________ (insert +your available dates here) August ______________________ (insert your +available dates here) + +### Ideas Victoria Logo + +Ideas Victoria logo, let's make our own rather than have an external pro +design one What other objects represent ideas (or vice versa), can we use +puzzle pieces, circuit board letters, put on a background of GVRD or just +downtown or Vancouver Island... registered ideasvic.ca on the spot, hooked it +up with Kris' to provide temporary gracious hosting! You can now go directly +to the Ideas Meetings Victoria Chapter wiki site by visiting: www.ideasvic.ca +email list and collaborative tools coming soon software inkscape is free and +can create SVG files; suggested use for us to create and submit ideas + +### Dangerous Precautions + +Precautionary measures for potentially dangerous things Regarding wireless, is +there a possible danger, is it possible there may be proven danger in the +future that we have all now been exposed to for years by the time the results +are found. On the other hand, there have been cases when there is a suspected +problem and this has lead to massive losses for the providers of these +products (cucumbers) but when it was too late, this was found false but no +compensation was given to the farmer... and numerous similar cases + +### One Day Websites Business Idea + +Kris just registered onedaywebsites.ca, for individuals or entrepreneurs who +want a website but don't know how to. There's a set fee for WordPress setup +and hosted for a year, includes domain name for 1yr. + +### Lost and Found + +black nylon case, contact someone to describe it and claim it! diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-15-June-15-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-15-June-15-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ea0baa --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-15-June-15-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/June15,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: June 15, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-06-15' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- June15 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +Start at 8pm! + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Attending +3. Minutes + 3.1. Co-Working Space + 3.2. Use of Open-Source Intelligence for Criminal Investigations + 3.3. Unions + +## Agenda + +* Policy on open-source intelligence for solving criminal investigations +* Co-working Space +* Unions + +## Attending + +* Kris, Nicole, Ernie, Jay, Chris, Kevin, Kurt and others + +## Minutes + +* [Get Your Business Online](http://www.gybo.ca/) \- example of services to put your business online +* [Intuit Website Building Software and Website Design](http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/) +* Apple is retiring Mobile-Me, most services may be continuing in iWeb, but the hosting... maybe not? + +### Co-Working Space + +* People need to be ready to commit for $200/month to be in a co-working space +* Kris is actively looking for a space, commercial realty people are looking for a space +* There needs to be at least 10 people who are committed to guarantee to cover the costs, if there is room for other people there could be room for people who are more transient/pay less/come in only for a day +* Multiple people could commit for 1 space (i.e. share the commitment for a single space) +* It might be helpful to have business customers who need space for less time (eg. 8 days/month), pay a premium +* Might help to charge for common facilities, like the boardroom -- people who need it will pay for it +* Evan has created a website for Victoria's co-working space [Victoria Co-Working Space](http://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/16583741/CoworkingVictoria), but the business model is slightly different, and the cost is $325/head instead of $200/head, Evan's model has a heavy drop-in process +* Kris' contact is looking for a subsidy for the space +* Kevin mentioned that there might be a requirement for a given number of parking spaces for the business to get a license +* Kris will look into the parking issue +* People need to comment on [Kris' blog](http://www.250life.ca/shared-co-working-space/) to commit to using the space +* San Francisco's [The Hub](http://bayarea.the-hub.net/public/space__Hub%20SoMa.html) is an example of a working space, also [The Hub Halifax](http://thehubhalifax.ca/work/) +* Drop in space is good, but the costs have to be covered first by committed members, any extra is a bonus +* Another option is to buy instead of renting +* UVic and Camosun have scholars who are visiting, it might work to have a place to put them for a few days, so that could be part of the business model - check the office of the President, there's also a entrepreneurial group +* Might be good to have a small space set aside for walkins (say, 2 spaces), and then over time to see if that works +* Most commercial spaces want a 5 year lease, but this group only wants a 1 year lease. One benefit would be that this group would not want any leasehold improvements +* Insurance model - insuring the risk of customers defaulting on their obligation (i.e. they go out of business) -- 90% of businesses fail +* So increase the cost a bit so that there is a financial cushion instead of not having any reserves -- much like a condo fee +* Or charging a higher premium for clients that are more risky +* Or clients put the money in trust or all in front, or purchase a insurance policy to cover the rent +* Facilities that can be rented out after hours can increase revenue +* Makerspace non-industrials could be located there and that could increase revenue (such as laser cutter and 3D printer) - which would make those things more convenient (and could be used after hours) - although being after hours may bother the people that are working longer hours and want the quieter environment +* Zoning for office space difference between people coming in to work compared to people coming for meetings + +### Use of Open-Source Intelligence for Criminal Investigations + +* Chris was at a meeting in Ottawa about lawful access, a forensic investigator came in who does consulting for US police departments--he's found in his work that the police are inept in using social media for criminal investigations--making it up as they go +* Within a year, US police departments will figure out the policy that they will use with social media +* There's an opportunity right now to develop a policy to present to these police departments that they can use +* Someone has to figure out this policy, and drive the development of this policy +* Does this group want to be involved in that policy development, do we want to drive it or participate in the driving of the development of this policy? +* Chris, Kris and Kevin are interested, Chris and Kris can have a discussion about that +* Simple idea generation is helpful + +### Unions + +* Kris has started a rant about Air Canada strike--fairly opinionated about unions +* Unions were started to prevent employer abuses. Then labour laws came into plays +* With unions there is no end game, employees pay their dues, what do they expect +* Maybe instead of unions we optimize labour laws +* Unions threatened to strike, management seems to fulfill roles, seems to negate value of the union jobs +* But perhaps it's too soon to tell how much employees are needed +* Perhaps unions are on the way out +* But unions in certain sectors are powerful and strong and will continue to exist +* Current strikes (Canada Post and Air Canada) are over pensions +* Lots of discussion for and against unions, issues and arguments +* Movie [Waiting for Superman](http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/action/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-22-June-22-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-22-June-22-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..baf45f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-22-June-22-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/June22,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: June 22, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-06-22' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- June22 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes +3. Attending +4. Minutes + 4.1. Lawn Bowling Club (The Letter to the Board) + 4.2. Co-working Discussion + 4.3. ALPR + 4.4. ICBC Facial Recognition + 4.5. CIRA + 4.6. Events Calendar + +## Agenda + +* Co-working discussion +* The letter to the board +* ALPR +* ICBC Facial recognition +* CIRA +* Events calendar + +## Minutes + +* Introductions + +## Attending + +* Bruce, Kris, Kevin, Brett, Nancy, Dillon, Rob, Kurt, Liam, Evan, Chris, Carol-Lynne, Cindy, Nicole, Jay and others + +## Minutes + +### Lawn Bowling Club (The Letter to the Board) + +* How can we make the ideas group work within the framework of the Lawn Bowling Club? +* Recap of last discussion about the relationship between the lawn bowling club and the ideas group and the challenges of having a regular meeting of the ideas group that is double-booked by the club +* Club executive has had some discussions about the relationship between the club and the ideas group +* Primary priority of the club is greenspace usage: lawn bowling and croquet +* Do the members who are social members transition to full membership? there hasn't been much of a transition from social members who go to the ideas group to full membership of the club -- so the ideas group is not providing a good financial use case for the club +* Bruce Gillespie (Activities Chair) provided a circular with different policy options that the ideas group could fall under and solicited our input on what the ideas group would want + * Two of the given options (a) and (b) would preclude attendance by non-members to the ideas group, so option (c) is the only option given that would work + * Option (c) would require that a fee be assessed for all the non-members who attend + * There is an option to approach the club executive to provide some flexibility in how and what fees are assessed +* Would be helpful to have some definite numbers as to how many club members participate in the ideas group +* One suggestion is that the percentage of members who attend the ideas group would be entitled to that percentage of time using the club +* Ideas group members do promote the club activities and membership through social media +* The ideas group does encourage members of the group to become members of the club--so the ideas group does reach out to the community to bring in potential members +* Is the lawn bowling club a welcoming space to outsiders? +* Traditionally social members were members who were no longer able to bowl or were a spouse of a member +* Action item: ideas group needs to come up with a proposal to the board for how to structure ideas meetings + +### Co-working Discussion + +* Kris and Evan have been working on creating a co-working space +* Space full of critical thinkers and no conflicts +* Needs for agreement + * Expectations of those willing to pay + * People need to put money down as a show of commitment + * Time for commitment is now +* Evan's vision + * Physical focal point for people to work together and share energy + * Space where people can go to and feel welcome + * Not a dedicated desk model (hotdesk model) + * Dynamic and changing groups of people in a non-permanent way with office amenities (internet, etc) + * Serendipity factor: you don't know who you'll meet, what connections you'll make +* Kris' vision + * Shared co-working space with a dedicated desk model + * Dedicated commitments to ensure that the space is paid for + * Requires a 12-month commitment + * $200/month is the goal, but $250 might be the actual cost + * Costs covered and 10% extra money go towards contingencies (provides a float) + * Perspective is trying to minimize risk, asking for a 6-month payment up front + * Location: walk or bike from downtown +* Different levels of membership allows for multiple streams of revenue which can provide more financial robustness +* Some models have a pay-per-use that goes down the more you use the space +* Another example [Centre for Social Innovation](http://socialinnovation.ca/) in Toronto +* In Victoria 3 packaged office shared business spaces with mail and live reception as well as meeting spaces +* There's also some businesses that rent meeting spaces and boardroom spaces +* In the past shared spaces as a business model have not been successful +* Kris has been ushered around by Victoria Real Estate Board. + * Today Kris visited Rock Bay Plaza: + * Red Unit - former tattoo parlor with some structure. 1600 ft2, $12/ft2 including hydro. with utilities $2100/month. Room for 12 people. Cooling and heating may be an issue. + * Another space - 761 ft2, $14/ft2. with utilities $1100/month. Rectangle room. + * Another space - 1350 ft2, $12/ft2. with utilities $1200/month. Rectangle room. Would be willing to build rooms. + * Storefront space - completely finished. 2000 ft2 @$14/ft2, office rooms upstairs. + * Another space - 331 ft2, is attached. + * The co-working space has room to expand as usage goes up + * Whole building has been zone light industrial, so makerspace could be there + * The prices are so low that this is likely the location, just which one +* Victoria and Saanich have lots of community support for entrepreneurship and innovation that these spaces fulfill +* Probably have both Kris and Evan using different spaces there as the models are complimentary +* Evan is getting closer to getting a space for month-to-month, 1400 ft2 on Fisgard at Blanchard, used to be Industry Images. Willing to start at $2000/month on a month-to-month basis. +* Maybe come in as a unified voice to come in and take on 3 spaces +* Need a private space to take phone calls +* Dillon: A business plan with some pro-forma financials could help put the case forward to city council - Dillon, Kris and Evan to work on a business plan together +* As this concept grows some positions become full-time +* Rob willing to put on an administrative role in return for some benefits in the space +* Some issues with up-front 6-month costs discussed +* Evan has 5 members committed and needs to find 5 more members in the next 30 days +* Kris has about 5 committed and knows about 30 people who are interested +* Kris to talk to City of Victoria about different options and how the city can support the initiatives +* Central location to aggregate information about the co-space plans, helpful to have bios of those who are interested to add support to the business case, a wiki to collect this information + +### ALPR + +* Rob has been doing freedom of information requests + * waiting for information from federal privacy commissioner + * BC privacy commissioner doesn't seem to have any information, but they are looking into it -- looking for an official public statement +* Kevin's camera works with linux, so Kurt can start getting some sample footage of cars driving by and see if he can get the ALPR software tweaked to work with that footage + +### ICBC Facial Recognition + +* In the aftermath of the Vancouver riots, ICBC has decided to use the photo license plate database to run against riot pictures to find matches that the police will then request +* Photo matches will not be perfect +* But persons name will be given to the police, which may not be the person +* When ICBC gets it wrong, what is ICBC's liability? would be similar to a company that provides an incorrect crime match +* Novel and precedent usage of BC Id's system, which was never supposed to be used for this use +* Next step would be to integrate with security cameras +* BC Civil Liberties is working on the issue, since it appears to be a violation of civil rights +* Transition from Drivers Licence only to Enhanced Drivers Licence to Vancouver Riot uses - roadmap to the destruction of civil liberties - would be an good infographic +* Good project: Do you match a BC rioter? Submit your photo, or run against flickr or facebook profile pictures +* Kevin went back and forth with ICBC's representative about someone giving consent for this process +* Kevin is chasing this issue +* The database can be used for a "specific investigation", but what that means is not clear (i.e. a specific car burning, or the whole riot) +* BC FIPA is familiar how specific people get delayed FOI requests because they request regularly +* Academics get better treatment, but they still have to pay +* On the drivers license requirement when you photo is taken, ICBC should provide disclosure as to where that information goes +* Infographic - "Think of What Hitler Could Have Done With Canada's Legislation" +* FIPA has very broad rules as to how information can be released + +### CIRA + +* Please become a member of [CIRA](http://cira.ca/) +* If you have a .ca domain, you are eligible to become a member of CIRA, but you still need to join +* Once you're a member, you're eligible to vote for the board of directors, especially [Kevin](http://kevinforcira.ca/) +* All you need to do is to take a digital picture or scan of your license plate +* You can have a guarantor if you don't want to provide a license, who needs to be available by phone +* Kevin needs about 200 votes to be on the board of directors and help direct policy at CIRA +* Rob may want to help Kevin translate his technical platform into something that non-technical people can understand +* YouTube clips for Kevin answering questions about his platform related to "Why should I care about it?" and "What is the benefit of that?" -- Rob to provide a set of questions to ask, maybe Dillon or Nicole can do the filming + +### Events Calendar + +* Lots of local people are doing local events calendars, it would be nice if all these events calendars are integrated +* Might be better if these different calendars had RSS feeds so that you could collect all those feeds together in an aggregator +* Technically it's possible to have a common calendar through an aggregator +* Google Calendar would walk you through how to aggregate calendars +* Post to the ideas facebook group and someone will walk through the process diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-29-June-29-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-29-June-29-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31e8bba --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-06-29-June-29-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/June29,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: June 29, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-06-29' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- June29 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-06-July-06-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-06-July-06-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02a2395 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-06-July-06-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/July6,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: July 6, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-07-06' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- July06 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +# Agenda + +* Deathbed Tele-presense coference calls - Liam + +Large capacity, distance, no object subject doesn't necessarily notice 800 +number, time window with conf call setup could use for any celebration + +* Webcasting @ Ideas Conference +* UPC Database for open source project +* Situation of business between Ideas meetings and CP Lawn Bowling Club +* Local independent media +* Emotichair diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-13-July-13-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-13-July-13-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88a6d7c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-13-July-13-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/July13,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: July 13, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-07-13' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- July13 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Video Lab + +* Scott and Dave +* idea: media net but as a progressive organization. Media net began as a collective in the 70s to share equipment, and is now funded by the feds. Equipment includes computers and they run workshops on how to use it. +* workshop is $200 +* socially active documentary stuff that is supported with/through the NFB +* worry that because tool is so accessible that their services are now in question +* planning to try to work in innovative and interactive technologies. Aim is to bring these technologies to members. +* workshop in a few weeks takes place at media net office and what is created will be shown on the August 1-10 in a gallery +* presently short a few participants and they want some tech people to get involved with their creative side and vice versa +* benefit to all skills is that there is an open space (gallery on Fort Street) at the end to build what they want for the open space exhibit +* have a space for a week to prepare and run exhibits +* for it to officially run they need another two people - tech people would be great to pair with artists +* potentially in the future would pair a video person, artist, and programmer to create projects and turn into competition + +## Startup Canada + +* spin off of startup America +* entrepreneurs at Oxford established a series of startup systems, where government money and mentorship are devoted to encouraging hot new companies +* Startup Canada will include Bell and Rogers to provide free media to entrepreneurs +* looking for partners to go to government so that entrepreneurs can be featured in the media; aim is to get people interested in entrepreneurship and stimulate economy by them instead of large companies +* as spinoff tell story about entrepreneurs and thus enhance/encourage their businesses +* right now at grassroots +* [http://www.startupcanadacampaign.org/](http://www.startupcanadacampaign.org/) + +## Infocus Rehabilitation + +* provides on the ground support for people who have suffered neurological injury (strokes, soldiers, etc) +* aim is to provide rehabilitation to these people who have significant mobility issues +* equipment is horrid right now; want to replace it with iPads +* aim is to move people to iPads and replicate existing modes of communication but then go further and increase their quality of life +* want to provide people with training with tools to help those who are suffering injury +* want to cover software and apps that will cover 80% of the job to help, and then figure out the 20% that needs to be subsequently established +* in the early stages; wants to think about the technology complications that may not be immediately event to end-users +* would something like a universal control (e.g an arduino help)? +* challenge is getting an appliance that really works in an effective manner; challenge is often related to money +* proloc software (and related types) can help with home automation. Ram-mounts are helpful in making a device more accessible for those with mobility issues; Kevin uses with his boat (see: [http://www.ram-mount.com/](http://www.ram-mount.com/)) +* there is a challenge in interface as well as breaking down psychological barriers to using them (as well as different requirements to using them) +* emotive from TED has been involved in these sorts of issues/works + +* Kris' offers: brain machine; DNA sequencing + +* question is whether in the future DNA sequencing could be used to change the nature of the actuarial industry and formulation/management of risk. Could it drive price down? +* given attitudes to our approach as risks/actionable such sequencing would be problematic +* perhaps need to shift from defensive to management then conditions would change quite a bit and redefine the condition of receiving medial information diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-20-July-20-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-20-July-20-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d701e54 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-20-July-20-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/July20,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: July 20, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-07-20' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- July20 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Reviews + +* review of products (Jay A's electronics podcast) +* Kris' new idea based off + * knowledge, control + independence being taken away from people - Kris C + * sustainability + * tinkering + * independence + +## Rob W's autonomy project + +* autonomy +* civil rights +* freedom to take a personal risk +* It's my life +* What are rights vs privileges? +* Gvmt removes our right to think? + * no longer for endangerment cases; we'll decide when you can't think anymore +* balance +* licence to live +* What are we trying to achieve in laws, as opposed to in people's minds +* Instead of DNR, a do resuscitate (DR) order +* WHI (witch hunt incorporated) - Rob T +* What is our process when the economic model collapses +* Daniel: An event of local stuff, creative and useful - showcases +* Rob: Gorge has street happenings +* Street asset map +* Reskilling - You can teach other people +* Localized shared resource diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-27-July-27-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-27-July-27-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..53b52b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-07-27-July-27-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/July27,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: July 27, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-07-27' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- July27 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Kris looking for marketing suggestions for onedaywebsite.ca + * Target market is individuals or entrepreneurs who are not technical at all + * (If you can register a domain and find web hosting, you're not the target market) +* Decentralization Day + * Set up TorBrowser or similar(Careful to wonder around if you are faint of heart) + * Core.Onion [http://eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion/](http://eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion/) + * Original Anonymous Manifesto [http://pdjfyv7v3pn34w4f.onion/about.html](http://pdjfyv7v3pn34w4f.onion/about.html) + * Freedom Hosting, set up an anonymous blog.(Must not be linked to you) [http://xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion/](http://xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion/) + * Get one book you like? [http://am4wuhz3zifexz5u.onion/Library/](http://am4wuhz3zifexz5u.onion/Library/) + * Find the "Hidden" Wiki and make a useful commit. + * Set up TorChat or similar and start communicating with each other. + * Set up GNUPrivacyGuard or similar + * Set up support for .bit domains [http://dot-bit.org/HowToBrowseBitDomains](http://dot-bit.org/HowToBrowseBitDomains) and, optionally get a domain for either a clear web or deep web site you own. If you have problems with finding a reliable [essay service](http://www.bestwritingservice.com/) that offers assistance not only with creating essays but term and research paper writing as well, I highly recommend you to visit BestWritingService.Com. + * Get a Bitcoin client and at least 0.01 BTC. + * Set up a ripple account [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9KqSgRZYgg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9KqSgRZYgg) + +(Optionally compile from source after reviewing) (Please suggest more things +to decentralize ~Fabian) + +# no Kris, skipped agenda above + +## Online Classified advertising optimizing + +Kean Graham : MonetizeMore.com + +* His business, 18 months old. +* working with usedvictoria.ca network +* introduced other advertisers, other than google adwords +* managing online advertising services +* day trading model switching to highest impression service. +* increased advertising sales by over %200 +* Boutique approach to online advertising optimization + +[http://www.monetizemore.com](http://www.monetizemore.com/) + +* Looking for feedback and thoughts on business diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-10-August-10-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-10-August-10-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfa1239 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-10-August-10-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug10,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 10, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-08-10' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug10 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +NOTE: **Tonight we start meeting at 7pm again!!** + +* Kris looking for marketing suggestions for onedaywebsite.ca + * Target market is individuals or entrepreneurs who are not technical at all + * (If you can register a domain and find web hosting, you're not the target market) +* CPLBC Board issue: Usage of the internet (Kris can provide details) +* Telemarketing - Windows technical support + +## Minutes + +Attendance: Kris, Kevin, Chris, Herb Guest: Heath + +* DRM sucks, stop supporting them! + * (Kindle, ebooks on ipad) +* [Dive into html5](http://diveintohtml5.org/) +* MIT and Oxford moving to CC licence +* [WJ Gilmore](http://www.wjgilmore.com/books/) +* [No Starch Press](http://nostarch.com/about.htm) +* [The Open Press](http://www.theopenpress.com/) + +* Disney - copied (a non-infringing derivative) in itself, but has brought in the 75 year copyright period +* [Class-Action Lawsuit Launched Against District of Mission’s “Grow Op” Inspections](http://www.bccla.org/pressreleases/11Mission_class_action.html) +* [OSX syncing to Facebook](http://www.docstechnotes.com/2011/07/these-minor-os-x-lion-updates-arent-so.html) +* Want to know what new companies are being incorporated? You can do that in PEI - [http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/pei_corporate_registry/](http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/pei_corporate_registry/) +* [Quadshot](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jkg/quadshot-an-aerobatic-blend-of-rc-helis-and-planes?ref=live) + diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-17-August-17-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-17-August-17-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..890ba4d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-17-August-17-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug17,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 17, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-08-17' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug17 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Evoting +* Ethics of open data +* Black-tie McDonalds +* ASC +* TEDxVictoria + +## Minutes + +* Carol-Lynne (@sea_love) signed the @lawnbowling guest book! + +* [Canadian government (Elections Canada) suggesting we should move to electronic voting](http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110817/elections-canada-online-voting-110817/20110817/?hub=WinnipegHome) + * Kevin "It's just not secure..." see his [detailed blog article ](http://www.unrest.ca/electronic-voting-impossible-dangerous-irresponsible) + * Audit and control + * Not possible to recount + * Scrutinizers + * Is there evidence people will vote if electronic vs going to polling booth? + * We have two ISPs in all of B.C. and so very few name servers to attack + * Not about decreasing costs, suggest physical and electronic + * digitalpolicy.ca and privasectech.com to publish articles + * perhaps offer another solution to improve voting instead of just listing the issues with evoting + * If you want to find out what happens after democracy, electronic voting is a great way - Herb L + * Evoting could be the stupidest idea ever conceived" - Kevin + * "No, there's other ones" - Chris P + * "Well, it's got to have the biggest consequences" - Kevin + * "Infoway (ehealth Canada) is up there as well" - Kris + + + +* Ethics of open data + * Making a site of who's been talking to who in government + * Kevin's site using financial data [Proactive Disclosure](http://proactivedisclosure.ca/) + * It's crown copyright they claim, so you can't openly use it + * Data all needs to be in a standard format so people can use it + * [Open Information BC](http://www.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/) + * Should there be an obligation on people requesting the data to be aware of the risks of the social network analysis + * Should civil servants have any expectation of privacy? (social network publishing of email headers; who's talking to to) + * Email subject lines, or just a hash so you can thread emails + * Kevin was interviewed by data bc and has responded that he would like all email headers in government for social network analysis. + * Herb asked for the entire org chart of the BC government (They said no) + * What about crown agencies as well? + * Is there a difference between citizens vs citizens who work in government vs government? + * All of the topics of discussion + * "If you deem everyone is a rational actor then..." - @caparsons + * What about whistleblowers? + * Website of things that have been requested. BC FIPA? + * [NZ example](http://fyi.org.nz/) + * Kevin and Herb working on a BC version! + * Can we get someone from open info/open data in BC to come next week? + * Kickstarter for FOI + * DDoS FOI request + * Important to seriously think through all possible serious consequences before lives are negatively affected as a result - @caparsons + * If you work for gvmt, you've signed an agreement everything is public record + * Open government licence is different than FOI (crown copyright) + * Harder and harder for researchers to get access to PharmaNet data + * A real-time feed of email subjects? + * Take this over to crowns and agencies - Robert T + * P3Ps were created to avoid this stuff + +* Black-Tie McDonalds + * We want to fill it, wait in line until a non-tie person leaves, then sit at their table + * Kris to create a Facebook group with date and time + * We will fill McDonalds with formal dress, bring table cloths and good cutlery/dishes + * Remove all evidence of official wrappers so it looks formal + +* [Awesome Shit Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) + * Last Wednesday in September + +* TEDxVictoria + * Looking for more speaker submissions on issues in the community + * Theme is cultivating evolution + +* ALPR Update + * Rob W did an FOI + * Victoria Police did not respond, we just enquired on twitter + * No records with the privacy commissioner can be FOId + +* Kris' art project at the open space gallery + * Kevin tried it, liked it better than when he tried the single version at ideas Victoria + * [Emoti-chair](http://www.psych.ryerson.ca/mmm/EMOTI-CHAIR.html) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-24-August-24-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-24-August-24-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11eca0d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-24-August-24-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug24,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 24, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-08-24' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug24 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* [Ergonomics of shopping carts](http://i.imgur.com/4DalU.png) +* [Depth perception project](http://xkcd.com/941/) +* [over the air (OTA) HD antenna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw) +* [Black tie dinner](http://www.250life.ca/black-tie-dinner/) +* [Digital Policy.ca](http://www.digitalpolicy.ca/) +* [ASC IV](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/asc-iv-sept-28-7p-m/) +* [Telecom in Canada - book](http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/internet-tree) strategies people would recommend for driving interest (and selling copies...) +* Walmart's privacy police +* ICBC +$100 trips +* ALPR update +* Hackathon +* Fringe +* Local social network hub + +## Headline text + +* Local social network hub + * We should create a [Victoria based ical feed](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Yyjical "Yyjical") diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-31-August-31-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-31-August-31-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fe6f83 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-08-31-August-31-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Aug31,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 31, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-08-31' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug31 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +* update on CIRA elections +* Community Gaming Grant review +* SR&ED - fed grants for scientific research +* demos from last week's hackathon diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-07-September-07-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-07-September-07-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d314fa4 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-07-September-07-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Sep07,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Sep 07, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-09-07' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Sep07 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* What's after the certificate authority (CA) model? ([Ich Sun hopefully the catalyst to change it](http://privasectech.com/2011/09/ich-sun-is-back-claiming-the-mostsophisticatedhackofalltime/)) +* Mini-hackathon with open data (KC) +* SOFA liquor bust +* [ Tech podcast ](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Tech_podcast "Tech podcast") +* #yyj skeptics in the pub +* IdeaWave sponsorship +* secret saviour +* postmedia url hack + +## Minutes + +* Discussion about the [#yyj skeptics in the pub](https://www.facebook.com/groups/102900333119708/) +* Discussion around media and lies vs not the full truth +* [The believing brain](http://www.amazon.ca/Believing-Brain-Conspiracies---How-Construct-Reinforce/dp/0805091254/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315448939&sr=8-1) +* [Why people believe weird things](http://www.amazon.ca/People-Believe-Weird-Things-Pseudoscience/dp/0805070893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315449392&sr=8-1) +* [The Believing Brain](http://www.amazon.ca/Believing-Brain-Conspiracies-How-Construct-Reinforce/dp/0805091254) +* [Mythbusters on yawning](http://www.google.ca/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mythbusters+yawning) +* Crowd sourcing a nap +* [Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil](http://www.kurzweilai.net/) +* [Singularity U](http://singularityu.org/) +* [Transcendant man](http://transcendentman.com/) +* [Convergence.io](http://convergence.io/) +* [sslsniff](http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslsniff/) +* [Van shelter](http://vanshelter.dev.opendatabc.ca/) done at the DataBC hackathon +* [Disclose.ca](http://www.disclosed.ca/) + +* E-VOTING & ONLINE SECURITY + * States are slow moving beasts, they can afford to wait 10yrs to wait out the system + * CA Domains SSL basically proven as insecure... how can we possibly use it for voting + +* OpenDataBC Hackathon Sep 24th + * Booze Apps + * [Google fusion tables](http://tables.googlelabs.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-14-September-14-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-14-September-14-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b325b31 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-14-September-14-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Sep14,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Sep 14, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-09-14' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Sep14 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Minutes + +* Driver vs Cyclist game + * Show the various wrong things the other does + * You can act out doing things that you can't legally do +* Validation of items through iterations + * What happens with the next version of a data object if the licence and/or technical protection measures change? +* BP Oil spill + * [Corexit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit) + * [Corexit in Wired.com](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/gulf-dispersants/) + * [Patent of Corexit](http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6261463/description.html) + * You need the full facts of something before you react to it, and how do you get that with so much financial or political influence +* [Mackenzie Pipeline](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_Valley_Pipeline) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-21-September-21-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-21-September-21-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd34e10 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-21-September-21-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Sep21,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Sep 21, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-09-21' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Sep21 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* (Derekja) I'm working on a TEDxVictoria talk proposal on biohackerspaces. It's not polished, but if I may I'd like to run a rough draft past you all and have a discussion around it. I've got class until 8pm, so I'll be a bit late. Probably ought to share some makerspace status as well. +* [BioHacking](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/BioHacking "BioHacking") + +## Minutes + +No real minutes last night, but I'll add a few links + +makerspace status + +* opened metalworking bay +* laser and forge classes these next two weeks. Welding in Oct. +* Derek is opening a startup downtown and will be loaning the makerspace some of the space for downtown events in electronics and biology +* specifically, arduino hack nights combined with the stanford AI lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6pm, 2614 Bridge Street unit 210 starting Oct. 10th + +[http://www.makerspace.ca](http://www.makerspace.ca/) + +Biology stuff + + * Derek was down teaching and building the lab at [http://biocurious.org](http://biocurious.org/) for the summer + * bringing some of that back here this fall + * new podcast series at [http://garagebio.org](http://garagebio.org/) + +TEDxVictoria talk proposal + +* increase in sequencing and synthesis +* biology as an information science +* importance of mixing disciplines and biohackerspaces + +Some of the talk focused on security concerns and I wanted to post the main +regulations on lab security: + +[http://www.ccac.ca/Documents/Standards/lbg_2004_e.pdf](http://www.ccac.ca/Documents/Standards/lbg_2004_e.pdf) + +That's the main document establishing regulations and best practices for +Canadian labs, including the expanded human pathogens regs. + +Also, the legislation that was discussed resulting from the UBC incident was +the human pathogens and toxins act, but it does not cover non-pathogenic +strains of E. coli: + +"Thank you for contacting our Directorate. + +The answer to your question can be found in the FAQ section of our website: +[http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/faq- +eng.php](http://www.phac- +aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/faq-eng.php) + +> Q. I have a non-pathogenic strain of E-coli (K-12), but E. coli is listed in Schedule 2 of the Act. Does this mean that I have to register? + +> No. E. coli is listed in Schedule 2. However, this does not mean that all strains of E. coli fall within Risk Group 2. If you have established that the strain you have is indeed K-12, then it does not fall into Risk Group 2, as it is a non-pathogenic strain i.e. cannot cause disease in a human. + +Based on this, you are not required to registed under the Human Pathogen and Toxin Act. " diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-28-September-28-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-28-September-28-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6e813e --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-09-28-September-28-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Sep28,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Sep 28, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-09-28' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Sep28 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* [Awesome Shit Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) (local Dragon's den) now on Oct 24th instead of Sept 28th! +* Urban/municipal planning +* Transit planning +* Creating a [BioHacking](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/BioHacking "BioHacking") lab +* What do layman users want to watch on the internet? - Ernie +* VicFoundation +* Website scanner + +## Minutes + +* [Victoria Gas Prices](http://www.victoriagasprices.com/victoria/index.aspx) +* ASC + * Students are great target market + * Talk to the Uni radio stations +* Biohacking + * A policy grey area, has the potential for danger + * Opportunity to create effective policy in this area to encourage learning while retaining confidence +* Long discussion about entrepreneurship +* [Wired's infographic on medical records](http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/ff_bloodwork/all/1) +* [Vic foundations's grants for adoptions](http://www.victoriafoundation.bc.ca/web/node/111) +* [Pinboard](http://pinboard.in/) like delicious, prices goes up slowly based on users +* [Dropship](http://forwardfeed.pl/index.php/2011/04/24/dropship-successor-to-torrents-eng/) +* [Zimbra](http://www.zimbra.com/) +* All cell phones have a way for lawful interception using PKI +* evoting + * digitalpolicy.ca to draft a policy statement + * I'd like to see it pass a referendum + * It took how many years to get a free vote in this country, don't let British Columbia take it away in a day. + * [remote control voting machine hack](http://www.salon.com/news/politics/elections/2011/09/27/votinghack) + * [Union of B.C. Municipalities delegates voted by a two-to-one margin Wednesday to urge the province to lay the groundwork to allow online voting as an option three years from now.](http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/saltspringislanddriftwood/news/130739708.html) +* [Right to know week, event at Victoria library on the 30th](http://www.righttoknow.ca/en/content/british_columbia.asp) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-05-October-05-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-05-October-05-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64c134f --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-05-October-05-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Oct05,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Oct 05, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-10-05' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Oct05 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* ( open data / open gov discussion moved to next week ) + +### New news/media based website for Victoria only initially + +* Take video clips from CHEK news, articles from the TC, post them with attribution +* Can also take non-mainstream news from sources, like blogs or twitter, where the user chooses to publish to our website +* Community driven site where users can make corrections to the articles for technical correctness or to disclose bias +* Makes community trust and accurate based, instead of popularity based + * Perhaps room for relevance judging as well, it may be too technically difficult to implement +* News sources (main stream and not) get a score based on their general accuracy of correctness +* News subscribers can filter based on this score + +## Minutes + +* Kevin and Kris spent the the first 45 minutes uncovering a backdoor +* [Politifact](http://www.politifact.com/) +* [Helium](http://www.helium.com/) +* What is the process for vetting trust of valid sources? +* filter by timeliness +* Investigative journalism +* [The Net Delusion](http://www.amazon.ca/Net-Delusion-Dark-Internet-Freedom/dp/1586488740) +* Are journalists too worried to buck the current system because of salary worry? +* [Google's page behind](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/see_the_page_behind_the_search_result_with_google_1.php) +* [State of Vancouver](http://www.francesbula.com/) +* [Robert Fisk](http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/) + +* David Bratzer running for school board +* Derek to speak at TEDxVictoria +* There is a BC legislation around bio/human pathogens ([biohacking](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/w/index.php?title=Biohacking&action=edit&redlink=1 "Biohacking \(page does not exist\)")) +* [Pathogen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen) +* [Human Pathogens and Toxins Act](http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/regul/hpta-lapht-eng.php) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-12-October-12-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-12-October-12-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d26610 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-12-October-12-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Oct12,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Oct 12, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-10-12' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Oct12 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Open Data/Open Gov diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-19-October-19-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-19-October-19-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45dda3e --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-19-October-19-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Oct19,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Oct 19, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-10-19' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Oct19 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* ASC +* IdeaWave +* ALPR +* Discussion about the BC Societies Act around non-profits +* Economic transition pilot project +* [Intoxicant](http://victoria.intoxicant.ca/) +* #occupy +* MY5 app + +## Minutes + +* Introductions +* [ASC](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) \- Get the word out! Only 4 submissions, so odds of making it to the top 10 are quite good! +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) submitted for the BCIC New Ventures BC competition +* ALPR (in camera discussion) +* [New BC legislation to expand law enforcement rules around privacy](http://www.bccla.org/pressreleases/11Amendment_to_OIPPA.pdf) +* What are the limits of surveillance for law enforcement? Hopefully it's something other than resources +* [real-time processing of aerial drones](http://www.urbanrobots.com/home.php) +* [BC Societies Act](http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/00_96433_01) +* Environment, Arts, Social justice events, Concerts +* Free meals calendar (Burnside community centre, Victoria foundation) +* [Free, community events in Victoria](http://www.250life.ca/community-calendar/) +* [Alcohol related events in Victoria](http://victoria.intoxicant.ca/calendar/) +* [ical feeds in Victoria](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Yyjical) +* [Victoria's Environmental events calendar in *.ics format](http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ideawave.ca_dq57b7dnnph3flt1v4gpprn5b4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics) was created tonight. Let us know if you want edit access. [XML file](http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/ideawave.ca_dq57b7dnnph3flt1v4gpprn5b4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic) +* [Walk score](http://www.walkscore.com/) +* If something bothers you, are you screaming and complaining, or offering a solution? diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-26-October-26-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-26-October-26-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a06b835 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-10-26-October-26-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Oct26,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Oct 26, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-10-26' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Oct26 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Social Media pros/cons +* Occupy Movement +* Money Creation +* ASC + +## Minutes + +* Introductions +* Social Media in the Workforce - For illustrators and jobs that can be done online, people in North America can get the same work done cheaper and easier by people in India than they could by local artists. Top dollar work in the East is cheaper than mediocre work here. Counteract the online benefit by networking harder locally, build trust and relationships. No use paying for ads anymore. Why not move to Thailand and pay the cheap prices to live, then we could live in paradise for cheap, charge less than our American counterparts, and live the dream? Google+ is the new kid on the block to compete with FaceBook and LinkedIn. Most peoples' favourite section of the paper is "Letters to the Editor". Blogs and FB news is like this, but also has the benefit of creating an instant discussion while the topic is hot and relevant. If it's printed in a book or paper or on TV then "it must be true", but the same is not true for online articles because the barrier to publication is so low. But then again, how many facts in books are legit to begin with? Now when reading/viewing something in a magazine/TV, it's possible to go research more and verify legitimacy online, and find out more right away. Online social methods are quick ways of getting rid of the last two tickets of an almost sold out concert, with minimal effort (one tweet, or FB status update, etc). +* The Occupy Victoria #occupy movement has somewhere around 60 tents in Centennial Square now. Many of the tents have turned into homeless shelters of sorts, "crack houses" and many other unrelated causes which are detracting from the main focus of the "Occupy ____" purpose. Often how uprisings like this go is based on how the passive bystanders perceive the actual protest and the people doing the protesting, as well as those bystanders' opinion of whether they even have influence or power to make the requested change, or if it is perceived as not possible. What IS the problem: people are cheating, and getting away with it! Meanwhile there are people that are irrecoverably poor and lost hope! Have we had it "hard" or "bad" enough yet, to be fed up with our current system? Are the people, those unhappy with the "system", following the rules themselves? Regardless, this protest is encouraging people to learn about things that they previously didn't know where happening, or know much about. It seems over the last 50 years we've become much more complacent, less active or contributing to things in general. Similarly, why vote, if they're all the same with a different face, does it even matter who wins, can one person make a difference? Is there anything worth fighting for? We've had it so good lately, this is better than our fore-fathers, so just enjoy it. When someone really does have a drastic experience of injustice, that is when they stand up for their rights; but with only minor problems, people rarely raise a fuss. Often, people taking part in the protest are following the pack, but unaware of what they want, or even the central theme they've joined. Josh Greenberg wrote a good article on the Occupy Wallstreet movement. The federal reserve has always had nearly $0 available to lend and gain interest, but near 2010 it spiked up to $1.6 trillion in available lending capital, which is currently building no interest, and helping nobody. There's a good documentary/video "Money is Debt" 47mins by Paul Greenio, and available on YouTube. Discussion ensued similarities and differences between Canada and USA lending and government. As a sovereign nation we have the right to print money; but we don't, we borrow money. This started in mid 1970's to counteract the rising inflation due to high percentage of workforce, and the value of savings was decreasing too quickly. [Bank of Canada FAQ](http://www.bankofcanada.ca/about/faq/) and [Bank of Canada Act 1938](http://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/act_loi_boc_bdc.pdf) [Movie: Inside Job (2010) Matt Damon, Charles Ferguson](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/) The USA took out large loans from France and other countries to ensure political and military protection against other countries including Britain. (reference?) +* [ASC V](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) Date set for ASC V is Dec 5, 2011 at Fort St Cafe. Looking for AwesomITEs (judges) to contribute $50 by November 21, and all AwesomERs to submit their projects and ideas by November 28 for a chance to win $500-$1000. Tell your friends! You just write a 200 word email, possibly speak for 5 minutes, and you could walk away with up to $1000; it's real! diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-02-November-02-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-02-November-02-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ac6fe6 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-02-November-02-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Nov02,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Nov 02, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-11-02' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Nov02 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Hegemony of .com (Kris & Kevin) +* [IdeaWave launch party](http://www.ideawave.ca/2012-conference-launch-party-youre-invited/) output (Kris) +* 3G packet sniffing (Kris) +* Calendar project (Kris) +* Make a browser plug that makes these [Privacy International regexp's](https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/real-meaning-behind-all-those-corporate-privacy-expressions) actually happen (Kris) +* co-working space (Kris) +* instead of a tweet how about a peep. It works like twitter only it's video, with limited footage; peeper (Catherine) +* instead of an ear plug how about an ear cap. I hate sticking things in my ear and would rather have some sort of ear cover for listening. (Catherine) +* [Municipedia](http://www.municipedia.ca/wiki/Home) (Herb) + +## Minutes + +* When DNSSEC is implemented, the US has full control of DNS infrastructure. Canada's (or any nation state's) backup of using an alt-root disappears +* [Roja Directa](http://www.rojadirecta.org/) legal in Canada, and Spain, but the US has shut it down +* playnow.com/bclc.com would be illegal +* [The Tax Collector's bible](http://thetaxcollectorsbible.com/) +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) +* Find out free/open recreations/sports facilities +* Nathan: [Mobile websites](http://mobilewebsitemarkets.com/) + * [BC Golf Safaris](http://www.bcgolfsafaris.com/) + * [WIllie's bakery](http://m.williesbakery.mobi/) + * [Serious Coffee (in development)](http://seriouscoffee.mobilewebsitemarkets.com/) +* Kris, Kevin and Herb to talk to Catherine about Peeper, an app that allows people to quickly post short 10 second video clips (like Twitter but for videos), and then show thumbnail images for viewers to get a summary of posted video clips and easily find interesting ones to watch. A website that does something similar, but for adult related material, can be seen at the following link, ATTENTION THIS LINK IS NSFW: [http://www.pinklab.com](http://www.pinklab.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-09-November-09-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-09-November-09-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe857f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-09-November-09-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Nov09,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Nov 09, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-11-09' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Nov09 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Quarterly ideas hackathon +* Parent group of awesome +* Open source backup software +* CalDAV / CardDAV client software and servers +* "Private IP / proxy / anonymizer" utility for Linux (Windows equivalents: [IP Privacy Tools](http://www.iprivacytools.com/) [Hide My IP](http://www.hide-my-ip.com/)) +* Socket Programming +* Diet Supplements +* Black Tie Dinner II +* Daily English tweet +* Settlers of Catan night +* Shared openid? our own diaspora? +* Geek biz + +## Minutes + +* Herb and Kevin to start a non-profit around hackathons +* A briefing note provided to bureaucrats give them the ability to show their superiors, as well as demonstrating your due diligence (short, simple, effective (to the point)) +* What's in it for me a s 9-5er? +* Hackathon: Nov 20th in Surrey +* Dec 3rd in Victoria - International Hackathon - here in Victoria +* Land titles and registry feel they're a business, but they're not. Why are they charging the 900 pennies? Isn't it worth us to sell more property in BC? We make a lot more per sale... (just the search data/read data is wanted as open data, not the write data) +* startup vancouver +* UVic: comp sci, PR, Industry Relations +* Name brand judges they can showcase too +* No one from Viatec attended the hackathon at Viatec +* Middle of January +* Date, Venue, two sentence ask (1024 x 768 jpeg to go on the monitors) +* Derek, Ernie & Chris - sent them draft +* Have a clear tie to PR for funding from UVic + +* Talk to Danella about the Western Canada Technology Commercialization Alliance +* Current board: Sherry, Sherry's accountant, Will, Derek +* Charity rules changing in Canada, and not grandfathered in +* Social good / Education basis +* Giving time as charity, you pay the 12% tax on top +* Personal taxes (food - $1200) + +* [Open source backup solutions](http://www.hackepedia.org/?title=Backup) +* [Ping](http://ping.windowsdream.com/) as a backup + +* Americans always name their acts completely opposite of what they do. ie US Patriot Act +* KOrganizer +* [FoxyProxy](http://getfoxyproxy.org/) +* Get notification from snort/IDS when session key changes IRC +* CRL or OCSP in tor browser? Is silk road safe to visit? + +* [ideaKICK](http://www.techvibes.com/blog/kick-around-some-great-new-ideas-at-ideakickvancouver-2011-03-16) +* [Patent lens](http://www.patentlens.net/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-16-November-16-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-16-November-16-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e6246ca --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-16-November-16-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Nov16,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Nov 16, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-11-16' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Nov16 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Diet Supplements (EU) +* Black Tie Dinner II (KC) +* Daily English tweet (KC) +* Settlers of Catan night (EU) +* Shared openid? our own cross-project diaspora? (KC) +* Geek biz (KC) +* Practical Security Guidelines (CP) +* biohackerspace TEDx talk feedback, if we have time (DJ) + diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-23-November-23-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-23-November-23-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e16b8ad --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-23-November-23-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Nov23,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Nov 23, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-11-23' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Nov23 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Stolen Item DB (KC) +* Daily English tweet (KC) +* Settlers of Catan night (EU) +* Shared openid? our own cross-project diaspora? (KC) +* Geek biz (KC) +* Practical Security Guidelines (CP) +* Adult science fair (DJ) +* Cool privacy projects that could be done in a year, pref. around social media/networking (CP) +* Group survey (KC) + +## Minutes + +Kris, Herb, Ernie, Rob, Stacy, Jason, Jacqueline,Chris,Kevin,Liz + +* [http://moderndemocracy.ca/](http://moderndemocracy.ca/) +* [http://www.lobbyistsregistrar.bc.ca/](http://www.lobbyistsregistrar.bc.ca/) +* [http://stolenbicycleregistry.com/news.php](http://stolenbicycleregistry.com/news.php) +* [http://www.catan.com/](http://www.catan.com/) +* [http://en.gravatar.com/](http://en.gravatar.com/) +* Make your site accept openid +* [http://openid.net/](http://openid.net/) +* improving on google groups, improving wordpress website +* not subject to third party foreign state actors +* deployed at the municipal level for paying taxes +* [http://www.brandscaping.ca](http://www.brandscaping.ca/) +* [https://www.elance.com](https://www.elance.com/) +* [http://www.docbook.org](http://www.docbook.org/) +* Group science fair projects... right now? - on the diaspora node? +* link adult science fair to ideas and/or ASC? +* Can someone create a battery? diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-30-November-30-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-30-November-30-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..317b289 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-11-30-November-30-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,345 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Nov30,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Nov 30, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-11-30' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Nov30 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. Attendees + 2.2. saturday big hackathon. vancouver and victoria + 2.3. awesome shit club scoring + 2.4. discover tectoria + 2.5. living on a boat + 2.6. co-working spaces + 2.7. collaboration amongst cities + 2.8. service offering Vanessa's been thinking about. + 2.9. TEDx women tomorrow + 2.10. makerspace classes + 2.11. skills collaboration + +## Agenda + +* ASC Voting system (DJ) + +## Minutes + +### Attendees + +* Kris - awesome shit club coming up Nov 5; submissions from Van & Seattle too. (on last day of November's mustache raised money for prostate cancer research) +* Lauren - a bowler (lawn) +* Vanessa - renovating her house. Chief laborer +* Lorne did one last year - share horror storeis +* Lisa - oracle DBA in california +* Derek - computer bio person; +* Simon - photographer - former Brit/France +* Lisa2 - awesome shit club; joining again on Monday. found out of fb. volunteer with hertigage preservation. +* Note: cow collective - organized by Kris - people going in on a local grass fed cow. Named Bill. +* Jessie - change camp - vancouver. parents here; uvic alum. biz degree, coder & traveller, 2yrs back in vancouver; organizes 5 meetup groups. + +startup is data stuff; crunching social data to help folks get to the right +jobs for them. + +Derek talked about using github data - Jessie is also doing that to identify +influencers and n/w diagram, stackoverflow and others for devs. + +* Ernie - servers and n/w support in town. +* Herb - opendatabc founder; hackthon and web developer + +### saturday big hackathon. vancouver and victoria + +derek - how organizered also olio collective. starts w/brainstomerminga t 9 +one hour then groups then pretty unstructured.bring a laptop and be preapred +to type in data or whagever is left by the time your arrive. open data +specifically 0 hacking it. building things apps visualizations. usually is +govt releasing the open data these days. (what is a hacakthon per Kris request +to describe for new folks) one hour asks folks what folks might like to tbuild +w/data that may or may not be available. has a set of questions. folks +generate ideas. have a vote with your feet. people dev for another hour or so. +noon. lunch brought in . folks work until 4. show & tell. demos at 4 pm. this +one is special. have had about 16 last year and a half. this one special as +international. about 60 - 70 cities around the world. all continents, lots of +countries. stats canada releasing data in February. + +incl. FOI requests. mayb e going back in time even. awesome! + +### awesome shit club scoring + +* Derek - iclickers? + * One time (maybe the first one?) he brought in a laptop and receiver station. rf device. 10-12 judges. brought in base station. gave each person clicker. could watch bar graphs in realtime. + * only had yes or no. thumbs up or donw. + * one challenge was did after every talk.do at end instead of after each talk. + * wall sized bar graph Benjy to project onto a wall. +* extension would be twitter feed. comments in realtime. laptop showing display. maybe with split screen. not nec as at end. + * display at back is really for people at the back to see. if poss ya great to try. + * backchannel used at some confs Derek's gone to lately. folks can ask questions. + * livestream can chat into the event. ustream or livestream.awesome shit club. + * red head on panel commentary displayed on the wall. + * D would like that feedback as a presenter. More feedback. only now from judges. having another channel could be useful. +* Lisa2 said she'd heard after the fact that Marg had some comments on her posted submission. + * E & K took over so some hiccups in the standard process - submission were posted publicly. assumed all submitters could see. but really that is just an internal process. + +### discover tectoria + +* is a week from tomorrow 12/8. last minute thing got approached. 1500 entererpeners from Victoria. 1500 all attendees and hig shcool students. 3k total. +* Dan approached K asking for quality idea content. ideawave. last minute tho. K has 2-4 pm stot. miniideawave. 6 already done before to give folks an idea what to expect. K picking out standouts. Lisa suggests Craig Carmichael, poetry lady. + +Ian did did confirm. (Ian is approved for next year's ideawave - working on +exciting new stuff. + +* D not giving same talk - some amalgam of hackerspace biospace. + +big challenge is not to talk about about the same thing; should be a unique +talk for ideawave. + +* hacking biology. already approved. not same as tedx. + +last weekencd in Feb is ideawave. + +* tessa to put a makerspace booth. also at discovertectoria. hasn't decided if laser or touchtable. + +### living on a boat + +* k started sailing about 6 years ago. looked it up. can buy a boat as about same price as ottawa - and about same price as ottawa canal. +* was going to buy a 26 footer. partner has motion sickness. 5 years later hasn't even been on a boat. +* broken up so maybe back to the boat. finished his big contract last 4 years. can do anything. +* wishes there was a site for awesome things people in his enviable situation could do. +* simon & he talked about it. privacy & security. he's less excited about it than he was. when he left nortel - he was the expert. evertying else since is way less. needs something new & challenging. +* should see if he has motion sickness. +* D & E both have lived on boats. is it as romantic you think and can be cost effective. + +* Derek - 65 year old wooden boat. takes a lot of time to maintain. OTOH his fiberglass boat in SF - bought it for a song. cancer in no mntnce 5 years. guy in next door slip had diving check it out but basi ally ok. maybe 200$ more comfromatbale but low low cost. + * D 2 weeks feb, 2 weeks eo dec. deal w/marina mgr. he looks the other way for live aborad fees. You, though, would have to pay. $215/mont + 200 live-aboard fee; 215 - water electricity. + * has no holding tank - use dock facilities. 32 foot boat - comfortable for 2. propane cook stove. haul water in. ofr filter water from hose. campoing on a boat. + * free at mooring buouy. not in inner harbor. but caddy bay can work. not in fancovery cause so many people became too crowded. brentwwod, past esquimalt. + * one side of selkirk trestle is federal water. towards esqu on right. on left is nothing cause municipally regulated. + +* K was helping pick hops on saltspring. just inherited a boat. someone in caddy bay had it on a buoy. soemtiem people just abandon. scrape numbers off. person said could go a claim. claimed a 40 foot boat. + * Lisa2 said she tried it once - rcmp excitement - former boat owner as well. camping thing. says go for it. + +* Ernie - off & on for 15 years. parents were commercial fisherman. + * a sailboat is like an RV - can get really cold. Canadian winterized boat - make sure. + * the other thing - gym membership - sauna, shower. grand has apool. swim instead. + * things you think you need to have in a place you live - not necessarily true - no need to clean the shower. + * one room neat if by yourself. can let it get out of hand & messy. But taking the boat out forces you to keep it clean. + * bedroom and kitchen on boat is different than same two rooms in your house. + * If you can, do it. he still wants to do it again. + * car if it breaks down, can pull over. house, can wait. boat - you must deal with right wasay. + * Lisa2 - can you take apart a diesel engine in the dark? + * Ernie make sure you have heat. not nec need engine. + * Derek - Caddy bay is not a safe winter anchorage. living aboard on winter - radiator style oil electric heaters. flat rate power charge. uses two. cannot do on mooring buoy. + * Kris - what about internet? Derek had good luck one time on wharf street. hung a big antennae but depends on line-of-sight. gatsby. so cannot now pull it. cable to antennae isn't long enough. + +### co-working spaces + +* [Kris brought it up here a few years ago. this year got a little bit of legs but maybe find a space. guy who owned the rock bay bldg high tech viatec founder entrepeneur. $300/head which would be do-able, but ended up being 400-425 head. work from home types wouldn't want to ante up the extra $100. + * Jessie irap - industrial research place. subsidized. $100 / head. "Hot desk" model. Can oversubscribe and still works. + * brought in investor etc. mentors. organization: "boot up labs". + * got funding from IRAP. then BCIC kicked in some money as well. Danny Mora. got to be too much for Mora. Gov't still pusing it. boot-up Grage. + * Derek knows local irap person. sheri also better than derek. find out who ran it there. Riz is the Vancouver guy. 200 reps across canada. 20 or so in vancouver maybe 10. you have an agreement with that one that fits your industry and temperament. + * he twice used money to build & sell companies. Did not try NSERC. is more for students. + * funny thing for boot up garage - salary for run it, salary for developer. But also a position for a person to handle all the forms required by the government for the funding. + +### collaboration amongst cities + +opportunity while Jessie from Vancouver here; collab amongst cities. duplicate +efforts? e.g.: hackathons, ASC here ? in Vancouver: data visulations, Haskell, +tech co-founders, lead start up meetup, pick up soccer. Kris mentioned his +friend Katie has started street soccer in Victoria. huge homeless poverty +issue. everybody is welcome to come & play. Is becoming a big movement. + +> David Eaves started this weekend int'l Hackathon. + +sharing speakers at least would be good. boot up gragage had a paper-wranger. +Jeff Magnassen and Sonia doing papers. gov't funding camuson/uvic/viatec +parntership - thomas' wife retaking over accounting. 6 months lead time. talk +w/ITA before xmas. don't write down until talk with them. april 2nd all teh +money will be gone. BCIC is a littel different.looking to fund larger +projects. distrubited throughtut the year. still 3-5 months lead time rts. +science for people in school level. have been tight on moeny and overextedned. +?V open to? open but not exactly. like hot desks but really daily interaction. +so want people who mesh well. Go out for drinks & see if overlap or +complementary. web design, viceo. video still lookinng for. + +> so people you'd want to work with. + +D's valut - thick walls no windows. not easy to soundproof. super ear guy +checking out all the sounds. christina has wordworking shop upstaris. rock bay +square. big place has media one steve nash's medai arm. Really nice suite. +wants to set up a co-working space to do instead of just at home so can +socialize with a few other people too. across the street from casablanca. + +moon under water - new brew pub where you go up and get your own beer. had +challengs through city council. was driving around there looking for a +courier. prima stratta at the other end. slowly gentryfing. city council has a +vision. + +### service offering Vanessa's been thinking about. + +who enjoys shppoing? clothers? xmas? woman in attenbooguh. + +> keep track of all the bdays and what eg a 5 year old boy would like for a bday. Or find a specif gift. +> a little service where you maybe find a few options for someone. doesn't know biz model in attendborouhg. flat rate, or ? +> K - internet shopping. cookie drop. even a gluten free cookie. just launched already sold out for the moth. + +man in a suit on a bicycle. drops off the cookies. + +> p/u dry cleaning, conceierge service. + +microsoft dath march. chinatown concierge service for xmas. feature of +circumvent shipping secretly and having to be home, etc. Derek would pay $20 +to get for a five year old. would be willing to pay but how know if conceierge +would know what to get. Unique Selling Propostiion. people could tell her wish +lists. e.g. a local craft person who doesn' have an oline site. food delivery +- great food local but way more expensive to be raltional. spuds. was really +spendy. local connection food, crafts, etc.food continuous. lots of YUPPEAT. +send you a manu each day. pick up at gorcery store. pay for it onlne. +everything you need to make a specific meal. foodtree. lots of food-related +startups in vancovuer. Vancouver Island Slow Food Network. really good n/w of +local organic. Niagara Grocery in James Bay. Homeless people maybe delivery +food. Cheap produce on chdap side of Vanouver. Food security. Soemwhat fear +based. cold storage in broccoli 3 days => specific nutrient content dropoff +60%. slow food not fear-based actually. one woman only east stuff she knows +where it came from. fair trade or not. how do they care about there animals. +how they treat their animals. Michael Pollen book. Animal Vegetable Miracle +book. (the anthocyanins in blueberries luckily do not drop off with storage - +or even with freezing) + +### TEDx women tomorrow + +simulcast of main conf. Not local speakers. Being done in L.A. Sheri Morie. At +ECS 660 8-5. suggested doantion $5/session. not streaming online - just to +licensed sites. Sheri got one. + +### makerspace classes + +* forge class. only one spot left. Vanessa says pencil her in. + +> nancy teaching classes. Tools to makerspace. she'll teach a class every month or two. +> will start bio in January. +> Kris will some time John Adair to all grain brewing class. beer from scratch. NOT kit beer. 5-6 hour. can make it taste how you want exactly. realy cheap to do. kegerator. old keg gridge is at the makerspace. dremmeled out door and put in touch screen two ddr mates at china. open source DDR. can play DDR off of the keg gridge. +> mame - emulator. downloaded first 6600 games. DDinebriation. miss step drink or miss step DON'T drink! +> had simon sez off of it. + +* main location in cental saanich out by elk lake; new space in rock bay square. + +> pay for play classes on calendar? +> when Kris created calendar gets lots of submissions. rule is must be fre - filter. Better to fileter in cool. +> Kris should curate. None of Derek's stuff on there. Kris can do this as he is the Curator of Coolness. +> tags? same discussion as last time. has 5 calendars going. + +* one is free local community events. +* one is victoria environmental events. +* one is victoria arts community events +* libations calendar. + +> creating them for people if there are 10 who will commit to posting events on them. +> too few events not good; too many better than too few. most people want a way to filter. so he's created multiples. maybe ICS filter hakathon project. +> geek events one. +> rss feed google calendar then he can aggregate it himself. +> free comm events is populated. +> ics of makerspace - add to list of things to filter from. + + +\- all grain class (see above) \- free school project - free knowledge at +solstice cafe in victoria - university level classes for free wayward school +also in that space. should facilitate some dicsussion amongst these camps. +**Kris will do an education calendar.** + +> ad uvic/camosun day classes maybe. maybe restrict to just day class type of classes. + +free knowledge tho does 9 classes. maybe person has to show up at ideas +meeting. + +* Makerspace is hosting a no-charge drop-in night out in Saanich (wood shop, metal shop, etc.) on Tuesday evenings, and on Thursdays at the downtown location (electronics & biology). + +so, open house makerspace on the free community events calendar ok. + +hackathon - sponsors - K last Van startup weekend. jsut had one. fileld up +quickly. a really exciting thing. all weeend session. no liit there for open +data. more enter startup focus. K wants to do wone in January a n all weekend +thing. starutp-weekend thing. Run by seattle folks start-up weekend model. get +faiclites. beerNcode - out of Seattle as well. Abebooks would be interested in +sponsoring. maybe hiring in Victoria - maybe have hackathon there. + +ECCS 660 at uvic room also available with notice. could hold 60 persons. near +cafeteria. Abeboks easy 60. maybe 100 if needed to. + +Olio's is a screen printing collective - $5 year + $5 / hour to use studio. +$95 four classes how to use the equipment if you don't already know how. If +you do, you can get checked out on it, then bypass needing to take the class & +instead go straight to using the equipment. + +talkcheap record store. silkscreen press upstairs also. Duane. Tiemman. D +doesn't want to infringe on Olio's. enoying seeing other folks' projects. he's +silkscreening onto the wood book covers. ordering parts for arduino classes. +temp control circuit. beer fridge circuit. PID controller. keeps a set +temperature. display panel and input device. johnson temp controllers popular +amongst beer nerds in ottawa says Kris. Derek points out that this is not +about buying a unit, rather about how to program an arduino. yogurt more of a +pattern 6 hrs at x then drop etc. total costs low - parts and solder them +yourself. lilypad arduino variation - make design, screen print, then wire it +together. awesome. Febrary. oxytocin molecule spikes on minute by minute +basis. cheek piercing mood color changing geek out. + +startup is somewhat just an excuse. how license and ins etc. commercial space +all a challenge. had too many toys for boat. gave farmhouse. radonm guy. +excuse is biosensors for detecting inflammation. had a gout problem. would +send to doc to measure levels. but once a month too infrequent. found a +microfluidic meter that told him. replaced with lentils. tighter the feedback +the better. interleukins, cortisone, salivary iga. now need lab testing. if +can test as easily as blood glucose, could get better, more actionable +results. playing w/electrochemistry reversible binding. + +### skills collaboration + +one more thing from Kris; he attended two conferences in Vancouver last week. +The frist one was a gov't who's who - InnovateBC The next day was change camp. +At the first, he sat next to a woman named Tamara and exchanged friendly +pleasantries. turns out hshe's the keynote van city. 500 top social innovator. +heard about change camp there, managed to get in the next day to taht. start +in morning with visionary types how the future should look. picked four +sessions - 2 at lunch, mini at lunch, 2 in afternoon. food sustainability. +physical games for a social good. role playing more than just soccer in the +street. man hunt street game. run by his buddy eric. once a month. + +> pick a spot. meet at x at 7. 1200 people in fb goupr. over 100 people show up. uyelllow armband must stay visible. +> 6 blocks perimeter. go. rock paper scissors. if lose stay, if win, run like a mofo. +> last two - last one try to touch last one. Big Kid tag. + +collab with skill sets. was in a session currency without money. one woman for +a decade. some people online who pull it off. + +> could you really barter - what do you really need. + +we have no idea of our skill sets that others could use. organize an event, +privacy more niche. how docuemnt + +> in such a way to fac ilitate this. + +Simon trades all the time. barter site. removing anit virus. sikillexchange.ca +charge by the job vs by the hourly rate. training time as a funciton of +execution time. + +> say $100 - computer tech support - gets you x from Kris or y from high school grad. + +Vanessa suggests the name skillset.ca The utility is primarily having the list +of skills people have - including ones that might not readily come to mind. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-07-December-07-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-07-December-07-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38195c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-07-December-07-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Dec07,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Dec 07, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-12-07' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Dec07 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* audio stream of ideas? +* community skillset sharing site +* spectrum wars, rights, and efficiency +* [Victoria Food swap](https://www.facebook.com/groups/196126343759981/) +* Proposed US law NDAA: [U.S. Congress enacts laws to hold civilians under indefinite military detention without trial](http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2011/11/30/us-congress-enacts-laws-hold-civilians-under-indefinite-military-detention-without-t) +* ASC +* Co-working space +* Bocce + +## Minutes + +* List of skill sets +* Scoring skills out of 100 +* Endorse others skill sets +* Have a 3rd party identify your skill sets +* Pizza triage +* Interview sheet (list of skill sets) +* Polling friends +* Offer one to your community +* What are you good at troubleshooting? +* [Victoria LETS](http://www.lets.victoria.bc.ca/) +* Victoria Community Asset Mapping +* [Integreen](http://www.integreen.ca/) +* double track the barter system, stay under $30k within a year each to avoid CRA GST requirements +* [Time banking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_banking) +* [ELGG](http://elgg.org/) +* [KSA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge,_Skills,_and_Abilities) +* The node is the skill instead of the person + +### spectrum wars, rights, and efficiency + +Jay's (@unityblue) item: With discussion from Kris (@cqwww), Rob (@robwipond), +Rob, Kevin, and Chris + +* [Audio only recording of IDEAS YYJ MTG discussion(very quiet)](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19002401) +* [Comprehensive primer the energy efficiency issue](http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Article/2933636/Mobile-industry-is-running-out-of-room-for-expansion.html) +* [Channel Capacity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_capacity) +* [Channel Capacity Physics in real-world (noisy) environments](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem#Frequency-dependent_.28colored_noise.29_case) +* [A company recognizing the issue, and trying to make transmitting more efficient](http://www.greentouch.org/index.php?page=shannons-law-explained) +* [Radio, Spectrum and Telecommunications](http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/h_00077.html) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-14-December-14-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-14-December-14-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d9d0a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-14-December-14-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Dec14,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Dec 14, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-12-14' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Dec14 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. Agenda +2. Minutes + 2.1. Attendees + 2.2. item1 + 2.3. item2 + 2.4. Spectrum limits to bandwidth (and energy implications) + +## Agenda + +* item1 +* item2 +* Spectrum limits to bandwidth (and energy implications) - Jay will be arriving ~8pm +* [ Tech podcast ](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Tech_podcast "Tech podcast") \- Jay will be arriving ~8pm + +## Minutes + +### Attendees + + * Kris - + * Fabian - Remote // Please call Skype:fabianhjr + +### item1 + +### item2 + +### Spectrum limits to bandwidth (and energy implications) + +* Spectrum limits to bandwidth (and energy implications) + * [Audio excerpt (very quiet)](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19002401) of spectrum discussion at last IdeasYYJ MTG w/ ([Template:Twitter](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Twitter&action=edit&redlink=1 "Template:Twitter \(page does not exist\)")), Kris, Rob, Rob, Kevin, Chris + * [Comprehensive primer the energy efficiency issue](http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Article/2933636/Mobile-industry-is-running-out-of-room-for-expansion.html) + * [Channel Capacity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_capacity) + * [Channel Capacity Physics in real-world (noisy) environments](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem#Frequency-dependent_.28colored_noise.29_case) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-21-December-21-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-21-December-21-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c925352 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-21-December-21-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Dec21,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Dec 21, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-12-21' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Dec21 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Contents + +1. News of the Week + 1.1. SOPA +2. Agenda +3. Minutes + 3.1. Attendees + 3.2. Resources + +## News of the Week + +### SOPA + +* RIAA: "Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses"[[1]](http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-someone-else-is-pirating-through-out-ip-addresses-111221/)[[2]](http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57345342-245/bittorrent-downloads-linked-to-riaa-dhs-ip-addresses/) +* Forbes: "SOPA Haters Are Already Finding Easy Ways To Circumvent Its Censorship"[[3]](http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/12/21/sopa-haters-are-already-finding-easy-ways-to-circumvent-its-censorship/) + +## Agenda + +* Kevin will talk about his SSL exploit that was released this week by Public Safety Canada +* SOPA + * Copyright: Why we need it and how tough copyright laws need to be. +* NodeJS -> JavaScript for Servers.(nodejs, npm) + +## Minutes + +### Attendees + +### Resources + +* [[4]](http://www.everythingisaremix.info/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-28-December-28-2011.md b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-28-December-28-2011.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35c9962 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2011-12-28-December-28-2011.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Dec28,2011' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Dec 28, 2011 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2011-12-28' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Dec28 +- '2011' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* bio-hacking + * [Transcendent man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117394/) (watch this in advance, it's on netflix! || Or [TPB](http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6214542/Transcendent_Man_720p)) + * Victoria's bio-hacking lab + +## Minutes + +* Derek J, Chris, Risto, Lorne, Kris +* Kris looking for people with an iphone he can borrow for an antenna improvement project +* [Compass belt project](http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/10/compass-belt-project.html) +* [Echo location in Humans](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090630075445.htm) +* [Cybernetics for the masses](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Dv6dDtdcs) +* [paycheques based on what you eat](http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1313224/ibm-granted-your-paychecks-are-what-you-eat-patent) +* [The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith](http://www.archive.org/details/wealth_nations01_se) +* [Lighting with nose breath](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_vMlSlhVdo) +* [Growing new organs](http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engineering_tissue.html) +* [The pirate ship of theseus](http://www.ideawave.ca/the-conference/the-pirate-ship-of-theseus/) +* [Dust Networks](http://www.dustnetworks.com/) +* [Drug Reverses Aging-Associated Changes in Brain Cells, Animal Study Shows](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111207113552.htm) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-04-January-04-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-04-January-04-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34ab4cb --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-04-January-04-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan04,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 04, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-01-04' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan04 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Ian Soutar will demo his [rat tail antenna](http://rattailantenna.com/) \- IS +* We need a [big goal](http://www.krisconstable.com/put-a-man-in-space-pfffht/) \- KC +* Discussion about potable water in Victoria (and possibly all of BC/Canada) + [water policy](http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/policy/index.html) \- CM +* [http://www.Ideasworthfunding.ca](http://www.ideasworthfunding.ca/) (biz version of ASC) - KC +* A social network with an entrance exam (documented, or a surprise) - KC + +## Minutes + +Attending: Kris C, Ernie, Stu, Bill W, Ian S, Chris M, Chris P, Kevin M, C-Love, Jason C + +* Ian did a demo of the rat tail antenna. ([read the patent](http://www.google.com/patents/US6366248)) +* Ian discussed low-level nuclear radiation treatments for health +* A list of our 2012 [Big project ideas](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Big_project_ideas "Big project ideas") +* [Water Policy](http://waterpolicy.ca/) +* "The Canadian government has consistently opposed the recognition of water as a human right at key UN meetings." [The Council of Canadians](http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/policy/index.html) [UN minutes July 28 2010](http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/ga10967.doc.htm) +* [CRD Water quality reports](http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/waterquality/reports.htm) +* [Lifesaver](http://www.lifesaversystems.com/) +* [Slingshot water regenerator (uses Stirling engine)](http://boltonhill.wordpress.com/videos/slingshot/) +* [GCHQ Challenge](http://www.gchq.gov.uk/challenges/Pages/index.aspx) +* [Dual N Back](http://dual-n-back.com/) +* [Neurogenesis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenesis) +* [Paul Erdös](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s) +* [Lunar Laser ranging experiment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-11-January-11-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-11-January-11-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ffd7e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-11-January-11-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan11,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 11, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-01-11' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan11 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Year round herb garden (looking for input/experience) E +* Laptop case/chasis fabrication (looking for input/experience) E +* Bowls exec board meeting: KC +* ASC: KC +* Bandwidth Energy Stuff: J + +## Minutes + +* [Window farms](http://www.windowfarms.org/buildyourown) + * Group build day, who's interested? Kris C, John M, Ernie U, Kevin M diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-18-January-18-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-18-January-18-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7d18e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-18-January-18-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan18,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 18, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-01-18' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan18 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* MBEST - KC +* DigitalPolicy.ca email list - KC +* PrivaSecTech encryption crest - KC +* Toilet seat hack - KC +* Metal detector hack - VP +* Victoria City OCP, parks master plan, and CPLBC/Cridge E + +## Minutes + +* [Web and Graphic Designers](https://www.facebook.com/groups/7640916254/) of Victoria, on Facebook +* digitalpolicy people to meet for dinner before next ideas meetings +* [Odd Fellows](http://www.ioofbc.org/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-25-January-25-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-25-January-25-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5dbf7d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-01-25-January-25-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Jan25,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jan 25, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-01-25' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jan25 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Parks (LC) +* Smart card stuff (KM) +* Documentary (KC) +* Google's privacy changes (DigitalPolicy.ca team) +* Censor systems that provide analytics (CP) + +## Minutes + +* Parks + * 1926 the club started + * List of questions that we're interested in + * What are advantages and disadvantages of being in park zoning? +* [OpenSC](http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc) +* [http://www.gemalto.com/](http://www.gemalto.com/) +* [http://www.aventra.fi/English/index_E.php](http://www.aventra.fi/English/index_E.php) +* [PIV card](http://www.winmagic.com/market-segment/government/dod-cac-card) +* [OpenPGP card](http://www.g10code.com/p-card.html) +* [https://www.google.com/policies/](https://www.google.com/policies/) +* [Dan Pollock's host file](http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/) +* [Track me not plugin](http://trackmenot.org/) +* [DuckDuckGo - Google alternative](https://duckduckgo.com/) +* [Profile Engine](http://profileengine.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-01-February-01-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-01-February-01-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..63a37d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-01-February-01-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb01,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 01, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-02-01' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb01 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Social Media Club - partnership potential - KC +* Ideas Worth Funding - KC +* IdeaWave - KC +* Social networking graphs - KC +* Social innovation documentary project - CM +* ALPR article in Focus - KM, RW or CP +* Metal detectors - VP +* ASC - KC + +## Minutes + +* Resilient Capital - VanCity diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-08-February-08-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-08-February-08-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d34f29a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-08-February-08-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb08,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 08, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-02-08' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb08 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Rob's secret question for techies that he doesn't want linked to him in the minutes - RW +* [Reverse Engineering class](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/REclass) \- KC +* [ASC](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) \- KC +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) \- KC +* Feedback from the club president about the Bruce Gillespie incident from last year that is still unresolved - KC +* Three days of food safety on the island, should we try it? - KC + +## Minutes + +* [Reverse eng class](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/REclass) \- taking apart software, hobby level +* how long should it be, what to include and how fast to go, who will teach it? Maybe have goals for each class to achieve/ get to a certain level by end of session. +* Kevin: "it's like trying to teach poetry without knowing what love is" +* trying get my hands on a raspberry pi (not a pie :) - micro computer for $25/Euros35 similar to capabilities of a phone - programmable. lots of RAM, HD processor etc. Orders are limited to 1 per household...it's the size of a credit card, available next month. +* Intro class would be attractive, ie earlier stages instead of full indepth course. +* When would work best? not weekends, wayward school run classes so Kris looking into using space there. +* [Crypto Class](http://www.crypto-class.org/) \- Stanford also running other courses (natural language processing, design anal of algs, security, etc) +* code academy - anyone else doing the class? remote coding class. +* [Security Class](http://www.security-class.org/) +* MIT also do classes +* [Learning ASM](http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/09/modern-exploits-do-you-still-need-to-learn-assembly-language-asm/) +* Kris's binary classes continue also :) +* 2 hrs a week proposed + +* ASC +* was awesome! nearly sold out - final 3 were Makerspace, Olio Collective and Mesh Mesh who will be presenting on thursday at Odeon Theatre 2 before the movie 'Something Ventured' +* Entire audience can vote for who wins the cash so your $10 gets you tickets to the movie and a vote! +* If you want Makerspace to win, BE THERE! +* Get tickets online beforehand to avoid disappointment...to Vanessa. + +* Ideawave +* More talks required! Speak for 10 mins, anyone can submit. +* Janice Mansfield - newest Ideawave talk to register +* Drinking fernet for 30 days - see youtube for the series of 30 Days of Fernet Branca [day 1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcO8j73imc&feature=related) + +* Ian Soutar is speaking at Ideawave -"uranium is my friend" Natural nuclear Radiation used for medicinal purposes? +* Radiation at low levels can be good for your health - areas where found have low genetic mutations - beaches in India are low level radioactive; locals know to take a pillow to the beach because if you lay your head onto the sand, you may lose some hair! [Terrestrial Sources of Radiation](http://resources.yesican-science.ca/trek/radiation/final/earth_sources.html) ...could be a good place to holiday to avoid the waxing?! Radiation tourism is coming! +* A building where hospital grade cobalt was blended into the steel structure were above average health +* Device brought along (Revigator) contains radium ore - produces radioactive water! Ian plans to bath in it! Geiger counter reads 16,000 microsieverts (µSv) +* European hot springs - cannot be used if you're a smoker +* Wiki description here [radiation hormesis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis) +* Biologically beneficial treatment available +* [T.D. Luckey](http://www.radpro.com/641luckey.pdf) always referenced to topic - he's 93 so... +* Uranium beads - worn all the time - bought at beadworld in market square!! +* Also has ring which emits gamma rays, used for acupuncture. emits 85 microsieverts. can be used to sterilize medical equipment. +* Has proven to be beneficial with arthritis, diabetes, sun spots and general immunity to infections. +* Quadra Island has source of natural radioactive material. +* The stone he carries has a half life of approx 4 billion years, ie the radiation is given off very slowly, compared to Fukushima type levels +* [Radiation Network](http://www.radiationnetwork.com/) gives real time levels of radiation for North America +* Stimulates the production of endorphines +* Marketable radiation products for pain therapy, elimination of allergies, boosts immune system, etc, but could the word radiation be substituted with something less scare-inducing?! +* Conventional cancer treatment destroys dna at too higher levels but a gradual release of radiation is beneficial as it regenerates dna, or boosts dna mechanism +* [Medicine Man](http://www.nighthawkminerals.com/) +* Ottawa Uni has low level research centre - largest group in the world, underfunded. +* Chernobyl discussed - most of problem with drifting radiation due to plants burning and water vapour mixing with radioactive particles, then forming clouds etc. +* [100 years of radon therapy](http://www.radscihealth.org/rsh/docs/Radon/RnTherapiesIndex.htm) \- doc + +* The BG incident +* KM suggested because of the guests we take this discussion offline +* Lorne mentioned that ideas is just a group of club members, it's not an official activity that has a chair. He also mentioned that Kris is not the chair of ideas, but Robert Trevor is. He said as there is no chair, each individual should raise their concern instead of going through one person. +* KM again suggested it be taken outside of the meeting +* KC to follow up with individuals who raised the issue to ask them how they'd like to proceed. + +* 3 days of food security +* upcoming article being written - is anyone interested to test out the theory that Vancouver Island would only have 3 days of food supply? +* Theory was proposed by Thrifty's employee... not actually true if not eg a geological disaster, but it really depends on what situation and under what criteria do you want to try and survive?! +* With what you have in your house right now, how long could you survive? Have you got your emergency pack ready? +* Majority of people admit that they probably aren't prepared properly, but could get by for a few days... +* Could be interesting to coordinate something with VEMA, transition victoria, etc. diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-15-February-15-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-15-February-15-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c71b609 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-15-February-15-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb15,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 15, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-02-15' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb15 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +* [Reverse Engineering class](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/REclass) \- KC +* [ASC](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) \- KC +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) \- KC +* Latin - NH +* Arduino class - DJ: EU/NH +* Makerfaire - DJ: VP +* Ideas website - KC +* Makerspace idea - MM +* The new surveillance act - NF +* Chamber of Commerce - MM +* TC10K - KC + +## Minutes + +* REclass: Planning meeting: Pick date/place/time +* ASC VII + * Nancy: Door + * Vanessa: Music +* IdeaWave + * Party + * We're still looking for speakers! +* Arduino Class + * Starts next Thursday in Rock Bay at the bio-tech lab 6p.m. start + * Arduino controlled Sous vide machine + * $10 - Temp probe + * $10 - Relay + * $100 - Temperature controller + * $30 - Arduino UNO +* ASC - $10 for awesomers, you get back if you show up +* Makerfaire - Vancouver Island + * [Vancouver 2011 Makerfaire](http://vimeo.com/36450169) + * Dates: 21 & 22 July or 28 & 29 July + * ~$3k/arena + * organizer position (hours?) + * media and promo + * $50 to orally for the name + * $100 first aid on site + * rent cables to breakout power + * ~$10k total + * sponsorship opportunities + * Looking for: people who would want booths, organizational and promo + * $25/NP booth +* Move Ideas to Mediawiki to Wordpress + * Next transfer of domain go from Ernie to Kris + * Keep existing minutes on wiki and move it as sub-directory + * Nancy: start logo idea +* Makerspace idea: DIY Stylus + * What is in a stylus? + * [Livescribe](http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/) (Derek has and did a demo) + * Bill C-30 Surveillance Act + * This law only applies to the technologically naive + * People who are only on Canadian soil, not US soil, move it offshore + * [Joform suspended](http://www.jotform.net/blog/45-JotForm-com-Suspended) + * [Power of Nightmares](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk1WkmioQvA&noredirect=1) + * BOOK: Nudge - Cass sunstein + * BOOK: Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely + * [End of America](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1294790/) + * [The Simple Way](http://www.thesimpleway.org/) + * Sooke solar grid 100% larger than +* Group of us to train for TC10K + * [Spark](http://www.amazon.ca/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/0316113506?tag=duckduckgo-d-20) + * Interested: Kris C, Jason C + * [TC10K](http://www.tc10k.ca/) April 29 + * [Yes Men fix the world](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352852/) + diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-22-February-22-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-22-February-22-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..443b890 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-22-February-22-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb22,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 22, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-02-22' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb22 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* [Reverse Engineering class](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/REclass "REclass") \- KC +* [ASC](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) \- KC +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) \- KC +* Arduino class - DJ: EU/NH +* Mini-Makerfaire - KC: DJ: VP +* Ideas website and logo - KC +* The Chamber (of Commerce) - KC +* TC10K - KC +* Frugal Victoria - Marianne +* Rootkit questions - Nancy +* Content Management Systems - CP +* Community Investment Fund - RW +* Dog Fund - VP +* Astronomy - MM +* Thinktank (IG) - KC + +## Minutes + +Kris, Chris, Nancy, Janine, Kevin, Mike, Herb, Ernie, Rob, Riaz, Lorne, +Vanessa, Derek, Marianne, Gary, Murray, Jason & partner + +* Meetup next week +* ASC VII on April 2nd +* IdeaWave still looking for speakers, and has tickets available. Submit a talk! +* Arduino hack night starts tomorrow (Thursday) + * 2614 Bridge st unit #210 + * Makerspace.ca google group to join the email list + * 8 people max (bring a laptop if you have it) +* TC10K - Riaz, Murray +* [Frugal Victoria](http://www.frugalvictoria.com/) +* [Scrimp or Splurge - Wings in Victoria](http://scrimporsplurge.ca/2010/09/cheapest-hottest-biggest-best-chicken-wings-in-victoria-bc-specials-every-day-of-the-week/) +* Rootkit + * "The avian carrier RFC never really took off" + * Requires a complete re-install +* CMS + * Large pool of docs to parse + * Timeline format + * mp3 files, pdf documents + * date they were authored and released + * notes and discussions around these documents + * [Marklogic](http://developer.marklogic.com/) + * [Endnote](http://www.endnote.com/) + * DMS - Document Management system + * [Open source DMS](http://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+document+management+system&t=1&kl=ca-en) + * [Mendeley](http://www.mendeley.com/) + * [Quantified Self Victoria meeting](http://www.meetup.com/YYJ-Quantified-Self/) + * [Hack hut](http://hackhut.ca/) by Jesse H +* A good time planet watch +* Mercury after sunset (retrograde in 4-5 weeks) for the next week, 2 or 3 +* Planets - iphone software +* Google Sky View +* [Google Sky](http://www.google.com/sky/) +* Other phone apps + * Planisphere + * Starguide + * Starwalk + * SkySafari Lite + * Distant Suns + * Skyview +* Murray and Kevin to bring telescopes next week diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-29-February-29-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-29-February-29-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f38397 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-02-29-February-29-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Feb29,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Feb 29, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-02-29' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Feb29 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +* several planets are aligned right now. telescope was brought but sky isn't clear enough. +* ideawave - memorable talks + * students at UVIc are going to be launching a satellite. working on the experiment. Going to build a warp drive. There was a video at IdeaWave that showed a magnet disturbing a stream of water. + * gated communities. If fences make good neighbours then gates create great communities. +* farms are not allowed to share equipment etc... competition laws, taxation, etc.. Goes back to sharecropping etc.. +* cell phone industry is notorious for keeping prices high +* music contracts - [http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=359](http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=359) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-07-March-07-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-07-March-07-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe1aa4c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-07-March-07-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar07,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 07, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-03-07' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar07 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Security vulnerability KM +* IdeaWave VP, N, M +* Is the Internet forever? LC +* Burg Watch phone E +* Whiteboard M +* New BIAS spec M +* Telescope KM +* Privacy Commissioner slams provincial surveillance program (article in Focus Magazine) + +## Minutes + +* Security vulnerability KM + * To be published in the next couple days at [Unrest.ca Blog](http://unrest.ca/): list of 14 major libraries and SDK's for major merchant/credit card processors that are affected by the security vulnerability that Kevin discovered months ago + * This problem has been copied over and over for years, so this problem is not something that can be fixed in one place, it must be implemented on millions of servers, every site that takes online credit card payments. Most of these sites don't know there's a vulnerability to begin with, and may never implement this change. + * For small companies, they'll need to contact their old web developer, or hire a new one, to apply this fix, and pay whatever that developer wants to try to charge... If they don't do this, their customers' credit cards are vulnerable to being stolen. + * IN11-003 is the error code that is the crux of this issue + +* IdeaWave (many) + * Fluorescent cat due to spliced in gene in now possible due to Biology hacking, gene sequencing cost has gone done so much and quicker than expected. [Open PCR](http://openpcr.org/) [BioCurious bio hacking lab in San Francisco, CA](http://biocurious.org/) + * NASA will dwindle and disappear if we don't get young people involved, especially since gov't can't afford to keep funding NASA sufficiently anymore + * Dimegnetic objects, monopole, being deployed in space soon, but has many terrestrial applications too + * How to write a poem in 3mins (simple starter formula), and why we should all write poems and often! + * Languages and cultures dieing off at an alarming rate, and there was a documentary following a man who is 1 of the last dozen people in the world that can speak his language, and he is teaching anyone willing to learn his language and keep it alive. + * Discussion ensued here about languages being used to enforce dominance over conquered countries. There's an international list of used/accepted characters for computing, and there are many characters that are left out and thus cannot be used. + +* Is the Internet forever? LC + * Where will you store your memories, pictures, stories, etc? Will the Internet be around in 40 years so you can access all your memories that you've stored in "the cloud" or on your favourite social networking site, or online backup, etc, etc? + * Brewster Kahle [Brewster Kahle on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle) is storing millions of webpages + * It used to be the default to throw photos in a shoebox or photo album, and they can be dug up years later even if you didn't intend to keep them at the time. Now, pictures are taken all the time and thrown away, or lost without even noticing it. Vendor lock in is also a problem like iPhoto on Mac's, where the pictures are stored in a proprietary single large file. + * At the current rate of growth for consuming power for storing all these files, 40-50 years out there won't be enough power generated to support all the hardware needed to store and read all the files. + * Book "Delete" talking about problems with human recollection being naturally poor, and it's a prominent part of society and arguably "helpful" that details of many things are forgotten. Now with the ability to record everything and retain this data, it is damaging to society and how it has become "used to" functioning. + +* Burg Watch phone E + * Watch phone that's completely unlocked and takes standard world 2G SIM cards, can use a microSD card up to 16GB for music, picture, video, file storage. Has a camera to take pictures and videos. Makes phone calls, SMS messages. Calendar, contacts etc. Comes with Bluetooth headset so you don't have to look like Dick Tracy while making calls, but you can use the speaker phone method if you wish... + * Stellarc cool technology, ping body + +* Whiteboard M + * We're often gathering around a small screen, or asking how things are spelled at these meetings; would it be useful/helpful to have an old fashioned whiteboard on the wall? + * New Wacom tablets coming out + * Suggested a magnetic whiteboard for the club that would be useful for many things all the time (not just Ideas) + +* New BIAS spec M + * New BIAS specification out of Oasis, and it will be a standard in 90 days + +* Telescope KM + * Actually went outside and used KM's telescope to look at the moon, Jupiter, and nearby flag pole. It was cold, but worth it! + +* Local Currencies S + * There are 5000 alternative currencies out there, LETS is one of the big ones + * [Salt Spring Dollars](http://saltspringdollars.com/) have been widely accepted by many merchants in SSI since 2000, one of the longest running local currencies. + * Iceland is considering dropping their own currency and starting to use actual Canadian Dollars + * If you want to make money in precious metals, buy it on par here, then sell it on eBay for much more; oddly enough people buy it as an "investment". + +* Privacy Commissioner slams provincial surveillance program (article in Focus Magazine) + * [Privacy Commissioner slams provincial surveillance program](http://focusonline.ca/?q=node/341) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-14-March-14-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-14-March-14-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26b823e --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-14-March-14-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar14,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 14, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-03-14' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar14 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* [#Pirateers](http://www.williamsandcompany.ca/Articles/Salvage.pdf) (not the copyright kind) (KC) +* [ASC VII](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) (KC or EU) +* [REclass](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/REclass "REclass") (KC) +* Maker Event (KC or VP) +* ALPR (RW,CP,KM) + * Mental health & Crossing the border (KC) +* Looking for a marketing/sales/comms co-founder (KC) +* March 21st @ 3:30pm is the semi-annual AGM. +* Videoing self for self-improvement (KC) +* [6002x MIT study group](https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/) (RB or KC) + +## Minutes + + +Attending: Lief, Tegan, Ryan, Ernie, Kris, Lorne, Nic, Lorne, Megan (skype), +Brian, Chris, Kevin, Murray + +* [Green Drinks - Victoria](http://www.conversationworks.ca/green-drinks-victoria/) +* [Victoria BC Startups](http://www.meetup.com/Victoria-BC-Startups/) +* KC: Put ASC VII on website. +* [ALPR Article in Focus](http://www.focusonline.ca/?q=node/312) +* [Follow-up ALPR article in Focus](http://www.focusonline.ca/?q=node/341) +* Street checks (CPIC) + * Negative police contact + * ALPR in ICBC and CPIC + * Talon database in Alberta (citizen wiki) + * Not yet in BC Prime +* Has anyone done a CPIC FOI? + * 25% inaccuracy in some case examples +* Team submitting complaint to privacy commissioner +* Record yourself pitching something, and then watch it back +* Try it again with someone else there, then watch and critique +* Talk slower, put pauses in +* Toastmasters does this officially (+12 groups in Victoria, find one that works for you) +* [BC Auction](http://www.bcauction.ca/) +* [Hawaii to Japan for under $700 round trip](http://beatofhawaii.com/all-islands-to-or-from-japan-110-each-way-plus-tax) +* [5wits](http://5-wits.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-21-March-21-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-21-March-21-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f039de9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-03-21-March-21-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Mar21,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Mar 21, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-03-21' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Mar21 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Can we have a more environmental solution to water the club green? (+$8k) +* What would a useful local neighbourhood-based web portal look like? (RW) +* International standards - MM +* Authenticated comments (integrating FB to communicate) - CP +* Filing an ATIP (FOI) request against twitter - CP +* Neuro-system product (Phil & Chris) + +## Minutes + + +Kris, Murray, Phillip, Chris, Jocelyn, Nic, Chris, Kevin, Lorne, Rob, Ernie, +Lisa, Vanessa + +* What's the ratio of water in to sewer out... MM had 1:2 +* Sewage meters online under $300, why does the city want $3k for it? +* Many people want a way to prove that the water is for their garden vs going to the sewer? +* [Seattle - Neighbourhoods on the 'net](http://www.seattle.gov/communitiesonline/neighborhoods.htm) +* A system that has a display (pinterest-esque) in the local coffee shop (only can submit if your geoloc show's you're close or using the physical keyboard) +* What if craigslist a) was curated b) had geo-location requirements +* [Our services](http://ourservices.ca/) +* [Craigslist foundation](http://craigslistfoundation.org/) perhaps ask them? +* [Dynaportal](http://dynaportal.com/) +* [Capstone](http://capstone.camosun.bc.ca/) +* [Openblock Project](http://openblockproject.org/) +* [Transition Victoria](http://transitionvictoria.ning.com/) +* [Harris Green, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/418661898150577/) +* [Burnside George, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/316265738427075/) +* [Jubilee, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/217504355024296/) +* [Fairfield, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/324704000918777/) +* [North Park, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/344366462282100/) +* [Cook St Village, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/191751154270034/) +* [Fernwood, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/420376017979274/) +* [Downtown, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/232257276872378/) +* [Oaklands, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/261658323919698/) +* [James Bay, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/376286665726146/) +* [Hillside, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/135610979900974/) +* [Vic West, Victoria](https://www.facebook.com/groups/369580279749220/) +* [OASIS](http://www.oasis-open.org/) +* Murray interested in bringing in friend who is expert in accessibility (disability standards) +* Kris to ask Ryo if he'd skype in and talk about echo location +* [BC Gov](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.gov.bc.ca) failing in web accessibility +* What does data quality standards? (biometrics, for example) + * Are there quality assurance standards on biometric data? + * Who is in a position to create standards around this? +* NY Times now has Facebook integration for comments. Most users pick the path of least resistance, so would use it instead of signing up for an account. There's nothing that explains the risks of such a decision to the average consumer. +* Using EEG to detect early cognitive decline (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's) +* Cleaning repetitive artifacts is manually in EEG typically, or open source) +* Phil & Chris have a cleaning algorithm to clean up that data +* [ABV Sciences](http://www.abvsciences.com/) +* [Status of a twitter object](http://mehack.com/map-of-a-twitter-status-object) +* [Twitter mobile browsers and metadata privacy](http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/technology/twitter-mobile-browsers-and-metadata-privacy/) +* [What does twitter know about its users?](https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/what-does-twitter-know-about-its-users-nologs) +* [Taint Droid](http://appanalysis.org/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-11-April-11-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-11-April-11-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3f4fad --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-11-April-11-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr11,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 11, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-04-11' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr11 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* [ASC VII](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/asc-vii/) +* Ideas Worth Funding +* CIRA governance changes +* E-book publishing market (and US DOJ lawsuit) +* Modern pre-emption style homesteading? (discontinued in 1970s) +* Physibles/Open Source hardware for renewable energy. (Eg 3d printed pelton wheel, hydrogen generation systems) +* Finding the angle in negotiations (psychologically leveraging emotion) +* VI Makerfaire +* Biospace +* Neil Young's mp3 +* Phonegap +* Open house + +## Minutes + +Ernie, Adam, Lorne, Murray, Stu, Nancy, Chris, Kevin, Rob, Aaron, Megan +(skype), Vanessa, Fergus + +* [CIRA's proposed governance changes](http://cira.ca/legal/governance/) +* This page is confusing! +* [Kevin's take](http://www.unrest.ca/cira-governance) +* CIRA should be democratically driven! +* The public should always have a role +* It's our internet +* Freedom is chosen not imposed +* Why the increased concentration in power? +* What's wrong with the way things are done now? Why not just meet the new non-profit act instead of being used opportunistically? +* Ivory tower +* [DOJ ebook settlement](http://blog-admin.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/doj-terms-settlement-ebook/) +* [http://friesenpress.com/home](http://friesenpress.com/home) Friesen Press] local publishing company +* Kevin's AdvancedPHP second book was cancelled mid-writing because they refused to remove DRM +* Disability support services don't work with DRM +* Kris suggesting someone create a site that publishes only non-DRM books (pirate parties, reddit etc would support) +* [No starch press](http://www.nostarch.com/) +* Academics choose books to read based on quality of publisher... MIT press books always read first over Basic books publishing as the quality level is guaranteed higher +* At the academic level won't take things that are "open access", it's seen as 4th class in a 2 class world +* Stigma against self-publishing +* Convince the American government to apply the Sherman act +* We were hopeful the ebook revolution would have resolved these issues in the physical book world +* Issues around the no-DRM book club (self-published, small and medium) + * Stigma around editing level with self-publishing (lack of quality control) + * Standardize + * Editorial board need (staffing!) + * A rating system + * Is the talent going to buy into it + * Lack of access to DRM hardware (Kindle) + * Legal backing publishers provide + * Issue getting into Chapters (physical/print book space) - Channel distribution + * Small to medium market share + * Consumers knowing about the issue +* [W J Gilmore](http://www.wjgilmore.com/) (involved in Kevin's book) +* [Self-esteem prophecies sold + 10k](http://www.confidencemanual.com/fear/self-fulfilling-prophecy.htm) +* [Apress](http://www.apress.com/) you can buy non-DRM books here, including Kevin's +* Next gen fiction based publishing is possible - Chris P +* Are authors looking for prestige, or cash. Each of the things above force you to choose one or the other. +* Gatekeeper and Gatekeeping +* ebooks are the big mac of publishing - Rob Wipond +* Novels are more of the market than technical manuals +* Prior to 1970 you could stake out a piece of land and build yourself a ~30 acre homestead +* Apply to the province for a pre-emption claim +* Why did they get rid of pre-emption? +* [Preemption and homestead guide](http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/BC_Research_Guide/BC_Pr_Emptn_Hmstd.aspx) +* [PDF: Homesteading and Property Rights; Or, "How the West Was Really Won"](http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/homesteading.pdf) +* Most of the province is unused crown land +* Can we do this? +* Search Hansard from the Land Act +* Does the public understand public land vs crown (private property that belongs to the queen) land? +* Queen -> Governor General -> Lt. General -> Legislature +* Why did the top 1/2 of Vancouver island fail with homesteading? (Scandanavians?) +* Lock in + Growth in Employment negotiations +* [Jiro: Dreams of sushi](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/news) +* [Stiring it up](http://www.stirringitup.org/) +* [Deming Management Method](http://www.amazon.ca/Deming-management-method-Mary-Walton/dp/0399550003%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-z-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0399550003) +* [Dan Pink's TED talk on there's more to money than compensation](http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html) +* [Neil Young hates mp3s](http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/why-neil-young-hates-mp3-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/) +* Intellectual vs Kind +* "I'm kind" - Ernie diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-18-April-18-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-18-April-18-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3a0a89 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-18-April-18-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr18,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 18, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-04-18' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr18 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +People to invite to continue discussions from [last +week:](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr11,2012) + +* those familiar with books/publishing +* those familiar with the land act/pre-emption/homesteading + +## Agenda + +* Annual Membership dues due within 2 weeks. If you've been more than 3x, you need to be a member. $30/social, $150/full. Do full if you can afford it. +* City may be after the club again what do we do, and some dude said we're "an elite few" (KM) [http://www.timescolonist.com/news/City+agencies+fear+break/6459556/story.html](http://www.timescolonist.com/news/City+agencies+fear+break/6459556/story.html) +* ASC VII awesomites - bring $50. (KC) +* Homesteading/preemption (KC) +* [Seasteading](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading) (JC) +* The perfect RV (KC) +* Phonegap.com (KC) +* What would you buy if you could buy anything but could not resell it. Cost is no object. Why? (KM) +* SSH agent forwarding, anyone done it with smart cards? (KM) +* Doctorow Article on Domain Seizures (and why its wrong) [http://t.co/PZj5TcC3](http://t.co/PZj5TcC3) (KM) +* CISPA and real cybersecurity [http://openmedia.ca/blog/eff-teams-openmediaca-and-others-launch-stop-cyber-spying-week](http://openmedia.ca/blog/eff-teams-openmediaca-and-others-launch-stop-cyber-spying-week) (KM) +* a project idea re: the history and experiences of places (Fergus) +* Is there a common thread for idealism? (KC) +* GPG/P2P Social Network (KM) +* Priv.Ly, the Patent Pending open source kickstarter project. (KM) +* The federal "Conservative" party of Canada are not being conservative. Perhaps we should be calling them something else, referencing the appropriate political system they are operating, kinda like how we now refer to the "corporate media". Is authoritarian or totalitarian too strong/loaded, or appropriate? +* What's wrong with crypto cats / Idea for a usably-secure encryption device, hint not an iOS app. (KM) + +## Minutes + +Attending: Kris, Chris, Kevin, Lorne, Lisa, Fergus, Ernie, Megan (skype), Vanessa + +* The club is zoned commercial, the city doesn't have any actual zoned parks. If we were a park, we wouldn't need this commercial zone 'tax break'. We pay +$10k/year out of our own pockets to maintain the green. All citizens are welcome. +* Are all city councillors aware there are no zoned parks? +* June 25th - community consultation on community action plan for Victoria +* Victoria & Vic West are in designated city parks? +* [Cridge Park Rescue Group](http://cridgeparkrescue.com/) +* Burnside is still owed park space +* All all of the neighbourhood associations aware there is no zoned parks their neighbourhood? +* [Agenda setting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda-setting_theory) +* [Awesome Shit Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/asc-vii/) +* A high score board -- Minimum $50 to be an awesomite +* [Peter Theil's seasteading](http://www.seasteading.org/) +* [Floating community in Vancouver](http://www.floatingcommunities.com/floating_communities_canada.html) +* [Bioshock game](http://www.mahalo.com/bioshock/) +* [Seattle floating homes](http://www.seattlefloatinghomes.org/) +* [Kirabati](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati) (pronounced Kirobas) +* [Life on a carrier](http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/) +* [Aquaponics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics) +* Airstream trailer +* Make sure your RV is winterized +* How long can your RV survive off the grid? +* Westfalia +* [Vanagon](http://www.vanagon.com/index.htm) +* No RV has laundry +* Security? Big angry dog stands out more than firearms +* Where can you park your RV? +* [Timeshare campgrounds](http://www.myresortnetwork.com/NACO-campground/Resorts/Campgrounds/) +* See if Joe from phonegap.com can coem next Wednesday? +* [OpenSC](http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/MyEID) +* [Aventra](http://www.aventra.fi/English/products_main_E.html) +* [Cory Doctoria Guardian article](http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/17/why-mpaa-executive-joined-internet-society) is 1) factually incorrect (.org innocence) 2) who would honestly allow someone to flip sides within a year and run the organization? (MPAA goon; would you trust a pedophile to teach 3rd grade? shell to run Suzuki foundation?) +* Why did Verisign and or PIR not challenge the ICE seizures? +* Canada withdrew from ICANN due to the illegitimacy of Verisgn's control of gTLDs +* CISPA, the new repackaged SOPA/PIPA "want to be able to spy on any company in America... to protect it!" +* If it saves one life, who can argument? The Canadian public doesn't want to accept that real democracy can be messy; human lives have a value, human rights have a value. +* Canadians only argue for democracy when your face is in the carpet with a firearm; and when the public hears that, assumed you've done something wrong +* Madrid declaration - A series of principals that one can get behind +* In Red Cross, privacy advocates are called emergency workers +* A desire to protect community - resonates in idealism +* [BRCA2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA2) +* RNA interference to get rid of that gene's expression? Ethics! +* Normative of eugenics +* [Baby sex selection ad targets Indo-Canadians](http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/04/16/sex-selection-advertisement-child.html) +* [Fascism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism) +* Harper has excised every evidence of parliamentary system +* All science discourse? through Harper +* Parliamentary committees are all in camera +* Harper has attacked the Senate, attacked the courts +* We want proportional representation! +* When your government legalizes corruption, it's not corruption! diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-25-April-25-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-25-April-25-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e0a1ea --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-04-25-April-25-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Apr25,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Apr 25, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-04-25' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Apr25 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Preemption/Homesteading +* City lumped us in as getting the free tax break, with no mention we're zoned commercial as they refuse to zone any park space in the city, in which case this wouldn't be an issue. +* ASC VII +* [Biospace launched today](http://www.biospace.ca/) +* [MLA disclosed as lying about integrated case management system](http://fipa.bc.ca/home/news/313) +* Travel on the cheap +* Sketchup +* Duolingo +* Surveillance and data crisis combo +* Toxic wastedump 2.0 +* Best things to do on Vancouver island +* The ideasvic.ca website +* Tetla currency +* Club internet/skype + +## Minutes + +Attending: Kris, Ernie, Stu, Gary, Chris, Kevin, Rob (on skype: Vanessa, Megan), Charles, Maryanne, Lorne, Jay Armstrong + +* Ask Joe what we should have one our phones for next week (DONE! - KC) +* Get a homesteading person to contact Kevin as Kris will be away +* How are we releasing land? just to large commercial development? +* City won't go from 50 acres to 2 x 25 acres... only approved if it goes to postage stamped sized +* Near Radium hot springs they're starting a ranch community +* Gulf islands are done, nothing being released or sectioned off +* [Drop City](http://www.amazon.com/Drop-City-T-C-Boyle/dp/B0009YARGY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335407852&sr=8-1) book recommended by Megan +* No home steading, and no large condos -- leave +* Can you give away lands while treaty discussions are taking place +* If you're in forestry or postage stamp sized lots, you can get land, seems to be the only way in BC +* [Upcoming talk on community land trusts](http://communityeconomy.ca/blog/community-land-trusts-creative-way-buy-houses-together) +* [Amazon Supply](http://www.amazonsupply.com/) launched this week (VP) +* Send ASC links to teachers +* Designing a pdf poster that people can print and post at work +* [Tetla currency](http://www.tetla.org/) +* BC and Federal privacy commissioner complaints made around ALPR +* Genetically modified means either RNA or DNA, only. It doesn't mean it's all bad, or good. +* Just like ALPR, the ICM claims that the privacy commissioner approved it is not true +* Should we argue the privacy commissioner have approval power? +* We can't complain 2 years into ICM development, only after it's implemented +* What does the NDP think of ICM? Would they scrap it? +* [Wilson amp](http://www.wilsonamplifierstore.com/) acts like a femto cell +* [Radioworld Canada](http://radioworld.ca/) +* Get a big dog if travelling on the cheap, Kris! - CP +* [Jay Armstrong has these](http://cellantenna.com/index.php?id=yagi#8) +* Start an ideas meeting in every big city +* [Google Sketchup](http://sketchup.google.com/) +* [Duolingo](http://duolingo.com/): Stu installed after watching [this TED talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4) +* [Live Mocha](http://www.livemocha.com/) +* [TED talk - mosquito zapper](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyMuwNYKvI) +* [Jedi Census phenomenon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon) +* CPC muzzling scientists in Canada +* [2005 Budget](http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar06/text/html/taxdollar06_-eng.asp) documents changed +* [Residential tenancy now under Energy and Mines?](http://www.rto.gov.bc.ca/documents/RTB-1.pdf) not transparant at all +* Niagara Trestle, boating/fishing/crabbing +* Top things to do on Vancouver island: + * Sitting in the middle of Sooke potholes with a beer + * Build sandcatsles in Parksville on the beach (Ratsriver campground) + * East Sooke Park + * Botanical Beach + * Watching the sunset or a storm on Long beach in Tofino + * Go into the forests here, unlike other forests + * Go to an ideas meeting + * Hot springs cove + * Bike out the galloping goose to Thetis lake (leechtown) or to ferry in Sydney + * Beach fires blocked in Victoria?! + * Horn lake caving + * Mayne island (no rain, was sunny every day in June 2011) +* [The anti-NIMBY keep the fun in Victoria group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/119051951563250/) +* [Victoria Secrets](https://www.facebook.com/groups/25939286735/) +* Club no longer has internet, Kris used his cell phone data plan the last two weeks diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-02-March-02-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-02-March-02-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40b23d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-02-March-02-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May02,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 02, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-05-02' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May02 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +Reminder: If you've been to an ideas meeting more than three times, you're +expected to be a club member ($30/year social or $150/year full). If not, +please pay $5 "drop in" per visit. If you've never been before, guests are +welcome! + +## Agenda + +* With [BostonChapter](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/BostonChapter "BostonChapter") using the wiki now, we'll move the date convention city_date instead of just $date. i.e. [Victoria_May09,2012](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_May09,2012 "Victoria May09,2012") +* [ASC VII](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/). High scores page +* @infil00p coming over from Vancouver to talk to us about phonegap.com +* If you want to make a basic app, follow these steps for your phone in advance of the meeting: [http://phonegap.com/start](http://phonegap.com/start) +* YIMBY Group (Beachfires!) +* Privacy Commissioners grants announced ( [http://t.co/huQHxvys](http://t.co/huQHxvys) and [http://t.co/PJEBIEn7](http://t.co/PJEBIEn7) ) [congrats to our Chris Parsons] +* New Open Data from Province Of BC . Waterfall locations in BC. [http://t.co/395yRyzf](http://t.co/395yRyzf) Epic hacking opportunity. + +## Minutes + + +Mike, Derrick, Alex, Joe, Kevin, Kris + +* Apache Cordova is the open source +* Adobe Phonegap is the commercial +* [Create a github account](https://github.com/signup/free) +* #phonegap on freenode for those on IRC +* [Toura](http://toura.com/) uses phonegap +* [St. John the Baptist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist) + +## Phonegap -- The Easy way + +* Go to: [Phonegap's first project](https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-start) +* Download the zip file -- This is all you really need so start! +* Edit the index.html and replace the words " + +Phone **Gap** Training App + +" with " + +Ideas Meeting **Gap** Training App + +" to see how your changes will take effect + +* Go to: [Online phonegap build](https://build.phonegap.com/) +* Create a new app +* Name is something, like myFirst +* Enable debugging +* Make app private +* Upload an archive or index.html file +* Upload the zip file you downloaded above, but with the newly edited html included +* Wait a few minutes until the links are blue, then you can download your new app! diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-09-March-09-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-09-March-09-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dd58e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-09-March-09-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_May09,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 09, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-05-09' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May09 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Opportunities to network with other cities (Toronto and Boston are having meetups tonight) + +## Minutes + +* Look at viability of a project to collect rain water which currently just goes down storm drains into sewers, and use for watering the lawn bowling green. +* Create plan and pursue funding +* Who pays for watering city parks now? +* Health risks for sediment sitting in tanks and then becoming aerosolIzed(?) when sprayed out. +* UVic's synthetic turf is for field hockey. The static charge of a ball moving on dry turf gives it a reverse spin... which is difficult to trap with a stick. A wet surface allows the ball to glide. Players also avoid turf burns when sliding. They use grey water, what holding and treatment system do they use? +* YIMBY notes: can have a fire in a backyard if used for cooking diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-16-March-16-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-16-March-16-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15b99f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-16-March-16-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_May16,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 16, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-05-16' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May16 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Opportunities to network with other cities KC +* Ideas claim to fame/ worthwhile project/website E +* [Membership list](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Vic_Membership_list) + * Kris has a friend looking for Nancy's contact info! +* [The launch of BC Ideas](http://www.aletmanski.com/al-etmanski/2012/05/bc-ideas-launches.html) + * Perhaps invite the founders of this to the Victoria and/or Vancouver ideas meetings? + * Are they competition? + * Infringing on location/ideas? Can we work with them? + * social marketing + +Kevin's crappy ideas for the week. (Choose a few) + +* Programmer shortage? (Hint: no) and why scientific management chases away programmers. +* Byron Sonne set free. +* Victoria vs Beachfires. +* Why everyone should learn to code. +* Shaw EXO WIFI launches (and violates net neutrality on a claimed-temporary basis) +* Montreal protests, mask by-laws and bill C-309 +* Bill C-11 moves on to third reading. +* Open Data Hackathon with Queens Printer Association on Jun 2nd. Everyone should come. +* IC BC is attacking inexperienced drivers (read youth) again, proposing to charge more to those least able to pay to lower rates for those most able to pay. Fair? +* Vivian Krause, Damage Control, American Funding orgs rewriting grants in wake of engo funding scandals. See: [http://t.co/SDZfxoUB](http://t.co/SDZfxoUB) +* City Spends 250k on 35 meter foot path. See: [http://t.co/6btSQQir](http://t.co/6btSQQir) +* Unmanned bombers. [http://t.co/CsWxxa2P](http://t.co/CsWxxa2P) + +## Minutes + +* networking with other cities + * challenge in marketing + * aim is for monthly meetings, at least, in each city + * people want to join Vic meetings to 'see what it's like' + * how can we work together with other groups to collaborate on ideas/projects + * key issue is lack of wifi + * Kris: idea is to overcome the marketing issue + * what about circulating a set of questions of ideas to members of Vic group (e.g. "how would you describe Ideas meeting in one sentence? what is the best thing about them? what's the coolest thing that's come out?). After surveying have synopsis/half-paragraph of what things are + * Ideas as locomotion: hard to explain, no one wants to watch. Kinda like parliament :P + * perhaps aim for 'innovative thinkers' in respective areas of interest (e.g. building engines, business plans, clothing and fashion, tech, etc). Biased towards action. Here to work through issues together + * combo of change lab (people brought together to solve problems) and a think tank + * perhaps be wary of defining 'who' comes and instead emphasize X kinds of things happen. Diverse people who are creative come together to do things together. + * (KC off grid for next week, perhaps for the next two) + +* Membership list + * just have a list where people ID that they are members of the club AND members of Ideas + * aim is to show membership who is involved with Ideas + +* BC Ideas Grant + * fill out grant for a 2K grant for internet for ideas vic + * aim is to get grant for teh Internetz + * should invite founders, not competition, and the more the merrier + +* Social Marketing + * getting ready for green drinks: know anyone who is doing social marketing campaigns in town + * talk to KM and RW for names + * thinking of applying to small business + * examples of campaigns + people + * genuine participation as key; can't just broadcast but need to find way of encouraging/convincing parties to adopt eco-friendly processes + * linking with individuals as individuals, not necessarily as a business + * looking for interesting ideas for encouraging social change; online not a requirement + +* Murry on TB of NASA info (from last week) + * talked with colleagues and plans on having people next week to talk about moving/accessing/dealing with TBs of open data + * issue: how do you get what you need w/o ability to run scripts over the data set(s) themselves + * large part of question is: how do you write the APIs? + +* With regards to peerjacking, can we list companies who have patched/affected by credit card vulnerability + * Gov't was unwilling to translate info to journo (i.e. RW) + * can we standardize breech notification? (next!) + * names of companies on site - still major companies who have not patched + * only one company has notified customers via web page notice. NO public disclosure + * customer = businesses running the software + * could file complaint to OPC to see if they'd launch full process + * Canadian parties show overly limited/incompetent: need to bring to international groups who can actually bring this into the spotlight + * challenge is demonstration of clear and present danger of KM's vulnerability + * is there a framework we could create for other class breaks? + * KM sees all as a 'moot discussion' in 6 months because copyright law will require notification to all parties in the future. Would prevent anyone from possibly notifying class breaks + * copyright as making illegal the notification of vulnerabilities in how PII is transmitted + +* Idea Claim to fame + * how do we explain what we do that's cool + * broadcast in the broader community + * around marketing Ideas + * Murray: rock video of example meeting. Year of meetings condensed into a short period of time. Also: 80s hair + * look at how other groups (e.g. Toastmasters) have been successful/survived/thrived + * if you want to define yourselves, then have to say what you do, and how we do it. Latter important to shareholders. + * on a website: do we do a whole site? what is the most valuable part of the site as it stands now? + * minutes of a lot of meeting really useless; even video of meeting isn't being at the meeting (why Murray talked that meetings were like locomotion) + * minutes good where accountability is important; for these meetings they're perhaps beneficial to explain the 'feel' of what goes on. Don't necessarily care about what talk about: it's about the free flow of ideas + * RW found minutes helpful for reference. Links to sites and stuff are helpful. + * KM useful as demonstrating the context of questions and fitting particular issues within a broader set of question + * brevity often seen useful in the minutes; makes the space 'safe' to talk in + * organize minutes in terms of the ideas? Almost like a wikipedia thing - link between ideas over time. Create a knowledge base + * splash page? What are we, when is it, what are some questions? + * aim is to ensure that we can link across time in the wiki + * doesn't this create technical challenges? With a wiki, can't we have topics that let us cross-reference between dates and topics? + * do we record topics but tag by date? + * perhaps have a front-end with accessible topic database with links into wiki + +* Chris: What to think of leaving the net? + * it's art! + * W3C tech plenary where no wifi. People were sweating because couldn't accomplish things meant to accomplish b/c no wifi. Murray left stuff behind for a week and was interesting + * amazing how dependent/addicted people are on wireless/phones. MM sees as a useful exercise. Great to stay away from tech for a while to think through how those w/o tech see the world on a regular basis + * people should get away from tech on a semi-regular basis because it means people forget about how non-tech users deal with the web + * publishing offline mag on community issues; it's offline nature is different/interesting. Nice to have something that's away from the Internet + * don't see benefit over leaving for year instead of a month. + * MM: see how computers haven't delivered on making the world easier + * while tech may make tasks easier, overall it seems that the cumulative effects are not to make live easier + * but in 60s could get an operator, whereas now would yell at me for talking to the operator + * instead of making the world a better place, has made it more difficult; forced to learn, not incentivized to learn + * CP: interested in seeing whether author of The Verge runs into issues b/c of how computerization has shifted avenue of engaging with world and government + * KM: without a computer, how would I have a life? + * RW: part of the trouble is just going offline because there is so much assumed with being online. After a few weeks it's pretty easy to stay off + * will only be clear what he has lost once he plugs back in: what he realizes has happened and was unaware of will be of note + * consciousness changes as you leave media. When you leave, can you be better at what you doing without reading/engaging with other media publications + * CP on impact of mediation of the establishment/realization of the self and community + +* Learn to code (damnit!) + * KM: everyone should learn to code b/c code is about learning logical structures. Code encourages systematic thinking, and that's something important to develop. Also learn certain kinds of math, such as differential baseN math systems. Even if never code a line in life, code will improve your daily life by bringing awareness about the world at large. + * MM: KM is talking about showing shadow of truth. It makes visible the dimensions of logic. + * Coding is methodical and instantaneous. You're right/wrong. + * MM: questions whether code necessitates logic thinking diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-23-March-23-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-23-March-23-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87b5254 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-23-March-23-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_May23,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 23, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-05-23' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May23 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Options, ideas, needs assessment and discussion about property upgrades and grants (CPLBC, E) + * expansion of the building on the north side ,utilizing the area between the shed and the clubhouse ,and use that area as the locker room and the existing locker room as a storage area + * do the kitchen and bathrooms only and have a good cleaning of the floor in the big room + * official estimates provided for flooring of the whole building + * outside painting of the two buildings + * area in front of the shed should be paved + * Rodent proof the Clubhouse. + * Install water-efficient toilets. + * Provide energy-efficient lighting throughout. + * Provide more sun protection/ replace worn-out umbrellas. + * Install public address system of microphone/ loudspeakers for indoor and outdoor use. +* Practical Security Guides +* Community programs; what's it like to work with them? +* 9:00pm PST Skype in person to speak with open data and large datasets (deferred until next week - wifi :( ) +* Programmer shortage? (Hint: no) and why scientific management chases away programmers. + +## Minutes + +* Practical Security Guides + * Showed GPG guides on iPad + * DITA as possible way of going from .doc --> .epub --> html + * issues to work though in how to make guide visible; some bugs to work through +* Contract with community groups + * aim to insulate VIRCS et al from real estate transactions + * services paid by referral fees of the buyer + * working with community of people who have been through immigration process + * settlement is incredibly hard problem/challenge + * idea is to enable newcomers through enhanced service offerings that are tailored to them +* Programmer shortage? (Hint: no) and why scientific management chases away programmers. + * BC tech industry, 7-8 years ago, removed rights that high tech workers have to labour laws + * rules that normally protect employees don't apply to high tech workers in BC + * problems somewhat curtailed in EA spouse went public + * the scientific management system encourages burnout, but programmers are smart enough to avoid crunch companies, and the result is that companies/gov't trying to bring in foreign workers (which will damage the supply/demand framework). Long-term consequence would be to prevent local competition for contracts and thus impose crunching across all companies + * Lorne: similarities with animation industry + * how do we represent small companies/programmers to improve labor standards? + * what can local programmers offer over immigrant programmers diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-30-March-30-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-30-March-30-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2aef4ac --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-05-30-March-30-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_May30,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 30, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-05-30' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May30 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* IdeasVic skype account now active! Add it if you can't get to the meeting! (KC, KM and EU have the password) +* Campaign to request from our ISPs, what information they provide law enforcement; what information they provide (subscriber data?) and if they require subpoena (KC) +* Wiki cleanup (KC) +* Legalized institutionalized investment in BC (CL) +* Venus is going to transit the sun in a couple weeks (MM) +* Weather (LC) +* Interactions with other clubs +* Squatting (KC) +* Provincial ideas fund (Lisa) +* Union amalgamation (KC) +* Open Data Society of British Columbia (KM) + +## Minutes + +* [Legalize* (Institutional) Responsible Investment in BC!](https://www.facebook.com/groups/446484405364742/) +* Law enforcement release info always vague in Terms of Service +* What information does your ISP and/or TSP have on you? Ask them under PIPEDA. +* [Venus to transit the sun on June 5th at 18:01 in Victoria for ~8 minutes](http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/where-to-be) +* Last one in your life! +* [Venus transit art](http://www.rmg.co.uk/blogs/rog/Transit%20of%20Venus.jpg) +* [BCideas](http://www.changemakers.com/BCideas) +* [250life article on Open Data society](http://www.250life.ca/open-data-society-of-british-columbia/) +* [AngelHack](http://angelhack.com/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-06-13-June-13-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-06-13-June-13-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34f3741 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-06-13-June-13-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_Jun13,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jun 13, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-06-13' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jun13 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Accreditation/Certification organizations: good, bad, new? (E) + * Which ones provide useful/accurate information to consumers + * What do all those letters mean? +* Journey to Balance event July 8 (E) +* Global Buckets (S) +* Obscurity by Design (CP) +* ALPR Update (CP) + +## Minutes + +* Journey to Balance event July 8 (E) + * The same things will attract some people and repel others + * Make it clear how money is spent (donated, admin costs, etc) + +* Eyes and juice (E) + * Google goggles and augmented reality + * New audio algorithms, surround 9.3 and directional subs, "Sound Sphere" Kieran Koulter (UBC) + +* Global Buckets (S) + * [Global Buckets](http://www.globalbuckets.org/) + * Earth Box + * Put egg shells or bone meal in the soil to prevent calcium rot + * Windowfarms + * Swiss Chard grows very easily, + +* Accreditation/Certification organizations: good, bad, new? (E) + * Which ones provide useful/accurate information to consumers + * What do all those letters mean? + * First past the post now enforces their qualifications as follower hazing + * Certs are weeding people out, not qualifying them + * Licensing vs Credentials + * Liability deferral, can blame failures on someone else since "I checked for the sticker" + * Infiltrated regulatory bodies + * If an independent org tries to say some large organization is "bad", they'll be shut down to lack of funding to defend against a SLAPP suit or slander, etc. + * Just start it, see how long it takes to get people coming to us to get in! + * Assertion system for trust (LinkedIn somewhat does this) Personal reputated/Socratic based method, use a reputational currency (# of points allowed to be assigned to someone per time eriod) + +* Obscurity by Design (CP) + +* ALPR Update (CP) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-06-20-June-20-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-06-20-June-20-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..281a7e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-06-20-June-20-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_Jun20,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jun 20, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-06-20' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jun20 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* iPhone vs Android vs Blackberry vs Windows Mobile/Phone (E) +* Cloud vs Shared cloud vs Private cloud (E) +* Hosted/private email services w/IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV (E) +* AngelHack (Seattle the only city left with tickets, anyone going?) (KC) +* biospace.ca - post DIY-BIO conference in SFO, we're now on the global map (KC) +* [REclass](http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/REclass "REclass") \- Instead of local, move to online? I have people interested in helping... (KC) +* skype/HD video conference with another ideas group? Anyone have access to CANARIE (Chris P perhaps?) (KC) +* Victoria vs Beachfires. (KM) +* Bill C-11 passes. (KM) +* Building relations with club - Ideas event at the club (KC) (meta/club business moved to end KM) +* Ideas for other activities at the club (KC) (meta/club business moved to end KM) +* Backup service regulations in Canada vs US, data retention policies? Furnish to Uncle Sam? (E) + +## Minutes diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-07-11-July-11-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-07-11-July-11-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..53bf8c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-07-11-July-11-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_Jul11,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jul 11, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-07-11' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jul11 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* Public sector IP and deliverables (GR) + +## Minutes + +* Public sector IP and deliverables (GR) +* Standards and non-proprietary software and markup (MM) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-07-25-July-25-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-07-25-July-25-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f00a399 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-07-25-July-25-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_Jul25,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Jul 25, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-07-25' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Jul25 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Minutes + +* Most of the discussion was around [Makerfaire](http://vi.makerfaire.ca/) this week-end put on by [Makerspace](http://www.makerspace.ca/) +* [The Community experience](http://www.krisconstable.com/goals/the-community-experience/) +* [Ortolan Bunting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_Bunting) +* [Bundling](http://threerivershms.com/bundling.htm) +* [Geodesic domes in the NorthWest](http://domesnorthwest.com/) +* [Lassen Volcanic National Park](http://www.nps.gov/lavo/index.htm) +* [Pecha Kucha Night Victoria #10](http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/victoria/10) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2012-08-01-August-01-2012.md b/_posts/Victoria/2012-08-01-August-01-2012.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07709d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2012-08-01-August-01-2012.md @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_Aug01,2012' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Aug 01, 2012 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2012-08-01' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- Aug01 +- '2012' +- Victoria +--- + +## Agenda + +* VicPD FOI +* [Kris' upcoming road trip](http://www.lustwander.org/) +* [Intoxicant.ca](http://victoria.intoxicant.ca/): Corkage & Handling Comments +* What are people using for Task Management/GTD +* [Makerfaire](http://vi.makerfaire.ca/) recap +* [http://toorcamp.org](http://toorcamp.org/) +* [ALPR](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-privacy-watchdog-probes-polices-use-of-automated-licence-plate-scanning/article4450712/) +* wiki spam + +## Minutes + +* [VicPD FOI](http://www.vicpd.ca/public-information/freedom-of-information.aspx): Stu +* Kris' trip + * Dale Dougherty (Make) knowing about fairs dale@oreilly.com + * Hallowe'en - San Anton on the river walk + * Grand Canyon + * Arco Santi - Arizona (experimental architectural community) + * Vehicle + * RV + * Westfalia? + * Truck with camper in Cab + * Avoid hurricane alley + * [AirBNB](http://www.airbnb.com/) + * [Wanderlust](http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/) + * [Hamvention](http://hamvention.org/) + * [Birthplace of Aviation](http://www.daytoncvb.com/visitors/the-birthplace-of-aviation/) + * Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland + * Museums and Planetarium in Chicago + * All of the internet carrier exchanges (IX Maps) + * [Tubes (book)](http://www.amazon.ca/Tubes-Andrew-Blum/dp/1554689791/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343876354&sr=1-1) + * [Mystery Spot](http://www.mysteryspot.com/) + * [Winchester Mystery House](http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/) + * [Magic Castle](http://www.magiccastle.com/about/index.cfm/) + * [Sundial Bridge](http://www.turtlebay.org/sundialbridge/) + * [Mt. Shasta](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta/) +* London (for CP) + * [Smith fields market](http://www.ukretailpark.com/london/smithfield-meat-market.htm) +* Intoxicant + * Ride home programs +* GTD + * [RTM](http://www.rememberthemilk.com/) + * Chris: Don't make lists, write down what I did at the end of the day + * Murray: Predictability is important + * [Productivity Porn](http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/28465017852/productivity-porn) + * [Trello](https://trello.com/) + * [Listmania](http://www.listmania.us/) + * [Listography](http://listography.com/) + * [Deming Management Method](http://www.amazon.ca/Deming-management-method-Mary-Walton/dp/0399550003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343878798&sr=8-1) + * Physical notebook - LP + * [Workflowy](https://workflowy.com/) + * [About Workflowy](http://lifehacker.com/5681898/workflowy-is-a-one-list-to-rule-them-all-organization-tool) +* [Experience](http://www.krisconstable.com/goals/the-community-experience/Community) +* Making your own chair +* ALPR - 2 years of research! 16 months ago started ATIP +* [Maker Camp](http://makezine.com/maker-camp/) +* Chris speaking Sept 27th in Italy at [Surveilling Surveillance](http://www.ittig.cnr.it/smart2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=58) on ALPR +* Ideas Meetings + * Way different based on who shows up + * What is it? + * How do the first two meetings go? + * The first rule of ideas meetings, is talk about ideas meetings +* Must watch movies + * Fight Club + * Memento + * Billy Madison + * The Big Lebowski + * Fantasia + * The Godfather + * Forrest Gump + * Shawshank Redemption + * What dreams may come + * Brasil +* Books + * The Trial (free, public domain) + * Metamorphosis + * Accelerando diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2013-05-23-March-23-2013.md b/_posts/Victoria/2013-05-23-March-23-2013.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55ff0fd --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2013-05-23-March-23-2013.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_May23,2013' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: May 23, 2013 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2013-05-23' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- May23 +- '2013' +- Victoria +--- + +## Minutes + +In attendance: Heather, Jay + +Location; Accelerate Tectoria + +* Green/Climate discussion +* jobjar.ca demo +* Green the green event +* Biking pub crawl +* Discussion of an open venue so Kris isn't the bottleneck for events diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2013-06-05-June-05-2013.md b/_posts/Victoria/2013-06-05-June-05-2013.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b23bdcc --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2013-06-05-June-05-2013.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_June05,2013' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: June 05, 2013 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2013-06-05' +categories: +- Victoria +tags: +- June05 +- '2013' +- Victoria +--- + +The event starts at 7p.m, at [Community Micro Lending](http://communitymicrolending.ca/contact)! All open minded critical thinkers are welcome! + +The theme this week is " **... this is upcycling. opportunism in waste** " + +You have between now and June 5th to upcycling something, and bring it in to demo. + +For some ideas, try [images.google.com](https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1361&bih=601&q=upcycling&oq=upcycling&gs_l=img.3..0l10.4429.5885.0.6246.9.5.0.4.4.0.52.160.5.5.0...0.0.0..1ac.1.12.img.ferAk4G-rjQ) or [pinterest](http://pinterest.com/compai/upcycled/), but bonus points if you come up with something unique! + +If you don't have anything upcycled or you're not feeling creative, come check out the creations of others anyway! + +If you're on Facebook, check out the [event page](https://www.facebook.com/events/495043370569264/). + +## Minutes + +In attendance: Carmen, Jen & Brian, Stu, Andrew, Kris + +URLs that were mentioned: + +* [Hammer and Tidy](http://hammerandtidy.ca/Welcome.html) +* [Makerspace](http://makerspace.ca/) +* [Recyclart](http://www.recyclart.org/) +* [Jen Bell's Pinterest page on upcycling](http://pinterest.com/brianbell/) +* [Cinevic](http://www.cinevic.ca/) +* [MediaNet](http://www.medianetvictoria.org/) +* [Awesome Shit Club](http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/) +* [IdeaWave](http://www.ideawave.ca/) +* [Ideas - Victoria (this group)](http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/VictoriaChapter) +* [Olio](http://oliocooperative.ca/) diff --git a/_posts/Victoria/2013-06-19-June-19-2013.md b/_posts/Victoria/2013-06-19-June-19-2013.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df137b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/Victoria/2013-06-19-June-19-2013.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +from: 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200205115447/http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/Victoria_June05,2013' +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: June 19, 2013 +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +date: '2013-06-19' +categories: +- Victoria +- Upcoming +tags: +- June19 +- '2013' +- Victoria +--- + +## Minutes + +In attendance: Heather, Jay + +Location; Accelerate Tectoria + +* Green/Climate discussion +* jobjar.ca demo +* Green the green event +* Biking pub crawl +* Discussion of an open venue so Kris isn't the bottleneck for events diff --git a/victoria.md b/victoria.md deleted file mode 100644 index 29d0902..0000000 --- a/victoria.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Victoria -layout: external -external_url: http://archive.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/VictoriaChapter ---- diff --git a/victoria/index.html b/victoria/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef513d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/victoria/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +layout: page +status: publish +published: true +title: Victoria +author: + display_name: cqwww + login: cqwww + email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca + url: '' +author_login: cqwww +author_email: kris@onedaywebsite.ca +categories: [] +tags: [] +comments: [] +--- + +

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The Ideas meetings in Victoria started in 2007.

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