Meeting+Info

Notes from discussions and meetings.

Conversation between Kalpana and Gwen, June 24, 2010:

How would we measure it? - Legal regimes are changed (local, state, federal, international levels o Second order results: § Issue framing shifts in helpful ways § Changes in which stakeholders are involved in the conversation (not just engineers/technocrats at the table) Intermediate levels of success: - Specific corporate policies are changed - Specific enforcement actions are taken within existing regulatory structures - Communities asserting themselves in new ways
 * What is a successful outcome?: As a result of this documentation, decision makers must do things differently**

Before that, overwhelming, highly public, and technical information must be presented to policy and decision makers that they can’t easily refute, deny, or ignore - Data must accompany specific STORIES Before that, STORIES must be captured - Community members must be able to collect those stories Use case study of current community use of sensing - oil spill - and then create a new system?

September 27, 2010 Conference call: Kalpana, Liz, Nithya, Gwen

Nithya: Behind on schedule; we could have something up and running in the next month and will know a lot more about exact date in next week. Liz: What we wanted to do was follow up and get more people to participate (100 complaints goal), but timing is tricky because we head into colder months because there aren't as many complaints. One idea would be to talk to exec director re: timing (maybe launch in spring) Gwen: Spring would be easier to get involved; might be able to raise some money

Plan: Liz will talk to Sandy about pushing off till spring.