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Breakout groups that meet at Chi Hack Night every Tuesday in Chicago
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How to Track Animals in Urban Areas #102

Closed defarm closed 7 years ago

defarm commented 7 years ago

About the group

Mapping the population of animals in urban areas, tracking their migrations, and working on our complex relationship (for the better!).

Group leaders

David E. Farmilant

Who we're looking for

Brainstormers! TBD

Tools

Flow charts! TBD

Relevant Links

http://www.wikihow.com/Brainstorm

Where we meet

In a room with a whiteboard, or the library if we're beat to one...

WesThorburn commented 7 years ago

Hi Defarm, I'm interested. I'll be at Chi Hack Night tomorrow night, I'll keep an eye out for this group's introduction at the start!

defarm commented 7 years ago

I'm running late. I'll be there a little after 6.

bburns632 commented 7 years ago

Check out MyTraps and OpenScout from Spensa. This company appears to have the same goal as this breakout group. They have hardware, software, and analysis. They started as a Purdue Project in 2013.

atenn commented 7 years ago

Lincoln Park Zoo also has Chicago Wildlife Watch: http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/03/27/urban-wildlife-monitoring-program-expanded-lincoln-park-zoo https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/chicago-wildlife-watch

WesThorburn commented 7 years ago

Spensa's two apps combined with Lincoln Park Zoo's wildlife watch program makes this project idea fairly redundant. Although, I'm still happy to help out if there are any other ideas that haven't already been implemented.

defarm commented 7 years ago

I think it's safe to say that putting this project on an indefinite hold is the wise thing to do. My initial expectation for this project was to be able to reach out to communities of people without access to technology. Humanitarian Open Street Map has been doing a great job at mapping out disease carrying animals and insects in countries where they are active; I agree that this, on all levels of completion, would be redundant.

WesThorburn commented 7 years ago

We better close this issue for now then. Just so they don't keep reading it out to everyone at Hack Night. It can be reopened at any point later on if we decide to resume.

defarm commented 7 years ago

Yes. If anyone is interested in HOT, here's a Facebook link to their page. https://www.facebook.com/hotosm/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf