Made a very full day with lots of variety. But I paid for it tonight and I'm just finishing up my email from today at 1 AM. I try never to go to sleep with more than a page of email still in my inbox. It's a good discipline but it doesn't allow for much sleep these days.

My day was split between a work workshop and a number of other work. meetings as well as the end of the echo water summit I'm very pleased that the water summit and my day job are intersecting quite well. It will be interesting to see how the summit is summarized but one of the great outcomes from my perspective is Echo's commitment to create an open data resource for water data related to the Lake Champlain basin. This fits in very well with my work concentration right now.

I'm very excited about the prospects of open data for collaboration. There's actually a day of civic hacking is happening this Saturday but I'm just speaking in on the topic of open data more on that as it occurs.

A couple of highlights from today included a good talk from robert Kennedy Junior at the summit. He's an environmental lawyer with a long history of protecting waterways. He was funny, passionate and well-informed. He was quite an inspiration.

We also Had Secretary of State Markowitz teach us the Vermont State song while the state commissioner for water quality did interpretive dance

After work i went to our annual Vt Academy Of science and engineering (vase)spring meeting. We inducted the new member and we saw presentations from schools Woodcott equipment grants. That was so great to see the teachers and students describing their work it really felt like we made a difference.

Then I headed home. On the way Diane called to ask if I wanted to go to tuscanos for friend Jean's birthday. Why not? So we did that

after being out with friends for a while i came back and then spent 3 hours catching up on my email from just this one day. But it was worth it!
More tomorrow

Night all night Sam
– JC

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