{"id":6418,"date":"2013-05-29T23:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2013-05-29T23:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T03:08:58","slug":"wednesday-night-echo-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/05\/29\/wednesday-night-echo-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – echo summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent part of the day today at a water summit at the ECHO center down by the lake. The fun thing was that the topics on discusion, open data and sensor networks are now parts of my day job, the summit brought together about 80 folks from a wide range of interests and professions to imagine lake champlain in 2018.<\/p>\n

The opening was by Sen. Pat lehey.. A big supporter of echo, he gave a great talk about growing up with the lake.. <\/p>\n

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Several other good speakers including my friend phelan <\/div>\n
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and my buddy sarah who's up from ny. She and her work partner ben run the fabulous biobus which drives around exposing kids to the most amazing science. We ,et them at the gathering of the vibes 2 years ago where we were both teaching science to hippies<\/span><\/div>\n
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Some of the attendees were a little hard to get out of. There shell<\/p>\n

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The echo meeting was pretty good.. Itll be interesting to see what is synthesized from it. Im hoping that were going to use the outcome to drive for the creation of an open data repository for all aspects of the lake champlain basin. And a network for connected citizen science for lake stewardship. We'll see<\/div>\n
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I had several other work meetings today that i had to get outside to do.. I. Took advantage of the pier at echo to take my calls out in the water<\/p>\n

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After dinner at echo, i came home for dinner number 2. I wanted to soak up having both boys home.. They were having a huge meat fest.. So i sat this one out..<\/div>\n
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The evening has now moved on to blender sports.. Max and gabe are trying to see what will and wont blend in Diane's vitamax… The blender equivalent of a chain saw… Heres the result of blending a whole bag of thise wierd peach rings.. Dont try this at home !<\/p>\n

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Max is heading back early tomorrow.. So im goign to hang out a little more with him,,, so i'll sign off now…<\/p>\n

More tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

Ps.. For some reason theres a cow skull on my table… Never a dull moment with max around<\/div>\n
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