Logistics Email

Oct 20, 2015

Dear Participants,

The Open Source Ecology Aquaponics Workshop is coming up, and we are excited to have you with us. Here is some information to prepare you for this epic build.

First, all of you are required to fill out the logistics and expectations survey: arrivals, departures, accommodations, and more. Please fill out this survey to help us organize the logistics and to help you with accommodations:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Workshop_Logistics_and_Expectations_Form

Some important notes:

Registrations. There are currently 26 people registered for the workshop. The turnout has been very positive, even though we are quite late in the season. Dorm Rooms. We have a total of 22 beds in our shared dorm rooms. We have a total of 9 rooms, with 2-4 beds in each, and typically 2. 5 of these rooms are shown here so you can gauge your expectations. There are 4 more not shown, with similar beds but with doors to the outside of Hablab and not heated. Food. See Weather. The avarage temperature in Maysville, MO in November is high 50s (F) during the day and high 30s during the night (see graph of temperature for Maysville). Please bring warm clothing. Extra Tools. We will be doing a massive parallel build, and the main tools that we will use will be cordless drills, and other carpentry, plumbing, and electrical tools. There is no such thing as too many tools on the site. We have all the tools required for an effective build, but the more tools and spares is better. Bring cordless drills, cutoff and circular saws, jig saws, or any other utility tools, cutters, saws, your favorite tape measure, straight edge, level, hammer, and cordless drill. Protective Clothing. For build workshops, protective clothing is required. Please bring work boots, gloves, eye protection, hard hats, and earplugs. These will all be provided, but extras will be useful.

Please respond to this email if you have any other questions.

Thanks,

Marcin

Oct 29, 2015

Dear Participants,

Things are moving right along for the aquaponics workshop, and we have some of the most detailed and well planned build procedures to date. To follow up from last email - all the people who requested dorm space are good to go. There are only a couple of hardy campers, so if you requested a dorm preference, you are ok. If you get the unheated dorm rooms in the main heated house, bring a sleeping bag for extra warmth. We will send another email with specific room allocation. We are putting people together in rooms based on the group they are coming with. We are completely full house right now, so anyone else that signs up would have to to secure a hotel or find other accommodations. Please review the last email for what to bring - and make sure that you stay warm - and if you haven't filled out that last syrvey yet, please do so.

To prepare for the event, we would like to hear about any special skills that you may have that would be useful for us to know with respect to role allocation/team formation. Such as carpentry, plumbing, electronics, leadership, quality control, management, documentation, aquaponics, or any of the elements in the build program, etc. We are going through role allocation, and we want to mix and match talent to provide the best workflow and to optimize learning.

Feel free to respons to this email to let us know on relevant skill sets, and also shoot any other questions our way.

Thanks,

Marcin and the OSE Team