Local Food Systems Computer Modeling, GIS, Data(mining) group

Mobile Poultry Processing Unit Planning Meeting

Megan Shoenfelt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:54:59 -0500

Start: 11/24/2008 - 13:00

End: 11/24/2008 - 15:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Mobile Poultry Processing Unit Planning Meeting

Research Services Bldg. Room 130

OARDC Wooster Campus

Regional and National Partners

Benefits of Developing Local Currencies?

M.Ajamian B.Jaeger — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:05:18 -0500

Hey fellow food activists,

A nearby fellow permaculture student recently put together a small bit of secondary research for the Athens Area Resiliency Committee, on the benefits of local currencies, a concept that I used to think sounded really righteous, but more recently thought less important. I have attached the document.

I am interested in hearing thoughts on this document, particularly from folks with backgrounds in economics and local economies.

Thanks,

Brandon Jaeger

Main Group

Market Maker: What is it? How can we use it?

Sam Rose — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:36:29 -0400

Hi friends,

I received lots of great feedback from many of you that I had a chance to speak with at the Stinner Summit recently.

Lots of projects and groups were interested in havign access to geographic mapping online. It turns out that there is already a resource available that offers quite a bit of publicly-available data.

That tool is Ohio Market Maker

(also linked to under useful links above)

Main Group

Can we post maps showing where our users are, where food processing infrastructure exists, etc?

M.Ajamian B.Jaeger — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:09:41 -0400

I was hoping the site could have various info maps-one would be under list of all users showing where users are. maybe that list could be organized by region or alphabetically as right now it seems random and it's hard to look through. Also I think it would be a great resource to map farms, processing facilities, inclduing kitchens, meat processing, dairy processing, mills, etc, farm markets, CSAs, distributors, and even commercial buyers of local food.

Marketing and Education, relative to any foods

A New Type of Insfrastructure for Local Systems (including local food systems) based on search

Sam Rose — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:59:24 -0400

Today I read this amazing article:

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

Local Food Systems Computer Modeling, GIS, Data(mining) group

Modeling food system logistics using ExtendSim

Casey Hoy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:14:53 -0400

This post is mainly for the Food Systems Modeling, GIS and Data group, but I'm including a few other groups that could be interested as well.

Private Institutional food service as a way to initiate local food systems

Idea: Local food systems computer modeling and datamining services

Sam Rose — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:39:06 -0400

Main Group