Hello all. I would like to speak for a few minutes on small-scale farming in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam (where I do a lot of agricultural research and teaching). I am particularly looking for individuals with open tech soft/hardware solutions that wish to trial their innovations and ideas in these communities.
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Hey Aaron, I’m interested in joining your talk to learn more! Kindly check out https://www.litefarm.org/ and let me know if it’s a good fit for your needs. We’ve got about a dozen users in Vietnam right now. We don’t currently offer a Vietnamese version of the app, but we’re always looking for local partners to provide quality, locally contextual translations =)
Hello! Yes, I can give a lightning talk on the Small Farm Innovation Challenge we are hosting! https://caff.org/caffs-2023-innovation-challenge/ I can share for a few minutes. If there is extra time I can play a 5-7 minute YouTube video highlighting one of last year’s winners.
Cheers, Elizabeth Vaughan
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Hello from Maine. Yes, I would be very interested in chatting with you. See you soon, Aaron
P.S. A long time ago, I did a MA at Simon Fraser (and spent two years working on an organic farm in Abbortsford 
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Hi! I’m interested in talking a bit about the work that my team does in precision ag. We basically develop low cost open source tech for data collection that can be used on farm by researchers and farmers. We are also developing an open source weeds image repository for the US and the tech and data pipeline around to support such enterprise. Our research focuses mainly on cover crops and weeds.
I’ll put some slides together and share before Saturday.
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I’d like to give a talk on a software platform called Chroma Signet that uses an open source barcode standard to gather research data from the regulated cannabis supply chain.
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Hi all, I’d love to share how we’re supporting small scale farmers in Asia and Africa by helping digitize data for farmer organizations which when shared can inform improved advisories and unlock better more targeted market/ financial services. We’ve developed an open source data sharing software called FarmStack to help orgs exchange data along with a data wallet that helps farmers control and use their own data.
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Hello From Nebraska, I am interested in finding partners for developing “Open source scalable robotics and mechanized systems framework for all”
Santosh Pitla : https://bse.unl.edu/faculty/santosh-pitla
Hi! I’d like to do a brief introduction to a new open source social technology being developed by the non-profit Prosocial World and its partners, that can help groups and groups of groups work together more effectively toward shared goals. Based in part on the pioneering work of Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom around commoning, Prosocial’s “ARC Process” can be applied to a variety of contexts.
The Terran Collective used elements of this process in the collabathon they did with OpenTEAM and the Regen Network, developing a Community Platform for the Future of Regenerative Agriculture on hylo.
I’ll be leading a proposed discussion later in the week exploring opportunities for further applications of these and other tools, including the collaborative and equitable development of multi-functional value chains and foodsheds.
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Would like to do some lightening on a feeling lately I have regarding AI and comparing its inventions with the ‘first voice’ of human storytellers. It is mostly about my ambivalence created by the shockingly ‘organic’ tone of machine ‘thought’ and just sharing doubts combined with an irresistible fascination.
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Such great topics! Remember if your topic is longer than a lightening talk (2-5 minutes, wow that’s quick) you can use that time to interest folks in a longer conversation as a full session (or part of one) or even just over lunch!
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Yes! To second @laurieWayne we’re going to lovingly enforce pretty short talks here 
Remember - the goal in the lightening talk is to explain just enough to entice interest and further discussion.
T-minus 3 days 
Hi - I’m posting for Tica Lubin, who will do a speed talk titled something like: Regen Network – rewarding global ecosystem regeneration
Ned Horning and Sage Shelton will do a speed talk titled: ReSci Network – A nascent community of scientists supporting ecosystem regeneration
I’m keen to do a 5-min intro into the Regen Farmers Mutual approach to building farmer owned tech, advisor and funding. Deck loaded into the folder
Will there be any opportunity to give a live software demo during a lightning talk?
Nevermind, I just dropped a bunch of screenshots into a deck and uploaded it into the Drive folder. Who loves a live demo anyway? 
Yah, and 2-5 minutes isn’t very long!
Imma do a quick talk about the Open Food Network too! 
Lightning Talks
Took some notes I figured I’d share. Sorry Laurie and Elizabth I wasn’t quite warmed up yet for your talks!
Laurie Wayne
- sanding the ceiling
Elizabeth Vaughn (Community Alliance for Family Farming)
- 2023 small farm innovation challenge, deadline Nov 1
- small farms respond to data sovereignty
Jeff Piestrak
- Prosocial: transdisciplinary socialtechnology
- Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, Hayes
- can be useful in addressing “tragedy of the commons”
- ARC process?
- hylo
Marcus Estes (Chroma Signet)
- track-and-trace (barcode)
- using the data to make knowledge graphs
- NFT’s: inviting people into a data coop
- DAO’s in practice
Kyle Laird
- driverless farm vehicles
- grew up on farm, but studied CS
- robot people talk about the goal point, zig-zagging is ok
- farmers need to go in a straight line
- data collection vs hardware for doing actual farming
Laurie Wayne (OFN)
- 10th b-day in Oct (first commit)
- values-based
Aaron Kingsbury (U of Maine?)
- Potential for Open Ag Tech in Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam
- small scale vs intensive industrial farming
- many ethnically diverse people, many languages
- higher elevation, the higher the poverty level
Shreya Agarwal (Digital Green)
- farmer-to-farmer extension videos
- lots of data, but farmers weren’t really aware of it or able to access
- FarmStack
- decent datahub
- farmer data wallet
- p2p data connectors
- Q: what incentives are there right now?
- Q: is now the right time?
Rohan Clarke (Regen Farmers Mutual, AU)
- Regen Farmers Mutual
- experience w/ coops, mutuals
- how to create value from environmental assets?
- farmers aren’t ready to do that with data yet
- what is the environmental asset?
- digital twin (ag data wallet)
- aggregating farmer value, give farmers more flexibility and capacity to farm more effectively and sustainably
Tica Lubin (Regen Network, US)
- Brazil, Cambodia
- creating additional income beyond the farm product
- credits on blockchain
- understanding what data is collected
- find ways to sell credits
- finding other incentives beyond carbon
Ned Horning (Regen Network, US)
- DeSci (Decentralized Science)
- postdocs finding new ways to do science
- outside traditional publish-or-perish model
- FAIR data principles
- Ecosystem Regeneration
- looking for people who want to form community around the science
Shefali Mehta (Open Rivers)
- podcast: Open Rivers Navigator
- Season 3 on AgTech
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Decision-making
- Why hasn’t open source moved more in the last 20 years?
- What decision makers (eg, USDA, gov’t) wants vs what communities (eg, GOAT) want are at odds
- decision makers don’t know what community knows
- decision fatigue
- Incentives
- no clear incentives for gov’t
- climate work driven by fear and not making things worse (not a great motivator)
- Governance
- can one person just shut it all down?
- Problem: decision-makers don’t know what it means when we say “We need to invest in data”
Matthue (lookinto)
- getting info to consumers via story-telling
- info comes directly from data-validation entities
- NFT’s as a way for consumers to engage
- all producer-generated
- folk-art, etc
- Working now with hub farms working w/ OpenTEAM projects
- can be a storytelling component of your project
Ankita Raturi (Purdue axilab)
- axilab (Agricultural Informatics Lab)
- HCI x Agriculture
- Design (tech) to accomondate human needs (farm stakeholders), capabilities, etc
- design, modeling, engineering, community
- what are the mental models people are already carrying around?
- can that be put into code?
- working w/ communities of practice, supportively not disruptively
- Northeast Cover Crop Council
- Informatics for Community Food Resilience
- https://resilientfood.org/
- How to eat when COVID???
- teaching, working w/ students
- talk to students here at GOAT, get them interested in what you do
- Team Days (ie, days 4 & 5)
- axilab team is available to help as methods consultants, extra hands, etc