Science & Social Media (AAS 215)
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 15:28
in Psychology & Sociology
I enjoyed presenting on Project Calliope two weeks ago, at the 215th AAS meeting. I have a partial podcast of my talk in preparation, but in the meantime, here are the visual slides from my presentation (and also up as a PDF at ProjectCalliope.com. The most important theme I covered was the shift from a tech mindset (build a crack engineering team) to a social mindset (gather a circle of interested people able to talk this up). Though the value of the talk was in the dialog, not the slides, this does provide a useful basic primer on the how and why of launching a personal picosatellite. Project Calliope read more