<div>I think the OpenAG initiative is really ambitious. Publishing everything in ODF format... releasing their sensor designs, etc. Their numbers indicate a big increase in crop yield. LED light is so cheap we might be growing everything inside soon. 24 hours a day. They are already doing it in the basement of many NYC restaurants.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, did you see this?</div><div><a href="http://somervilledynamics.com/PGPcopter.htm">http://somervilledynamics.com/PGPcopter.htm</a><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 1, 2017, 10:05 AM Stephen Ronan <<a href="mailto:sronan@gmail.com">sronan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Went to the Gershoff Symposium yesterday at Tufts<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://nutrition.tufts.edu/event/2017-03-31/annual-gershoff-symposium" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://nutrition.tufts.edu/event/2017-03-31/annual-gershoff-symposium</a><br class="gmail_msg">
Found the talks by Isha Datar, who is a Shuttleworth Fellow,<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/</a><br class="gmail_msg">
and Caleb Harper of the MIT media lab's open agriculture project<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/open-agriculture-openag/overview/" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/open-agriculture-openag/overview/</a><br class="gmail_msg">
especially interesting...<br class="gmail_msg">
There are plenty of extended talks by each them on Youtube that cover<br class="gmail_msg">
all the same material...  Here are a couple of much shorter pieces<br class="gmail_msg">
that offer some highlights of their work.<br class="gmail_msg">
Isha Datar<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9DPaa9rssg" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9DPaa9rssg</a><br class="gmail_msg">
Caleb Harper<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YI569T0AMk" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YI569T0AMk</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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