[GSBN] [Gsbn] Important GSBN News

Tue Mar 31 20:52:08 UTC 2020

Happy to contribute as well!

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:32 John Swearingen <
jswearingen at skillful-means.com> wrote:

> This seems like something that might be appropriate for the larger SB
> associations, ie CASBA, COSBA etc. to support on an ongoing basis.
>
> John
>
> John Swearingen
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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:55 PM Bill Christensen <
> billc at sustainablesources.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The Straw Bale Registry server started giving me problems just last
>> week... it is currently offline, and since we're under "stay at home"
>> orders here in Austin, TX, it'll probably be next week at the earliest,
>> possibly the week after that before I can address the problem.  The
>> Registry is the only thing on that server.
>>
>> The Registry server and the software that runs the Registry are both
>> pretty old.  I've been wanting to completely overhaul it and expand the
>> scope for years, but I don't have any funding to do that - We received some
>> funding to build it initially (shout out to Catherine Wanek), but there's
>> been pretty much nothing ever since.
>>
>> I have the data from the Registry downloaded of course.  I suspect it'll
>> take a fair bit of work to make it usable. I also suspect that the contact
>> info for a fair number of the listed buildings is waaaay out of date as
>> we've done nothing to remind people to update their listings for a very
>> long time. But we do have location info, if someone wanted to follow up on
>> that.
>>
>> You can see some of the data by going to
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20190904143620/http://sbregistry.sustainablesources.com/search.straw.
>> They didn't archive all the way down in many cases, and of course they
>> could only see the info which is publicly visible.  A lot of SB people are
>> pretty adamant about their privacy and we took pains to insure that we
>> could collect data about their SBs without making it public except in a
>> general aggregate form.
>>
>> Remember also that some years into this project, State Farm decided to
>> use the Registry to identify and deny insurance to SB homes - the exact
>> opposite of our intent.  That resulted in further restrictions on what
>> identifying info we were able and willing to share.  I'm pretty sure that
>> occurred prior to the oldest data on archive.org (2011).
>>
>>
>> On 3/27/20 8:55 PM, David Arkin, AIA wrote:
>>
>> Hello Bill / GSBN and Sustainable Sources:
>>
>> Hope this finds you well, in these times in particular.
>>
>> I was looking for the Straw Bale Registry and the link provided by Google
>> wouldn’t open … curious if it now has a new address as well, or otherwise?
>>
>> One of our members has a project idea to query the registry for their
>> insurance and finance experience, and ideally the information gathered is
>> made available to others who might be struggling with one or both of these,
>> both potential homeowners as well as many current ones located in
>> fire-prone areas in particular.
>>
>> Would be please to hear your thoughts on the survey project, and whether
>> it could be added to the database or just solicited separately.
>>
>> Be well, stay kind,
>>
>> David / CASBA
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2020, at 9:22 PM, Bill Christensen <
>> billc at sustainablesources.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I have a couple of important news items:
>>
>> 1) GSBN has moved to a new server, and *the address has changed.*
>> Please be sure that you use the address "*gsbn at lists.sustainablesources.com
>> <gsbn at lists.sustainablesources.com>*" (we added the "lists." part to the
>> previous address) in all future emails.  I may be able to get the old
>> address to forward over to the new, but it'll be best if you just use the
>> new address.
>>
>> We were offline for a while in the fall due to software issues, and I'll
>> be forwarding the two emails the list received during our downtime to the
>> list as soon as I'm done with this one.
>>
>> 2) I now have time to put together something I've wanted to do for a long
>> time: an online video meeting.  We can use Zoom or GoToMeeting - I'm open
>> to suggestions - and talk about what is going on in the world of Straw,
>> Earth, and Sustainable Building.
>>
>> The idea would be to have quarterly or monthly video meetups, record
>> them, and post them to YouTube or similar.
>>
>> The first one would probably just be a round-table type free for all, but
>> later ones could center on a particular topic or a presentation by one of
>> our esteemed contributors.
>>
>> I'm thinking that the first meeting could be sometime in February. Let's
>> discuss dates and times and, if anyone is particularly familiar with
>> various technologies, that too.
>>
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>>
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>>
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