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hello everyone i'm julia di marinas and

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this is grasshopper

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and it's good to see some familiar faces

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and great to see some new faces so if

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you're new you might not have heard of

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saganet and sagan stands for social

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action for a grassroots astrobiology

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network how's that for an acronym right

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yeah

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so basically sagan is an online

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community to support our astrobiology

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community whether you're a grad student

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an undergrad or looking to get into

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astrobiology or an enthusiast

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so whatever your trade is

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we have a home for you here that you can

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interact and it's just a great resource

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to have a nice collective of

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astrobiology resources

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and we're representing the whole sagan

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team which is a group of six of us and

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their names are here zach

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and sanjoy and sarah

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oh i forgot batool

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i'm a jerk i forgot someone's name sorry

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batul if you're watching

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great way to start um

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and so yeah we're representing that team

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and here is a picture of all of us

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okay the slide's a little off

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so basically we started

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about two years ago we were at one of

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these conferences

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in montana and we all got together

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through this parent organization called

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blue marble space which you'll probably

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hear throughout

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the conference

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if not feel free to ask us questions

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it's basically the tagline is promoting

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international unity through space

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exploration and space activities

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so basically they had a kind of a

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meeting where they said anyone that's

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interested in doing

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anything any projects getting together

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let's have a meeting and a group of us

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emerged with this idea for sagan

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so basically what is saganet so facebook

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is great for community but if you're a

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skype and google docs are also good for

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collaboration but there's not a really

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so sagan bridges the gaps between

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facebook and google docs and skype

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and we like to call it a social network

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with a purpose

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and it creates a centralized hub for all

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of us astrobiologists and

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space exploration activities we're going

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to go into some features a little bit

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later and it's grounded on a non-profit

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so we have a bunch of groups the cool

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thing about this you can start your own

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geology or outreach or whatever your

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heart desires you can start a group

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some of our more notable ones we have a

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book club that meets every two weeks

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which is kind of cool we can read books

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with people across the world and talk

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we have multiple video chat so

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and one of our best features of sega net

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is we have a mentoring platform

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so this is like our chance to get into

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so here is what our infrastructure looks

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we have a group called sagan salon where

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if i'm missing anything just jump in

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so here's an example of our

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collaboration tools um

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so if you're doing let's say a research

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movies we call it sagan mystery 500

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theater is that what it's called five

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some of them have been like turkish star

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and if that doesn't sound appealing wait

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till you see it

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it might change your mind

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so it's a live stream actually what

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so there's people hopefully watching and

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they're asking questions right now that

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an astro biologist where we have a

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mentoring program and we were kind of

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room which is our latest project it was

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becoming a mentor if you go on the site

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you can create a video just a short

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thing about what you do what you're

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teacher might not answer or that relates

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within the day so it's a really unique

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so it is really up to us as you guys

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brittany was one of them she blogged

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from antarctica

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and two of the other bloggers just came

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up to us and had content they wanted to

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share we said go ahead and our newest

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one is a poet she wants to do

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astronomy universal poems so i can't

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wait to see how that bodes

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and we're just about done here so

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if you haven't already please join us on

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sagan at seganet.org and on facebook and

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twitter and if you have any questions

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find one of us this week we're going to

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be around or just email us

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at this address

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and we'd like to thank blue marble space

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organization nasa astrology institute

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especially

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melissa kerbin brooks for being a huge

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support and carl pilcher for also being

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a great support anyone i missed and just

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being really awesome

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also we're also going to create a group

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on there for appgrecon 2013 so you can

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keep interacting and talking continuing

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and i didn't miss batool's name here