About Measure the FutureOpen Hardware & Libraries -- Imagine having a Google-Analytics-style dashboard for your library building: number of visits, what patrons browsed, what parts of the library were busy during which parts of the day, and more. Measure the Future is going to make that happen by using simple and inexpensive sensors that can collect data about building usage that is now invisible. Making these invisible occurrences explicit will allow librarians to make strategic decisions that create more efficient and effective experiences for their patrons.Measure the FutureMTF_c2adb244-d0ef-11e5-8472-a0dfd369ce9cJohn S. and James L. Knight FoundationThe Measure the Future Project received primary funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge on Libraries is funding breakthrough ideas that leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities.Jason GriffeyFounder and Team Lead -- Founder of Evenly Distributed LLC, a technology solutions company for Libraries (http://evenlydistributed.net); Director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us) -- Jason has extensive experience working in academic libraries (he is a former Associate Professor and Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and has spent the last two years researching working with open hardware solutions. He is also the Director of the LibraryBox Project (a Knight Prototype grantee) and has successfully managed a multinational workgroup to achieve the success of that project. LibraryBox has current installations in 27 US States, 28 counties, and on 6 continents. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Library Association’s Library and Information Technology Association, and is recognized as an international expert on library technologies.Jeff BransonHardware Partner -- Educational Outreach Coordinator, Sparkfun Electronics -- Sparkfun has been a leader in the realm of open hardware development and education for over a decade. Jeff has extensive experience in developing both open hardware solutions and the curricula to go along with them. He is a nationally recognized instructor on hardware hacking and maker culture.Gretchen CaserottiLibrary Partner -- Library Director, Meridian Library District, Meridian, Idaho -- Caserotti is the library director at Meridian Library District in Meridian, ID, the fastest-growing city in the state and currently serves on the ALSC Board of Directors. While she was the Head of Children’s Services at Darien Library (CT) she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker for her progressive work with children's collections and technology programming. In 2014, under her leadership Meridian Library District was named Idaho's Public Library of the Year for bringing the library into concordance with the community’s changing needs with a "just-say-yes" philosophy.Jenica RogersLibrary Partner -- Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Potsdam -- As chief administrator for the College Libraries and Archives, Jenica is responsible for short-term and strategic planning and ensuring that the Libraries and Archives are evolving in ways that are integrated into the academic mission of the College. From 2009 to present she wrote at length about library issues on her blog, Attempting Elegance (http://www.attemptingelegance.com), represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/), and gave a half dozen invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014 she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions._c2adb44c-d0ef-11e5-8472-a0dfd369ce9cTo collect data about library building usage_c2adb51e-d0ef-11e5-8472-a0dfd369ce9cSpaceEnable libraries and librarians to make the tools that measure the future of the library as physical space_c2adb5be-d0ef-11e5-8472-a0dfd369ce9cLibrariesLibrariansOur goal is to enable libraries and librarians to make the tools that measure the future of the library as physical space. We are going to build open tools using open hardware and open source software, and then provide open tutorials so that libraries everywhere can build the tools for themselves.HardwareBuild sensors_c2adb654-d0ef-11e5-8472-a0dfd369ce9c1We're gonna measure the future with open hardware. With Moore's law pushing it forward, hardware gets better, faster, and cheaper on a reliable and predictable schedule, and using Open Hardware (hardware that has its specifications open for modification and duplication) allows us to build complicated sensors reasonably cheaply. It also gives libraries and others the ability to improve upon our work as the hardware improves. BuildingsDo more with library buildings_c2adb6f4-d0ef-11e5-8472-a0dfd369ce9c2The Library Building is a cornerstone of its community, but we don't think they are being used to their fullest. The bare handful of tools that we have to collect metrics about our building usage haven't changed in decades. We have the ability to do so much more with our library buildings, they have so much untapped potential that we can unleash. That's what we’re going to do at Measure the Future. Our goal is to give libraries the equivalent of Google Analytics for the library building.TutorialsMake Measuring the Future available to anyone that wants to understand their spaces better_c2adb780-d0ef-11e5-8472-a0dfd369ce9c3We will be producing open tutorials that outline both the open hardware and the open source software we will be using, so that any library anywhere will be able to purchase inexpensive parts, put them together, and use code that we provide to build their own sensor networks for their own buildings. Our goal is to make Measuring the Future available to anyone that wants to understand their spaces better. We are going to teach you how to make the things that measure the future.2016-02-11http://measurethefuture.net/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net