[Stoves] Report #1 from ETHOS meeting

[Ronal W. Larson]

List:

	A pretty good crowd (two, three dozen to start, and doubling [?] by end) for the Stove 101 learners session from 4-6.  Christa Roth, Dean Still, and Dale Andreatta all did great jobs.  Roth used parts a new more polished version of her “Microgasifier” compendium  (downloadable; highly recommended).  Dean showed 3-4 brand new stoves that are just beginning to be field tested (all types, not only rockets).  Dale gave overview of terms, especially testing.

	Buffet dinner (paid for I think by Aprovecho) until 7.

	Slide shows and some videos until maybe 9 - with the crowd continually growing  (maybe up to 2/3 of registrants?).  

Speakers were 
	Dale A. (on Sanitation) 
	Christa R. on some of her work in Africa 
	Christa has been working with a Senegalese  [maybe an engineer - Andre] who gave a full Ppt (partly in French) on their work - largely on charcoal using and microgasifier stoves); 
	Paul Anderson (short - on Gary Larson stove cartoon);  
	Sebastian Africano of Trees, Water & People - on their activities - mostly in Central America; 
	Adrian Padt of Durban, SA.  A clever Rocket design that can be shipped flat (stamped stalnless;  about 5000 sold in 2013, ten times as many last year); 
	Jon Anderson introduced video from Rebecca Vermeer of Phillipines and then his and wife Flip’s work on ceramic ovens.
	Gregory Egan on products with charcoal from Bamboo

Apologies for brevity and any errors.  Meeting off to a good start.  Seen lots of friends and many not yet seen.

Ron