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Summary
Paul Wheaton meets up with Mike Haasl and Ash Jackson to discuss the
Badge Bits for the sand badge in animal care.
With everything needed to get PEP-1 certified having been up for over a year, the goal is for version 0.99, maybe even 1.0 to be done by the end of the year. About a dozen people working on this, most of which are Permies staff. About 80-100 people have already done a BB, expect a couple of hundred people to have at least one by the end of the year. If you have a 2 week quarantine, you can do 40 BBs quite easily. Paul thinks there
should be some sort of differentiation between high and low quality BB submissions, and people that earned a badge solo vs someone who got one from a course.
In the third week of October, there’s a free BB 20 event at Paul’s place. Only requirement is that you have completed 20 BBs – even the
GAPper fee is waived.
SKIP is an advancement over the university package. Designed to take advantage of the internet and omnipresence of phone cameras and the ability to make it all free. Any skip program has to have higher standards, so work might well take three times as long.
BBs:
Build a bat-house
- Satisfy the nesting needs of bat species in your area, protect the bats from rain
- It must be mounted in a location conducive to bat nesting (height, orientation to sun, etc.)
- Natural
wood and steel/wood fasteners (no glue, plywood, stain, paint)
Build an insect hotel
- Facilitate at least three different critters
- Do a halfway decent job of protecting them from rain (bearing in mind that some sorts of critter like a bit of wet)
- Only natural materials and steel/wood fasteners (no glue, plywood, stain, paint)
Relevant Threads
PEP Badge: Animal Care - main thread
PEP BB - Build a bat house
PEP BB - Build an insect hotel
What is PEP and PEX?
All about SkIP, PEP, Badges, BBs and More!
PEP Forum
PEA forum
22 PEP badges
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