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Hey Everyone,<BR>
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I am, indeed, setting up a HUGE Hardware Hacking Area at the SF Maker Faire (which is May 30 and 31 at the San Matea Fair Grounds). As well as teach zillions of people how to make cool things with microcontrollers (and how to solder) I will sing the praises of Noisebridge there!<BR>
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We will have workbenches with 40 solder stations going at once. At the Austin Maker Faire last year we had 38 stations, and it was totally hopping!! for most of the Faire. The SF Faire is about twice as big as the Austin one, so it will be beautiful chaos and pandamonium this year at the SF Faire! (I'll be needing volunteers again to make it all happen -- please let me know if you're interested). <BR>
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If we have a Noisebridge booth in the Faire (and I really think we should!) we can have them connected to one another conceptually (even though they will probably be in different buildings). I imagine a Noisebridge booth being an area where a bunch of people can show off their various cool projects. I will point people there from the Hardware Hacking Area (and also have stickers, and maybe more T-shirts). Of course, the Noisebridge booth should also have stickers, maybe T-shirts, and those cool new Noisebridge buttons! People can also have any amount of propaganda to pass out about their projects.<BR>
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As I said in a previous email, I am way behind on catching up on my emails, but if no one has taken a moment to enter a Noisebridge Booth proposal on the Maker Faire website, will someone be willing to do it? It only takes a few minutes:<BR>
<A href="http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2009/callformakers/">http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2009/callformakers/</A><BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Mitch.<BR>
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:32:56 -0700<BR>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Maker Faire, let's do it<BR>From: marnia@gmail.com<BR>To: john.menerick@gmail.com<BR>CC: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR><BR>I actually live a mile away and can walk over to help out.
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<DIV class=EC_gmail_quote>On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John Menerick <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:john.menerick@gmail.com">john.menerick@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Ani Niow wrote:</DIV><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>I for one volunteer for this position as well. Maybe by then we'll have a presentation involving the communication lasers we may be getting, hopefully with sharks attached.
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<DIV class=EC_gmail_quote>On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Rachel McConnell <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com">rachel@xtreme.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=EC_gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The deadline for participant applications is March 31. The fair itself<BR>is May 30 & 31. There is no cost to present and we'd get some number of<BR>free passes for those manning the booth (it's not clear exactly how<BR>many; from previous experience it's somewhat negotiable). This year<BR>they don't seem to be providing any tables or chairs, so we'd have to<BR>bring some.<BR><BR>Full info:<BR><BR><A href="http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2009/callformakers/">http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2009/callformakers/</A><BR><BR>We've discussed participating at the last 2 meetings. There has been<BR>talk of trying to join up with Mitch who is nearly certainly going to<BR>have a booth, but I suspect he'll be in the vendor area which isn't<BR>suitable for NB generally (at least in my opinion). If that's correct I<BR>think we ought to go anyway. Let's make a decision next Tuesday so as<BR>to be in time for the deadline.<BR><BR>If we decide to go, I'm willing to be point person unless someone else<BR>really wants to :)<BR><BR>Rachel<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</A><BR><A href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</A><BR><A href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</A><BR><A href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></body>
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