[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge China Trip

Mitch Altman maltman23 at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 13 06:43:09 UTC 2009


Finally, we have dates for the Noisebridge China trip!
 
 
October 16th through October 30th, 2009.
 
 
My contract manufacturer for TV-B-Gone and TripGlasses and Trippy RGB Waves kits (and a few other things) has a plant in Shanghai and a plant in Ji Ning (about half way between Shanghai and Beijing) (both are SEZs -- Special Economic Zones).
 
 
Mike Zhao, an American who lives in San Rafael, but born in Shanghai, is the head of the contract manufacturer, called Etonnet.  He's also a total geek, and goes to Maker Faire, and has been to Noisebridge.  He's going to Shanghai and Ji Ning starting on October 16th, and asked me if I'd like to go, and asked if other NB people (and/or others) would like to go check out the manufacturing scene and China.  Mike will return on the 25th, but I think it would be cool if the rest of us go to Beijing for a few days and check out a bit of China-ness there, as well as visit with some hacker-types at Beijing university.  We will return on 30-October-2009.
 
 
To give a little taste of what it might be like:
 
A few months ago, Bunny, who manufactures Chumby in China, organized a trip to China to show interested people the manufacturing scene (and China).  Evil Mad Scientist went along:
 
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/shenzhen
 
 
Would people be interested in going on such a trip?  The cost would be very reasonable, as these things go, and the bulk of the cost would be the plane tickets to and from China.  At the moment, a round trip ticket costs about $850.
 
 
If you are interested, please add your name to the wiki page I set up for the trip:
 
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/ChinaTrip

 
You do not need to be a member of Noisebridge to go on this trip. 
 

Mitch.

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