Quickly, I'm going to weigh in on the below discussion. That said, I don't think I attended the Maker Fair, so it's entirely possible there are gapping holes in my interpretation, rendering the following moot. Either way, here I go:<div>
<br></div><div>1) Is there a date set for this Electric Fields extravaganza?</div><div><br></div><div>I get the sense this is longer than one day, since there was a suggestion to have a maker fair for one evening...</div>
<div><br></div><div>2) I'm not sure the nuances of what a "Maker Fair" entail, but from my immediate interpretation, it would be all things building, DIY, and fantastical. Ya? </div><div><br></div><div>3) Pending on clarifications of the above, my immediate suggestion would be to leverage TEDxKids exposure to help launch a solid Canadian Maker Fair. It's unsurprising that we have to trek to NYC for such things, however, I think we have the potential to create a microcosm Maker Fair in Ottawa and rock it (at least running with my current definition of what this entails).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts? <br><div>Lindz</div><div><br></div><div>ps. As for the bus rental and such Mister Andrew, I don't have firsthand border crossing experience, but I'll ask around. Road trip....<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Andrew Plumb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org">andrew@plumb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2010-05-13, at 11:09 PM, Andrew Plumb wrote:<br>
> On 2010-05-13, at 9:32 PM, Ryan Stec wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> Be curious to know what people would think of this, especially those of you who have had the chance to attend a Maker Fair.<br>
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> I haven't, but Sebastien should be able to fill us in on all the details when he returns+recovers from this weekend's MakerFaire in San Francisco.<br>
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</div>Correction: MakerFaire SF is next weekend, not this.<br>
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