[Lab] Fab Fair in the Fall

[Lindsay Aranoff]

Brilliant. I'm on board for helping make this happen. Let me know what I can
do to help.

L.


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Moonsun Choi <operations at artengine.ca>wrote:

>  Electric Fields is to be held from Nov 3, Wed. to Nov 7, Sunday.
>
> Moonsun
>
> On 5/14/2010 10:52 AM, Lindsay Aranoff wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>  1) Is there a date set for this Electric Fields extravaganza?
>
>  I get the sense this is longer than one day, since there was a suggestion
> to have a maker fair for one evening...
>
>  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?
>
>  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).
>
>  Thoughts?
> Lindz
>
>  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....
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-05-13, at 11:09 PM, Andrew Plumb wrote:
>> > On 2010-05-13, at 9:32 PM, Ryan Stec wrote:
>>  >> Be curious to know what people would think of this, especially those
>> of you who have had the chance to attend a Maker Fair.
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>>  Correction: MakerFaire SF is next weekend, not this.
>>
>> A.
>>
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