[Lab] Fab Fair in the Fall

Fri May 21 12:10:23 EDT 2010

I want to help out at the Maker Faire in NYC, I LOVE tabling...especially
when it's something that excites me. That said, I won't know if I can commit
to a November trip until the end of June.

Keep me in the loop, and I'll confirm come June.

Also, I know a few people in San Fran and LA area connected to the Cali
Maker Faire scene, if that can be helpful at all. This is all quite new to
me, but intriguing. Someone was schooling me in the "steam punk" term (
http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml) the other day, relating it to
Maker Faires and such. Let me know what I should be keeping my eyes and ears
open for if anything.

The other thing is Burning Man <http://www.burningman.com/> at the end of
the summer (August 30-September 6th). Some of the people involved in Maker
Faire Cali stuff will be creating installations there, and from what I've
heard, it is likely a mecca for such things.

Best.
Lindz

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:

> Hey Sebastien,
>
> What's the assembly time record for a Mendel, if anyone has kept track?
>
> If it's not already planned, that could be our on-site, community-building
> thing for Maker Faire NYC:
>
> - Mendel assembly demos and Q&A
>        - Print off parts and practice assembly over the summer
>        - Bring Your Own Mendel (BYOM) build assistance
>
> - Massively-paralleled group assembly (and tear-down?)
>        - generate a set of group-optimized Mendel build instructions
>        - if more than one full kit is present, make a competition of it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 2010-05-21, at 4:52 AM, Sebastien Bailard wrote:
>
> > On May 14, 2010 11:10:37 am Ryan Stec wrote:
> >> Hey Andrew,
> >>
> >> The dates for Electric Fields are Wednesday November 3rd to Sunday
> >> November 7th, so it would be a nice stretch of time between now and
> then.
> >> Maybe this would be even more incentive to send a group of people to the
> >> Maker Fair in NYC ;) I will ask around if any one knows of doing a group
> >> rate thing. I think there is an NYC art trip out of the Ottawa School of
> >> Art maybe.
> >>
> >
> > Rob Gilson and I will probably head down for NYC Maker Faire to help
> > table for NYC-RepRap User Group, so we are in for a road-trip-caravan.
> >
> > Andrew, Ryan, other RepRap/RepStrap users, would you like to help table?
> > It's fun.  :)
> >
> >> I wondered about what it would be to have an official license on the
> Maker
> >> Fair. I'm sure it would add some extra momentum to the whole thing.
> We'll
> >> have to look into it, maybe if we could get another partner on board
> that
> >> would make it easier.
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> ryan
> >>
> >
> > Maker Faire does license / "bless" mini-faires like this:
> > http://www.a2makerfaire.com/2010/
> >
> > I'll ask the organizers about it during down-time at this maker faire
> > or over email if there is no down time, if you like.
> >
> > I'll try to put together some thoughts/notes on it all, but there is a
> > lot to keep track of, just from the point of view of organizing a
> > booth.  (Can't promise any pictures, as I'm currently between cameras,
> > more's the pity.)
> >
> > -Sebastien
> >
> >>> On 2010-05-13, at 9:32 PM, Ryan Stec wrote:
> >>>> Was thinking these last few days about how to involve the Mod Lab in
> >>>> Electric Fields in the fall (EF is our festival of electronic art and
> >>>> music), and was wondering what people thought of doing something like
> a
> >>>> Maker Fair for a single evening. It would be on the Wednesday and
> could
> >>>> be upstairs at Arts Court in the theatre and studio (for those who
> went
> >>>> to the Pecha Kucha it would be in the same place).
> >>>>
> >>>> Ideally it would be probably good to have a set number of tables and
> >>>> create a committee and submission process, but we could reserve a
> >>>> certain number of tables for a lottery to keep it open to chance.
> >>>
> >>> Hey Ryan,
> >>>
> >>> Has a date been set for EF?  I don't see anything at
> >>> http://www.artengine.ca/community/calendar-en.php
> >>>
> >>> If it were some time in October then it could coincide with Halloween
> >>> animatronic construction activities.
> >>>
> >>> Lindsay's TEDxKids event is Thursday, Sept. 16th so she and others
> >>> (myself demoing my MakerBot) will likely be bogged down with
> last-minute
> >>> prep activities leading up to it.
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Also, Maker Faire NYC (see
> >>> http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2010/callformakers/) is the weekend of
> Sept
> >>> 25-26.  The more I think about it, the more I'm convincing myself we
> >>> could round up enough people over the next three months to charter a
> >>> coach bus for that road trip!
> >>>
> >>> Logistics-wise, is that something ArtEngine has experience with?  If
> not
> >>> ArtEngine specifically, perhaps some of the other groups at Arts Court
> >>> (Ottawa Symphony Orchestra would be my best guess) can offer advice &
> >>> experience w.r.t. reliable bus lines (experienced with crossing the
> >>> Canada/US border), locating preferred hotels near the site
> >>> (http://www.nysci.org/), other per-person costs for budgeting (e.g.
> >>> insurance and/or liability coverage requirements), other Canada/US
> >>> border/embassy preparation activities, etc.
> >>>
> >>> Having EF after Maker Faire NYC would allow for some extra knowledge
> >>> transfer to the local community.  Maybe enough momentum will get going
> >>> for a formal "Maker Faire Canada/Ontario/Ottawa" event in the
> >>> not-too-distant future!
> >>>
> >>> Think big or go home! ;-) Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> Andrew.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> "The future is already here.  It's just not very evenly distributed" --
> >>> William Gibson
> >>>
> >>> Me: http://clothbot.com/wiki/
> >>>
> >>>
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