From david at davidnunez.com  Wed Mar  5 17:14:47 2008
From: david at davidnunez.com (david@davidnunez.com)
Date: Wed Mar  5 17:14:56 2008
Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] Dorkbot  Mar 8, 6-8PM - Brush Sq. Park
Message-ID: <A01E8A17E1FA4E0EA511AF57F0824660@davidnunez.com

dorkbot-austin kicks off its 2008 season with a massive event!

dorkbot-austin @ sxsw
http://dorkbotaustin.org/sxsw
March 8, 6-8PM
Brush Square Park - Across st. from Austin Convention Center
RSVP REQUIRED for non sxsw-i badgeholders
RSVP before 3/6 11:59PM
FREE event for badgeholders and RSVPs

To RSVP, go here, right now: http://www.dorkbotaustin.org/sxsw

dorkbot-austin @ sxsw is brought to you by
* SXSW Interactive Festival
* Make Magazine & Maker Faire
* International Game Developers Association - Austin (IGDA)
* Amaze Entertainment

Music by ArcAttack, Bleep Labs & Loud Objects, and Marvin Neihber

Featuring Strange Presentations by:

Austin Bike Zoo, Eric Wilhelm from Instructables.com, ArcAttack, Bleep Labs, Loud Objects, Josh Knowles, The Robot Group, John Funk, Marvin Neihber, ACTLab, Edwin Wise, Craig Newswanger, Marc Greenberg, Jerry Chamkis, Paul Baker & Eric Archer, Chase Hammock & Don Davis and many more nerdy delights.

"For me, the highlight of SxSW Interactive was the Dorkbot event on the Saturday night. Hackers, mayhem, and free beer - it doesn't get much better than that" -- Gareth Mitchel, BBC World Service,  "SXSWorld - The official magazine of the South by Southwest Conferences and Festivals, May 2007"

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http://www.dorkbotaustin.org

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From mlists at resistive.net  Mon Mar 10 22:53:21 2008
From: mlists at resistive.net (mlists@resistive.net)
Date: Mon Mar 10 22:53:36 2008
Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] Dorkbot SXSW 2008!
Message-ID: <57694.70.253.64.215.1205204001.squirrel@www.resistive.net>

Hi everyone -

This year's SxSW Dorkbot was a roaring success, I hope you were all able
to make it - most of you must have because according to the SXSW folks at
the door, we had somewhere in the ballpark of 1,300 people pass through
our gate.

I want to extend a huge thank you to our sponsors:
Amaze entertainment  http://www.amazeent.com/
IGDA http://www.igda.org/
SXSW Interactive http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/
and most of all Make Magazine
http://www.makezine.com/

THANK YOU!  Without our sponsors, the event on Saturday wouldn't have been
in any way possible.

A little bit of press is starting to trickle in
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/sxsw-playing-wi.html
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/technology/2008/03/jeff_bezos_at_dorkbot_at_sxsw.html

It sounds like, everyone had a good time!
If you have come across any news articles please forward them on to us at
dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org or post them to the blabber list and we'll put
them up on our recap page when we finish it
If you have pictures (or video - we haven't been able to dig any up yet)
please, post them to the blabber list, we'd love to see them!

If you have any feedback or suggestions about what we could have done
better, please let us know!  Some of the presenters have already mentioned
a few things and we appreciate the feedback.

Lastly, we still have some shirts available.
Here's the designs again - they're all printed on very high quality
American Apparel t's
http://www.lowres.net/dorkbotshirt1.jpg
http://www.lowres.net/dorkbotshirt2.jpg
http://www.lowres.net/dorkbotshirt3.jpg
Rather than hold onto them, we're going to try to pass them on to some of
other Dorkbot groups in the US, so they might not last.  If you're
interested in one, let us know and we can save one for you, shirts are $15

Thanks everyone!

Oh, I almost forgot - Dorkbot 14 is scheduled for April 10th, mark your
calenders!

- Dorkbot Austin
http://www.dorkbotaustin.org/