[dorkbotdc-blabber] Nice pictures

[Navid Rahimi]

I thought there was talk of a maker faire in Boston. what ever happened to
that? If I knew there was a protest with signs I would not have missed the
meeting! did the "secret dork police" have to protect Gareth?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:23 AM, <rgmauler at comcast.net> wrote:

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> Thanks for taking the pictures at the last meeting.
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> I got a real kick out of seeing the sign:  "East Coast Maker Fair!"
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> You know, Robot Fest is basically a scaled down "Maker Fair" and it is only
> a 30 minutes drive from DC.  I believe that there was only 2 or 3 people
> from MakeDC and Dorkbots-DC combined that attended last year!   MakeDC
> sponsored a workshop at RobotFest last year but I needed to recruit
> volunteers from our HAM radio club and the HEM museum to help run the
> workshop.  I just don't see the level of interest in the MD - DC area to
> support a MakerFair event that needs to draw 10,000 to 20,000 people to be
> financially sound.
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> RobotFest is scheduled for the last Saturday in April 2009
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> Gary
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Katie Bechtold" <katie at hoteldetective.org>
> To: dorkbotdc-blabber at dorkbot.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:49:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] photos from last night's meeting
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> With apologies for my hit-and-run presence last night, here are the
> best of the photos I took at the meeting:
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/missioncontrol/sets/72157608479579704/
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