[dorkbotdc-blabber] Nice pictures

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All the barricades held! The co-overlord is safe!



On 10/30/08 9:41 AM, Navid Rahimi wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:rgmauler at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>     Katie,
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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
>     <mailto:katie at hoteldetective.org>>
>     To: dorkbotdc-blabber at dorkbot.org <mailto: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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>     Katie      http://hoteldetective.org/
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