[dorkbotpdx-blabber] MakerFaire?

[Steve D.]

Monty and I are flying down, we just got tickets last weekend. This will be our Fourth Maker Faire- I highly recommend anyone sitting on the fence to make it down. 

This time, I'll be presenting a talk (A much newer and improved version of the talk I last gave for our last Dorkbotpdx event)
This also means I can buy discount tickets (total, one required per day) up to 6, for $10 each. This is quite a savings, so if you know for sure you are heading down, first e-mailed, first served!

Steve


--- On Thu, 5/7/09, Thomas Lockney <thomas at lockney.net> wrote:

> From: Thomas Lockney <thomas at lockney.net>
> Subject: Re: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] MakerFaire in Portland?
> To: "A discussion list for dorkbot-pdx (portland,  or)" <dorkbotpdx-blabber at dorkbot.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 5:25 PM
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Gintz, Travis
> <TGintz at leviton.com> wrote:
> > Wasn't there one in Austin? So there's been
> one in Austin and San Fran...
> > PDX is pretty big on makers... not just dorkbot, but
> there's lots of
> > crafters and stuff too...
> 
> Yes, Austin and SF are their two current locations.
> They're talking
> about doing one somewhere in Europe (London, maybe,
> can't remember)
> and I think somewhere on the east coast, too.
> 
> I totally agree about the crafters -- my wife crochets and
> I've spent
> tons of time in various yarn stores around town and almost
> every time
> there's at least one or two tables with a group of
> people (both men
> and women) working on projects. And seeing all the various
> craft
> stores, TechShop, the hobbiest community, bike builders,
> DIY
> punk-aesthetic types, home recording/experimental audio
> folk (the
> editor of Tape Op, the *best* recording mag out there,
> lived in
> Portland until very recently), etc... makes it pretty clear
> this could
> really work out if a serious effort was made to bring them
> all
> together.
> 
> ~thomas
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