[dorkbotpdx-blabber] MakerFaire in Portland?

[Wm Leler]

If we want to do something like this, Diane Gilleland (of http://diyalert.com 
) should be involved!

--wm

On May 7, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Thomas Lockney wrote:

> 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