From dorkbotsocal at dorkbot.org Wed Jan 4 02:16:33 2006 From: dorkbotsocal at dorkbot.org (Garnet Hertz) Date: Wed Jan 4 02:16:36 2006 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-announce] DORKBOTSOCAL9 - Machine Project Jan 7th 2006, 1pm - "Open Hack" Event Message-ID: DORKBOTSOCAL9 Machine Project Jan 7th 2006, 1pm "Open Hack" Event [ S P E C S ] *** January 7th 2006 - 1pm (Saturday) *** Machine Project *** 1200 D North Alvarado Street *** Los Angeles, CA 90026 *** http://www.machineproject.com [ O V E R V I E W ] After a short hiatus, Dorkbot-socal is revived with a new home, a new time, and new structure - and a new twist for January: we're trying out a free-form "open hack" concept for the entire event. To get more hands-on-hacking going on, every 2nd month (starting in January) will be a "bring your project and work on it" event, featuring semi-regular appearances by the guru Tom Jennings http://wps.com, the svelte Mark Allen http://markallen.com/ and grubby old me, Garnet Hertz http://conceptlab.com. This should be a good time to bring works in progress, get feedback/help, and see what others are doing. I think this will also be a good opportunity to scout out neat stuff for future (more formal) presentations for upcoming events. So: grab your stuff, tools, sketches, ideas and friends and come on out on Saturday Jan 7th at 1pm at Machine Project. [ R E V I V A L _ N O T E S ] We're meeting on Saturday afternoons (at 1pm) now, which will hopefully make it easier for people to come to events. To keep things consistent (and MapQuesting confusion to a minimum) we're going to hold the events at a regular location over the next while: Machine Project Gallery, a perfect match for Dorkbot. The 3-presentations/demo events will occur every 2nd month (feb, april, june, aug, oct, dec) and odd-numbered months (jan, march, may, july, sept, nov) will be in an open hack/lab/studio (aka "opendork") format. these events are built for people to just bring their projects-in-progress, work on them, get feedback/help, and discuss. a rough schedule for 2006 is as follows: * DORKBOTSOCAL9 - Jan 7th 2006 1pm - Machine Project - Open Hack * DORKBOTSOCAL10 - Feb 4th 2006 1pm - Machine Project - Proposed topic: hardware.processing.org * DORKBOTSOCAL11 - Mar 4th 2006 1pm - Machine Project - Open Hack * DORKBOTSOCAL12 - Apr 1st 2006 1pm - Machine Project - Presenters TBA * DORKBOTSOCAL13 - May 6th 2006 1pm - Open Hack * DORKBOTSOCAL14 - Jun 3rd 2006 1pm - Presenters TBA * DORKBOTSOCAL15 - Jul 1st 2006 1pm - Open Hack * DORKBOTSOCAL16 - Aug 5th 2006 1pm - Presenters TBA * DORKBOTSOCAL17 - Sep 2nd 2006 1pm - Open Hack * DORKBOTSOCAL18 - Oct 7th 2006 1pm - Presenters TBA * DORKBOTSOCAL19 - Nov 4th 2006 1pm - Open Hack * DORKBOTSOCAL20 - Dec 2nd 2006 1pm - Presenters TBA all dates, times, locations and everything is subject to change. [ P R E S E N T E R S ] You, your soldering iron, hacked together automobile, laser-scanning vegetable peeler, paper tape talking machine or massively multiplayer game intervention. And your best friends. [ M O R E _ I N F O R M A T I O N ] Map to DORKBOTSOCAL9: Map of Machine Project Contact Garnet Hertz if you are interested in giving a presentation at an upcoming Dorkbotsocal event. LOST? If you're completely lost, you can always call Garnet at nine-four-nine-291-5666. * PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT *