From moulton at moulton.com Wed Apr 11 01:21:16 2007 From: moulton at moulton.com (Fred C. Moulton) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:21:16 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Yuri Night SF Bay Area Message-ID: <1176254476.21563.1010.camel@localhost.localdomain> Event at NASA Ames http://www.worldspaceparty.com/schedule.php According to the schedule it looks like a mix of music, demos and talks. I decided to spend the approximately $35 to take a chance and go. Fred From bronto at pobox.com Tue Apr 17 05:17:12 2007 From: bronto at pobox.com (Anton Sherwood) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:17:12 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] ACM Talk (4/18) "Maker Faire: The Re-emergence of Maker Culture"- Cupertino Message-ID: <46245858.8070402@pobox.com> http://www.sfbayacm.org/events/2007-04-18.php Maker Faire: The Re-emergence of Maker Culture Presented by Dale Dougherty , editor and publisher of Make and Craft magazines *Date: *Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 6:30 PM *Location: *Hewlett Packard (see directions ), Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room. *Cost: *Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year. Topic This year's Maker Faire will be a showcase of hundreds of amazing makers. Maker Faire is a newfangled science fair, art fair and craft faire. It's a family-friendly event that attracted over 20,000 attendees last year. This year's event will be held May 19-20 once again at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. In this talk, Dale will preview Maker Faire, talk about the development of Make and Craft magazines, and offer insights into a range of re-emerging technologies represented by Make and Craft magazines. /Please note: you are encouraged to bring items you have made to this meeting. You will have an opportunity to briefly present your items at the end of the talk. / Attendees will have a chance to win copies of Make magazine, Craft magazine, and tickets to the Maker Faire.. About the Speaker Dale Dougherty is the founder, editor, and publisher of Make and Craft magazines, both of which focus on DIY technology projects. He also organized Maker Faire, which will be held May 19-20 in the Bay Area at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Maker Faire is a new kind of fair, combining elements of science fair, arts and crafts fair, and county fair. Last year's event attracted more than 200 makers and 20,000 attendees. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, working closely with Tim O'Reilly to establish O'Reilly as a leading technical publisher. An early Web pioneer, Dale was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site launched in 1993 and sold to America Online in 1995. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers from 1995-1999, which was sold to CMP in 1999. He developed the Hacks Series of books in 2003, which includes the bestselling Google Hacks and Excel Hacks. Dale is General Manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media. He lives and works in Sebastopol, California. Make: http://www.makezine.com Craft: http://www.craftzine.com Maker Faire: http://www.makerfaire.com From moulton at moulton.com Mon Apr 30 23:12:39 2007 From: moulton at moulton.com (Fred C. Moulton) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:12:39 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Maker Faire advance tickets on sale Message-ID: <1177974759.3449.342.camel@localhost.localdomain> I received the following message and YES it is true that discounted advance tickets are on sale. I have purchased mine. Fred ... Greetings Fellow Makers, Crafters, Hackers, and Backyard Scientists: Without a doubt the most popular question we've received over the past year is "When is the next Maker Faire?" In fact, Maker Faire weekend is just 4 weeks away on May 19th and 20th. The location: The San Mateo County Fairgrounds, just 15 minutes south of San Francisco. If you missed our first Maker Faire last April, the best way to describe this family-friendly weekend is part science fair, part craft fair, part county fair, and part Burning Man. A two-day, family-friendly event celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, science projects, and the do-it-yourself (DIY) mindset, Maker Faire is for creative, resourceful folks who like to tinker and love to make things. We call them Makers. Check it out: http://makerfaire.com Here's a small taste of what we have lined up for you: Survival Research Labs (SRL), Five Foot Russian Submarine, Junkyard Jet, Bazaar Bizarre, Silicon Death Valley, RoboGames' Combat Robots, Power Tool Drag Races, Neverwas Haul, Life-size Mousetrap, Walking Robotic Chariot, Build Your Own Blinkybug, The Electric Giraffe, The Disgusting Spectacle, Tomato-basket Dragons and Whales, Internet Crane Game, The Art of Motion Control, Puppy Mover Monorail, Model Rocket Video Camera, Hydrofoils (homemade, human-powered, ornithopter and wooden), Chris Benton's Kite Aerial Photography, Electric Supercars, Swap-O-Rama-Rama, Roobma Hacking, Winners of the Most Spectacular Failures contest, and acres more... With all the buzz around Maker Faire, we're anticipating a huge turnout (last year we had north of 20,000). But you can avoid the lines and save yourself some bucks by purchasing tickets online: https://store.makezine.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=35 BUT CUTOFF FOR ADVANCE TICKET SALES IS MAY 10.