Maker Faire 2013

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We are organizing our presence at Maker Faire 2013!

Maker Faire
May 18 & 19, 2013
Saturday 10am – 8pm
Sunday 10am – 6pm

see Maker Faire for more info


Also note, Noisebridge is organizing an "afterparty" May 18, 6pm. See this page:
2013 MakerFaire Afterparty


Map of where the Noisebridge booth was last year

Noisebridge booth


[1] is May 18 and 19 at the San Mateo County Expo Center. If you'd like to help set up/run the booth this year, please add your contact info below. NB should be getting several free passes for volunteers who work at least a 4-hour shift. First come, first served!

Projects/Items Displayed in the Booth

Projects:

There will be projects from noisebridge at the faire this year.

  • high above the crowd, the space over the booth will be festooned with tooth pick sculptures by [[monad]
  • the space will also be decorated with light.
  • a sign will rise up from behind, announcing the presence of Nosebridge to all.
  • miloh will be bringing a project as of yet still under wraps
  • 3D head scanning for 3D printers, etc. If we had a big screen TV, my lappy can output HDMI. Headscans look cool on TV. My printer is currently broken, so can we borrow a Type-A?

Other Items to Bring

  • NB flyers
  • NB stickers
  • NB t-shirts?
  • a colloage of photos of noisebridge?
  • the RoboConfessional Especially set up to hear allow the automat confession of sins from faire goers. Also serving as infoshopbot.
  • sudomate (5 gallons) Courtesy of Sudo room pop effort!


Maker Faire Volunteering Signups

Maker Faire is a huge event with more than 100,000 people expected to attend.
In case you have never been, or have never worked a booth at the Faire, this video from our friends at Dangerous Prototypes is a nice introduction.

Please sign up for at least a couple 2 hour shifts for Saturday and Sunday.
Also, add your name and a contact email to the Volunteer Contact section below.
We will be getting in touch with you about more scheduling and badges and all.
Please help fill out the empty timeslots so we have at least 3 people at the Noisebooth during the Faire!

Education Day, Thursday May 16th

Update: Alex is going to be at the booth Thursday, focusing on discussions about NB and Gamebridge

  • Alex P (Maker Pass)
  • Lance V (Maker Pass)
  • Heather B (Maker Pass)

Note: Alex already has 2 helpers organized, Sorry about that.

Apparently, the Education-Day only people wont need passes, but I'd allocated them before I found out, so in any case, Have fun.

  • John W (Can I do a booth at Education Day?)

Setup Friday May 17th

Setup times for the venue: 10am-8pm
1200 - 1600 (full)

  • Monad will be driving down from Noisebridge with our gear(Maker Pass)
  • Rolf W - will be here for booth setup (Maker Pass)
  • John E - some flexibility for schedule, available (Maker Pass).
  • Miloh will be able to check in and help as needed (With TAM)
  • Felipe can drive to the event and help set-up (Maker Pass)

Saturday May 18th

0900 - 1100 Setup (0 slots open)

  • Miloh will be here for opening
  • Rolf W.
  • John E (Maker Pass)

1100 - 1300 Staffing

  • John E
  • Alex P (Maker Pass)
  • Donald Tronix

1300 - 1500 Staffing (1 slot open)

1500 - 1700 Staffing

  • Dana S (has ticket)
  • Maggie F (has ticket)
  • Kevin S

1700 - 1800 Staffing and shutdown for the night

  • Miloh
  • Alan Rockefeller
  • Lilia (Maker Pass)

Sunday May 19th 0900-1900

9am - 11am pull out the projects and set up for the faire to open at 10am.

  • Mek (Maker Pass)
  • Tayopa (Maker Pass)

11am - 1 pm regular staffing

  • Mek
  • Drew (Maker Pass)

1pm - 3pm regular staffing

  • John E
  • Dan (Maker Pass)
  • Tayopa

3pm - 5pm regular staffing

  • Dan
  • Mek

5pm - 7pm regular staffing, break down the booth and leave by 7pm (2 slots open)

  • John E
  • Miloh

Volunteer Contact Information

Miloh
Rolf W ( Rolf)
John E.
Mek Karpeles michael.karpeles@gmail.com
Drew Winget scipioaffricanus@gmail.com
Dan Cote terminationshok@gmail.com
Tayopa tayopa@gmail.com (as early as I can get a ride in. I am assuming it's 9:00am- and at least four hours (happily more if needed)).
Alex Peake empowerthyself@gmail.com
Donald Tronix norcalbarney@gmail.com
Kevin S bfb@riseup.net
Felipe unixjazz@gmail.com
Dana
Maggie maggiemaggiemaggie@sonic.net

Members with Booths at Maker Faire

"Going to Maker Faire with another group? Let us know where you'll be!"
Rock The Bike - Nice pedal-powered live music all weekend, outside. Jake helped make the electronics.
Type A Machines -- miloh will be the TAM corporation :-)

Booths to Visit

MaceTech
Evil Mad Science
Salae
Will Upverter be there?

West coast hackerspaces:

  • Sudo Room
  • Ace Monster Toys
  • Hacker Dojo
  • CRASH space
  • Jigsaw Rennaissance
  • add more!