linuxfeist NW

[rbisping]

I havent talked to anyone about the hackerspace room at linuxfest yet
but I was wondering who else is planning to attend and if anyone other
than me intends to have a project displayed there?

I plan on having 3 of my 3d printers there and hopefuly all three will
be printing. currently finishing up the final electronics on my new
Mendel90 3/8" sturdy printer. and I also will have to reinstall a
extruder in my cupcake.

Bob

[rbisping]

well, I recieved a response from the linuxfest people and they appear
to have no record of our hackerspace or us having any space at the
event. They didnt say we COULDN'T have a room just that there was no
info on us. I forget who it was that had made the arrangements for
this event so any info anyone has would be appreciated.

Bob

[Anthony Penzinski]

Apparently, there was mention of some discussion between Carl Symons,
Mark Guo, Martin Passmore and Bill Wright on the matter. I don't know
how far plans progressed, however.

Anthony

於 2012年04月23日 11:35, rbisping 提到:

[Martin Passmore]

Oops!

Bob, I had no idea you were still planning to demo stuff--that's a shame, I'd wanted to see 3-D printing there since I first heard of it.

I have to get hold of Bill Wright very soon about some extra street signs for the Fest, so I'll see if there's any hope this late to find a table, but I know they've already turned some presenters away. This year they imposed a deadline for applications, it's all there on the website

http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/

if you click on "contact" and then via "Information" to "Exhibitor information".

Maybe you could do it as a BOF? I'll ask how that works. I was only ever at one, in L.A. 3 years ago at SCaLE.

I had originally asked for a room for us at the Fest, so I was asked at an org meeting late winter what was happening. But after Christmas the meetings had stopped and everybody seemed too discouraged to organize a show (and it was some time before I heard even about Paul's awful situation), so I told the org folks that it had all fizzled so not to plan anything. The Skagit folks had their own troubles, and I'm rather bogged down there most of the week too. And Mark who had made the meetings possible must have had a pretty heavy overhead, and I got the sense that he needed to see some financial return on his investment in the sort of timeframe that is out of the question for the rest of us. Also I think he saw his way forward as a very public presence, in a way that we were not all comfortable with.

It seemed that the lesson is that the interested people north of Seattle are so spread out that it's hard to make anything jell--if I remember the hope was that the Fest might be a venue to bringing more people in. Present and likely-future gas prices don't make it any easier.

In hindsight I realize that I ought to have checked here with a posting, so I apologize. Got swamped with other stuff

Martin

2012/4/23 Anthony Penzinski <ant...@penzinski.com>

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