Announcement/ update on Eurisko Melbourne, 2nd & 3rd November 2013

[Paul Szymkowiak]

Hi folks,

Apologies for the broad announcement, but I wanted to try and get this first "semi-official" notification out to as many folks as possible: sorry if you get spammed multiple times.

I've mentioned this to some of you in online or AFK discussions over the past year.  We're planning a 2-day event in early November here in Melbourne, with a focus on makers, hackers, crafters and other DIY/ DIT cultures and communities.  As a general reference, this is a follow on event for part of the team that ran Melbourne Mini Maker Faire, with a similar community focus, style and approach to the event.

We soft-launched the event site a month or so back, but we're now starting to ramp up the comms about the event and the content updates on the site.

Ammon, James and myself (all members of the 2012 Melbourne Mini Maker Faire team) are running point on the early-stage event organisation, but the main intent of the event is to offer community groups and individuals the chance to actively engage in bringing the event together, and to have the opportunity to share knowledge and skill on the DIY/ DIT projects you are passionate about.  As such, I'd love to see individual hacker/ makers - as well as your collective groups - represented, and taking advantage of the opportunity.

You can find various answers to a number of the questions you may have at euriskomelbourne.com (with more answers forthcoming as the site evolves).  The website is very much a work in progress: an iterative and incremental development effort, maintained as a volunteer effort, and balancing the immediate practical needs with longer-term ideas.  We'd welcome and very much appreciate any feedback and input you have on the website (bug reports also welcome!) or the event itself .  

I'll offer a few points here that might be a helpful start:

 - 2nd & 3rd of November 2013

 - At the Artshouse Meat Market venue in North Melbourne (near Royal Womens hospital)

 - Run in conjunction with City of Melbourne's Knowledge Week events.

 - focus on "discovery by doing", with a preference for contributors who are interested in openly sharing their projects, knowledge and skill.

 - intending to support as wide a community of DIY/ DIT folks as possible: makers, hackers, crafters, performers, etc.

 - intending to support suitably-aligned commercial activities, such as "maker" product or service sales.

If you have any questions, please send them either via the website contact options, feel free to ask them on this thread, or (if you prefer) send me an email directly.

I'm hoping I'll get to catch up with/ meet as many of you as possible in November!

Cheers,

Paul
 
Paul (Zee) Szymkowiak

for Eurisko/ Open Fair events

[Paul Szymkowiak]

Hello collective Oz Hacker Spaces/ Makerspaces,

With a little under a month to go now, I just wanted to again invite everyone to come and join the fun at Eurisko on Nov 2nd & 3rd in Melbourne. 

We'd love to have maker/ hacker and other DIY Contributor submissions from the greater Australian community, but if that's tough to do, it would be equally cool to have folks come and simply participate in the fun as attendees.

If you're thinking about contributing, the following blog post gives a good overview of what to consider and what to expect:

   http://euriskomelbourne.com/what-can-you-contribute

Happy to answer any questions you might have: feel free to drop me an email.

Cheers,

Paul
 
Paul "Zee" Szymkowiak 

 for Eurisko Melbourne: November 2 & 3, 2013

 @ Arts House Meat Market, North Melbourne

For more details and to keep up to date with announcements, see:

 euriskomelbourne.com

 euriskomelbourne.com/gplus

 twitter.com/euriskomelb

 mailto: paul...@openfair.org