I joined Joe & Co for one of these in southern California, it was
really fun. You can also hang out with the Makerbot people too.
.hc
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Joseph Deken <dekenj(a)sdsc.edu>
> Date: October 12, 2009 3:18:24 PM EDT
> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans(a)eds.org>
> Cc: Miller Puckette <mpuckette(a)ucsd.edu>, Gi Vania <gvania(a)siu.edu>,
> Chris DiMauro <chrisdimauro(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Send a call/invitation for participation via your the
> pd-list(s) and correspondents?
>
> Thanks, Hans!
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> *** Puredata Volunteers Needed for Boys and Girls Club Festival
> October 26-28 in Carbondale IL ***
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> On Monday - Wednesday October 26-28 during "after school hours," New
> Blankets, the Boys
> and Girls Club of Carbondale, and Southern Illinois University will
> be conducting a "Real
> Imagination Festival" at the Boys and Girls Club in Carbondale. The
> Real Imagination
> Festival will consist of exhibits, activities and classes for the
> kids of the Club, a film
> festival of creative efforts with introductions by SIU creative arts
> faculty members, and
> hands-on workshops with free/open creative software such as Gimp,
> Scratch, and Kino.
>
> New Blankets (http:newblankets.wik.is) -- as part of its "puredata
> boosting" would
> especially like to have the Festival include an introduction and/or
> activities for these
> young people highlighting puredata.
>
> We are requesting that any volunteers who know puredata and would
> like to do some
> demonstration and instruction for kids at the Carbondale Boys and
> Girls Club would please
> contact us ASAP. Please send e-mail to Joseph Deken: jdeken(a)ucsd.edu
>
> We're expecting that our puredata volunteers will be folks who live
> in the St. Louis or
> Southern Illinois areas. But who knows? We've got one volunteer
> coming from NYC to help
> demonstrate/build Makerbots ...
>
> Joseph Deken, Ph.D.
> President, New Blankets Inc.