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
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From: Joseph Deken dekenj@sdsc.edu Date: October 12, 2009 3:18:24 PM EDT To: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org Cc: Miller Puckette mpuckette@ucsd.edu, Gi Vania gvania@siu.edu, Chris DiMauro chrisdimauro@gmail.com Subject: Re: Send a call/invitation for participation via your the pd-list(s) and correspondents?
Thanks, Hans!
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ====================================================================== *** Puredata Volunteers Needed for Boys and Girls Club Festival October 26-28 in Carbondale IL *** = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ====================================================================== 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@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.