I had hoped to get a meeting together for March 16th in San Francisco, but for a number of reasons was not able to pull it off.

The next meeting will be at TechShop April 6th… (Contact me at the email address above if you’d like to present!) followed by a San Francisco meeting on April 20th.

More to come!

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OK, for those with feeds here’s a link to the Make:SF Wiki

Hello Makers!

The next meeting at TechShop is coming up quickly! Last month we had a great turn out of 35+ people. As with the last meeting we will be featuring projects by local makers, and that means YOU!

See images of the prior meetings  (Sorry, still figuring out how to let WordPress post images from the server…)

Do you have a project you’d like to show, are you prepping something for Maker Faire and need collaborators? Or perhaps starting off on a new effort and need some idea about where to get that right bit of obtanium? Share your thoughts with other local makers. We will have a video projector this time… (Thank you TechShop!) and I’ll bring a video camera so that we can zoom in on the details.

Send a message back to me at meetings (at) makesf.org to reserve a 20 minute slot. We still have plenty of T-Shirts to hand out to presenters.

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As with the last meeting where we got to see Shape Lock prototyping material: (Thanks for the free samples!!!)
http://www.shapelock.com
I’ve invited a local business to bring in something of interest to makers. (Materials, tools, hackables.)

This month’s meeting we will have a Pleo robotic dinosaur… with the skin off so that we can get a better idea of how it works. One of the engineers who developed the inner workings will be joining us to answer questions:
http://www.pleoworld.com/

Margaret Lee, a Ugobe project managers brought Pleo to the Mars Bar for the San Francisco meeting and it drew quite a crowd.

I look forward to seeing you at TechShop
Sunday March 2nd 2-4pm
http://www.techshop.ws
(Tours of TechShop are available after the meeting if you have not been there before.)

PS: Here are some Maker Faire dates and times to keep in mind…
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March 12, 2008 – Deadline for applications
Please note that space is limited so be sure to get your applications in by this date. Any applications received after 3/12/2008 will be put on a waiting list and allocated space based on availability

March 19, 2008 – Notification of Acceptance
If at all possible, we will try to notify you as soon as we review your application which should be in advance of this date

May 1, 2008 – Maker Day
More information will be shared about Maker Day in the upcoming weeks

May 3 & 4, 2008 – Maker Faire San Francisco Bay Area
Show time!

We’ll be meeting at:

Mars Bar
Thursday February 12st
7pm – ?
7th & Brannan

No formal presentations at this event*. Just an opportunity for the Makers in the city (who can’t make it to the TechShop meetings) to meet up.

 See you there! 

*Though there will be a special robotic guest wandering around who will also attend the March 2nd event at TechShop naked. (Your servos are showing!)

The next meeting is coming up this Sunday.

 If you would like to grab a slot (15min to present and 5min Q&A) leave a comment below and I’ll contact you, or send an email to meetings@makesf.org.

 I’ll list the agenda in this post. (First 30 min will be introductions and announcements)

 Please include a description and links if you have them.

 Thanks, and see you this Sunday!

Make:SF is now represented as groups on the following social networking sites:

Meetup.com
Facebook as a Group
LinkedIn Group Direct link to the group invitation(updated)

More of an experiment than anything else, but it should help network people together and find the meetings.

Hi Makers,

The first and second meetings are now on the calendar. The first meeting will be more informal… get to know you kind of thing. The goal is to brainstorm for the second meeting on January 6th 2pm also at TechShop. Make will be providing some hardware goodies… more details to follow, stay tuned!

Thanks again to TechShop for hosting!!!