FABFUSE2013: Grassroots Knowledge Sharing
where: Amersfoort (NL)
when: 19 - 21 July 2012
As
the global ecosystem of fab labs, hackerspaces, public laboratories and
other community driven workshops grows, so does the need for effective
exchange of knowledge between these peer knowledge hubs.
Can
we cook up a grassroots implementation of peer reviewed knowledge? Or
should we? Are existing platforms (journals, conferences) open to p2p
communities? What great libre (online) tools are out there? Can we help
the developers of potentially great tools in making the next step to
greatness?
In
other words: How can grassroots communities exchange knowledge? Last
summer, Fabfuse was the first Grassroots Fab Lab Conference. Over 50
people from around the globe shared ideas on how to create
selfsustaining public workshops for digital fabrication. This summer a
follow up will take place 19, 20 and 21 July.
The conference will be loosely organized in 3 topic streams:
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Open toolchains for creation, collaboration & communication: which open tools serve the grassroots community, which tools can we help become better, which tools do we miss altogether?
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knowledge sharing: how can we free the knowledge present in many p2p hubs?
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community building: how do distributed communities develop, live and thrive?
Have a look at the (steadily expanding)
lineup to get an impression of the conference, respond to our
call for contributions to propose your own session, or
sign up to the event.
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