<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, that would be great.<div><br><div><div>On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Catarina Mota <<a href="mailto:catarina@openmaterials.org">catarina@openmaterials.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Cameron Adamez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron@suspectdevices.com" target="_blank">cameron@suspectdevices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Can we organize a west coast jam?<br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Great! May I go ahead and put you in touch with Simone to discuss this?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Catarina Mota <<a href="mailto:catarina@openmaterials.org" target="_blank">catarina@openmaterials.org</a>> wrote:</div>

<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">We're still wrangling the registration process, so if anyone is interested in participating or contributing in another way, please email me!<div><br></div>
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Lots of details on the event's website (the Challenge page is particularly relevant): <a href="http://www.opensourcewarehouse.org/" target="_blank">http://www.opensourcewarehouse.org</a><br>

<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Catarina<br><div><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:medium;font-family:Times;font-weight:normal"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">



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<div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);display:inline!important"><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;display:inline!important"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon others’ work and good documentation is the key to making this happen. We believe that open source hardware will become a new economic engine of innovation, efficiency, sustainability and collaboration. As the number of open source hardware projects continues to grow, it’s important to generate clearly-findable, modular, remixable documentation that can not only improve the quality of projects - but also enhance cross-project collaboration. Our goal is to make it easy to contribute to a common pool of hardware knowledge. </span></b></b></b></b></div>



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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This 3 day event is intended to generate motion on the much-discussed ‘Github for Hardware’. We intend to release a minimum viable prototype for immediate beta testing by open hardware projects. The event will be based on a mashup of well-known co-design formats - Design Jams and Hackathons. The goal is to identify problems, propose solutions, and synergize on execution.</span></div>



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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check out the event’s website for more information: </span><a href="http://www.opensourcewarehouse.org/problem-statement/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.opensourcewarehouse.org/problem-statement/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></div>

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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What we need from you:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Do you want to participate in the Jam and if so in what role? Do you want to help organize? Do you want to run a parallel event in another location? Can you review the materials that we have so far? We have not yet secured a venue. Can you help with a venue, tools, staff, stuff, travel, rewards, and other support? What else? Please respond to Simone, our Facilitator - at <a href="mailto:simone.cicero@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">simone.cicero@gmail.com</a></span></div>

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<div style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b style="text-align:start;font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Due to practical matters, the number of participants will be limited, so please let us know by March 18 if you would like to join us. Unfortunately, we currently don’t have funding to support travel costs.</span></b></b></b></b></div>

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</span></b></b></b></b></div><div style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks,</span></div>

<div style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marcin Jakubowski - <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">opensourceecology.org</a></span></div>

<div style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Catarina Mota - <a href="http://everywheretech.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">everywheretech.org</a></span></div>

<div style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'News Cycle';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simone Cicero - <a href="http://meedabyte.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">meedabyte.com</a></span></div>



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