Welcome to Maker Media!
Welcome to the home of Maker Media, a division of O'Reilly Media devoted entirely to the growing community of resourceful people who believe that if you can imagine it, you can make it. Manifested in the pages of MAKE Magazine, craftzine.com, our online store the Maker Shed, and coming to physical life at the incredible Maker Faire events, Maker Media encourages the Do-It-Yourself mentality by providing creative inspiration and instruction.
Recent Announcements from the MAKE Blog
Geeks Without Borders
Willow Brugh, of Seattle's Jigsaw Renaissance, sent us word of this new org, Geeks Without Borders. In the above video from Gnomedex, Johnny Diggz explains the origins of the idea. Right now, they're looking for folks to spread the word to other geeks who might be interested in being involved and they're traveling to hackerspaces to try and drum up support.
Geeks Without Borders (GWOB.org) is an international humanitarian organization of geeks and their technology-friendly friends, working together to assist people whose survival is threatened by lack of access to technology and communications due to violence, neglect, or catastrophe.We want to have the bases of operation for GWOB be hacker and maker spaces across the world.
BTW: The official launch date for the organization is 10.10.10 at 10:10am PST (1:10pm EST)
Update: We got an email from Paul Luther, who's the director of another org called Geeks Without Borders, that's been around since 2002. Shame that there has to be a conflict/controversy over the naming of an altruistic group. Hope this can be amicably worked out:
One of our board members is an avid follower of makezine.com and just noticed your article titled "Geeks Without Borders," which we are concerned about as it represents our long-established non-profit organization as a new endeavor by someone unaffiliated with us.
It would be nice if you post a correction to the article pointing out that Geeks Without Borders is not new, or related to Mr. Johnny Diggz, who is not affiliated with the official 501(c)3 organization Geeks Without Borders.Although his mission sounds good, and we wish him the best of luck, using our name misrepresents his organization as ours, and that's not helpful to either organization.
Pat Luther
Director, Geeks Without Borders
Update to the Update: The parties involved are going to talk to each other, I understand. Hope it all works out.
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Geek Dad book giveaway
Gotham Books has generously given us three copies of Ken Denmead's wonderful Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share. We think this is a perfect giveaway for our MAKEcation theme.
To be eligible, all you have to do is tell us what geeky projects you're doing with your kids this summer, or what projects you'd like to do with them. Brownie points for sharing pics in the MAKE Flickr pool. It won't impact the drawing, but we might use them in a follow-up post here on the site.
The entry deadline is Wednesday, August 25, midnight PDT. Winners will be announced on Thursday morning. Good luck!
Update: And the winners are:
Andy Johnson
GeekMom
kendrickgoss
Congrats! Please email me your mailing addresses and I'll have the books sent to you.
More:
- Electronic origami from Geek Dad
- Best Slip n' Slide ever
- Make: Kids: An interview with GeekDad's Ken Denmead
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | 3:00 PM in Announcements, Kids | Discuss (26)
Raves for MAKE!
“Now we've got geek DIY (do it yourself) porn. Just as would-be Emerils pore over lushly illustrated cookbooks with recipes involving hard-to-find morels and complicated instructions for roux, Tom Swift wanna-bes are devouring MAKE.”
— Steven Levy, Newsweek
“...O'Reilly Media recently launched what has already become the bible of this new movement, a magazine called MAKE.”
— Daniel Roth, FORTUNE
“If you're the type who views the warnings not to pry open your computer as more a challenge than admonition, MAKE is for you.”
— Rolling Stone
“One of the most innovative magazines I've seen in a long time.”
— Steve Riggio, CEO Barnes & Noble
“The kind of magazine that would impress MacGyver”
— Marcus Chan, San Francisco Chronicle
