[hackerspaces] Hardware Freedom Day, Saturday March 15 2014!

[Frederic Muller - DFF]

Hi!

I was following in up on this upcoming event and letting you guys know
that LulzBot is joining the celebration and offering 8 3D printers to
participating hackerspaces. One simply needs to fill up the form on
their website here https://www.lulzbot.com/printer-giveaway-2014 and be
motivating enough in their usage plan. Of course running a Hardware
Freedom Day and introducing Free and Open Hardware to your area is
highly recommended.

So all the best and may you all be lucky! (though obviously only 8 will be).

Fred

On 02/11/2014 01:52 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As we announced earlier this year [1], Hardware Freedom Day [2] will
> be celebrated on March 15th this year. While we did a soft launch
> about 3 weeks ago (still had some details to iron out) we are please
> to officially launch this week.
>
> Note that besides the celebration related to Education Freedom [3]
> earlier this year, we believe education is a big topic among
> hackerspaces as we have seen on this list, be it to educate the
> younger crowd or just for us the "older bunch" who love to learn new
> things everyday. While a lot of the major Open Hardware projects
> already have quite a lot of documentation on the topic, some quite
> interesting approaches use either physical data to convey the notion
> of programming to kids, or insert a simulation layer to make the
> technology more accessible to the younger audience (like Etoys and
> physical Etoys).
>
> Anyway the event is really about reaching out about Open Source
> Hardware, your hackerspace and all the associated topics and we hope
> that this event will add significant value to what you are doing
> already! Current registered events can be found here at
> http://www.hfday.org/map/ .
>
> Of course you can contact us either by replying here, or on our
> mailing list [4].
>
> All the best and happy HFD!
>
> Fred
> -----------------------------------
> Digital Freedom Foundation
>
> [1]
> http://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/index.php/22-news/282-happy-2014#addcomments
> [2] http://www.hfday.org
> [3] http://www.educationfreedomday.org
> [4] http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/hfd-discuss


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