Portal:Events

The Events Portal

Events provide opportunities for the Fab Community to meet in person and share knowledge. Some events are formally organized around training, working development need, or by interest.

Upcoming Events

fir a bestguess try fabevent.org

Global Conferences

• Fab11 International Conference, Boston MA, USA
• Fab10 International Conference, Barcelona, Spain
• http://www.fab9jp.com/ Fab 9] Kamakura, Japan, 2013; http://fablabjapan.org; 田中浩也 (Hiroya Tanaka) htanaka@sfc.keio.ac.jp
• Fab 8 (also http://cba.mit.edu/events/12.08.FAB8/) New Zealand, 2012
• Fab 7 (also http://cba.mit.edu/events/11.08.FAB7/) Lima, Peru 2011
• Fab 6 (also http://cba.mit.edu/events/10.08.FAB6/) Netherlands 2010
• Fab 5 Pune, India, 2009
• Fab 4 Chicago, USA, 2007
• Fab 3 Pretoria, South Africa 2006
• Fab 2.5 Lyngen, Norway, 2005
• Global Fab Lab User Group Meeting. MIT (Fab 2 http://cba.mit.edu/events/05.01.fab/index.html), MIT, 2005
• NSF Site Visit http://cba.mit.edu/events/02.09.NSF/index.html (with the second (?) FabLab presentation), MIT, 2002
• CBA Kick off retreat http://cba.mit.edu/events/01.11.retreat/index.html (with the first FabLab presentation), MIT?, 2001

Fab-✱

Fab-✱ are events in Europe that help to grow and link the national Fab Lab communities.

• Fab-✱ events events cover a topic that is relevant beyond any single FabLab; they attract significatly more than just the local community.
• Fab-✱ events are widely and publicly accessible.
• Fab-✱ events are about learning collectively.
• Fab-✱ events require a certain effort of self-organization.
• Fab-✱ events further Open Knowledge – their results are publicly and freely accessible (Open Access).
• Fab-✱ events are affordable for participants and organisers, and they are not dominated by one single financial sponsor.

Training

FabAcademy

• FabAcademy, current

Bootcamps

• Bootcamp Lyngen
• Bootcamp Delhi
• Bootcamp Jan 2010 in Lyngen Norway
• Bootcamp Jan 2011 in Lyngen, Norway, Barcelona, Spain, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland,Lorrain County and Providence USA
• Bootcamp Dec 2011 in Chicago,USA
• Bootcamp Jan 2012, Distributed bootcamp

Workshops / Working Groups

• FabFi Jalalabad Network Deploy

See also

• Makers Calendar by ultra-lab, a collaborative calendar about events related to open-hardware, digital fab, hacking, diy, etc. (can be added to google calendar and ical)
• Bootcamps

Archive: Past Events

2012

• 17-22 September : Helsinki, Finland: OpenKnowledge Festival; special stream on making; http://okfestival.org/call-for-proposals/
• 17-19 May : Manchester, UK: FAB-✱ Manchester, European Fab Summit at Future Everything Festival; http://fabstar.org/manchester2012/; http://futureeverything.org/festival/; limited reduction options for Fab Lab community, see Extra Newsletter April 2012
• 23-25 May : Cotonou, Benin: E-learning Africa; http://www.elearning-africa.com/; a.o. presentation on Fab Labs; pvdh@sofos.nl
• 15-17 June : Bremen, Germany: FAB-✱ Education; conference; http://fab-education-bremen.blogspot.com/
• 15-25 June : Bremen, Germany: FAB-✱ Education; exhibition with workshops; http://fab-education-bremen.blogspot.com/
• 23-28 July : Nantes, France : Summer lab
• 28 July - 4 August : Atlanta, USA: 9th International Summer School on Gaming/Simulation; learn to develop your own teaching/training games; http://www.isaga-summerschool.org
• 8-11 August : Amersfoort, The Netherlands: international Grassroots Fab Lab event; http://www.fabfuse.org; info@fabfuse.org
• 22-28 August : FAB8 International Conference; Wellington, New Zealand; Massey University, the Institute of Design for Industry and Environment at the College of Creative Arts; http://www.fab8nz.com; Chris Jackson fab8nz@gmail.com.
• 18-21 October : Toulouse, France : FabLab Toulouse Conference