Hi all,

As some of you may know, I've been involved in the Nation of Maker initiative to create a national 501(c)3 umbrella organization for makerspaces. If folks from Sudo are interested in being more involved in this process, let me know, and we can get you in touch.

Some of the ways you can help out would be by writing a letter of support on behalf of Sudo. Maker/hackerspaces around the country will also be organizing "Maker Meals" where they invite their neighbors to sit down over a meal or potluck. If anyone in Sudo would like to help organize such a "Maker Meal" together with CCL, please let me know! I don't think we have enough free energy to do one of these by ourselves right now, but we are definitely planning to write a letter of support. We're targeting all this for the week of November 15, when there will be a big announcement planned for the Nation of Makers initiative. The email I attached below has much more info on everything that is going on with Nation of Makers, Maker Meals, letters of support, etc.

Along the same lines, I recently reached out to Oakland Makers to see if they were still alive. They were very active two years ago or so, with a ton of support from the City under then-mayor Jean Quan, but it seems they mostly went dormant for the past year. To my surprise I got an immediate email back from Hiroko from 25th Street Collective, suggesting we set up a conference call or meet up with Karen Cusolito from American Steel and Danny Beesley. If anyone would like to be involved in reviving Oakland Makers (and maybe put some more of our own stamp on it!), please let me know...

Thanks!

Patrik

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Coy, Andrew B. EOP/OSTP <Andrew_B_Coy@ostp.eop.gov>
Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:09 PM
Subject: [ACTION ITEMS] Overview of Opportunities for Nation of Makers
To: "patrikd@gmail.com" <patrikd@gmail.com>


Dear Makers:

As you all enter the final stretch between now and November 15th there is a growing number of action items and ways for you and your organization to get involved. For your benefit in cataloging and prioritizing, please find a list of top-line items below:

 

1.       Build the Movement In Your Community!

a)      Makers Meals – organized by you to happen during week of November 13th-19th

CLICK HERE

 

b)      Letters of Support – written by your organization about the maker movement and Nation of Makers (see attached) [DUE: NOVEMBER 10th]

CLICK HERE

 

c)       Media / Op-Eds – to be published on or after *NOT BEFORE* November 15th

CLICK HERE

 

2.       Nominate Individuals to Serve!

a)      Board of Advisors / Board of Directors – help build out the organization by identifying those who are uniquely positioned to serve from within the community (click here for MORE INFORMATION / click here to NOMINATE) [DUE: NOVEMBER 4th]

 

3.       Join the Whole Group Conference Calls!

a)      Thursday, November 3rd @ 8pm [TONIGHT]

o   Date: Thursday, November 3rd

o   Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm ET

o   Call In: (888) 330-1716

o   Code: 4031673#

b)      Wednesday, November 9th @ 8pm ET [LAST WHOLE-GROUP CALL BEFORE ANNOUNCEMENT]

o   Date: Wednesday, November 10th

o   Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm ET

o   Call In: (888) 330-1716

o   Code: 4031673#

 

4.       Join the Conversation Online!

a)      Email Newsletter

o   Link to sign up for the Mail Chimp: http://bit.ly/nom_email_signup

o   To ensure the email does not get automatically filtered out of your inbox, folks have suggested making sure to add the NoMTransitionGroup@gmail.com to your contacts list to avoid missing any emails

b)      Slack Channel

o   Email NoM Transition Group (NoMTransitionGroup@gmail.com) and they will be able to directly add you to the channel.

 

Looking forward to seeing what you all as a community are able to accomplish but in the lead-up to the November 15th announcement and in the weeks, months, and years that follow! It’s wonderful to see the maker community rising to the next level of organizational capacity!

Please feel free to forward this email on to any makers you think should also be receiving it as my email list is by no means comprehensive and I am sure I am missing folks that would like to be receiving it!

Andrew Coy

Senior Advisor for Making

 

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Executive Office of the President | The White House

whitehouse.gov/ostp | acoy@ostp.eop.gov