Community Curating and the Maker Movement
From its inception in San Mateo California in 2006, Maker Faire has grown into a global phenomenon, a living exhibition of creativity, technology, and do it yourself culture that now thrives in over 130 cities throughout the world. The curation of each Maker Faire uses a community-building approach to support the participation of new makers. This decentralized approach to curation has helped to foster an organic and thriving culture of makers that extends beyond Maker Faire into community based workshops, schools, libraries and other public spaces. Dale and Sherry are the founders of this movement and will share their evolving approach to curating these experiences and communities. Biography Dale Dougherty is the Founder and CEO of Maker Media, which launched Make:magazine in 2005, and Maker Faire, which held its first event in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. He was a Co-Founder of OReilly Media, where he was the first editor of their computing trade books and developed GNN in 1993, the first commercial website. He served as a Lecturer in Electronic Publishing at the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley from 1997 to 2002. Sherry Huss is the Vice President of Maker Media and Co-Creator of Maker Faire. She has held senior management positions at MediaLive International, Key3Media, Ziff-Davis, and Softbank. She was also instrumental in launching and managing successful technology and consumer events such as Suns JavaOne, Oracles iDevelop, OReilly Medias Web 2.0 Summit and Dwell on Design. Eric Siegel is Director at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. He has served for 11 years as Director and Chief Content Officer of the New York Hall of Science, which received the Institute of Museum and Library Service National Medal in 2015. In 2014, he was honored with the Association of Science Technology Centers Leading Edge Award for Exceptional Leadership. He has taught graduate courses in museum management and exhibition design at New York University.
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