[Hamara-devel] makerspace, fashion, open hardware and FOSS

[shirish]

Hi all,
I did hear some loose-talk of having a maker-space at some point in time 
either at Blue Tech's office or somewhere else.

For people unfamiliar with the concept, a maker-space is where 
like-minded people meet, hack on something (usually a combination of 
software, some hardware) and make something around it.

The whole 3-d printing revolution is part of the DIY maker-space thing.

In the same scenario I came across https://github.com/fashiontec/

and http://meshcon.net/

This would be valuable for lot of schools and small startups, the 
potential here is mind boggling as well, both from the standpoint of 
digitizing our cultural history of arts and crafts as well as make it 
accessible to thousands of school-going children a vocational 
hobby/interests as well.

There are also schools which are connected with the barefeet movement 
who would be able to use this quite well along with rest of our 
distribution.

We will need to work out the details, the positioning and all those 
details.

Would be interesting if Raju and some of the the people would play with 
this and share how the experience is.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org