Media and Community Sponsors
Alameda County Computer Resource Center
Boing Boing
Forbes voted Boing Boing "best of the web" among tech blogs, as did BusinessWeek. AdRants, ad exec veteran Steve Hall's blog, posted an article to the effect that if Boing Boing covers your ad campaign, it's gone viral. 2006 Bloggies winner: Best Group Blog and Lifetime Achievement. 2006 Webby Awards nominee. Named 'Best of the Web 2006' by BusinessWeek. In a 2006 article, The New Yorker described Boing Boing as "a technology blog that is read by geeks the world over."
Current Media
Current is not ordinary television. We’re an independent Emmy award-winning interactive peer-to-peer network that broadcasts only the real stories you care about. We’ve mashed-up global television with a highly participatory website - and now they exist in perfect symbiotic harmony. Nearly on-third of our programming is user-generated – so grab your camera and make television! http://www.current.com
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company, located in the heart of the San Francisco bay area peninsula, produces award winning, hand-crafted beers centered on the most premium ingredients. Brewed in Belmont, and delivered to over 100 taps on the peninsula. Please support local businesses and enjoy our premium beers.
Elmer's
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum offers news, insightful analysis, and authoritative perspectives of the impact of emerging technologies on business, the economy, and our lives. Award-winning, cutting-edge technology journalism makes IEEE Spectrum a staple for more than 385,000 engineering managers and technology business leaders worldwide. IEEE Spectrum: The Magazine for Technology Insiders.
Laughing Squid
Founded by Scott Beale in 1995, Laughing Squid is a San Francisco based organization and website/blog focusing on art, culture and technology. Laughing Squid is also an independently owned and operated web host, providing dependable web hosting services to individuals, artists and bloggers.
Momentum Magazine
Momentum Magazine is a free transportation cycling magazine for North Americans. Momentum’s mission is to reflect the lives of people who ride bikes. Momentum provides urban cyclists with the inspiration, information and resources to fully enjoy their riding experience – and connects readers with their local and global cycling communities.
Nuts and Volts
Nuts and Volts is a monthly publication devoted exclusively to electronics topics such as circuit design, lasers, amateur robotics, computer control, home automation, microcontrollers, data acquisition, new technology, DIY projects, electronic theory, etc. Nuts and Volts is written for the hands-on hobbyist, design engineer, technician, and experimenter. The diversity of subjects appeals to all levels of experience but focuses more on the intermediate to advanced level reader.
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
The Onion
The Onion is America's finest news source, and the world's most popular humor publication. Each week, more than 3 million people read The Onion, in print and online, for award-winning news and views they can't get anywhere else.
www.theonion.com
Plenty Magazine
Every issue of Plenty Magazine brings you the world in green. From the latest in clean tech, to new advances in sustainable design, to cutting edge eco fashions, Plenty will take you inside the modern green revolution.
ReadyMade
ReadyMade is a bimonthly print magazine for people who like to make stuff, who see the flicker of invention in everyday objects.
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Since 1966, the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been printing the news and raising hell as the Bay Area's independent, locally-owned & edited newspaper. With fearless investigative reporting of local, national and international politics and issues; support of green and sustainable businesses and legislation; extensive arts & entertainment coverage; outrageous web content at sfbg.com; and the pioneering, annual "Best of the Bay" issue, the San Francisco Bay Guardian has become the nation's #1 independent alt-weekly.
SERVO
SERVO Magazine is a monthly publication for robot innovators at all levels of expertise. There are articles on getting started as well as forward thinking, component-level information on developing robotic systems. New products, events, DIY projects, reviews, hacks, and tutorials round out the editorial.
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
Secure Valet Bicycle Parking will be provided by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition at this year's Maker Faire. The SVBC aims to make bicycling mainstream for both transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a key solution to the environmental, health, and social issues facing our communities. Their programs include Share the Road and Bike to Work Day, bicyclist education for both youth and adults, and the Bicycle Exchange, where rebuilt bikes are donated to needy families.
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Tech Challenge, The Tech Museum of Innovation’s annual team challenge for youth in Grades 5-12, introduces and reinforces the scientific process with a hands-on project geared to solve real world problems. Designed to provide months of scientific team learning and to provide multiple solutions, Tech Challenge is open to all students, inspiring future innovators. For more info go to www.thetech.org
TechShop
TechShop is a public workshop on the San Francisco peninsula that provides its members with training and use of tools and equipment including milling machines and lathes, a 3D printer, welding equipment, sheet metal equipment, laser cutters, CNC mills, plastics equipment, a CNC plasma cutter, finishing equipment, and more.
Toolmonger
To sponsor Maker Faire, please contact Sherry Huss, at
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