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BEST SPECIAL EVENT
Make Magazine's Maker Faire Wins FOLIO FAME Award
1st-time event beats out competition from Rachel Ray and Billboard
New York, NY (March 13, 2007): Make magazine's Maker Faire won the gold for "BEST SPECIAL EVENT" as the second-ever FOLIO FAME awards were given out today at the Magazine Event Strategies Conference in New York City. Winning the award, Make overcame stiff competition from Rachel Ray and Billboard. The FAME awards recognize the magazines that have created the industry's most innovative, revenue-generating and brand-building events over the past year.
Attracting more than 20,000 weekend attendees to the San Mateo Fairgrounds in San Mateo, CA, Maker Faire was a two-day event celebrating DIY invention and discovery. From a giant electronic giraffe to steam-powered robots, bikes made of driftwood, helium bubbles, a giant clothing swap, and even a nighttime fire show—Maker Faire had something for everyone.
"Maker Faire was a family-friendly event, reaching attendees of all ages and demographics. For a first-year program to attract that many people from outside the magazine's readership base was very impressive," explained Linda Zebian, Associate Editor, Folio:, Magazine Event Strategies.
This year, Maker Faire will return to the San Mateo Fairgrounds, May 19 & 20, and will also expand to Austin, TX, for another two-day event, October 20 & 21 at the Travis County Fairgrounds. "Maker Faire is about inspiring people to share their ideas, to think of new ones, to see the world and our surroundings in a different way—and more than anything, to have fun in the process! And to that end, we couldn't have been more successful," said Dale Dougherty, Publisher & Editor, Make magazine.
For more information on the FOLIO FAME award or this year's Maker Faire events, please contact Mark Ballard at: 212-255-8455 x225 or . Founded in 1978 and based in Sebastopol, CA., O'Reilly Media is the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. The company's books, conferences, and web sites bring to light the knowledge of technology innovators. O'Reilly books, known for the animals on their covers, occupy a treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next generation of software. O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. From the Internet to XML, open source, .NET, Java, and web services, O'Reilly puts technologies on the map. www.oreilly.com
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"With throngs of young and old alike packing into the San Mateo fairgrounds, the 2007 Maker Faire was an improbable mixture of spectacle and practicality--a combination of engineering, crafts, science, and art that seemed to sufficiently blur the lines between all four."
-Bryan Gardiner, PC Magazine, May 21, 2007
"This is where inventors and artists come to share their wares."
- CBS Sunday Morning
"Don't be misled by the name of the weekend's staid-sounding 'Maker Faire'. The San Mateo-based event is a celebration of destruction as much as innovation, with touches of art and anarchy thrown in."
- Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, May 20, 2007
"Combining old-fashioned crafters with forward-thinking technorati, fashionistas, and mad scientists of all stripes, the Maker Faire is a hands-on celebration of all things DIY brought to life by Make magazine."
- The Onion, October 18, 2007
"Here at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, all of your twisted dreams can come true."
-HOST, G4, Attack of the Show! May 23, 2007
