Maker Stage , Sunday 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
There are many reasons why we’re seeing a resurgence of the DIY mindset. Dale Dougherty, founder of Make Magazine and Maker Faire, believes that makers are actively and creatively engaged in changing the world for the better. Makers have a hands-on approach to life and they are resourceful. Makers adapt to changing technologies but they also integrate the old with the new. Many are amateurs and enthusiasts doing what they do for the love of it. Today, making is again becoming a basic life skill as it was for generations of American pioneers and those who lived through the Great Depression. With the Internet, there are even more ways to share technical knowledge and skills so that anyone can learn to make almost anything. In celebrating makers and what they make at Maker Faire, we hope to inspire others to become makers. To paraphrase Alan Kay, the best way to predict the future is to make it yourself.
Dale Dougherty is General Manager of the Maker Media, a division of O'Reilly Media. He is the founding editor and publisher of Make and Craft magazines, both of which focus on DIY projects, and the creator of Maker Faire, which showcases creative communities. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, working closely with Tim O'Reilly to establish O'Reilly as a leading technical publisher. An early Web pioneer, Dale was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site launched in 1993 and sold to America Online in 1995. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers from 1995-1999, which was sold to CMP in 1999. He developed the Hacks Series of books in 2003, which includes the bestselling Google Hacks and Excel Hacks. He coined the term Web 2.0 as part of developing the Web 2.0 Conference.
