Maker Faire Bay Area 2012

A Modest Proposal: Bringing Makers to Market

Dave Eggers, a longtime fan of the Maker Movement, will share ideas and some sketches for bringing a Maker's market to San Francisco's mid-Market Street. Friends and allies will join in as Eggers opens the brainstorm for a Mid-Market Makers' Mart to the Maker Faire audience. The session will conclude with a group tongue twister exercise to say Mid-Market Makers' Mart aloud five times very fast.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award, What Is the What, winner of the Prix d'Medici, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. A former cartoonist and sometime painter, Eggers still designs and produces books through McSweeney's Publishing, the independent company he started in his kitchen in 1998.

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