FabYearBook 2011 — Call for Contributions!

November is upon us, so it is time to start writing your FabYearBook 2011 contributions! Send in your contributions before January 15th 2011. Publication date is February 16th 2011.

In January 2010 the first ever FabYearBook, containing stories from various FabLabs, examples of things made in FabLabs, interviews with FabLab community members etc, numbering 50 pages, was published.

Contribute to FabYearBook 2011!

Now it is time to start creating your contributions for the next edition of the FabYearBook! So get creative and share fun, inspirational, or deep stories about your FabLab and the things that happen there, in the form of text, pictures, drawings or whatever you can think of. We accept contributions in any shape or form. To be part of the book it needs to be in A4 format though. But feel free to also send in fun designs (even better if they fit that A4 format!) we can share in the digital version of the FabYearBook.

The FabYearBook 2011 will be available to print in your own FabLab in February 2011. Possibly we will turn the publication into a Polycon video event, connecting many FabLabs together while the FabYearBook gets printed in those FabLabs.

The First Edition of the FabYearBook, the FabYearBook 2010, published in January 2010, is still available on-line at http://www.instructables.com/id/FabYearBook-2010/

If you are interested in sending in a contribution please let me know, so I know what to expect 🙂
The first contributions have already been received from the FabLabs in South Africa (Thanks a lot!) It would be great if we can add your own FabLabs’ stories to those first 4 pages! 🙂

An opportunity to connect and share!

The yearly Fab conference, such as Fab6 in the Netherlands this year, or last year Fab5 in India, or the one next year Fab7 in Peru are great opportunities to meet face to face and feel part of a bigger global whole. The FabYearBook appears halfway between the global Fab conferences, and is an additional way to stay in touch and feel part of the global FabLab community.

Use the FabYearBook 2011 to introduce us all to the people in your FabLab, the staff, volunteers and makers that make up your local community. Show us what great stuff is getting made in the FabLab. Tell us what is hard, what is fun, what is awesome. Share with us the impact FabLab has on your life, your community, your visitors.
Don’t be a stranger, and send in your contributions for the FabYearBook 2011!

Spread the word!

Please forward this call for contributions to others (people, FabLabs) you think may be interested in adding something to the book. The more variety and diversity we have in the contributed stories, the richer and more inspiring the result will be to all of us.

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