<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Hi calug community,</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The upcoming Silver Spring Mini Maker Faire is shaping up to be an exciting event.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">http://makerfairesilverspring.com/ Free and family-friendly. Thanks for helping to spread</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">the word about it. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> In my mind the maker movement and the open source movement are in truth just one</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">movement. From Arduino to Raspberry Pi -- all the coolest stuff in the maker movement</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">is open source. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> I'm a volunteer supporter of this event. I'll be there showing some basics of Google SketchUp.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">My friend Bonnie Roskes, who has written more than 15 books about SketchUp, will also be showing some SketchUp tips and techniques. Bonnie runs her own publishing company in DC that focuses on SketchUp. http://3dvinci.net</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Check out how creative she is in these YouTube videos.</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT253_com_zimbra_url" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGJ9i1CB8o" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGJ9i1CB8o</a></span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT254_com_zimbra_url" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL8dtnibbNI" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL8dtnibbNI</a></span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT255_com_zimbra_url" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4t_BaJXds" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4t_BaJXds</a></span></font></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> phil</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">btw, here are some smiles I made in OpenOffice Impress over the weekend.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/CliffSleeping/img0.png</font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> To navigate thru this, click on the <continue> and <back> text links at the top of the screen.</font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> Until I created this, I didn't realize that OpenOffice Impress does such a nice job of exporting HTML. You just choose Export from the File menu and it creates lovely HTML files. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3">-- </font><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span></span>Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html<br>http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html<br><br>"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br><span></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>