“Power is gained by sharing knowledge not holding it”
Maker Party is an event to map the developers, educators and students from all canvas of life to cherish, show case and share the spirit of knowledge and promote the notion for open access movement. We will be following a simple pattern of that of a festival, where teaching stalls will be setup, exhibits will be kept and explained by their makers.
Inspired by the Open Access Movement, Catalyzed by Mozilla across the globe, Mozilla Community in association with the Cochin University of Science And Technology, under the Center for Innovation Technology Transfer and Industrial Collaboration(CITTIC) Cell has decided to host a two day Maker Party to initiate a transition of users to makers from the 21th-22nd of September, 2014.
The event follows a simple format that of a festival, where all the inventors, users, scholars, coders will be interacting and sharing knowledge through innovative involvements.
Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization, community driven, dedicated to building free, open source products like the Firefox web browser. Our mission is to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web Maker Party is Mozilla’s global campaign in bringing about this change. Through thousands of community-run events around the world, Maker Party unites educators, organizations and enthusiastic web users with hands-on learning and making. Maker Party 2014 was kick-started by President Obama at White House Maker Faire this June. From June 15 – Sept 15, Mozilla Foundation is hosting a Global Maker Party (https://webmaker.org/en-US/party/) Maker Party inculcates and spreads the “Learning by Making” culture among the masses.
The three day event unrolls in three main venues:
1. Teaching Stations:
“To teach is great, but to inspire is divine”
Hand on classes by trained makers, students in all new cutting edge technologies. Ranging from high end electronics to basic household activities that require expertise. About 40+ areas will be teach/train during the event.
2.Exhibition:
“An art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious”
Kerala being the new entrepreneurial hub in south, this could be one platform to bring all new age technologies, products like FIN, 3D Printers under one roof. This could help throw some inspiration to young entrepreneurs. 50+ stalls will be up for the audience.
3. Success tale:
“From the horse’s mouth”
Successful, proved entrepreneurs will be sharing their views, stories with an interactive crowd over 2 days.
4. Activities and Fest
“Learn from the world around you”
The event format is all like a festival. We plan to bring many fun/teaching activities to engage the audience.
The event updates from the team on facebook page is just exciting. The event is totally free and open, but for logistic reasons the team recently opened a registration form at www.makerpartykochi.in.
See you there!
Wanna know how the event gonna look like, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oko6TzPQE6Y