I suggest he stops off in Abishur’s neck of the woods although he’ll need a big hat & boots to be allowed in across the state border

Hi Liz,

If Eben is interested, available, and in San Francisco, he would be a most honored guest at our event at Code For America on Thursday Feb 21st.

My organization is called Nerds For Nature, and we just got our first RaspberryPi and are very excited about the potential :) Nerds For Nature’s mission is to unite technologists with environmentalists, and provide ongoing skill building workshops to prototype tools and share knowledge about our natural resources. We are very focused on providing a community resource to empower individuals of all backgrounds and ages.

During the launch event, we have three speakers doing lighting talks on citizen science, opensource hardware, and open data initiatives. Anything that Eben would want to share about his work, would most definitely fit with the topics of the evening.

Please let me know if this would be of interest.

You can find out more about the event, and our organization here:

http://nerdsfornature-launch.eventbrite.com
http://nerdsfornature.org

We typically meet at this hackerspace in Oakland:
http://sudoroom.org

Hope to cross paths!

— Laci

“Lah-tsi” not “Lay-cee”
Laci Videmsky
twitter: @videmsky

We’d love to have you at Workshop 88, which is right outside of Chicago. Let us know: info@workshop88.com

i3 Detroit would love a visit!
http://www.i3detroit.com

I’ll 2nd Workshop 88. Would like to learn more about the Rasp Pi !

Artisan’s Asylum (http://www.artisansasylum.com) in Boston has a ton of members that would want to meet you!

We’d love to have you visit Chicago’s hackerspace, Pumping Station: One. We have a large space with multiple rooms so any night of the week should be doable. And we even have a bi-weekly embedded systems and Raspberry Pi meetup: http://www.meetup.com/NERP-Not-Exclusively-Raspberry-Pi/

As, Andrew commented above, Workshop 88 is in the area, too, so you would get 2 hackerspaces visit out of coming through Chicagoland… there’s also Fermilab Nation Accelerator Lab (http://www.fnal.gov/) too if you have time its cool place to tour.

Thanks!
Drew

Hi Liz, if Eben wants to come to Las Vegas, we would love to have him come by SYN Shop!

A few members have been actively building a project using the Pi and I’m sure a lot of other members would be love to get some insight in to the device and the foundation.

Thanks!

Liz what is it about West Coasts this week.

First an artical on the west coast of the uk (Wales) now one the West Coast of the states?

Minneapolis Hacker Space President here! The Hack Factory In Minneapolis, MN would love to host a visit, and would gladly host on a couch or spare bed. Send me an email, or contact @_videoman_ on twitter.

I give a 3rd for Workshop 88 out near Chicago in the suburbs. Thanks for the opportunity!

Wow! I wish someone on here would say Tulsa, Oklahoma! :-) There…I said it. However, I am just one guy, with one Pi, I don’t have a whole hackspace of friends and Raspberry Pi users. I have a whole group of people that I have talked to about the Pi, and the educational value. Comeon! More Oklahomans! :-)

Chicago area should be perfect – we’re in both an upper bit and a middle bit. We’d be thrilled to have you visit Workshop88 and PS1’s a great destination too.

Minneapolis Hacker Space President here! The Hack Factory In Minneapolis, MN would love to host a visit, and would gladly host on a couch or spare bed. Send me an email, or contact @_videoman_ on twitter.

We are also starting to do Raspberry-Pi Classes…

The St. Louis, MO hackerspace Arch Reactor, http://www.archreactor.org , would be a great spot for a class, Jam session, demo or just a city to crash in. You can contact me anytime directorofeducation@archreactor.org or join the Arch Reactor Facebook group. Thanks, -derek

He could visit our brand-new and rapidly-growing Fort Worth maker community at our meetup on Feb 21! Or we’ll reschedule to suit his travel!

http://www.meetup.com/makermeetup/Fort-Worth-TX/882082/

We at the MakerBar would love to have Eben join us on his way back. We’re in Hoboken, NJ right across the river from NYC.

http://www.MakerBar.com
@MakerBar

Hello@MakerBar.com

Seconding i3 Detroit — I think Raspberry Pi cases are the most-frequently-made single item on our laser cutter! Lots of member activity with ’em…

You should come on over to i3 Detroit!

Another plug for i3Detroit! We would love a visit!

Kansas City would love to have you!!

Hammerspace workshop might be appropriate….

http://www.hammerspacehobby.com/p/what-is-hammerspace.html

The FIRST FTC Iowa Championship is going on in Iowa city next Friday and Saturday. We would love Eben join us. We have 48 teams of excellent high school Robotics students attending along with about 100 volunteers. Contact Rebecca Whitaker at FTC.Iowa@gmail.com

Another vote for an i3Detroit visit!

If Eben is interested in visiting Austin, I can try to set things up with Austin Hackerspace where I am a member. There is a San Antonio hackerspace as well, a bit over an hour’s drive away, and I can reach out to those guys to arrange a 2-fer (San Antonio’s airport might also be cheaper for travel). There are hackerspaces in Houston and Dallas also, but they are far enough away that it would be best not to round-trip it, but either land here or there and drive there and take a flight out of the other end. I can help with giving rides. Email rgristroph@gmail.com Texas looks plausible.

Thanks for visiting us here in the US, where ever you go !

Open Lab Idaho (http://www.openlabidaho.org/ https://plus.google.com/101051486787608902854/posts) would love to have Eben come on by. We have lots of enthusiastic Raspberry Pi users here who would love to meet Eben!

It would seem that Boise Idaho would match up well with your “top edges & middle bits” goal and is more or less on the way from San Francisco to NYC.

Hope we get to say Hi!

Another vote for Hoboken MakerBar, where there is much fun to be had, and good food to be eaten, and Raspberry Pis to be marveled at.

http://www.MakerBar.com
@MakerBar

Drop by i3 Detroit. We have a lot of Rasberry Pi users!

It would be awesome if Eben can drop by our Ann Arbor Raspberry Pi Meetup kick-off event, which is taking place at Eastern Michigan University on 2/19/2013 at 7pm. We’ll be having a couple of (edible) pies and a great discussion. More information at: http://www.meetup.com/Ann-Arbor-Raspberry-Pi-Projects/
It would really work out if he comes to i3Detroit then swing by A2..
I will also be speaking at a TED talk mid March, and I plan to cover some great features of the Pi in my discipline (Information Assurance), so it would be great to get Eben’s thoughts on that and, if he’d like, include that in my talk.

“here’s a bit of video from”…

Where? I tried three browsers and nothing shows up. Am I the only one with this problem, or if not, why hadn’t anyone else noticed it?

Mojave Makers in Mojave, CA (http://mojavemakers.org/) would love to have a visit! Many of our members work at the commercial space companies at the Mojave Air and Spaceport.

I’m another person who would be thrilled to come see you if you had a chance to stop in Boise, Idaho. My 6-year-old son has had his first few tastes of programming (in Scratch) thanks to the Pi.

Regardless of where you end up, keep up the amazing work.

Beautiful Greenville, South Carolina!

http://www.greenvillemakers.com/
http://www.theironyard.com/academy/kids

And, we’ll be sure to offer food *without* any raspberries in it. :)

MakerBar in Hoboken would be honored with a visit from Eben.
Interested in the use of Raspberry Pi for avionics and data gathering in our high powered rocketry projects.

Please, please get with theprogram and start using web standards and stop using Flash Player… I hate seeing the Update your flash player block instead of a video that would work perfectly well in h.264 (MP4). I have removed Flash player by choice as it is harmful to the Health of my now irreplaceable 17″ MacBook Pro.

Im pretty sure that my RaspberryPi Model B does not support it either…

Honestly, I would like him in Quantico, Va to visit the Marine Corps museum. One of the IT guys there has used. Few PIs to build some slideshow generators, in lieu of using full PCs. I think Eben would get a kick out of it.

The South Arlington Hackerspace has been planning a raspberry pi meetup for a while. A number of us have the devices and would love to you speak. The CS teacher at Arlington Career center, where this hackerspace is located, has done a lot of work with OLPC and bringing technology to the third world, as have some of the other members. I know DC probably is visited more then some of these other places, but it would be an amazing opportunity.

Plus 1 vote for Mojave Makers in Mojave, CA.

We’d love to have you out at Heatsync Labs (http://www.heatsynclabs.org) in Phoenix, AZ (Mesa)!

One of the projects we did recently with pi was: we were taking a road trip to Las Vegas to attend Mini Maker Faire there, and set up a wifi network between the cars on the trip. We used a PI as a super-low-power linux machine to host a chat server that we could use to talk to each other during the trip!

Pretty cool :)

This is what our lab looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRXXNs1DPU

Splatspace in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina would love a visit from Eben! We recently co-hosted a Pi-focused event with our local linux users group that had a great turnout, including many who had never used linux or seen a Pi. Plus, a few of us are actively working on educational materials for schools, hackerspaces, and even local universities Duke and UNC using the Pi.

Come out PS1 in Chicago. We have a member who works for element14/newark, another that designed his own breakout board (the picrust), and bi-weekly meetings centered around the pi architecture and other small systems.
We also brew some great beer!

You’ll also be in short distance from a number of other midwest hackerspaces.

I would fourth…fith…whatever.. a vote for a visit to Workshop88 just outside Chicago. Easy highway access, and very close to O’Hare Airport.
Thanks!

i3Detroit — http://i3detroit.com would LOVE to have you drop in for a visit!

You should come by HackPittsburgh! We have an enthusiastic group of makers who would love to talk Rasberry Pi, and some of the Raspberry Pi projects we’ve been kicking around.

Another vote for Greenville SC. Help kick start “iT2PIE” (introduction to technology programmers invention expo). Fresh Start SC public charity promoting the Raspberry Pi as an introduction to technology. We have the best beer and chocolate in the South!

Please visit us at Hack Pittsburgh

One more vote for Chicago! Both PS1 and W88 would be happy to have you over. By car they are about an hour apart. Chicago would like to thank you personally for the herculean effort that has gone into the design, manufacture and distribution of the R-Pi. Plus, you can’t leave without tasting Chicago’s world famous Pizza and Hot dogs :-) Regards

If you come to Pittsburgh, you can visit Hack Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon in the same trip.

The hacker space I go to, i3Detroit, is definitely the best one in Michigan and perhaps a lot farther. I would strongly recommend it!

We would love you at AS220 Labs in Providence, RI!

i3 Detroit would love to have you.

Vacnouver!

Hahaha, all the i3 votes are from the same IP

Liz, we would welcome Eben to Visit Portland Oregon at this meeting and speak about the Raspberry PI. Fly in Tuesday Afternoon, speak to use Tuesday evening. Then leave Wednesday morning for other Locations listed above.
http://www.meetup.com/Thing-Tuesday-The-Portland-Internet-of-Things-Meetup/events/100864592/
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Urban Airship Hacker Space
334 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR (map)
http://thingtuesday.com/
http://www.meetup.com/Portland-Internet-of-Things/
This is a group for anyone interested in Internet of Things — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Th…. The group was started as a way to meet others and learn about the different types of projects, tools, and technology and discuss the impact of more connected world.

While the group is technical in nature, all skills levels are welcome. Our target member are hackers, professionals, developers, and hobbyist and not meant as a professional networking group. Group participation is key and if you have a topic you would like to present, don’t be shy.

Just to let you know who we have SPEAKING:

Roberto Tagliabue – Jawbone (formerly Nike+, Motorola, Visere)
– He is the designers designer having worked on some landmark products.

Marcelino Alavrez – Founder, Uncorked Studios (Formerly W+K Digital)
– founder of the awesome RDTN.org project and its first hardware – Currently doing some great work with hardware, electronics and brand experience in Portland.

Surj Patel – GigaOM
Steven Osborn – Urban Airship
Steve and I will give up our slots and be content with a quick hi if we get more speakers :-) Suggestions below please or on ThingTuesday.com

All the best,
Surj.
My last post did not seem to complete. apologize if a double post. Good luck to all locations vying for a visit from Eben.

HacDC (Washington, DC)

We at i3Detroit located in Southeast Michigan would love a visit, our RPi group is active and searching for new RPi applications.

If you’d like to come by the Twitter office in SF, we’d be happy to have you.

Hello

If you want to cross the Canadian boarder we are having another Raspberry PI workshop at VHS (Vancouver Hacksapce) on Thursday
https://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp/2013/02/14/using-the-raspberry-pi-to-control-a-arduino-thursday-feb-21st-2013-730pm/

Cal Poly Pomona’s SWIFT club would love a visit from you guys! We’re located in Walnut, CA, US.

https://www.calpolyswift.org/

The hackerspace in Minneapolis would definitely welcome you. The hack factory

Meet Motor City’s i3Detroit — http://i3detroit.com

Stop by the Gainesville, FL hackerspace! We’d love to see you, all the info is at http://skillhouse.org

Oof! Looks like your dance card is bursting. But if you find yourself in Philadelphia, The Hacktory would love to have you at our open house any Thursday at 3711 Market Street. Two of our organizers are using a Pi for environmental sensing for a project with a local school, and I’m curious about running OpenWRT and Tor on them.

Happy travels, and I hope we get to see you sometime! (Maybe after the NYC trip?)

We would LOVE a visit to the Gainesville, Florida Hackerspace! http://skillhouse.org

http://skillhouse.org/ is the hacker space in Gainesville, FL. They would be a wonderful choice to visit. They were so open to our group of kids (Hack it Our Selves Scouts) When we were starting out. A visit to their open house really inspired the kids that visited. We would love to bring our HIO scouts to a visit from Eben at Skill House. Several of our scouts are working with their Raspberry PI’s and are learning so much. We have made games, clocks, entertainment centers and platforms to experiment with programing. We share our love for the RPI with every one we meet.

If you come to Kalamazoo, Michigan you could get the i3Detriot _and_ PS1 folks from Chicago in one stop! We’re half way in between. We meet at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo.

http://www.airzoo.org/

Check us out at

http://www.meetup.com/kalamazoo-makers-guild/

We’d love to see Eben in our little town. Thanks!

On your way to Gainesville, you should stop by and visit Making Awesome, Tallahassee’s makerspace. We’re pretty new but having all sorts of fun.

We’re West Coast but Canadian …

http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp/

Would like to opine that Gainesville, FL is an excellent choice. We have a great tech community here. http://skillhouse.org

We would be honoured to have Eben at the Vancouver Hackspace, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://vancouver.hackspace.ca

Please come visit the NERP Raspberry Pi meetup at Pumping Station:One in Chicago.

http://pumpingstationone.org/tag/raspberry-pi/

NERP (Not Exclusively Raspberry Pi) provides a place for learning, discussing, and experimenting with the Raspberry Pi. Although our main focus is on using the Pi, other relevant topics include embedded devices, Open Source Hardware and Software, interfacing to the real world, development tools, circuits, and so on.

Pumping Station One is a hackerspace located in Chicago. We seek to foster a collaborative environment wherein people can explore and create intersections between technology, science, art, and culture. NERP and other PS1 interests and activities can be seen at the PS1 blog.

Thanks,
Ed

I would recommend the hackerspace in Gainsville Florida! There’s really awesome people here. http://skillhouse.org

Mr. Upton, It looks like your itinerary may not allow you to stop in at Wilson elementary school in Corvallis, Oregon in time for our “Discovery Night” on the Raspberry Pi on March 7th, but perhaps you’d consider joining us via skype or google+ on another occasion. We’d love to hear you speak.

Thanks

Alan

Is Eben’s calendar booked NYC on Saturday? I’m an energy startup founder, driving from our staging site in Eastern PA back to RI on Saturday. We are thinking of replacing our communications hub with a raspberry pi combined with a digi XBee; the hub talks to night storage heaters (called Electric Thermal Storage here in the States) and turn them into hidden storage assets for the electric grid. Can’t by DIY here in the states for code reasons – but would love to talk with Eben about if he thinks our technology could take off open source/DIY in the UK.

Where is Eben speaking in NYC – is it the Brooklyn Tech meetup?

Artisan’s Asylum!

It would be awesome if he could swing by Open Lab Idaho. There are a lot of very enthusiastic pi fans here in Boise. http://www.openlabidaho.org/

Student here looking to start an IEEE club out at Boise State University on the Raspberry Pi. Would love some help to kick it off! :) Eben is beyond welcome to stop in Boise. We’d love to have him.

Any updates on the travel plans?

Thanks!