I should note that the presentation title reflects popular interest in some of my topics, and not the specific words I would choose to represent what we are working on. In particular, we are staying away from using the words FREE, OPEN, COPYLEFT now in favor of Sharing, hence Sharism. Also, the word Hardware is a bit problematic because of what it conjures up for computer nerds as this an already manufactured piece of hardware, like the 400K iphones foxconn is churning out a day. We take it to mean more like the glass or metal that is part of a final product. To consider the Milkymist or our projects FROM CHINA is not completely accurate. While I spend a lot of time in China, the Milkymist in particular is manufactured mostly in Taiwan.

Oh well, words are words are words! Check out the slides below and please share. They are ✳ (shared by) me, aka: ✳ Fabricatorz.

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Ask me about the event the next time you see me; I have some great stories to tell since this event was supposed to be mostly private during the conference.

In a more public showing, Yi from Qi Hardware is presenting about the Milkymist tonite (中文 at Xinchejian, the Shanghai-based hackerspace we held the first Sharism Presents Shanghai.

Don’t forget to Buy a Milkymist One for yourself or your friendz

Mole-Girl and the Anamoos from Hsiao-Lan Wang on Vimeo.

Story by Mia Zajicek
December 2011

Video production assisted by Daniel Zajicek and Hsiao-Lan Wang

Our own Dan (aka tri-jack, aka zajicek, akak quadrajack) put together a great video with his daughter and wife. Please enjoy! (I think there is a happy holla-daze in there somewhere too btw)

Dan and his wife are both great contemporary composers living in Houston. We hope to do more great projects together soon. They remind me that to make a real company, especially long term, you have to have solid family and healthy growth.

Anyway, they have a great lil family and a cute kid! Here’s to the FabriZajicek family!

Christopher from Fabricatorz designed the site from some various suggestions from Creative Commons CEO Cathy Casserly and board member Esther Wojcicki. Christopher wisely pushed to build the design on top of HTML5Boilerplate, so that the site would be stable across modern browsers and all the way back to IE 7 and above on Windows, since many Creative Commons website viewers use Internet Explorer on Windows.

Like Open Font Library, the site is also built using CSS media queries so the design is responsive to different devices from desktop to iPad to mobile phone. And, since the site is HTML5, its using the latest in stable open web technologies.

The above CC Search is now fully themed to fit in as well, with the entire Creative Commons website. This small portal actually gets a lot of traffic from the main Creative Commons website, so its important that it works decent and can be a lightpost illuminating the path to Creative Commons-licensed content.

Fabricatorz are available now for hire to build websites, web apps, convert your website to the future, translate your site into many different languages like Chinese and/or start from the bottom or top, and complete your project! We are lining up projects for 2012 fast. Let’s talk about how we can work together on your project.

Thanks to Xiaowu for taking a nice photo of the event. We had many great wine tastings from the excellent new wine club in Chaowai Soho, a Sharism supportive business. We had a few old friends and also some cool new people who live in Beijing came out like Alan Boyd, @imcherry and many more people in attendance. I also shared my new markiting project and heard great things from local investors, the progress of Yeeyan from akid, all while sampling some amazing South African wines.

See you soon at a next Sharism Presents Beijing!

There is a slow churn that happens in the background. From Fabricatorz build-up to the Sharism Makerlab in Poland, the goal of Fabricatorz is to be the kings and queens of creativity. We are the CIA of creation. We like to be airlifted to most any place in the world, and accel(erate) on-demand. We are people too. We need to have fun, and make some cool projects in the midst of the grind doing humachine work for clients and ourselves.

As planned, I dropped myself into LONDON to support Fab affiliate Michelle Thorne, who runs global events for Mozilla, and who put on the Mozilla Festival. Fabricatorz works with Mozilla regulary, in China particularly, but I particularly wanted to see how Mozilla Foundation (MoFo) is doing growing the open web. I’m very appreciative to the large turn-out and to see so many great journalists there like our friend Bilal from Al Jazeera, and Brian Behlendorf from MoFo board in attendance.

I spent my time with new friend Andy Ellis who is a pro UX designer and VJ, and with our friend Ian Forrester from BBC, who wrote up a nice post about working on the Future Everything conference looking at he future of clubbing, dj’ing and vj’ing. Naturally, I showed off the Milkymist One and we talked a lot about how we can hack on things together.

I do think though that the format for nearly any hackfest is way too short to actually write code. However, this type of MozFest Hackfest is well suited to doing some creative exercises, but it reminds me that the most important part of events (well life in general), is to make better relationships with people. It is very easy to be a uber-nerd technological determinist or become the dad in the garage working on Open Hardware (the project with a broken gear as a logo) where the motto might be “hacking is jacking,” rather than “Hi, my name is Jon. I would like to be your friend.” The hardest part to events, is to focus on meeting people and just shutting the laptop. For me, I have to always work on listening rather than just always being @rejon. From these realizations I have decided that I will no longer give slide show presentations unless its the only option for very high impact events, and I will not bring my laptop to events because its a blocker to meeting people!

Overall, the MozFest was a great success because I became closer friends with four people in particular: Andy Ellis who is a VJ expert, Renata Avila from CC Guatemala and Global Voices who I have always wanted to get to know better, Agata from CC Poland who helped us put on the Sharism Makerlab in Poland, and the always cool Hyojung Sun who, like me is a digital anarchist, now doing her PhD at Edinburgh, where she is the resident skeptic about copyright. I’m super happy I focused and talked more with these friends and talked shop. More coming soon! I was also lucky enough to stay with my old friend Jeff Kuntz, now a journalist in London living with his cool wife Dorrie. And, I last minute lucked out to go to a science startup meetup powered by the excellent Kaitlin Thaney.

Now, onto the meat of this post. I spend a lot of time in Beijing now. While walking through a local market, I found a shop that sells black markers; I’m talking the graffiti kind! I bought a box of 10 for 10 RMB on the spot, and my life has changed.

I started by marking out unnecessary text, but have progressed to blocking out all text.

A bought some jeans at Muji, so had to take out the tag.

I even took this further to realize how much paper is wasted in publicity, so I’ve decided to take it back, and re-use it, make it personal, and then redistribute. Check out these Milkymist fliers I made.

The real Milkymist please stand up. These are Chinese fliers for massage and special services you get on your doorstep everyday, now converted to a better use.

This is just a straight up marker flier on the back of a Qatar Air placemat. It’s kind of cheating.

On the back of a bi-folded business card from some cafe.

All you need to do to be a post-graffiti artist to do marking, is to buy some markets and take control of the propaganda around you by changing it. Join me in the Marking movement! Its REAL metadata.

Tomorrow in Beijing, come to the monthly Sharism Presents Beijing where I will share my new marking project. And, if you are attending the MozCamp in Kuala Lumpur this weekend, I’ll see you there with my markers, sans-laptop.

We are also super excited to formally announce the first Sharism Makerlab at the first Creative Commons Global Summit in several years! Fabricatorz all-starz along with many Creative Commons friendz and local talent will be on hand for two intensive days of sprinting towards hosting an exhibition on the first night of the Creative Commons Global Summit in Warsaw, Poland! If you want to participate in the event, please RSVP on the facebook page and/or also RSVP.

Pre-Creative Commons Global Summit, Sept 15-16, 2011, Warsaw, Poland

The SHARISM MAKERLAB will be held in Warsaw on Thursday, September 15 and Friday, September 16, 2011, right before the Global Creative Commons Summit. Our two-day event joins international makers, progammers, artists, musicians, designers, and thinkers with local collaborators, to work towards the goal to start the day with ideas to share, media to select (Audio, Video, Objects and Web), and an end goal to produce work to be shown the following night a public exhibition. The event starts with an overview, and then participants are to work in teams to make projects during the day. At the end, they come together to share their creations to Warsaw and visiting Creative Commons guests in town. The entire event will be live streamed, photoblogged, and massively tweeted. The event is free and open to the public. Registration prior is encouraged. If you are interested in hosting a Sharism Makerlab, please email the sharism team.

Reasons to Share

• Learn Open Source Software: Inkscape for Illustrations, Open Font Library for making Fonts, Ardour for Audio, PD for Audio, HTML5 for Programming, KiCAD for Objects
• Work with Global Makers: Work alongside Michelle Thorne (Mozilla), Christopher Adams (Fabricatorz/Sharism), Jon Phillips (Fabricatorz), Nathan Kinkade (Creative Commons), Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons), Greg Grossmeier (CC), Jakub Jankiewicz (Open Clip Art Library), Bassel Safadi (Aiki Lab) and more
• Be Active, Not Passive: Learn by creating real Audio, Video, Image, Text and Objects with the GOOD pressure of Friday night opening exhibition.
• Release into Public Domain: There is a workshop on the public domain, and all audio, video, image, text and objects will be released into the Public Domain.
• Get Credit: We don’t do demos, we do realidad. What better way to improve your job prospects and join the Sharism Movement, other than by doing real projets.

Who

RSVP’d Makers listed below…

• Christopher Adams, ,Fabricatorz + Sharism, is a publisher and designer based in Beijing and Taipei. He is a developer at Fabricatorz and works with Neoteny Labs.
• Greg Grossmeier, Creative Commons, is currently the Education Technology and Policy Coordinator at Creative Commons where he focuses on how Open Education projects can better create, disseminate, and reuse educational materials. He recently moved to San Francisco from Michigan where he worked at the University of Michigan Library as Copyright Specialist and with the Open.Michigan initiative on OER related outreach and policy.
• Agata Jałosińska, Creative Commons Poland.
• Jakub Jankiewicz, Aiki Framework + Open Clip Art Library, is a graphic designer and programmer from Poland who primarily creates dynamic, interactive web pages while using SEO effectively.
• Nathan Kinkade, Creative Commons, has worked and tinkered in the area of computers and technology since around 1997. He has served as an Information Technology Volunteer with the Peace Corps in Belize, and holds a B.A. in history from Emory University.
• Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons + gondwanaland, joined Creative Commons as CTO and became Vice President in April 2007. Previously he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open data service.
• Jon Phillips, Fabricatorz + Sharism, is a developer living in San Francisco and Beijing while growing Fabricatorz LLC, Aiki Framework Private Limited, and the Sharism project. His notable involvements include Open Source and Free Culture movements, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, Creative Commons, Status.Net, Sharism, and Qi Hardware.
• Bassel Safadi, Aiki Lab + Aiki Framework + Creative Commons Syria, is a software developer and a 3D technical director with ten years of practical experience. He has extensive experience in open source development including Linux kernel and Apache server. He started web application development in 2000 and 3D visual effects in 2005.
• Eric Steuer, Creative Commons + MMC + Notthe1s, works with artists, media companies, technology developers, and cultural institutions on the use of Creative Commons licenses and
  CC-licensed content. He is a correspondent for Wired magazine, a member of CASH Music’s board, and a musician with dozens of recordings and remixes in release.
• Alek Tarkowski, Creative Commons Poland, is a sociologist and director of Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt Polska, a NGO building a digital society in Poland and an affiliate institution of Creative Commons Poland.
• Michelle Thorne, Mozilla,, works for Mozilla as a global event strategist, aiming to grow communities around open web projects through live events.
• Spencer Young, Fabricatorz + Sharism, is an arts writer for San Francisco Bay Guardian and Art Practical. He lives in San Francisco.
• Local Artists and Hackers

What

A two day workshop and sprint towards hosting an exhibition of projects on the opening night of the Creative Commons Global Summit, in the creative heart of Warsaw, Poland.

Where

Warsaw, Poland, HEDOCO (http://hedoco.com)
Address: Aleja Na Skarpie 15/18 (http://g.co/maps/v4wba)

When

• Dinner for participants Wed, September 14, 2011.
• Thursday, September 15, 2011. Full Day, starting at 9 PM
• Friday, September 16, 2011. Full Day.
• Opening on Friday Night of CC Global Summit 2011
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Summit_2011

Why

• To bring international makers together.
• To make projects in realtime, with a specific practical goal.
• To build on top of current projects, in a public format.
• To have global makers work with local makers.
• To progress sharing in Warsaw and amongst participants.

How

• Send RSVP if you are interested in the event.
• Attend the event!
• Sponsor the event
• Attend the opening exhibition on Friday, Sept. 15, 2011

Goal

The goal is to focus on the Audio, Video, Image, Text, and Object rubric for workshop tracks in order to create an exhibition.

Tonite in Shanghai Fabricatorz are hosting, along with many great friendz, the first Sharism Presents Shanghai.

From Sharism.org:

Sharism Presents are events where sharing is encouraged. Its not show and tell, but more of show and share. Sharism Presents are gifts of knowledge. Events are for all those interested in sharing and are informal. People are encouraged to introduce themselves at the beginning with what they are sharing at the meeting, and then the entire event is ad-hoc in development. If you are interested in hosting a Sharism Presents, please email the sharism team.

Sharism Presents分享会是一系列鼓励大家分享的活动。在这里，没有教训和教义，只有分享，再分享。分享会是来自常识的礼物，是来自日常生活的礼物，也是给予想要分享的人们的礼物。分享主义鼓励人们介绍自己，继而通过分享主义建立一种点对点的联系。如果您也希望举办分享会，请写信给 分享主义.

Following in the footsteps of the previous Sharism Presents Beijing, the event is the second Sharism event in Shanghai after last year’s Sharism Forum. All are welcome to come out and sample Ai Mi Fan provided food and drinks. Spread the news:

Sharism Presents Shanghai, @ 新车间 (Xinchejian), 7-10 PM, Thursday, September 8, 2011

Dear Friends,
亲爱的朋友们，

You are kindly invited to “Sharism Presents Shanghai”.
欢迎您前来参加分享主义在上海的最新活动。

Attendees include:
我们的演讲嘉宾包括：

Jon Phillips 王力中 *Sharism Co-founder发起人，Fabricatorz Founder创始人
David Li, *新车间Xinchejian负责人
Lucas Englehardt, *BloggerInsight CEO
Liu Yan, 刘妍 *新单位Xindanwei CEO和Co-founder创始人
Lu Rui, 卢睿 *九州生气jzsz专家Guru
Clement Renaud, *分享主义实验室负责人researching at sharismlab
Habib Belaribi, *makesense成员gangster
Yuan曲宏媛 *设计师Designer

We will serve wine, cheese and snacks. Presentation will be followed.
主办方会准备消夏红酒，奶酪和小食。并有现场作品演示环节。

Time: 8th September, Thursday, 7pm – 10pm
时间：9月8日，周四晚7点至10点
Location: 新车间 (xinchejian), Anhua Road No.76 suite 301, Changning District, Shanghai, CHINA 200050 (near Jiangsu Road)

地址：中国上海市长宁区安化路76号301室 (靠近江苏路)

交通：我们附近的地铁与公交非常方便，建议您不要开车。地铁二、十一号线（江苏站四号出口）及公交 01, 44, 57, 62, 71, 76, 96, 127, 138, 311, 328, 323, 562, 825, 921, 923, 925, 936, 939 等均可轻松到达。

Please join us and have fun!
请即刻加入我们！

If you want to learn more about Sharism, please visit the link
如果想了解Sharism分享主义的核心理念和2010年分享主义和大声展合作的论坛成果，请移步http://sharism.org/about

Beyond the fun news of the homebrew CMOS project making the world’s smallest Nyan Cat, Fabricatorz Christopher Adams provided some design tweaks to the upcoming Milkymist One product launch:

The changes are included in the upcoming Milkymist One RC3 hardware with the new logo laser etched onto the top of the case, seen below.

And then you can also see it propagated to the box design:

You can also see on the latest news the full spread of the slides I developed for FISL12 in Brazil:

This just scratches the surface of the last month of news from the Qi Hardware Project. Please read about the other developments and join the copyleft hardware revolution!

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(Use your keyboard arrows or click on the image to advance the slides.)

Also, I converted the original Fabricatorz update to the Qi Hardware look and feel, and Nanonote products, which needs to be distributed across sites, products and media:

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We really are seeking feedback on these slide decks. What make sense? What looks good, bad, and how do you receive the messaging? Qi Hardware is Copyleft Hardware.

UPDATE: Qi Hardware and Nanonote use the Dustismo font. Added links to the SVG files for presentation. If you want to see the magic, then open the files to see the magic.

(Use your keyboard arrows or click on the image to advance the slides. You need the Droid Serif font to properly view the slides.)