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A Playbook for Maker Event Organizers

The Maker Event Playbook is a community-driven playbook that documents a wide range of maker events and the topics that are relevant to maker event organizer. Whether you host small workshops in a makerspace or produce a large multi-day maker event such as a Maker Faire, this playbook is a place for you to find helpful information and to share the what you’ve learned with others.

The Maker Event Playbook is a project of Nation of Makers, and will be maintained long-term by the Nation of Makers community. The project’s initiation can be traced back to the maker event organizer track at NOMCON 2019 (the Nation of Makers annual conference) with a workshop that led to a call to action for a community-driven playbook for maker events. With support from Google as part of their ongoing support for the maker community, a project team formed in the fall of 2019 and the playbook was launched at NOMCON 2020!

NOMCON 2020

Session Recording

Slides

PDF Version


Look Around

Check out some of the general event topics that relate to most maker events.

Take a Look

Why GitHub?

Open Source software practices are perfect for community documentation.

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Contributing

Learn how easy it is to contribute to the Open Source Maker Event Playbook.

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Your Events

You can use this playbook template to document your org's maker events.

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What’s Next?

We are currenly on-boarding authors, publishers, and coders to continue the playbook. If you’d like to get involved, please email us or join us in the Nation of Makers slack in the #maker_event_playbook channel. Check out the pages above to start learning how the playbook works and how you can contribute!