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Woah wouldn’t expect it all the way out there
Dale lives in Petaluma; easy commute.
That's uh... an unusual choice of locations. HOWEVER, you can take the Ferry from SF to Mare Island https://sanfranciscobayferry.com/ Two weekends is another interesting choice. There are going to be a lot of people, I suspect, who don't want/can't to setup or leave their setups for 2 weekends in a row. But I'm totally excited, and thrilled it's going to be in 3 months and not an announcement of something next year.
> don't want/can't to setup or leave their setups for 2 weekends in a row. It sounded like they were short on space, so wanted just half the makers each weekend. From an email they sent: > We plan to organize different groups of makers for each weekend. > Mare Island is a beautiful, historic location on the waterfront where makers can be indoors or outdoors. This venue is smaller in size than the San Mateo Fairground…
Although Vallejo is considered to be part of the Bay Area, I would call it a stretch since it is pretty far up north, beyond SF, Walnut Creek, and Concord. For reference, it takes roughly an hour drive from SF going north to get to Vallejo.
I wonder how much bigger the GM/Chevrolet auto sales presence will be this time around...
That's uh... an unusual choice of locations. HOWEVER, you can take the Ferry from SF to Mare Island https://sanfranciscobayferry.com/ Two weekends is another interesting choice. There are going to be a lot of people, I suspect, who don't want/can't to setup or leave their setups for 2 weekends in a row. But I'm totally excited, and thrilled it's going to be in 3 months and not an announcement of something next year.
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San Mateo has its own set of problems... But you could take Caltrain there
It looks like you can take the ferry from SF to Vallejo, but it's still a distance from the venue.
Edit: it would be necessary to make arrangements because the weekend trips are for getting from Mare Island to San Francisco, not the other way around. They should be able to adjust their schedule but I don't know if they will.
Sadly, we never got to do anything like that again. Over the next couple years, large corporate sponsors started taking up more and more space until most of the main hall was just a bunch of ads. We were never able to get a space to do anything like that ever again. I really hope that the return of Maker Faire is also the return of makers at Maker Faire.
Maker Faire has a really special place in my heart. In 2011 I ran the iFixit booth where we not only ran phone repair workshops, but we also did a teardown of a car...live. A volunteer was kind enough to lend us his VW Golf, which he was also going to need to drive to work the following Monday. We were the last exhibitors out as it took us until around 2AM on Monday morning to get the whole thing back together and dr…
Although Vallejo is considered to be part of the Bay Area, I would call it a stretch since it is pretty far up north, beyond SF, Walnut Creek, and Concord. For reference, it takes roughly an hour drive from SF going north to get to Vallejo.
Tho it’s at least NEXT to the Bay proper, unlike those two, tho as it’s north bay it’s own niche subset that the North Bay (any further than San Pablo) gets put in.
Definitely still Bay Area but kind of like Sonoma is (most consider Sonoma “wine country” or “near Napa” than “the Bay” but it is in the Bay Area & Napa itself is also in that niche north bay subset too being next to a chunk of the Bay’s marshes)