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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 30, 2011.
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You'll get a sticker with the GEMSI bridge connecting you with other supporters. Wear it proudly! You'll also be featured as a supporter on GEMSI's website.
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You get the GEMSI Sticker, your name on the website and a t-shirt with the GEMSI bridge on it! It will be hand screened on Alternative Apparel (trust me, you'll like the fabric, it's kitten soft!). You'll appear on the little fast moving credits from the cinema - you know like a stunt man or something - for all the video content we will produce.
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Get the sticker and a CUSTOM hand printed GEMSI tee shirt printed by me, Bilal Ghalib on ultra soft and delightful Alternative Apparel TShirts! Add any text based message you want above the GEMSI bridge logo. For example: "Bilal Supports:" [insert GEMSI here] or "Makers Unite!" [insert GEMSI logo here]. Ps. This is an awesome chance for you to be creative and get a true one of a kind gift for a geeky friend.
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Get the sticker, the shirt and Mitch Altman's slightly subversive, and ultimately practical TV B Gone remote control. Turn off or on any TV anywhere. Ever been at a noisy restaurant and wished you could turn off the blaring tv?
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Now this is amazing. Get an original hand painted scarf with a design of your choosing by Manal. Manal is one of the female artist and entrepreneurs who will be helping GEMSI by running fabric modification workshop! She's wonderful and talented! You'll also get the GEMSI shirt, and the sticker! Here's another tip for a great gift (check the delivery date ;).
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Not only will you receive the GEMSI sticker, shirt, and a TV-B-Gone you will help participate in the events as they unfold through 5 Skype conversations with the GEMSI team on the ground and access to our email and attuned attention. Do you love the project so much you wish you were a part of it? Well for the price of a plane ticket you can participate fully without having to deal with the TSA!
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Connected as Bilal Ghalib (1480 friends)
I am Bilal Ghalib. I once let San Francisco crowdsource my hair cut. A once and future employee of Instructables I have a tenderness for DIY and homebrew everything you can imagine. Leaving Instructables I craved that environment and that's what led me to MIT's living communities where I lived at a fantastic frat called tEp. My interest in the senses and alternate methods of communication had me building a "smell guitar" at MITERS the hackerspace at MIT. I presented it at CAVS for Waves and Signs a concert for the deaf. I also worked on sensory substitution devices and headed my screen printing company in Michigan.
I graduated undergrad and left the MIT campus. Since then I've been promoting the concepts of the collaborative hacker community. I have traveled the States visiting over 50 hacker spaces, shooting footage for a forthcoming documentary. The footage can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/twohandsproject . And in 2009 I helped initiate and organize the maker space in Ann Arbor: allhandsactive.com .
Recognizing the potential for maker spaces to support passion based learning and economic development (especially in emergent nations) I hatched the Global Entrepreneurship and Maker Space Initiative. I'm looking for potential board members who are interested in novel forms of economic development that starts with the idea that everyone can DIY.
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Mitch Altman is a co-founder of Noisebridge, one of the early hackerspaces in the US. He is considered by many to be a traveling ambassador of the hackerspace movement, giving workshops, promoting and supporting hackerspaces around the world over the past several years. He is about to become the first recipient of the Maker Hero Award at the NYC World Maker Faire.
