Heading to San Francisco

So Steve and I are on our way to SanFran this morning. For him its the last visit for a while - getting rid of his stuff, shutting down his apartment, and saying goodbyes. For me its a chance to leverage his network, shake lots of hands and make some contacts in the startup mecca that is the bay area. Its going to be a busy and exciting trip! I will post more about our meetings as I chat with people and feel out their reception of our goals. but for now lets say there are some pretty exciting and flashy names in the Open Source Hardware community that we are going to get a chance to chat with! I also want to talk just a little about the open source hardware movement. Not in any depth, I'll bring those guns out later. But I want to say how exciting it is to send an email, saying that you're trying to do something cool - make the world a little bit better - and help kickoff this movement and you get responses! you get these great and wonderful emails back, from these incredibly influential people, and they want to help. They want to chat. and they want us to succeed - which is so, so cool. One of my favorite quotes from one of my contacts was - I feel like its the 90's all over again, just hardware instead of software this time. And I think hes right. and we are gonna be right in there stirring the pot, and making stuff better!