Chimera E.D. Helps Launch Nation of Makers Nonprofit
We are pleased to announce the launch of Nation of Makers , a national nonprofit dedicated to helping makers through supporting maker organizations. A few months back, Chimera Executive Director, Dana Woodman, was invited to attend a meeting at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. From that meeting, an effort to create a national organization to support the maker movement was established. Since the meeting, Dana was invited to join an interim leadership team called the Transition Group tasked with laying the framework for the organization including finding the initial four Board Members, forming the legal entity, organizing community elections for three Board of Directors seats, building a pool of additional qualified candidates willing to serve as board members, and facilitating a call for Executive Director candidates among other things. Here is a video of one the organization's board members, Adam Savage from MythBusters and Tested.com, explaining why he is so excited by the effort: