The Fabricatorz are once again travel-ready as this week picks up steam. Most immediate on the list of events, Get It Louder 2010 is in final prep stages before lifting off in Shanghai. This year's exhibition, a popular platform for new and upcoming artists, is themed around Sharism. As such, a Sharism Forum, coordinated and moderated by members of Fabricatorz will kick off the week-long event

A recent StatusNet blog goes into detail about how the event will be paced:

Jon Phillips is a moderator and organizer of the Sharism Conference in Shanghai which is taking place on Friday October 22,2010. He will be talking on Friday from 1:00pm to 1:30pm.

All are invited to this initial Sharism Forum to see the fruits of our labor.

From Get It Louder, the action continues into the Arab World. On October 23, much of the Fabricatorz Team will present at ICTQatar, a workshop based around free software and open source development. Main goals for this event will be to educate those eager to discover methods for open source development, advantages in using them, and why open source techniques are important. Attendees can expect all free culture bases to be covered, including: backgrounds, latest developments, and practical how-to's.

Rounding out an action-packed next few days, Fabricatorz will be assisting AikiLab in putting together a DJ/VJ Party at the HackerSpace, in Damascus. Partying is free, but the drinks will cost!

Even more news, events and recaps on tap for next week!

UPDATE:Jon Phillips adds a huge thank you to Fabricatorz team members, Christopher Adams and Sophie Chiang for making Sharism Forum real. Without them, the conference would not have happened. Thank you so much. Fabricatorz coordinated the Sharism Forum happening in Shanghai right now with the help of our sponsors, Get It Louder, Google and Mozilla.

The Fabricatorz are charging through a week filled with sets of hotly-anticipated projects and collaborative efforts. Just today, Fabricatorz Founding Developer Jon Phillips led the way in the Announcing Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 and it's associated debut at Get It Louder in Beijing (beginning at 7:00pm, this Sunday, September 19). Christopher Adams, who has been hard at work on Get It Louder organization, will be present at the event, alongside Jon.

Also just Released, Laoban-Soundsystem.com, the latest in an exciting lineup of new pages developed under Fabricatorz Developer Bassel Safadi, and his Aiki Framework. Visitors to Laoban Soundsystem's new homepage will find details of Laoban-powered events, as well as official documentation and steps to take to replicate these 6000-watt beasts.

Speaking of Aiki Framework, Bassel continues behind-the-scenes plowing, as the platform encroaches ever nearer it's 0.5 Release. Enthusiasts can stay tuned in to Fabricatorz and expect a new iteration in the very near future!

Another Aiki-Powered Project, The Open Clip Art Library, is fast moving up it's Release Schedule and adding new features, to boot. Fabricatorz Developer Brad Phillips has inserted a new 'Community Status Updates' Section, at the base of the home page sidebar, in which the latest updates from the Open Clip Art Library StatusNet Page are featured.

Check this space again soon, for more on Get It Louder, Sharism, and other projects and events in the Fabricatorz Universe!

Jon Phillips recently sat down for an interview with Tim Jaeger of SignalFive, via Skype, to discuss his recent projects, in what Tim calls a 'Status Check.'  The session is aimed at orienting the reader with current developments in technology and culture.

In the interview, Jon speaks of his concept of 'Open Marketing,' as well as his involvement with Status.net and why it's fundamentally different than Twitter:

But Status.net, the difference between that and Twitter is that the software is open, so you can install it on your own service internally like Motorola’s done, there are some really big companies that are rolling it out that are going to be announced soon.

Read the rest of the interview on SignalFive's Blog, and get informed!

It went quite well. The F is recharged! Fair enough, as they say in melbourne.

Here is how the 10 Xiaoban Speaker drivers arrived on Monday:

I added a couple to some found IKEA boxes and calculated the volumes, and made some small little truncated cone boxes which had some oomph.

Images forthcoming on the Laoban hybrids. In addition to productizing the laoban speakers, I'm most interested in hosting/running Laoban Speaker Workshops wherever to use found objects and xiaoban small drivers to make custom boxes. Its a lot of fun, inexpensive and rewarding. Lets do it again!

Until the images of the Xiaoban IKEA hybrids, take a look at my post at rejon.org and Overlap.org.

If you aren't following @rejon on twitter or identi.ca, then you might have missed the most recent pictures of Laoban 2.0 from the factory in Guangzhou. Here is a sampling:

From Drop Box

From Drop Box

Check out more images at picasa and don't forget, not too late to get in on the sponsorship action.