Since last year, President Macron really want to use that as a tool to promote tech startup entrepreneurship, create more economic value and job in France, and connect this ecosystem to French entrepreneur abroad.
Yeah, sure. Sure, definitely. We have a quick presentation, maybe to present a bit of scope. Again, what is La French Tech? Created maybe four or five years ago by the French Ministry of Economy.
La French Tech in France is the Ministry of Economy.
Registered in France as an association. That’s why we got civic funding.
We are a nonprofit organization.
We have only 26 members awarded, and Taiwan is one of the most active.
We seed funding from France to do this project. We’re maybe 100 community worldwide.
For your time.
Make something nice, please.
You will receive something...
Like the Olympic flame. They will give you a kind of scepter. [laughs]
Because the French are in holidays at the time. [laughs]
We should invite you to attend FAB14 in Toulouse next year. When is the date?
Wow.
Over one weekend?
How many people attend the FAB Conference usually?
If you have after a program for FabLabs, and you would say yes, so next goal will be this, and everyone will see this during FAB15, could be nice. If we have FAB15...
In France, we use all of these support video and stuff from the city and the country to do this. We did a presentation and give everything to FAB. We did a document and the video.
Also, for the video, these kind of things, I think you have already some promotional video from the city, from the country.
Yeah, to say that we are preparing something, for sure.
Yeah, I think it’s fine. If it’s really before, it’s better.
If there are information, the reality is it can be prepared, "OK, there is Taipei, and there is this kind of argument," but the video and the group document could be sent...I don’t know. If you get it two weeks before, is it...
You can register one week before. There is no deadline. For FAB14, for the candidacy, the best is to say to the foundation you want to apply, and I can try to get also information, if there is also city, apply for it, which one.
My wife is from Taipei.
There’s a chance the continent was taking turns. If Cairo in Africa is going to be there for a while, but anyway instead of FAB15 it could be FAB20.
Yeah. I think it’s a good plan...
Politics in Paris.
We include the two days in...
Data city, seeing all those things. It could be one of the topics or subtopics of FAB15. Taiwan is already ready to host some of the events or even all the events. Then maybe for FAB14 next year to do this like one week of the meeting and then there ...
IP protection?
Hardware making.
OK.
You mentioned there’s a theme. A general theme for each FAB Festival or not.
What do you think will be the best argument to put into the Taiwanese trailer to convince the jury? Full government support is important. [laughs]
You will go to Chile as well?
They are in the process. They are invited, and they try to find funding to drive in France.
Yes, Taipei City, as in Taiwan.
Of May in Toulouse, in the Taipei City’s commissioner link from the Department of Economic Development. We’ll see if he can support us, if you make a space.
May 11th to 14th?
Organizing?
Have you been to Toulouse?
You saw already? Great.
The sustainability of the citizens...
But for the FAB Conference, it could be a few days in Taipei. But I will let Nicolas talk about it.
Yeah.
Taipei.
Nicolas’ been meeting a lot of MakerSpace people. Taipei City, Taoyuan City, and legislature went to look yesterday, and here today also to see if you will support this kind of initiative.
One is FAB15, which is gathering all the FabLab in the world, a yearly event in Shenzhen last year, in Chile this year. Two of those were organized by Nicolas next year. Why not in Taipei or in Taiwan in 2019?
We report to you why we are here today. Because of friendship, and we believe there is really something to do in Taiwan and Taipei regarding MakerSpace community, how to structure it. There is two community events of possibility.
