Hi Radomir Glad to have you on board so far!
One thing I am a bit concerned about is that in all their materials, they talk about companies doing the talks and the workshops — not sure if individuals can apply as well.
I was wondering about that too – in their 2019 booklet, everyone seemed to labeled as a company representative, but in the material about 2021 I actually find very little mention of companies. Also in the submission tool, neither the personal info form nor the event form have any company fields. But we can ask. We'd need to inquire anyway about how to handle material costs, I haven't found anything about that. And I could always pose as a representative of FabLab Winti – not really a company, but maybe close enough. If I understand correctly, there are no advance signups for workshops, so we would probably need to decide on a number of kits beforehand and stick to it, bearing the risk of too few or too many participants ourselves. On the plus side, we could do that early on and I hope that would give us enough lead time until October? I can't really judge, I have no experience with the chip shortage myself. I could write up a draft inquiry about all these things and we can discuss it before I send it off? -Christian