I was incredibly disappointed in this list.

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I was incredibly disappointed in this list. Who do you think is missing, who do you think doesn’t deserve to be on it in the first place?

I’d remove Limor Fried, Neri Oxman, Arita Mattsoff, I’d add @foosel , @Louise_Driggers , @Joan_Horvath . Any other influential women in 3D printing that I’m missing?

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On a case by case basis, the wife or girlfriend that puts up with you when you do the 3D printing. :wink:

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Thanks for the kind words. I’d always vote to add people, not subtract… :slight_smile:

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dude chill, it’s a just a mindless list used to generate clicks, your not actually supposed to think into it.

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I greatly admire Lady ADA for her electrical engineering. Not so much her 3d printing…

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Heh. If I was a fourth as good as Lasy Ada at electronics, it would rock for me.

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So… write up your list. Get some pics. Submit it to a few dozen of these news agencies… Done… I didn’t look. Because I know Gina HAS to be at the top!

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I’d add @Jessica_Rosenkrantz from Nervous System to the list too.

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@Nieves_Cubo ​ and @Sonia_Verdu ​ they were chosen among the 10 most infliential in Spain

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I would hardly call this list the “most” influential (in what way?). And including the VP of Marketing at Stratasys? Really? That being said, I think it is good to call attention to women working in this field, as it is arguably still mostly a “boys club”. Also, +1 for including @foosel to the list. :slight_smile:

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I would rather have @Lydia_S_eNABLE ​ on the list than a vp of Stratasys. Lydia helps convince a number of people to use their 3D printer to make hands for those missing hands and some people buy 3D printers just to make hands for the eNable project.

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Come to think of it, every recipient of a 3D printed hand will probably become a fan of 3D printing.

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@NathanielStenzel so money/bureaucracy destroys yet another great idea. Awesome.

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@ThantiK Maybe. Mind you, I do not think she is a person that gets to make the big decisions around there, but as a person that talks with the people she gets alot of people to help with eNable.

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@ThantiK The mistake is equating the entirety of 3D printing with the DIY or even maker movement. DIY and hobby level printing, while getting a great deal of press, isn’t what is driving the industry as a whole.

I agree with Joan, names need to be added, not removed.

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@dstevens_lv it is exactly what is driving the industry as a whole. Notice that 3D printing did not get big (at all) until the RepRap movement came to be. Putting things squarely in the price ranges of hackers, makers, and normal people is what is driving the industry 100%. Stratasys is nothing but a patent-whore, industry stifling bully. None of their names deserve to be on there. They aren’t driving the industry at all.

For example: What happened to MakerBot after they were bought by Stratasys? They produced nothing but failing, overpriced, garbage. And have they released anything new since? Nada. Because Stratasys isn’t interested in the market that’s actually driving 3D printing. They’re interested in the Lockheed Martins of the world, the ones with massively overinflated government budgets, and the ones that provide them protectionism against any actual competition.

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@ThantiK The revenues and long term growth are being driven by commercial use not DIY and Reprap. DIY/Reprap/consumer provides (or did provide) most of the press but the money is coming from businesses that use the technology to develop products, not makers building kits or printing GOT figures.

Makerbot was in trouble well before SSYS bought them. SSYS made the mistake of listening to the hype and bought an overvalued, underperforming company that wasn’t well run. Without SSYS Makerbot would be in about the same shape as Solidoodle or Pirate 3D is today. Consumer use was oversold and underperformed.

The market is in the $2k and up, Ultimaker and Aleph Objects at lower end of that market with Form and others filling in the next level. Instead of going to a maker faire go to something like Rapid or Fab Tech and see what the industry is doing with the machines.

Reprap and DIY machines enable many to do things that weren’t possible even five years ago. It’s been great for the maker movement. You are allowing emotion and uninformed opinion overwhelm what the data is indicating. Consumer printing has been a bust, the bubble has burst. Commercial apps, particularly in the lower end and mid market are what is driving sales with high end metal printers driving the high end.

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@dstevens_lv without the press that the DIY/RepRap/Maker community has provided over the years, Stratasys wouldn’t be doing so well. Your argument is the same one that capitalists use to claim that we don’t need a minimum wage hike. Saying that the users at the bottom mean nothing because they aren’t where the money is at. The users are what has been driving the growth of 3D printing, Not Stratasys. Not 3DSystems.

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Commercial 3D printing was a multi billion dollar business before the FDM patents expired and allowed Reprap to flourish. The DIY movement isn’t causing companies like Boeing, Airbus, Apple, Nike or GM to adopt non FDM technologies for manufacturing and RP. Reprap has been great for the maker movement and hobbyists but companies aren’t investing in million dollar SLS machines because of some press about the DIY movement.

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@dstevens_lv if that were true, the DIY/Maker/RepRap “Hype Cycle” wouldn’t have lifted Stratasys and 3DSystems up so high. Yet it clearly did.