07.07.2020

Agenda

Activities

• Reading:
  • Chagas, 2018 - Haves and have nots must find a better way: The case for open scie tific hardware
  • Bonvoisin, 2018 - How participative is open source hardware? Insights from online repository mining
  • Mies, 2018 - Harnessing the Synergy Potential of Open Source Hardware Communities
  • Bonvoisin, 2020 - Standardisation of practices in Open Source Hardware
  • Boujut, 2019 - Open Source Hardware Communities: Investigating Participation in D sign Activities
  • Devopedia
• OSHI people: added a couple UW bio and genomics professors who built OSHI tools for culture. Alternative to usually expensive equip. There are probably more in diff dept
• Lit Review Intro/background outlined in Gdocs. Git or Gdocs?
• Research study ideas. Thinking about:
  • what are the major dilemmas to coordinating hardware work in OSHI?
  • what are IP diff between OSS and OSH? Good venn diagram comparing OSS to OSHI
  • what OSHI communities have been developed in response to COVID-19? Based on relcone.org. Similar to open materials transferring so making the Bill of Materials (BOM) more accessible
  • why and how do people build OSHI?
  • Patents vs copyright vs license vs OSHI? Stories in where people built OSHI in order to disrupt patents.
  • What other communities, outside of biotech, working with and building OSHI? What communities and subject areas need Open Material Transfer Agreements (OMTA)? Chart of OSHW certified projects in different subject fields (Bonvoisin, 2017)
  • Business models of OSHI under different economic and social models
  • how are OSHI projects being preserved? A la IASGE or PTP but focused on OSHI
  • This might go too much into the Making/makerspace/DIY that you said is not relevant to our review, but... Technological disobedience vs legitimized OSHI? When does OSHI become acceptable to society? Thinking about Cuba's DIY Inventions from 30 Years of Isolation, Cuba's DIY guidebook (1992) created "during 'The Special Period in the Time of Peace,' the Cuban government's euphemism for the 90s collapse of the country's economy that'd been set up for thirty years of isolation." (Mead, 2012). Can we compare this to specific recent economic downturn events in the U.S.? OSHI during the early 1990's oil crisis, early 2000's dot-com bubble, housing bubble great recession, COVID crisis. The dream would then to be able to compare that to other countries approaches to OSHI (obviously, personal interest in Vietnam during the various wars and colonizations, and Latin/South America just because they're an underrated region that has mandated open access/source similar to Eastern Euro). Big dreams would be that this leads to a fulbright or other funding that would let me study those regions and there approaches to open movements. Which then ties into China's approach to OSHI which isn't widely accepted in U.S. OSH communities as it can be interpreted as stealing and plagiarism, but these are just cultural differences in attribution, IP, manufacturing, etc. (Gibb, 2015)

To Do

• To Read:
  • Priego, 2019 - Obsessed with Time? White Rabbit At CERN
  • Unfortunately, this is in Francais: Thomas, 2019 - Business models for open source hardware. Would be nice to find an English translation and/or the business models of OSHI according to different economic models. A table of business opportunities with OSH
  • Mies 2020 - Development of Open Source Hardware in Online Communities: Investigating Requirements for Groupware
  • Boujut, 2019 - Open Source Hardware Communities: Investigating Participation in Design Activities
  • Bonvoisin, 2020 - Standardisation of practices in Open Source Hardware
• Create a table (or find an existing table, OSHW must have one) of existing (active and inactive) OSHI projects to understand the landscape
  • what about the orgs and programs created around OSHW? Online crowdsourcing platforms, or online marketplaces like Etsy (not sure if that's a part of OSHI)