08.25.2020

Agenda

Activities

Lit Review

• Working on Documentation and Cooperation/Community sections
• Working on Research protocol csae objective and background
• Readings recommended by Nadya. OSHWA will share survey data around the first 2 weeks of September
  • Powell, A. (2012). Democratizing production through open source knowledge: From open software to open hardware. Media, Culture and Society, 34(6), 691–708. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/46173/
  • Buechley, L., & Hill, B. M. (2010). LilyPad in the wild: How hardware’s long tail is supporting new engineering and design communities. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 199–207. https://doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858206
  • Rey-Mazón, P., Keysar, H., Dosemagen, S., D’Ignazio, C., & Blair, D. (2018). Public Lab: Community-Based Approaches to Urban and Environmental Health and Justice. Science and Engineering Ethics, 24(3), 971–997. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0059-8
  • Lindtner, S., Bardzell, S., & Bardzell, J. (2016). Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1390–1402. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858506

Other

• [sytl] starts at 40:23 open source project group on how to run a meeting: evidence of making it hard for new people to break into open source projects. Making it clear to become a part of the "inner circle". Not clear on how to deal with turnover and who picks up what. This appear in the documentation.
• open source bio techniques - instrumentation?
• thinking about documentation as a component to support mutual aid efforts in covid-19
  • Librarians recruited for mask making in St. Paul or incarcerated/formerly incarcerated people required to make masks or hand sanitizers as community service hours (something about society and the manufacturing of essential hardware being dependent on people who are undervalued in society)
  • [sytl] Box Fan Filter A DIY Users Guide Colville Tribes Air Quality Program
  • interview documentors from science lab projects but also people who made masks at home to support mutual aid efforts
• osh efforts in OSHWA certified projects and practices compared to informal OSH practices. E.g. [twitter] sterile and accurate bead dispensal using common lab tubes, cut and welded via hot razor blade (heated by bunsen burner and held in pliers)
• history and function of recipes, receipts: Lady Science podcast Episode 33: What recipes tell us about women's knowledge and lives (35min) == documentation of wetware (foods, medicines, and substances for washing/cleaning) and importance of making
• ARCHY 535 A: Exploring Graffiti: Combining Landscape Archaeology and Data Science -- this is cool. Makes me think of open documentation on city/urban development
• New proposed OSS license: The Anti-Capitalist Software License
• Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin by Sareeta Amrute. Need to read this and see how to gain this POV but for international OSH development
• • This is also a good book on open source software in an international context Coding Places Software Practice in a South American City (I have the PDF if you want it)

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Short update on Ford / Sloan

• Talked with M Brennan about OSH - he was definitely interested but didn't see fit with current call. Because the call is so broad and so low bar - still thinking about a way to submit something and pull in other researchers.

URSSI plan

• Unrelated, but we are submitting a COE proposal in the next few months. I am wondering about second year if studying an incubator's formation would be of interest for a longer-term project. You can read the plan and its proposed structure here This could yield something similar to Anissa's work at eScience for her dissertation (but obviously doesn't have to be a dissertation) https://escience.washington.edu/people/anissa-tanweer/