09.03.2020

Agenda

Activities

• Literature Review: Finishing up Documentation section

Other research:

• CERN at Home: Building a Particle Detector - Building allow-cost open hardware project, investigate natural radioactivity
  • thinking about comparing select projects where documentation appears on the official project page/forum and then projects
  • where people post their own documentation as a blog/article post. How do these documentation mediums differ on the type of info? e.g. personal story included in blog but not in git repo, etc. Do a survey on how people interact/behave around these different forms of doc and what is/not effective about the diff components?
• a biased blog post from K0LWC: [Ham radio is dying! No it’s not, it’s evolving], but an interesting pov on the rise of ham radio licenses: "After the economic downturn (2008), the United States watched as survivalism, now commonly calling “prepping ,” entered mainstream culture. People were worried as the country was involved in multiple wars and our economy was on the brink of collapse. Citizens stocked up on food storage, water, firearms, and…communications equipment. As our country spiraledinto more turmoil ham radio licenses steadily increased to more than 750,000 by the end of 2019." -- what economic impacts lead to the increase in OSH certifications, projects
• Acteev™ technology - comes with disclaimer:

DISCLAIMER: Acteev™ technology has been shown in laboratory tests to destroy SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and other pathogens including H1N1, coronavirus 229E and Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria such as staphylococcusand E. coli. All data presented on this page comes from testing performed by independent third-party laboratories following the protocols of ISO, ASTM or other international standards organizations. Not all claims are permitted in all jurisdictions,including in the United States. Some device designs currently under review with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — submission number K201714. Ascend has more than 15 patent families pending on Acteev technology.

• Three Ways to Hack a Printed Circuit Board: PCB production is an underappreciated vulnerability in the global supply chain
• https://www.wired.com/story/could-a-janky-jury-rigged-air-purifier-help-fight-covid-19/ On diy air purifiers, how it's better than nothing. Not the be-all-end-all but is an additional tool to complement ventilators, masks, etc. for citizen science.
• written by the CEO of a proprietary software co. that support OSS but interesting point of view on oss surveillance: TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance -- makes me think of how this type of surveillance differs from OSH surveillance. Is the source of OSH less susceptible to government policy because OSH is more dependent on the manufacturing of physical goods? How and why has OSH been regulated by government policy?
• kitspace.org similar to thingiverse automates parts purchasing so makers can skip the sourcing and just focus on building

Non-OSHI:

• PESD: Alexander Garnett, Simon Fraser University, and Jin Zhang (Compute Canada) might present at DLF Forum about their use of HashiCorp Vault for "Lightweight Zero-Knowledge Encryption for Repository Deposit of Sensitive Data" into Canada's Federated Research Data Repository
  • adapt our curation guidelines to ensure that encrypted data remains discoverable from its metadata, while ensuring that our users understand the different considerations in working with encrypted packages. This work currently compromises a desktop client (using Python and Electron), as well as templates, workflows, and in-progress policies, all of which are open source and which could be adapted to any other repository platform.
• more PESD: https://twitter.com/mxcatnap/status/1300870374117310464?s=20 on labor and support for FOSS
• physical space and tech