Ada Lovelace Fellowship for Open Hardware Summit

March 22, 2017March 21, 2017 fustiniOHS2017, OHSummit, Open Hardware, oshw, oshwaLeave a comment

We are excited for the 2017 Open Hardware Summit this Fall in Denver, and we’re pleased to see the Ada Lovelace Fellowship is now open for applications:

Ada Lovelace Fellowship Applications Now Open

The Ada Lovelace Fellowship encourages women, LGBTA+, and/or other minorities in the open technology movement to both participate and nurture an incredible, diverse community within open source.

For the fifth year running, we are ecstatic to offer TEN (10) Open Hardware Fellowships to members of the community. This includes travel assistance and entrance to the 2017 open Hardware Summit!

We are at an exciting point in time for open source and hope to encourage everyone, no matter their walk in life, to embrace and participate in this incredible movement!

New OSHWA forum powered by Discourse

March 9, 2017March 1, 2017 fustinioshwa2 Comments

kellbot writes on the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) blog:

The OSHWA Forums: Now Powered by Discourse

We are very pleased to announce that our new community forums are up and running. The discussion forums are powered by Discourse, which is easy to use, easy to maintain, and open source.

Among other new features, Discourse offers the ability to follow and reply to topics via email. This was one of the biggest reasons we decided to migrate our forums from their old home on bbPress. We’re hoping this will breathe some life into what has otherwise been an admittedly dormant part of the site.

2017 Open Hardware Summit

February 28, 2017March 1, 2017 fustinidenver, OHS2017, OHSummit, openhardware, oshwaLeave a comment

The 2017 Open Hardware Summit will be held on October 5th in Denver, Colorado:

The 2017 Open Hardware Summit is the annual gathering of the OSHWA organization and open hardware community. We are a 501c3 not for profit. Our goal of the Open Hardware Summit and Community is to create an inclusive welcoming environment to empower people in all stages of discovering open source.

Tickets are on sale now through Eventbrite:

The Summit is seeking submissions for talks from individuals and groups working with open hardware and related areas. Topics of interest for the summit include, but are not limited to:

Digital fabrication
Wearables, e-textiles, and fashion tech
Quantified-self hardware
Means of supporting collaboration and community interaction
On demand and low volume manufacturing
Distributed development and its relationship to physical goods
Software design tools (CAD / CAM)
DIY technology
Ways of sharing
Robotics
Business models
Competition and collaboration
Sustainability of open hardware products (e.g. how to unmake things)
Industrial design
Open hardware in the enterprise
Specific product domains: e.g. science, agriculture, communications, medicine
Legal and intellectual property implications of open-source hardware
Open hardware in education
Addressing the gender imbalance or other types of under-representation in the open hardware community
Art
Life Hacking

For the 4th year, the Summit is offering up to ten Open Hardware Fellowships to members of the community which includes a $500 travel stipend:

The Ada Lovelace Fellowship was founded in 2013 prior to the annual Open Hardware Summit at MIT by Summit Chair Addie Wagenknecht and OSHWA Director Alicia Gibb as a way to encourage women, LGTBA+ and/or other minorities in open technology and culture to actively participate and foster a more diverse community within open source.

Open Hardware Summit 2017 in Denver

February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 fustinidenver, OHS, OHS2017, OHSummit, OHSummit17, oshwaLeave a comment

The Open Source Hardware Association announced today that the Open Hardware Summit 2017 will be in Denver on October 5th!

We hope to see you all there!

Open Source Hardware month events

October 15, 2016October 15, 2016 fustiniopenhardware, oshw, oshwaLeave a comment

October is Open Source Hardware month! Join with one of these upcoming events:

Documentation Day San Francisco

Date: 10/18/2016 6:30pm
Details: David from IFTTT is away this month. Let’s meetup at the TechShop at the 2nd Floor Conference Room. More details: https://www.meetup.com/urbanagtech/events/234473382/
Venue: Tech Shop
Location: 926 Howard street, San Francisco, CA

Parts & Crafts and Public Lab Documentation Nights

Date: October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 6-8pm
Details: Parts & Crafts — a makerspace for kids and adults — will be working to document all their existing open hardware projects — including the One Lightsaber Per Child project — & invite the public to help, learn more, and use their space to document their own open hardware. Public Lab will be hosting “upgrade your DIY spectrometer” documentation events on the 12th and 19th.
Venue: Parts & Crafts/Somerville Tool Library
Location: 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143

Event: Documentation Day Boulder

Date: 10/22/2016, 1-4pm
Details: Toni Klopfenstein and Alicia Gibb are hosting a Documentation Day at SparkFun Electronics. Get some photography tips and bring the project you want to open source the most!
Venue: SparkFun Electronics
Location: 6333 Dry Creek Parkway, Niwot CO, 80544

Documentation Day NYC

Date: 10/25/2016 5:30-9:00
Details: Michael Weinberg and Joel Murphy will be hosting a Documentation Day in New York. Details: shpws.me/MNb8
Venue: Fat Cat Fab Lab
Location: 224 W. 4th St., 2nd floor

Documentation Day Brazil at the Hardware Liberation Hackathon

Date: 10/29-31/2016
Details: e-hal.org.br/en
Venue: PUC-SP, Campus Conceição
Location:São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Documentation Day Berlin

Date: 10/29-30/2016
Details: Addie Wagenknecht will be hosting a Documentation Day in Berlin. Details to follow.
Venue: TBD
Location: TBD