About Gosh!
From Gosh! 2009: Open Source Hardware Summit
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GOSH! Overview
The Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Workshop and Summit at The Banff Centre bring together makers, producers and theorizers of open source hardware to facilitate the emerging dialogue on both artist-driven and socially conscious open-source hardware. From prosthetic limbs to electronic hardware, the breadth of open source hardware projects and distributed models of manufacturing suggest that it is time for these disparate manufacturers, designers, artists and engineers to come together to discuss the common issues of their practices.
In order to encourage dialogue on the relevant questions of open source hardware development, and to allow for collaboration, exchange, critical discourse and, ultimately, the public presentation of that process, the GOSH! event has two parts: a Workshop session and a Summit (conference) session.
GOSH! Workshop (July 11 to 15)
The initial workshop/residency brings together key participants in the OSH community who primarily collaborate in on-line environments. During this period, participants exchange techniques and working practices through workshops, dialogue sessions and presentations. In parallel, workshop participants will act as topic moderators for the ensuing three-day public Summit.
GOSH! Summit (July 16 to 18)
This public conference, which immediately follows the workshop/residency, will amplify the residency’s discussion in a public context. With an expanded list of invitees, the Summit presents both the chance for public discussion and the documentation of this discussion for the open source community. This open document will be disseminated on-line in the months following GOSH!.
The broad goals of the three-day summit are as follows:
- To establish a baseline of critical dialogue on open source hardware cultural practices,
- To examine the past and future trajectory of OSH hardware,
- To enable dialogue and knowledge exchange on a one-to-one basis, augmenting the web-based collaboration of OSH practices, and
- To create a publication documenting these discussions.
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