SO GOSH

From Gosh! 2009: Open Source Hardware Summit

GOSH White Board Items

• Learning — Certification — Distribution

• OSH as tool for development

• Strategies for achieving critical mass (education/access/social and cultural change)

• Discussion of cooperative mapping and social and activist geographies of OSH (group and/or one-on-one discussions)

• FPGA!!

• OSH repository/platform

• Making OSH work in the economy ($$)

• Learning and education

• Ecological aspects and opportunities

• Open source histories

• Why doesn’t recycling work?

• OS agnostic

• Step learning curves

• Altruistic engineering

• Artists, art and open source: Are artists able/willing/informed/interested/resistant?

• Free-market OSH and issues of funding. Discuss OSH bank? Include: Matt and Paul?

• Protyping and low-volume production and manufacturing

• Identifying and exploring unaddressed high-impact/high value application contexts and opportunities

Is OSH fundamentally turning into a defensive movement?

• OS — why? What’s the final point?

• OS — why not? What barriers are there to OS uptake? What excuses do people use?

• Communication media for sharing OSH

• Open hardware = new democracies. WHY? Can this be outlined? How is it related to late capitalism?

• Teach me. Teach me to teach others.

• Open networks.

• So then what? A discussion on next steps, staying connected, groups, partnerships, organizations and residencies after the conference: practical ways to stay involved.

• Craft and hacking: I can sew, you can code. What can we make? Discussion methodologies.