Summit Schedule
From Gosh! 2009: Open Source Hardware Summit
This is the schedule for the GOSH! summit. If you're a presenter in the summit, you should feel free to edit this or to add notes regarding suggested changes.
Please note that all morning Summit sessions will be taking place in the Telus Studio located on the 1st floor of the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed (JPL) building. The afternoon sessions are open working and workshop sessions and will be taking place in the following locations: Telus Studio; JPL 313 classroom, JPL 3rd floor Mezzanine, JPL 3rd floor balcony, The Butterfly Garden, Glyde Hall Ceramics deck and 2nd Floor Lloyd Hall lounge.
You can track the time and location of the afternoon session by referring both to this wiki and also the whiteboard schedule in the Telus studio. It is appreciated if session conveners can please ensure that information about the time and location of your sessions are shared on both the wiki and whiteboard as well.
Meals will be held in Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Building, top floor.
Mailing List & archive https://piksel.no/mailman/listinfo/gosh
Contents |
Wednesday, July 15
Summit Meet & Greet
8:00pm – 10:00pm, JPL 313
GOSH! Workshop wrap-up party, with Meet & Greet for newly arrived Summit participants. Some refreshments will be served but it is wise to also bring your own!
Day One: Thursday, July 16
Breakfast
8:00 am - 9:00 am, Vistas Dining Room
Welcome and Introductions
9:00 am - 9:30 am, Telus Studio
Quick overview of the Summit and welcome, by Susan Kennard, Alexandre Castonguay, Daniel Jolliffe and Gisle Froysland
Introductions
Welcome from The Banff Centre
- Sarah Iley, Vice-president, Programming, The Banff Centre
Group Discussion: Open Hardware Touch Points
9:30 am – 10:15 am, Telus Studio
Some questions for consideration/contribution:
- Why open source hardware?
- What are new areas of application?
- What are the wider benefits – social, environmental, economic, education?
- Challenges
- Gaps
- The Commons
Moderator: Susan Kennard
Break
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Panel: Critical Issues of Art Practice and Open Source
10:30 am – 11:15 am, Telus Studio
Presenters:
- Caroline Seck Langill: The philosophy of open source as a determining factor in the aesthetics of early new media artwork
- Florian Cramer: The importance of hardware artistic media work - and why it involves dangerous traps.
Round Table Discussion: Critical Issues of Art Practice and Open Source
11:15 am – 12:15 am, Telus Studio
Some questions for consideration:
- Why is OS important for art?
- How does OS change the value system of art?
- What are the aesthetics of open hardware?
Moderator: Caroline Seck Langill
Lunch
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, Vistas Dining Room
Open Working and Workshop Sessions
1:30 pm – 10:00 pm, JPL 313, Telus Studio, 3rd Floor Mezzanine, 3rd Floor Balcony, Butterfly Garden, etc.
Dinner
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Vistas Dining Room
Film Screening: Digitale Handarbeit (optional)
9:30 pm, Telus Studio
Screening of Alexandra Weltz’s thirty-minute documentary video Digitale Handarbeit (“Digital Manual Labour”), with English subtitles. The film documents the labour conditions of Chinese workers who assemble motherboards and the illegal shipment of electronic waste to Africa. Thanks to Florian Cramer for supplying this film.
Day Two: Friday, July 17
Breakfast
8:00 am - 9:00 am, Vistas Dining Room
Sustainability and Scale: Different Markets, Economies, Business Models
9:00 am – 9:40 am, Telus Studio
Presenters:
- David A. Mellis (9:00 am)
- Juergen Neumann (9:20 am)
Some questions for consideration:
- Funding OSH development: how do we pay, and who pays?
- What model can we create for sustainability?
- How can we harness institutional and cultural funding for software and hardware development?
- What are the existing models creating and distributing OSH hardware?
- Institutional models (Universities or New Media centres), independent, artist-funded models, product distribution model.
- Organizational structures: corporate, not-for-profit.
- Marketing strategies (e.g. Arduino).
- Branding models vs. commodity pricing e.g. chip manufacturers?
- Future models: voluntary licensing, how can we facilitate the long tail?
- The value chain around the distribution of the Arduino hardware and some alternative business models (part of a broader discussion about the relationship between money and open-source hardware: what's viable, what's not, and how to structure the business side of things). (David Mellis)
Social Economies, Political Economies, Re-Use, Recycling, Extended Life
9:40 am – 10:40 am, Telus Studio
Presenters:
- Steve Daniels (9:40 am)
- Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy (10:00 am)
- James Wallbank (10:20 am)
Moderator: Diana Burgoyne
Break
10:40 am – 11:00 am
Collaboration and Group Dynamics Rountable
11:00 am – 12:15 pm, Telus Studio
Presenters:
- Chris Csikszentmihályi
- David Mellis
Some questions for consideration:
- How can groups that have never met work together efficiently?
- What is the interface between group dynamics and the collaborative tools?
- Forking: how do models of stability and instability intersect?
- How can we enable trust in open source projects, between collaborators who may have never met?
- Error detection and correction.
- Project group dynamics versus individual dynamics.
- Motivation: What's ego got to do with it?
- Methods of enabling on-line collaboration.
- Arduino-related collaborations. Personae of various contributors and the way they fit into the broader ecosystem: what they create, how it relates to other people’s work, what they get out of it, etc. (David Mellis)
Moderator: Paul Badger
Lunch
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, Vistas Dining Room
Open Working and Workshop Sessions
1:30 pm – 10:00 pm, JPL 313, Telus Studio, 3rd Floor Mezzanine, 3rd Floor Balcony, Butterfly Garden, etc.
Banff Summer Arts Festival: Cello Concert (optional)
7:30 pm, Rolston Recital Hall
Music for a Summer Evening: A hometown favourite, famed cellist Shauna Rolston in The Protecting Veil, by John Tavener. One admission free with Banff Centre Artist Card.
Banff Summer Arts Festival: Book Launch (optional)
7:30 pm, Margaret Greenham Theatre
Literary Primetime: Acclaimed journalist Marni Jackson hosts the launch of LJ20, a collection celebrating the twenty-year history of The Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program. One admission free with Banff Centre Artist Card.
Day Three: Saturday, July 18
Breakfast
8:00 am - 9:00 am, Vistas Dining Room
Licensing and Business Models Working Group Report-Back
9:00 am – 10:00 am, Telus Studio
Presenters:
- Ravi Shukla
- Alexandre Castonguay
- Gisle Frøysland
- Jon Kuniholm
Moderator: Juergen Neumann
Some questions for consideration:
- How can an OSH project be opened to the community without cheating them?
- How do/should OSH projects become closed source? Under what conditions?
- How can we secure the free exchange of information?
- What does the lack of a GPL equivalent license for OSH mean to producers, and what are the alternatives?
- Current models in use: trademark, copyright, patents.
- What future models can be proposed to secure the free distribution of OSH plans?
Education and Access
10:00 pm – 10:45 pm, Telus Studio
- Alternatives to open source
- Teaching
- Dissemination
- New audiences and applications
- Eyetracker Video (Zach Lieberman)
- Mennonite hackers (Gwendolyn Floyd)
Moderator: Joshua Kauffman
Break
10:45 am – 11:00 am
Open Source Hardware Commons Roundtable
11:00 am – 12:15 pm, Telus Studio
Moderators: Florian Cramer and Tuomo Tammenpää
Lunch
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, Vistas Dining Room
Models and Metaphors of Network Topologies Roundtable
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Telus Studio
A system's propensity for undergoing phase transitions, or sudden, massive changes to organizational structure, is not determined by the material substrate of its elements. Both physical and social systems exhibit this kind of behaviour, as when water turns into ice, perturbations caused by minor lightning strikes cascade into massive power outages, or oppressed groups finally rise up against their oppressors. Complex systems at whatever scale can then be said to be inherently nonlinear, existing only by virtue of the feedback loops which make possible their homeostasis. The open source hardware movement can be seen as one such system, its elements (or practitioners) albeit far-flung and oftentimes only tenuously connected. But perhaps more importantly, it has access to, creates and distributes the tools by which these complex dynamics might be modeled and/or triggered (through such means as empowering individuals or communities to strengthen or modulate the homeostatic feedback loops which sustain them). This roundtable will be devoted to discussing the ways in which open source hardware is helping to destabilize dualistic notions of hierarchy/network, inside/outside, local/global, free/proprietary.
Moderator: Peggy Reynolds
Break
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Philosophies of Open Source Hardware: Freedom, Governance and Activism
2:45 pm – 5:00 pm, Telus Studio
During this roundtable, we will discuss the various philosophies that underscore OSH and what implications these have for future practices in the field. Some of the questions we will examine are:
- Is there a shared ethos associated with OSH?
- What types of freedom does OSH imply, and how might they be fostered over time?
- Is governance of OSH needed, or should evolution of "best practices" be "open" as well?
- What models are we referencing, and should we be looking to others as well?
- What are our societal goals for OSH, and how broadly do they extend?
- Is OSH inherently activist, and are there differing definitions of what that entails?
- Is OSH practice necessarily counter-commercial/anti-capitalist?
Since this is the last general gathering of the Summit, this session is open for further, related questions to emerge and for future trajectories to be proposed.
Moderator: Marie Cieri
Wine and Cheese
Moderator: Peter Flemming
5:00 pm, JPL 3rd Floor Deck
Dinner
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Vistas Dining Room
Party
9:00 pm, 116C Grizzly Street B.Y.O.B
