WHY GOSH - notes - draft!

From Gosh! 2009: Open Source Hardware Summit

Why OS? - James Wallbank “I got involved because I’m not going to pay for the right to work….It would compromise my work if I had to pay some kind of license to be creative.”

Hardware lock out Friends vs enemies A matter of principle Initial empowerment – now why do _you_ use it?

Zach

Artist is an odd definition one oneself as art is akin to R+D OS is a really good way to publish the results of the research

Norman White

Likes to think that hardware used to be a lot more open than it is now… radio electronics magazine…invitation to creative uses of technology They had tutorials for beginners so different access points As time went on, software became the transfer of the hardware

Jonah BC

The wkps are becoming less easy to deconstruct as the circuits are changing

Chris E

Smd, os model is not only a way to document but also an act of honesty, ‘here is what I did now go and use it’. Kind of karmic

Jessica R.

The material cost is fundamentally different as we can’t offer it for free..iphone example (the money is People expect it to be free

Tim

Issue of reuse Engineer, best part of yoru ego to create stg but it is timeless, can die if it is a commercial project

Daniel

Recounts meeting d. cuartilles, took time to recognize that arduino is not hardware but a community The way the community went exponentially The community was there to support them

John

Why open prosthetics got into OS, no commercial product it’s about the buying power of going to market but the traditional devel didn’t work. R+D never translated to an commercial product. Why didn’t it? Create the larger market that he would want to parasitize Goals are different, doesn’t want to make billions but wants to see the economy of scale that would come from it.

Andre

Empowerment is not enough, it has to be pushed further like the arduino

Norm

Open source motors for 100 A(?) so a community was sharing to create it, likewise for the microvolts you will get

Tim

Cies generate revenue by … internet information gratings…arduino successful because it got attention, an attention economy OS has an intrinsic currency you can federate effort

Dr Reddy Hardware software – tangible - intangible Using all types of media to share and create the community, get the real freedom OS is adaptable, camera radio etc problem of adaptors constraints that are created by the commercial development OS should be free of all those things

Banff – Is there an open source washing like ‘green washing’

Susan Planned obsolescence seems to be a real issue Largest landfill contributor : apple

Tim – if it was open, just change the firmware

John – why open? Re-assembly of elements – interchangeabgle parts of the next industrial revolution

Brian – accessibility – basic stamp needs a new one everytime Barrier to entry is really low, the selection of elements is not Obscure as it the basic stamp people would want you to.

James – potential that there is a chance an engineer is in your vicinity and will be able to adapt

Commercial devel centralizes expertise, os distributes it

Doesn’t make sense that

Jessica – doesn’t answer planned obsolescence, as we get rid

James – vendor lock out, black box, designed to scratch up so they look bad after a year or 6 months of use. Suggests a chassis and replaceabilty possibility, upgradeable.

John Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in North America by Giles Slade. planned obsolescence 13 to 2 year planned obs. Design. PO based on style

Gwendolyn What are the aesthetic there will be a tipping point it’s playful or cool to use … a german cie designed the first PO object flashlight where you couldn’t replace the battery. When does the sense of aesthetics

John – openmoko android not playing or running so well atm The deisng, the G1 phone is ugly aside from the fact that it is ugly. Creating a new type of cultural aesthetics for people who will want to use it. An os phone in 5 years is probable but the problem is the user base will be small

How do we reach critical mass

Normill

Example of the vw bug Patina – scratches are part of an aesthetic

Japanse concept of ‘wabi’ of a break being the completion of the artwork wabi (Japanese noun. A flaw that gives elegance and uniqueness to the whole. Western culture sees beauty in mass produced technical symmetry, such as a Porsche Boxster. Japanese however appreciate the wabi of a cracked tea cup that distinguishes it from all other tea cups. This can be as simple as the tiny crack in one's favorite cup. It can also be handmade books or dinners that you've made from scratch. Everyone's face has wabi.)

Brian E.

One single cell phone is not desirable Chaotic, the forks and the possibility

Gwendolyn Biological models, plethora of models and then a unification and then another explosion

Joshua K: Need to have a unification need to have a unification of values

Brian E: Consensus is a bad and scary thing

Joshua K: Some amount of consensus is necessary.

BE: Now there is a bad mojo to move the arduino project around…sounds to be the

Gwendolyn F: Arduino allowed this huge community to grow Ethics is beautiful but we need a next step.

John K: Asks for the history of the arduino Guess is that the .pdfs only docs not sure they wanted to offer the production files and the explosion of derivatives was only possible once

Daniel J: the freeduino project came up and examined questions of openness in the release of OSH files and proprietary trademarks.

John K: As a developer, the investments not comfortable with the direction

G. The

James W: Lots of answers one argument E. Raymond : it’s more efficient and more practical another argument is the Stallman one : it’s right and it’s good culturally.

Darsha Feel good making it, the realization teaching yourself. People love to create

Peggy Reynolds People will also want to have things delivered

Maker culture is more

John K: Democratizing innovation – more innovation comes from used than everywhere else

Joshua K: The examples of the bookser groups feed into the company in order to provide the hacks that make the product much better

Habitat for humanity , a proliferation of good ideas electronic and not part of a continuum that should be encouraged

Dr. Reddy: People often ask me: Why so many stoves, why a million stoves? Because it is hackable – local capacity building is encouraged.

Andre K: Now we have a great idea of the why now how to make it successfully happen?

Peggy The timing may be right since we are in a communities are being strengthened

Alex C: Users point of view, the freedom that it provides… and example from PureData

With PD the wish is for the user to be as free as the creator. This is the ultimate flexibility. The freedom to imagine new ways of making.

The freedom and empowerment of the user and the creator.

How do we make this happen?