[Discuss] [DIYbio] Fwd: The institutionalization of OSHW

[Bryan Bishop]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm willing to throw time, programming, and activism at this problem
> if we can collect a few additional hands.
>

I think we already have enough hands willing to do that, Tim. But nobody
has proposed good standards that everyone wants to follow yet. There's no
"apt-get" for things, and the deb format can't really be repurposed for
hardware. I don't think the ".things" zip file format is a good idea; it
has no metadata and just has STL files instead of CAD models. But at the
same time, skdb sort of overdid it a few years ago with the spec:

http://gnusha.org/skdb/package_spec.html
https://github.com/kanzure/skdb

Which subsequently nobody commented on. Anyway, maybe something simpler
will work.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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