[Discuss] OSHW Best Practices / Layers of Openness

Tom Igoe tom.igoe at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 19:18:52 UTC 2013


Packaging, documentation....  what else?

t.

On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Marco Perry wrote:

> If OSHW goes beyond electronics, then it should be anything that encompasses the experience and use of the product/thing, not just the components (electrical, software, mechanical). Seems far reaching, but its either components or the whole.
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Igoe <tom.igoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >  In what way(s) do you see OSHWA focussing just on the electronics?   It's important (to me personally, at least) that OSHWA should try to broaden our reach to the larger domain of hardware in general.
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> In the privileging of electronics that we saw in this morning's responses from David and Alicia, for example. I don't doubt that we *aspire* to be broader, but because many  of us make primarily electronic parts, we've prioritized that, because we understand it better, and have said "we'll get to the other stuff later."
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> It's later.  Let's get to it.
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> t.
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