[Discuss] Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam, New York City, April 26-28

Catarina Mota catarina at openmaterials.org
Thu Mar 7 20:15:45 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Cameron Adamez
<cameron at suspectdevices.com>wrote:

> Can we organize a west coast jam?
>

Great! May I go ahead and put you in touch with Simone to discuss this?


>
> On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Catarina Mota <catarina at openmaterials.org>
> wrote:
>
> We're still wrangling the registration process, so if anyone is interested
> in participating or contributing in another way, please email me!
>
> Lots of details on the event's website (the Challenge page is particularly
> relevant): http://www.opensourcewarehouse.org
>
> Cheers,
> Catarina
>
> *
> Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam, New York City, April 26-28
>
>  The power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon
> others’ work and good documentation is the key to making this happen. We
> believe that open source hardware will become a new economic engine of
> innovation, efficiency, sustainability and collaboration. As the number of
> open source hardware projects continues to grow, it’s important to generate
> clearly-findable, modular, remixable documentation that can not only
> improve the quality of projects - but also enhance cross-project
> collaboration. Our goal is to make it easy to contribute to a common pool
> of hardware knowledge.
>
>
> This 3 day event is intended to generate motion on the much-discussed
> ‘Github for Hardware’. We intend to release a minimum viable prototype for
> immediate beta testing by open hardware projects. The event will be based
> on a mashup of well-known co-design formats - Design Jams and Hackathons.
> The goal is to identify problems, propose solutions, and synergize on
> execution.
>
> Check out the event’s website for more information:
> http://www.opensourcewarehouse.org/problem-statement/
> Some preliminary work on an OSHW Documentation taxonomy:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkNG-lv1ELQvdHViNEdtVHp4dHRWOU8tcDNSbXROY3c&usp=sharing
>
> What we need from you: Do you want to participate in the Jam and if so in
> what role? Do you want to help organize? Do you want to run a parallel
> event in another location? Can you review the materials that we have so
> far? We have not yet secured a venue. Can you help with a venue, tools,
> staff, stuff, travel, rewards, and other support? What else? Please respond
> to Simone, our Facilitator - at simone.cicero at gmail.com
>
> Due to practical matters, the number of participants will be limited, so
> please let us know by March 18 if you would like to join us. Unfortunately,
> we currently don’t have funding to support travel costs.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcin Jakubowski - opensourceecology.org
> Catarina Mota - everywheretech.org
> Simone Cicero - meedabyte.com
> *
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