[Discuss] the significance of oshw

Wed Nov 6 05:20:09 UTC 2013

For me, OSH means an economic revolution.

See my TEDx video about OSH and the open value network (OVN) model.
http://youtu.be/Ixgp8_B9g5A

See more about the OVN model
http://valuenetwork.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page

See a concrete example
www.sensorica.co

And see some of my posts related to OSH and the p2p economy.
http://multitudeproject.blogspot.ca/

Feel free to provide constructive criticism!

Also, I invite you to contribute to the OVN project.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Catarina Mota <catarina at openmaterials.org>wrote:

> Thanks Matt and Mario!
>
> Matt, your research is very inspiring. Would you like us to publish the
> whole email, just the tl;dr section or share something else from your
> research? I'm a phd student too so I know that universities require
> dissertations to be unpublished work. Just let us know what we can include
> on the oshwa site without compromising your research.
>
> Mario, thank you also for all the inspiration from El Salvador! I just
> added your testimony to the page: http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials/
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Mario Gómez <mxgxw.alpha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Catarina!
>>
>> Almost a year ago I started to become familiar with the concept of the
>> Open Hardware. Personally I have been an advocate for Open Source Software
>> since I started using Linux more than 10 years ago.
>>
>> Here in my country (El Salvador) we were the most industrialized country
>> on central americas at the end of 60s and begining of 70s, but political
>> issues and a bloody civil war put a stop to the industries and now we are
>> lagged behind.
>>
>> However we still have several technical high-schools were people can
>> learn electronics, mechanics, mechatronics and even architecture. I
>> graduated myself from one of this schools. Also, all Universities teach
>> engineering on several fields but few people have the real opportunity to
>> develop solutions using their skills, most of them become marketeers of
>> existing solutions or technical support people in the best of the cases.
>>
>> From the begining of the last year I started to write in my blog about
>> small open-hardware projects and via mailing lists and social networks I
>> started to communicate with many people that works in the same.
>>
>> So in the last year I have found a lot of people working around the
>> country in projects based on Open Hardware solutions, from individuals to
>> schools and universities. At one point, we thought that could be a great
>> idea to conform the Open Hardware Community in El Salvador to share
>> experiences and promote this kind of "philosophy of sharing to create".
>>
>> What we found after that was a lot of people working everywhere in the
>> country telling us: "We tought that we were alone on this", but you see the
>> spark on their eyes when you tell them that they are not alone but part of
>> a community that can help them to materialize their ideas.
>>
>> For me, the Open Source Hardware it's an incredible oportunity to show
>> the world that this country still has a lot of potential and has people
>> capable of create, invent and develop solutions to the problems, this
>> empowers the feeling on the people that we are not just a consumist country
>> with a lot of social problems but a place were we can create and solve
>> problems by ourselfs.
>>
>> The next step is to tell the people that they need to merchandise their
>> ideas (in a good way). There is a lot of incredible projects on the schools
>> and universities collecting dust that could became live if the people uses
>> Internet to collaborate and show to the world what they are capable of.
>>
>> From CNCs and 3D-Printers built from recycled parts to automatization
>> systems for the industry you'll be surprised of all the things that the
>> people is doing here.
>>
>> As a community our main idea is to give the people the tools so they can
>> share and colaborate with OSHW projecs around the world. Now we are just
>> starting with this but we hope that if we acomplish this, there is going to
>> be a complete change of mentality of being a "consumist" country and become
>> real "producers".
>>
>> As Emilio Said in another reply we would be happy to share the
>> experiences of the people here. Emilio can act as a translator jajajaja :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mario.
>> (Member of the OpenHardware Community in El Salvador)
>>
>> P.D.: Sorry for my bad english If something needs clarification please
>> tell me.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Emilio Velis <contacto at emiliovelis.com>wrote:
>>
>>> This is just an idea, and you're free to dismiss it, but it would be
>>> nice to have a space with people's (or group's) profiles and their
>>> testimonial. From our side (as an emerging group of Open Hardware from El
>>> Salvador) sharing testimonials from people that don't speak English and
>>> would've never thought to be connected globally in this mindset would be a
>>> very nice experience.
>>> El nov 5, 2013 2:59 p.m., "Catarina Mota" <catarina at openmaterials.org>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>> Absolutely, whatever people prefer! There can even be multiple ways to
>>>> contribute (to the list, to me, on a google doc, etherpad, etc.) - as long
>>>> as I know what all the channels are, I can pull the information into an
>>>> OSHWA page.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a google doc for those who prefer it:
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K0JyOKWbldWtXXpqhAOTsGQ23NmEtQit6bDlLLTbFhs/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>
>>>> But I do think that it's good to keep them as individual testimonials
>>>> to capture more diversity of perspectives. If, at one point, anyone wants
>>>> to take a stab at summarizing it all that would be awesome too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Emilio Velis <contacto at emiliovelis.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We could work an Etherpad or Google Docs document to make it
>>>>> collaborative.
>>>>> El nov 5, 2013 2:20 p.m., "Catarina Mota" <catarina at openmaterials.org>
>>>>> escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Awesome!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael: you can either just post your testimonial on this thread, or
>>>>>> email it directly to me if you prefer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gabby: that's a great idea! Same thing: either send to the list or to
>>>>>> me and I'll start a page on oshwa.org (if no one has objections to
>>>>>> that).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, gabriella levine <
>>>>>> gabriella.levine at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know also there have been a number of amazing and inspirational
>>>>>>> talks about the importance of OSHW, none of which are archived in one spot
>>>>>>> - would this be such a place for this , also?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes I agree that this could be cool and I'm definitely interested. I
>>>>>>> can get you a few lines of text, video, and photos if that would work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Catarina Mota <
>>>>>>> catarinamfmota at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've been thinking about the real significance of open source
>>>>>>>> hardware. We spend a lot time discussing how to do OSHW right. We usually
>>>>>>>> explain its advantages by saying that it allows people to copy, modify, and
>>>>>>>> transform hardware, which leads to faster development and better
>>>>>>>> technologies. But I think there is more to it than that. In some recent
>>>>>>>> conversations, a few people mentioned the sense of empowerment and
>>>>>>>> liberation that comes from creating and modifying technologies, which makes
>>>>>>>> me think that there are deeper cultural implications here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So I was thinking that it would be nice to compile a series of
>>>>>>>> testimonials about what people perceive as the personal, practical,
>>>>>>>> political, cultural, social or economic advantages and disadvantages of
>>>>>>>> open source hardware.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If OSHWA agrees, we can create a page for these
>>>>>>>> testimonials/opinions on oshwa.org. Or, if for any reason, that is
>>>>>>>> problematic, I can find another place to publish them. I just think that
>>>>>>>> it's important to put a more human face on our outreach efforts (rather
>>>>>>>> than just publishing technical and legal information).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone want to contribute? There's no structure, just whatever
>>>>>>>> you want to say about this topic. If you post your opinions on this list I
>>>>>>>> can collect, compile and publish them (on oshwa.org or somewhere
>>>>>>>> else). Hopefully this can also trigger an interesting discussion :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> Catarina
>>>>>>>>
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