[Discuss] the significance of oshw

Sat Nov 9 11:41:41 UTC 2013

Thanks everyone. I added Gabby's talk to the
talks<http://www.oshwa.org/talks/>page, and Joshua's and Tiberius'
testimonials to the
testimonials <http://Tiberius' and> page.

Please keep them coming!

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Mario Gómez <mxgxw.alpha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tiberius!
>
> I was reading your testimonial and I'm really interested on hearing more
> about your experciences with Universities. Here in El Salvador many
> education centers have started to work with OSHW solutions, specifically
> Arduino. But in most of the cases what I have saw is that they miss the
> whole picture of collaborate and distribute their projects and results.
>
> In our country the universities doesn't monetize their investigations, as
> I wrote in my previous message many projects are doomed to collect dust in
> their libraries. But at the same time they don't want to embrace the "open"
> concept. I think that Emilio Velis has a funny history about how they
> convinced a local University to publish their student's thesis works with
> CC licences and then they stopped using it when they figured what they
> really meant.
>
> Regards,
> Mario
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Tiberius Brastaviceanu <
> tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I added my testimonials in the Google doc
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K0JyOKWbldWtXXpqhAOTsGQ23NmEtQit6bDlLLTbFhs/edit#heading=h.vdhbp2m90ajl
>>
>> I can contribute with more if anyone has specific questions!
>>
>> Thanks! I like the initiative!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:24 AM, gabriella levine <
>> gabriella.levine at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hey catarina - here's a link to a recent talk i gave on open hw -
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_nd_7RneI
>>>
>>> it was to a quite laymen audience so it's really simplistic but I guess
>>> it is sort of my testimonial in a sense.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Catarina Mota <
>>> catarina at openmaterials.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Matt, I added your comment to the testimonials<http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials/>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Michael Shiloh, it would be awesome to hear your take on the
>>>> educational side.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else has testimonials about the significance of OSHW they'd like
>>>> to contribute?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "How much would a prostetic hand cost?"
>>>>> "10,000 dollars."
>>>>> "How much did your own design cost?"
>>>>> "I dunno, like, ten bucks."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/open-source-hardware-allow-casual-people-to-make-innovations/
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the kind of improvement that's possible in technology when you
>>>>> don't keep secrets. 3D printers have been around for decades, which means a
>>>>> simple, writs-activated prosthetic hand could have been manufactured on 3D
>>>>> printers and sold for $50 a long time ago. But nobody did that because it
>>>>> was more profitable to just keep everything a secret and make people pay
>>>>> through the nose for a proprietary solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> Open hardware allows the actual lowest-cost solution to be widely
>>>>> shared. It means that the people who actually NEED the lowest-cost
>>>>> solutions can just provide for themselves instead of waiting for the market
>>>>> to maybe deliver it, eventually...for a price that takes advantage of their
>>>>> need.
>>>>>
>>>>> All of those zeros in the price of commercial prosthetic hands have
>>>>> nothing to do with the inherent technology. They're a reflection of how
>>>>> much people are willing to pay when they need a new hand. Open hardware
>>>>> removes those zeros, reduces prices by orders of magnitude, simply by
>>>>> negating the price that can be charged for secrets.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:08 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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