[Discuss] Starting an Open Design community

[alicia]

>  The second step on this could be to have people agree on sharing their
> ideas according to certain policies (the Best Practices document could be a
> good start) so their project can be approved as Open Hardware.
>

People have agreed on the communally written
definition<http://www.oshwa.org/definition/>already, so I don't think
that the Best Practices would be appropriate as
it states optional practices, but not an actual definition of what must be
done.

Approval of open hardware can be a slippery slope we need to be careful of.
We don't want to turn into the USB commission, for example :)

Alicia







>
> On 1 April 2014 13:23, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OSHWA has been considering a rather expensive project to raise funds for
>> - more or less a "prior art" repository for open source hardware. The only
>> way it would help however, is if a country's patent and trademark office
>> actually look at it when reviewing a patent application - which we can't
>> guarantee.
>>
>> Under section 4 of this blog post it talks about how to take down a
>> patent even when prior art has been established, and its not easy:
>> http://www.oshwa.org/2013/12/05/open-hardware-legal-meetup-nyu-nov-11/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alicia
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:13 PM, YES NOPE9 <yes at nope9.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to collaborate and throw in the concept of Open IP.
>>> I am looking for a way to easily *public domain* ideas , patent ideas ,
>>> etc.
>>> so that stifling IP portfolios can be attacked on the basis of *prior
>>> art*.
>>> Does such a thing exist already ?
>>> 99guspuppet   @99guspuppet   #IPPParadigm
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 12, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Marketply wrote:
>>>
>>>  El feb 6, 2014 6:18 p.m., "Harry Hutton" < harryhutton92 at gmail.com>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>   Hey,
>>>
>>>  I've started a small Open Design community - concerned not just with
>>> electronic hardware, but with open development for the entire product.
>>>
>>>  Maybe you guys might be interested in joining, would be great to hear
>>> your voices on it, i'm sure we'd have plenty of questions. Some discussion
>>> could definitely be had on the future of IP, and its a great way to post
>>> and discover open projects.
>>>
>>>  http://www.reddit.com/r/OpenDesign/
>>>
>>>  Let me know what you think!
>>>
>>>
>>>  How would Openplex <http://openplex.org/> fit in that group? (website
>>> very in development)
>>>
>>>  Design vision for company: if Apple were designed by Mozilla and were
>>> certified LEED Mithril (elegant, open, and green, respectively; and each as
>>> much as possible).
>>>
>>>  About to test the power of collaboration to design a company that
>>> operates entirely in the open.
>>>
>>>  I'm still very wet behind the ears in everything tech* so this works
>>> out!
>>>
>>>  **(and been toiling in obscurity way long, and finally beginning to
>>> figure out how to 'broadcast' development in real time)*
>>>
>>>
>>> On February 7, 2014 at 3:18 AM Laura James <lbjames at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hi Harry,
>>>
>>>  I'd also recommend checking out the Open Design group
>>> http://design.okfn.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>  Laura, would the group like to summarize a quick open design definition
>>> for Nutshellpedia? See the entry entry for open source hardware<http://nutshellpedia.org/nutshells#open_source_hardware>.
>>>
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