[Discuss] Starting an Open Design community

[Emilio Velis]

It is true. The main idea stands: having people filling out a form, have
them comply with a checklist of that their project is, does, and how the
creators agree for it to be used. Then, having a research-intended list of
OSHWA compliant projects.

As long as we make it clear that it's not meant as a registry for verified
open source projects but rather a tool to gather information about projects
around the world, I think it could be a useful resource.


On 3 April 2014 11:51, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  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.
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> 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.
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> 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 :)
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> Alicia
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>> On 1 April 2014 13:23, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> 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
>>>>
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>>>> On Feb 12, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Marketply wrote:
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>>>>  El feb 6, 2014 6:18 p.m., "Harry Hutton" < harryhutton92 at gmail.com>
>>>> escribió:
>>>>
>>>>   Hey,
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>>>>  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)*
>>>>
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>>>> 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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