<div dir="ltr">Thanks Alicia and Emilio. Those are great ideas. Emilio, please ask your friends and colleagues to send their testimonials in whatever language they're comfortable with. We'll publish them in their original languages for now and, later on, we can try to crowdsource translations.<div>
<br></div><div>Here's the page for now: <a href="http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials">http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'll link it to the menu when we have more contributions and Alicia's testimony isn't so lonely :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>The profile is an interesting idea as well. If people want, they can send us a profile or a website to link to.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:15 PM, alicia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amgibb@gmail.com" target="_blank">amgibb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Emilio, thanks for bringing that up. We have had a fair amount of success in getting translations behind the definition and the best practices are up in Spanish now too. I think translations of several languages of the completed testimony would be fantastic, and I'd urge people to email Catarina's request in which ever languages you all know too so that we can be more inclusive.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Alicia </div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Emilio Velis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contacto@emiliovelis.com" target="_blank">contacto@emiliovelis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">El nov 5, 2013 2:59 p.m., "Catarina Mota" <<a href="mailto:catarina@openmaterials.org" target="_blank">catarina@openmaterials.org</a>> escribió:<div><div><br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>Here's a google doc for those who prefer it:</div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K0JyOKWbldWtXXpqhAOTsGQ23NmEtQit6bDlLLTbFhs/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K0JyOKWbldWtXXpqhAOTsGQ23NmEtQit6bDlLLTbFhs/edit?usp=sharing</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Emilio Velis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contacto@emiliovelis.com" target="_blank">contacto@emiliovelis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">We could work an Etherpad or Google Docs document to make it collaborative. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">El nov 5, 2013 2:20 p.m., "Catarina Mota" <<a href="mailto:catarina@openmaterials.org" target="_blank">catarina@openmaterials.org</a>> escribió:<div><div><br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr">Awesome!<div><br></div><div>Michael: you can either just post your testimonial on this thread, or email it directly to me if you prefer.</div><div><br></div><div>Gabby: that's a great idea! Same thing: either send to the list or to me and I'll start a page on <a href="http://oshwa.org" target="_blank">oshwa.org</a> (if no one has objections to that).</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, gabriella levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabriella.levine@gmail.com" target="_blank">gabriella.levine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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? <div>
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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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Catarina Mota <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:catarinamfmota@gmail.com" target="_blank">catarinamfmota@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If OSHWA agrees, we can create a page for these testimonials/opinions on <a href="http://oshwa.org" target="_blank">oshwa.org</a>. 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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://oshwa.org" target="_blank">oshwa.org</a> or somewhere else). Hopefully this can also trigger an interesting discussion :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Catarina</div></div>
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