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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I came to the OSHW summit to explore if I could do my project/business via OSHW. I feel this is the best way to bring my project forward and make it better. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have been in non-profit for most of my life and so I appreciate the altruistic approach. But not all projects can be inside of non-profit the “capitalistic” approach has brought us good things and great achievements, so don’t give up on that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ada Fruit and Spark Fun have proven good business practices and OSHW do mix successfully, that is what I am counting on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Doug Leppard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> discuss-bounces@lists.oshwa.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.oshwa.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Catarina Mota<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 05, 2013 4:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> The Open Source Hardware Association Discussion List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Discuss] the significance of oshw<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Matt and Mario!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mario, thank you also for all the inspiration from El Salvador! I just added your testimony to the page: <a href="http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials/">http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Mario Gómez <<a href="mailto:mxgxw.alpha@gmail.com" target="_blank">mxgxw.alpha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Catarina!<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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".<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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 :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Regards,<br>Mario.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>(Member of the OpenHardware Community in El Salvador)<br><br>P.D.: Sorry for my bad english If something needs clarification please tell me.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Emilio Velis <<a href="mailto:contacto@emiliovelis.com" target="_blank">contacto@emiliovelis.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>El nov 5, 2013 2:59 p.m., "Catarina Mota" <<a href="mailto:catarina@openmaterials.org" target="_blank">catarina@openmaterials.org</a>> escribió:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here's a google doc for those who prefer it:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Emilio Velis <<a href="mailto:contacto@emiliovelis.com" target="_blank">contacto@emiliovelis.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p>We could work an Etherpad or Google Docs document to make it collaborative. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>El nov 5, 2013 2:20 p.m., "Catarina Mota" <<a href="mailto:catarina@openmaterials.org" target="_blank">catarina@openmaterials.org</a>> escribió:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Awesome!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Michael: you can either just post your testimonial on this thread, or email it directly to me if you prefer.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, gabriella levine <<a href="mailto:gabriella.levine@gmail.com" target="_blank">gabriella.levine@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>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? <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Catarina Mota <<a href="mailto:catarinamfmota@gmail.com" target="_blank">catarinamfmota@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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 :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Catarina<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>_______________________________________________<br>discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:discuss@lists.oshwa.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.oshwa.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.oshwa.org/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.oshwa.org/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333'>----------</span><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>RECENT & UPCOMING</span></b><span 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