<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Pablo,<br><br></div><div>When you OS a project you want to put it in the highest traffic site for the specific kind of project.<br></div><div><br></div>I would categorize an OS bicycle trailer as open source appropriate technology -- and for that kind of technology the best current location I am aware of is <a href="http://www.appropedia.org/">http://www.appropedia.org/</a><br><br></div><div>It is a wiki specializing in collaborative solutions in sustainability, appropriate technology and poverty reduction. The wiki markup is the same as wikipedia - so it is fairly easy to learn. Appropedia can only take certain kinds of CAD files.<br><br>The solution we use is to do the splash page with the main easily edited content (and a discussion tab) on Appropedia then link back to CAD content on github if you are using a format Appropedia does not take. You can also post it on your own website then link back to Appropedia. Make sure to tag the page with all of the categories your design fits into (e.g. transportation) - then appropedians will get it spread all over. The default license is cc-by-sa.<br><br></div><div>When you post it make sure to include<br></div><div>- a full bill of materials - ideally with sources of parts and sub and total costs<br></div><div>- the CAD designs<br></div><div>- tools necessary to fabricate<br></div><div>- basic instructions for assembly/fabrication (if you can do pictures or video for this it would be ideal<br></div><div>- and a nice picture.video of the final product<br><br></div><div>Then if you have time <br></div><div>- skills needed<br></div><div>- time to complete<br></div><div>- instructions with no words<br><br>The documentation is a bear and few people do a really nice job -- but remember the easier it is for people to replicate and use your work - the more people will do so - and the more likely you will get feedback and improvements in the design.<br><br></div><div>Other places you may want to consider are:<br></div><div>- check Open Source Ecology and see if they would be interested<br></div><div>- Engineering for Change<br><br>Thingiverse is primarily for 3d printable designs -- and recently changed its licensing agreement - there is a main one with Makerbot which is actually pretty ugly and then you can choose an open sub license. For now they are behaving as good stewards, but the language in the main agreement means your tech only remains open if they want it to. You will have to decide for yourself what you are comfortable with.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck<br>Joshua<br></div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Joshua M. Pearce, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor<br><a href="http://www.appropedia.org/Category:MOST" target="_blank">The Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Lab</a><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><br>Department of Materials Science & Engineering<br>Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering<br>Michigan Technological University<br>601 M&M Building<br>1400 Townsend Drive<br>Houghton, MI 49931-1295<br>906-487-1466<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://store.elsevier.com/coArticle.jsp?pageid=18200010" target="_blank">Open Source Lab</a><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span></div></div></div>
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Message: 6<br>
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 20:23:50 -0300<br>
From: Pablo Kulbaba <<a href="mailto:pablokulbaba@gmail.com">pablokulbaba@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Joshua:<br>
It's a bicycle trailer. Made of steel. Laser cut steel sheet, square<br>
tubing with bends, and some round tubing.<br>
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On 06/09/2014 12:47 p.m., Joshua Pearce wrote:<br>
> Pablo<br>
><br>
> What type of FOSH did you design? There are many repositories - but we<br>
> need to know what it is to point you in the right direction until<br>
> OSHWA creates one database to rule them all...<br>
><br>
> Best regards<br>
> Joshua<br>
><br>
> Joshua M. Pearce, Ph.D.<br>
> Associate Professor<br>
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> Already have the 3D model.<br>
> What would be the practical steps to properly do this?<br>
> Where do i register it?<br>
> Any repository to recomend? GitHub?<br>
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