Open Hardware Summit 2011

Some members from the 2011 dream team with Ayah & Alicia

After two amazing and inspiring iterations (2011 and 2010), we are excited to announce we are passing the Open Hardware Summit torch!

We had an amazing two years: we collectively created the first OSHW definition (which has been adopted by CERN), communally created a logo for our movement, grew into a community that supports each other on forums, mailing lists and sponsorships, launched the first Open Hardware Scholarship, turned a conference goodie bag into something you would wrestle over, and created a geek red carpet that would have the Oscar’s drooling!

It was inspiring serving such an impassioned community, and we will both continue to serve in our own ways. The Open Hardware Summit is a mission-driven conference. It’s non-profit, and a labour of love. Our aim is to continually involve more and more of the community. In that effort we are announcing Catarina Mota and Dustyn Roberts as the two new co-chairs for the 2012 Open Hardware Summit.

With Catarina’s expertise in Open Materials, and Dustyn’s work in open mechanisms and robotics, each will bring a unique new dimension to the term “Open Hardware” and together broaden the relevance and reach of our movement and summit.

Thank you to all for attending, participating, supporting, sponsoring, and helping the Summit be a huge success this year! Thank you to our speakers, breakout session facilitators and demo’ers, the content you all shared is truly what makes the Summit exciting, captivates the audience, and accelerates discussion. And thank you for sharing your slides! Videos will be up soon, in the meantime check out the photos from Jacob Gibb and John De Cristofaro on the Open Hardware Summit’s flickr stream.

Thank you to our SPONSORS who generously support the Summit. Each donation both from individuals and companies made a huge difference. We urge you to check out our sponsors, these are the companies believing in the open source hardware movement today and sharing a very large part of what it takes to run a conference – money!

The Summit is completely volunteer run and non-profit. We couldn’t have done it without our dream team and several last minute volunteers who stepped up to tasks we didn’t expect! We are so fortunate to have an amazing community full of talented, giving people – please carry the excitement of the day with you into 2012.

We got 1.573 votes in 24 hours. You are awesome!

The winner is:
BITPONICS – Michael Zick Doherty & Amit Kumar :: Brooklyn, NY.  – 200 votes (%13 of all votes)

Second place:
Buswick Taz – Sean McIntyre :: Brooklyn, NY – 157 votes (%10 of all votes)

Third place:
The Scrap to Stuff Project – Alex Thomson – 150 votes (%10 of all votes)

CONGRATULATIONS to BITPONICS, you’ve won $2,000 courtesy of the generous Open Hardware Community!

Thank you all for your participation.

We had great support for all our scholarship candidates.
Thanks everyone for the support and contribution!

The winner will be announced very soon. Stay connected!

Look at project videos and learn more information about the projects. Then promote your favorite project by voting.

THE VOTING WILL TAKE PLACE IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 14 6PM TO SEPTEMBER 15 6PM. The winner will receive a prize of $2000.

Support the Open Hardware community with your contribution.

You can look at the projects and vote for your best project here.

We’re excited to announce that Maker Faire, our partner in crime and catalyst to the Open Hardware Summit, will be including one (1) complimentary ticket to Maker Faire in the Open Hardware Summit goodie bag! As many people are familiar with Maker Faire in this crowd, we think you’ll be excited too.

If you haven’t been to Maker Faire, it’s a very a prominent and important part of the DIY movement and has extremely strong overlap with open source hardware. The New York Maker Faire is Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 17th and 18th), just 2 days after the Summit. You can check out other Maker Faires locations on the Maker Faire website: makerfaire.com

We hope you’ll take advantage of the complimentary ticket and further support the DIY / Maker movement. The fabulous people on the Maker Faire crew have given the Summit a large amount of support from getting us hotel room blocks, and allowing us to take over NYSCI on one of their days, to advice about speakers and twitter. We are honored to be part of this community, standing on the shoulders of giants. We couldn’t do it without you!

We at the Open hardware Summit work very hard to keep the summit accessible to all people and companies, big or small. We keep the ticket prices affordable (even with meals, cocktails, a kickass lineup and a goodie bag to die for!), we cap sponsorship levels, and we plan a scholarship for open hardware with the remaining funds. But in order to do this, we need your help! Please consider supporting the Open Hardware Summit 2011 by being a sponsor. Different levels are available, and (besides making history), the benefits are totally worth it!

Thank you to people who have already Sponsored for 2011.

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We are completely and utterly sold out of reduced price Early Bird tickets. But you can still attend the Open Hardware Summit! Get on the mailing list and follow us on twitter to get notified when the rest of the tickets go on sale (for students and others). There will be a limited number, so get ready to act fast!