Open Hardware Summit 2011
About
The Open Hardware Summit is the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware. The Open Hardware Summit was be a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing open source hardware movement. Speakers at the Summit include world renowned leaders from industry, academia and the DIY community. The summit focused on hardware as a system through a series of discussions and panels on BUSINESS, LAW, MANUFACTURING, SCALING, DESIGN and EDUCATION. The one-day Summit sought to empower companies, large and small, to produce electronic objects in an open source fashion. The Open Hardware Summit occurred on September 23rd at the New York Hall of Science. The summit was organized by Alicia Gibb and Ayah Bdeir, in collaboration with Buglabs, Makerfaire, NYSCI, littleBits, Creative Commons, Eyebeam and Htink. For more details about the summit please visit the Press and Documentation page
Attend
The Open Hardware Summit will be a one day event held on Sept. 15th, 2011 at the New York Hall of Science (map). We hope that you’ll join us! Tickets will go on sale soon. Subscribe to the mailing list or follow us on twitter to find out when Tickets include breakfast, lunch and cocktail hour at the end of the day. A Thank you to HTINK, our fiscal sponsor for handling our ticketing finances. Travel By Airplane: La Guardia Airport is about 10 minutes away from the Hall of Science by taxi. JFK Airport will be about 45 minutes to an hour away depending on traffic by taxi. By Subway: Take the number 7 train to the 111th Street stop in Queens. Walk south on 111th Street until you reach 47th Avenue, the Hall of Science will be on your left. The 7 train takes approximately an hour from Times Square. By Car: Please note that the parking lot will not be available for guests because Maker Faire setup will be in progress. For directions, ask Google.
Sponsor
note: Sponsorship information for the Open Hardware Summit 2011 will be posted soon. Check back here for details. Please follow @ohsummit on twitter, or subscribe to the mailing list to stay updated! TO SPONSOR To sponsor, click the “Donate” button, add your donation amount and click the “Update Total” button, then add your payment information. Thanks to Eyebeam Art and Technology center, our non-profit fiscal sponsor for handling the finances. To see our 2010 sponsors, please view the .
Schedule
TBD. Please follow @ohsummit on twitter, or subscribe to the mailing list to stay updated!
Breakout Sessions
By popular demand, this year at the Open Hardware Summit, we are devoting the last section in the day to breakout sessions. Breakout sessions can be facilitator-run panels, discussions or workshops. When buying your ticket, please select the Breakout Session of your choice, descriptions are below. For the full schedule of the day, please click here. Note: Your selection will be used to assign rooms at the venue and plan the session, so please consider it final. Documentation, Distribution, and Community Building for Open Hardware Facilitators: Britta Riley, Josef Průša, Taylor Hokanson, Zak Homuth Description You’ve designed a great piece of open hardware, but don’t stop there! Even the best designs will fail if they are communicated poorly. We’ll describe some of the challenges specific to OH documentation, including concrete examples and solutions developed by our panelists. Open Source Hardware Legal Frameworks Facilitators: Melba Kurman, Tim Engelhardt, Rachel Vaugh Description This session explores the disruptive potential of open source hardware licenses to act as an “un-patent” as well as open hardware legal frameworks. The presenters will delve into practical intellectual property issues at stake for inventors, including university inventors and explore strategies for external entrepreneurs and businesses that wish to work with university inventions. There will furtheru0026hellip;
Scholarship
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Open Hardware Scholarship! Do you have the next big Open Hardware idea, but just don’t have the funds for it? The Open Hardware Summit (OHS) is announcing its first Open Hardware scholarship this year! The purpose of the OHS scholarship is to support emerging artists/inventors and developers by providing funding for works that are released as Open Source Hardware. Granting these funds is an opportunity to draw attention to the Open Source Hardware movement, to give back to the DIY community, and to give you the chance to join a growing roster of gamechangers in Open Source Hardware history. If you have a project that is in the spirit of the OHS and supports the OHSW definition, we welcome your submissions. PRIZE Upwards of $2000 will be awarded. The scholarship is made available by the generous individuals and sponsors who have made the Open Hardware Summit possible. PUBLIC VOTE The winner will be chosen by the public. All projects will be viewable online and voting will begin at 10am, September 14th. People will be able to vote on their favorite project remotely or onsite. The winning artist/group will be announce at the conclusion of OHS on September 15th at theu0026hellip;
Press
Press Release Download the press release here Press Contact For Press inquiries, please contact: Ed Borden info AT openhardwaresummit.org Number below: Online Posts/Press (please post additional articles you come across in the comment section below) alvaro1gilber, March 2nd 2011, Open Source Hardware Definition, v 1.0 released marketingnice, Feb 28th 2011, Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! adyourbanner.com, Feb 26th 2011, Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! wamda, Feb 26th 2011, Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! Phillip Torrone, Make, Feb 25th 2011, Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! Marqootz, Feb 25th 2011, Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! Adafruit, Feb 25th 2011, Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! Jim, freestompboxes.org, Feb 16th 2011, Open Source Hardware Definition Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, Feb 11th, 2011, Open Source Hardware Definition turns 1.0 Bruce Sterling, Wired, Feb 11th 2011, Open Source Hard Ware Sam Dean, Ostatic, Feb 11th 2011, Open Source Hardware Moves Toward the Mainstream The H Open, Feb 11th 2011, Open Source Hardware Definition 1.0 published Emcee Grady, Sparkfun, Feb 11th 2011, OSHW Definition V1.0 Federico Lucifredi, OpenSUSE, Feb 11th 2011, Open Hardware Definitionu0026hellip;
Documentation
The Open Hardware Summit 2011 will be streamed live. Check back in a few hours for details and links. You can also follow on twitter: @ohsummit #ohsummit Documentation from the Open Hardware Summit 2010 is here
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Mailing lists
We have 2 mailing lists so we can stay in touch and move forward. Updates Send and receive updates about open hardware, and issues related to the Open Hardware Summit: documentation, upcoming events, conferences, interesting topics of discussion, etc Please visit the updates mailing list subscription page. Once subscribed, you can post to the list by emailing updates@lists.openhardwaresummit.org. Definition The definition mailing list is to continue discussion and feedback collection about the Open Hardware definition proposed, feedback to version 0.4, and suggestions to get to a definition 1.0. Please visit the definition mailing list subscription page. Once subscribed, you can post to the list by emailing definition@lists.openhardwaresummit.org. For any problems please email info AT openhardwaresummit.org
References
This page will be home to articles, links, and references about Open Hardware. Please submit additional items in the comments and we will make sure to add them! (If you’re looking for Documentation of the event, please go to Documentation) OSHW Definition and Previous Works: Please visit the draft (v.04) wiki for the definition revised from the Summit: http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW_draft Please discuss and comment in the forums. Resources and References used for the current draft include: http://opensource.org/docs/osd http://ohanda.org/ Other legal and license references: http://www.publicknowledge.org/ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html http://opendesign.org/odd.html What companies produce Open Source Hardware: Adafruit Arduino Beagle Board Bug Labs Chumby DIYdrones DIYLILCNC Evil Mad Scientist GoGoBoard LilyPad LittleBits Makerbot MITRE Rachel’s Electronics Seeed Studio Sparkfun Texas Instruments ThingM XiVO IPBX (Did we miss your company? Please let us know: info [at] openhardwaresummit.org) Who else is talking about Open Hardware: http://oshug.org/ http://worldsfairuseday.org/Worlds_Fair_Use_Day/Worlds_Fair_Use_Day.html Further Reading: http://clothbot.com/wiki/Open_Source_Hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_hardware_projects http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Hardware/Open_Source/ http://www.gosh2009.ca/wiki/index.php/List_of_Open_Hardware_Projects http://www.amazon.com/Common-Air-Revolution-Art-Ownership/dp/0374223130 http://csiopensource.wordpress.com/
OSHW Definition v1.0
The latest definition (v.1.0) is on FreedomDefined. The below text is pasted from that page. For the original, please go to: http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW OSHW Definition This page hosts the current proposed Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Statement of Principles and Definition. The statement of principles is a high-level overview of the ideals of open-source hardware. The definition is an attempt to apply those ideals to a standard by which to evaluate licenses for hardware designs. The widely endorsed definition draft 0.3 is on this page; older drafts are also available. If you would like to propose changes to the statement of principles or definition by editing this page, please do so with extreme care and consideration; this draft definition has been crafted with the input of many individuals with diverse backgrounds and points of view. (And, please edit while signed in, not anonymously.) Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Statement of Principles Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make and sell the design or hardware based on that design. The hardware’s source, the design from which it is made, is available in the preferred format for making modifications to it. Ideally, open source hardware uses readily-availableu0026hellip;
Apply OSHW Logo
Note: The below is not the official logo. Please see the logo page for updates on that selection process. I support the Open Source Hardware Definition v1.0 Show your support for Open Hardware by applying the Open Hardware Definition to your work/project/website. Just copy and paste the code below into your webpage. I support the Open Source Hardware Definition v1.0
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