oshug June 2010

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Meeting this Thursday.
by Andrew Back 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hello, Just to remind folks that if they intend on coming along on Thursday they will need to register: http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Apologies to those who have already registered. If possible try and arrive between 17:45 and 18:00. If you arrive later you may need to give one of us a call on the number of the door, so that we can come down and let you in. Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Re: [oshug] [austin-hacker-space] More on open patent pools - Open Invention Network
by Bryan Bishop 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Matthew McCabe wrote: > Hmm, so where does this leave the inventor who does not have a day job and > wants to make a living creating new products? I am a bit torn on this issue R&D phase does take resources and money so that you can coast while your stuff doesn't actually exist yet. That's true. There are all sorts of arrangements to make that happen. After that, it's sales/branding mostly. > I am interested to look at hybrid models where a product IS protected by a > patent or copyright but much of the info needed to produce the thing is > given away for free. Thus, you basically choose to license the patent to > whomever wants to use it for personal or, possibly, commercial use. I have > been thinking about how to apply this idea and it is tricky... How, for > example, do you make a profit from something if you are giving it away for > free? Uh, how about you just use an open source hardware license (something akin to TAPR but not necessarily TAPR) and then a non-assert agreement (if you have a patent)? This is along the lines of the Creative Commons / Science Commons with the PPL license -- but there are some minor differences I recall. In the case of the Open Invention Network, they are literally transferring ownership of patents into the pool. IMHO transferring ownership of the patents is only because that's what everyone understands (everyone understands a patent pool) but it's not necessary, I think. You make money by selling kits, instructions, a good user experience. > I would love to hear other perspectives on this issue. Also, we may want to > schedule a talk with one of the IP attorneys in town to get an idea of how > to appropriately protect IP (or not). And to prod them a bit about these > hybrid models or just giving something away for free. I have been looking to work with (as in, hire/pay for) an IP attorney to help draft a better open source hardware license, plus non-assert agreements, for Gnusha- the open source tech co-op. However, I strongly encourage this to be completely separate from Austin Hackerspace internals-- that'd be cause for alarm and abandoning/jumping ship. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Fwd: [FAB@HOME] Survey on community expectations in Fab@Home governance
by Bryan Bishop 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kampower <echez99(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:29 AM Subject: [FAB@HOME] Survey on community expectations in Fab@Home governance To: "Fab@Home Forums" <fabathome-forums(a)googlegroups.com> Hi everybody, I'm a masters student at TUHH, Technical University of Hamburg. As part of my master’s thesis, I am carrying out a survey to better understand your experience and expectations with regards to the organization of Open design projects. Your opinion as Fab@Home user and community member is very important to me! That's why I'm inviting you to fill out my survey. Answering the questions may take about 8-10 minutes. The individual responses will be kept strictly confidential, aggregated results will be published as soon as the survey is finished. If you are interested, I can also provide some specific results about the Fab@Home community. Please follow this link or copy to your browser if you experience any problems. http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/~somo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&.<http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/%7Esomo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&.> .. The survey is conducted on a per project basis. In case you receive my request more than once, it’s because you are involved in several communities. It would be great if you would fill out the survey more than once, for all projects which are relevant to you. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in more details about this research work, please take a look at: http://open-innovation-projects.org/my-research/#part3 Thank you very much for your help! Best regards Marvelous marvelous.onwukamike(a)tu-harburg.de -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fab@Home Forums" group. To post to this group, send email to fabathome-forums(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fabathome-forums+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<fabathome-forums%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fabathome-forums?hl=en. -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Additional speaker for OSHUG #3, 1st July.
by Andrew Back 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hello, Just to let folks know that Chris Dalby of Current Cost will be speaking about their Bridge [1] device, how this was prototyped with arduino and led to a hackable consumer device which is about to launch. So, along with concurrency.cc and LilyPad this makes for a pretty exciting line up for out third meeting. For more info see: http://oshug.org/event/3 And just to remind folks that they need to register. There is no cost, but this is something we have to do for reasons of security and health and safety. http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Fwd: [canadareprap] Survey on Community expectations in RepRap and MakerBot governance
by Bryan Bishop 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kampower <echez99(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:23 AM Subject: [canadareprap] Survey on Community expectations in RepRap and MakerBot governance To: Canadian RepRap Operators Group <canadareprap(a)googlegroups.com> Hi everybody, I'm a masters student at TUHH, Technical University of Hamburg. As part of my master’s thesis, I am carrying out a survey to better understand your experience and expectations with regards to the organization of Open design projects. Your opinion as MakerBot and RepRap user and community member is very important to me! That's why I'm inviting you to fill out my survey. Answering the questions may take about 8-10 minutes. The individual responses will be kept strictly confidential, aggregated results will be published as soon as the survey is finished. If you are interested, I can also provide some specific results about the MakerBot and RepRap community. Please follow this link or copy and or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't work. http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/~somo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&lan… The survey is conducted on a per project basis. In case you receive my request more than once, it’s because you are involved in several communities. It would be great if you would fill out the survey more than once, for all projects which are relevant to you. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in more details about this research work, please take a look at: http://open-innovation-projects.org/my-research/#part3 Thank you very much for your help! Best regards Marvelous marvelous.onwukamike(a)tu-harburg.de -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Canadian RepRap Operators Group" group. To post to this group, send email to canadareprap(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to canadareprap+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/canadareprap?hl=en. -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Event #3 — Arduino: An Open Hardware Success Story.
by Andrew Back 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hello, For the third meeting we'll be asking the question "what factors contribute to the success of an open source hardware project?", and using Arduino and derivatives LilyPad Arduino and the concurrency.cc board as the basis for an informal case study. We are hoping to confirm a third presentation on running an Arduino based business (offers to present are, as always, most welcome). Date: Thursday 1st July 2010 Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Location: Osmosoft, SW1 For further info see below or visit: http://oshug.org/event/3 To register: http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Regards, Andrew -- * Concurrency.cc - parallel programming for makers and artists The concurrency.cc project describes itself as "a group of educators and researchers exploring the development of tools that make parallel programming more accessible to more people. Our hope is that concurrency.cc will serve the community of developers surrounding parallel and concurrent languages on the Arduino and other low-cost embedded platforms." Adam Sampson is a research associate in the field of concurrent programming and complex systems simulation at the University of Kent. He has enjoyed electronics as a hobby ever since being told off for dismantling the family vacuum cleaner as a small child. Omer Kilic (twitter) is a research student at the University of Kent working on dynamically reconfigurable architectures and embedded systems. He is passionate about the open-source hardware movement and likes tinkering, so much so that he founded TinkerSoc, The University of Kent Tinkering Society. * LilyPad - an Arduino based platform for wearables and e-textiles The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller, plus a set of sewable electronic components designed so they can be put together to create interactive wearables or textiles based artworks. There is quite a range of components such as LEDS, sensors, buzzer, accelerometer and more that can be connected with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V/328Vand was designed and developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics. Rain Ashford (twitter) is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where she is presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During her 10 years at the BBC she has developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities. Passionate about technology, she recently started a Women in Technology network for her colleagues to discuss careers, training, raising their profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. She previously worked for BBC R&D as a Technologist where she worked on the groundbreaking R&DTV project and the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, she's a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger. -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Open source hardware worth $1billion by 2015.
by Andrew Back 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

According to an article in LinuxUser: http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/open-source-hardware-worth-1billion-by-2015/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Re: [oshug] Thursday's meeting.
by Andrew Katz 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

Hi Andrew As a matter of interest, how long would you like me to talk for? I was thinking maybe 30 mins? I was going to bring my presentation as a PDF/ODP on a memory stick. Presumably you have the technology to make this happen? Looking forward to seeing you later. Best wishes Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Back [mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com] Sent: 25 May 2010 12:50 To: oshug(a)oshug.org Subject: [oshug] Thursday's meeting. Hello, Just a quick note to remind people that if they are planning to come along on Thursday and have as yet not registered, to please do so as we are almost at capacity. http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com _______________________________________________ oshug mailing list oshug(a)oshug.org http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug

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Leicester to trial (open source) hydrogen cars.
by Andrew Back 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Great news for Riversimple! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5a85a828-73eb-11df-87f5-00144feabdc0.html (apologies if you are not registered with ft.com - it's free, and I just decided to finally register...) I cannot remember the current status of the car, but I believe that they are making efforts to open source as much as possible of the associated design artefacts via the 40 Fires Foundation. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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