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Event #4 - Community, 23rd September.
by Andrew Back 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hello, Details are now up on the website for the fourth OSHUG meeting: http://oshug.org/event/4 Still waiting for a few more details from DesignSpark and London Hackspace, but registration is now live. We'll add further details as and when we have them. The theme for OSHUG #5 will be radio and we have a talk on the extremely cool OpenHPSDR platform confirmed. http://openhpsdr.org/ Still looking for a couple more speakers. Might be nice to have a talk on the affordable Softrock SDR radios, or perhaps something non-ham related, e.g. an open source hardware GPS, RFID, UWB or more classical radio platform or project. As ever suggestions and offers to present are most welcome and indeed encouraged. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Arduino: The Documentary (trailer)
by Andrew Back 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

http://vimeo.com/13781339 Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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London hackspace party
by Adrian Godwin 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

In case anyone here isn't aware of the London Hackspace, you might like to know that they've opened a new space in Hoxton. To celebrate this, there's a spacewarming party .. come along and find out about the hackspace group and the space facilities. http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Spacewarming_party -adrian

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Open Hardware Summit
by Paul Downey 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

I wondered if any oshugers were headed to the Open Hardware Summit? http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/ -- Paul (psd) http://blog.whatfettle.com

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Fwd: draft of open hardware definition released!
by Andrew Back 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Forwarded at the request of Ayah: From: ayah bdeir <ayahbdeir(a)gmail.com> Date: July 15, 2010 12:03:21 PM GMT+03:00 To: Bryan Bishop <kanzure(a)gmail.com>, Open Manufacturing <openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com>, cc-patents(a)lists.ibiblio.org, diybio <diybio(a)googlegroups.com>, Open Source Hardware User Group <oshug(a)oshug.org> Subject: draft of open hardware definition released! Hello all, I've had a discussion about this with a few of you already, but thought would be much better to email the lists. Yesterday, a group of us, who had been working on an open hardware definition, released version 0.3 for public comment. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/open_source_hardware_-_oshw_draft_… We would love your feedback, questions, and signatures! It's very important for this effort to be inclusive. We are also holding an open hardware summit: http://www.openhardwaresummit.org on September 23rd in New York. I will send an official call for submissions later this week, but in the meantime, please do consider attending, submitting or supporting. thanks! ayah -------------------------------------------- ayah bdeir - www.ayahbdeir.com MS. MIT Media Lab - www.media.mit.edu adjunct faculty at NYU - ab197(a)nyu.edu senior fellow at Eyebeam - www.eyebeam.org founder - www.littlebits.cc

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Open Source Hardware Definition draft & Sept Summit.
by Andrew Back 14 Jul '10

14 Jul '10

Hello, An Open Source Hardware Definition has been drafted and has a growing number of signatories, some of which are fairly prolific: http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW And in related news, there is to be an Open Source Hardware Summit in New York in September: http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/ Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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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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