Nathan Parker

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• DIN Spec - OSE Germany - Open Source Hardware Standard - https://forum.openhardware.science/t/contribute-to-the-development-of-an-international-open-source-hardware-standard/1205
• https://app.standardsrepo.com/MakerNetAlliance/OpenKnowHow/wiki/Home - Open Knowhow data structure for hardware

Mon, Sep 23, 2019

• https://kitspace.org/
• Anna Waldman-Brown - https://brie.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/brie-working-paper-2016-7.pdf
• Hackaday - talk to them directly - on the design challenge. See if they are willing to change their model to run the experiment with them. Adam Benzion? Seattle is their main base?
• Hackster - adam@hackster.io
• Hackaday - stranovich@hackaday.io - Stephen Tranovich. World Create Day - crack at solving a pressing world issue.
• Nathan - microcontroller, cad, 3d printing, proces design, operationalizing; operations and project management. Right now - design in CAD and 3D Print. Weld and carpenter. General maker.
• For the workshop - do 2 tracks; beginner and advanced, and those are 2 different events. 1,2, or 4 module version of this. Get a skills assessment of everywhere.
• Tailor this to advanced people - how to build this and also teach others to do this. Small group of people that are already more experts.
• Design thinking is part of this, absolutely.
• Mostly: audience for beginners - open source design thinking for beginners.
• Instead of trying to cram a few days of design thinking - at advanced level - it will be a thing in itself.
• There is a 'build it and they will come thinking' - no, it takes time.
• Opportunity that exists here is to make nonobvious connections - of advanced people. Then it spreads out to common people.
• 3 business days - 1 is local supply chains - true costs vs exernalized costs. We teach them.
• First ring of people are more trained - say in advanced concept like local supply chains.
• AR in Fusion 360 - https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/cad-augmented-virtual-reality/
• Exit survey - find out what people want more of.
• Suggestions - on business side - can cover pooling resources: how to set up a coop. Or another business structure.
• Intentionally build the connections for participants. Structures to keep aware of what everyone is doing. Reconnect to your cohort.
• Structures: Incentive Challenge; Extreme Builds. MIT Media Lab did well - programs that connect people. Collaborative. Rely on each other. Get in the habit of doing that. Approach to problemsolving.
• Meetups with Dev Kit, Hackathons, Extreme Builds, Incentive Challenge. Forum. Get people who are the experts in the process. You need a community of experts - the Instructors will be it.

Session 1

• Nathan is the founder of Makernet - https://www.makernet.work/
• Green Fab Lab - Bolivia - Marco Zubieta -
• Lebanon -
• FabLab -
• Iraq -
• Cofounder - killed in June - car accident going to Nation of Makers Event
• Revenue model -
• Makernet is 501c3 with a subsidiary LLC. Nonprofit owns IP. Gives platform to maker labs. Capability mapping is the data that Makernet could generate, for sale.
• Phase 1 is to build the platform. 5-6 spaces running. 20 spaces in setup.
• Working on this 4 years already,
• Warsaw event - Internet of Manufacturing Summit, by Makernet Alliance. Designs that not create another Instructables, but a real data model for open hardware. Open Knowhow working group.
• Bay area people -
• https://makernetalliance.org/new/
• https://www.humanmade.org/ - Brian Spurlock
• Group call of people working on the Data Model. It already has a stable v1 release. Careables, Enable, Fieldready. Taxonomy for open hardware.
• Capability mapping - of people and skills for disaster areas
• Nation of makers -
• https://nationofmakers.us/
• Nathan does development operations - new comfig file to github. Docker and kubernetes - I want to run this on a certain hardware. Commit that and spin up/spin down servers.
• Coop - straightforward bit of text that allows you to run your operation.
• Open Knowhow groups is more focused on data model - they are focused on a format for a manifest. What is a manifest? Manifest is a format for a data file that has all the details of how to build something.
• Manifest can pull everything and build an archive on your local system.
• Open repos of hardware - Ex. open source medical prosthesis. https://hub.e-nable.org/s/e-nable-devices/wiki/overview/list-categories. Or appropedia.
• Prototyping now - paid work in dev. Pays SF startup money.
• Artisan's Asylum- Gui from Megabots started it, friend. Ecco - another person - started to run Artisan's Asylum.
• David Downling from Portland, ADX makerspace.
• Anna Walden Brown - https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/people/anna-waldman-brown - gathered atlas of makerspaces - https://www.atlasofinnovation.com/
• Data aware spreadsheets - quick mockup. Link all necessary pieces to developing it. Airtable.com.
• Example of Makernet platform - https://coa.makernet.work/#!/
• Will send an Airtable later today.
• Spread everything out on the Diagrams page
• Essentally 2 kinds of people: paid developer, and instructors. Offer say 75% to people, crunch the numbers, and see what makes sense. Offset upfront costs by paying off back end.
• Possibility of doing prototyping or project managing the development?
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/guicavalcanti/
• Ecco - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecco-pierce-349016189/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/studiokes/
• MakerMedia - people
• Explicitly - work out the details of Product Design. Phase 1 is R&D.
• Ship kit - box shipped and repo. Break down BOMs for what's required for each project.
• 3 MOUs - contributing as OS; pros at pay; potential teachers, potentially subsidize R&D off the back end.
• Global Innovation Gathering - GIG - next event at - https://www.globalinnovationgathering.org/
• GOSH?
• Precious Plastic - as far as ecosystem - that is the one for integrating into. Tap into that.
• Set up a call for a week from now. Same time next Mon. 10:30 AM.
• Another person to be introduced.
• Sherry Huss - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherryhuss/