Open Source Product Development

The development of products (goods and services) that leverages open collaboration and clear documentation as a means to involve large numbers of distributed contributors in the development process. The aim is to produce high quality products at low cost - and to make these products competitive on the open market - by involving sufficient collaboratory effort to make these products better and cheaper than proprietary competition. The 2 main keys to cost reduction lies in Open Design (zero development costs) and design for fabrication via Flexible Fabrication (reduced production costs).

Literature

• Open Source Product Development - Springer Gabler - 2011 - [1]. Table of Contents

• Open Design and Crowdsourcing - Thomas J Howard et al - [2] File:Opendesign.pdf
• Seminal Work -
• Industry Standards -

Links

• Robust Design - [3]
• Red Hat's The Open Source Way