OSE-Related Forums

Builder Forums

• Mike Holt - construction
• DIYnot - about mistakes - [1]
• The Building Code Forum - [2]

CAD Forums

• FreeCAD Forum

Plumbing

• Terry Love - [3]
• Plbg.com - [4]

Housing

• DIY Stack Exchange [5]

3D Printing

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/
2. Bunch of them - https://www.aniwaa.com/guide/3d-printers/best-3d-printing-3d-scanning-forums-facebook-groups-and-communities/
3. Nuts and Volts - [6]
4. DIY Bio - [7]

Electrical (House + Industry)

• Mike Holt Forums -
• Inspectopedia - lots of practical info
• Home theater - off-market from electrical covering lots of practical electrical - [8]

Electronics

1. Circuit Digest - https://circuitdigest.com/forums
2. Electromaker - https://www.electromaker.io/forum/

List

1. Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/. OSE is mentioned all over there.
2. Open Source Architecture Forum - https://community.osarch.org/
3. FreeCAD Forum- https://forum.freecadweb.org/
4. VESC - open source motor controller - https://vesc-project.com/forum
5. OSHWA forum - https://community.oshwa.org/
6. RepRap forum - https://reprap.org/forum/index.php
7. Permies - https://permies.com/forums
8. GOSH - https://forum.openhardware.science/
9. Precious Plastic -
10. Arduino - https://forum.arduino.cc/
11. KiCad - https://forum.kicad.info/
12. Kdenlive - https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=262
13. OpenSCAD - http://forum.openscad.org/
14. FarmBot - https://forum.farmbot.org/top
15. Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/forums/
16. OSB Studio - https://obsproject.com/forum/
17. Beagle Board - https://beagleboard.org/discuss#bone_forum_embed
18. Raspberry Pi - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/
19. Ardupilot - https://discuss.ardupilot.org/top
20. Lulzbot - https://forum.lulzbot.com/top
21. Ultimaker Cura - https://community.ultimaker.com/
22. LinuxCNC - https://forum.linuxcnc.org/\
23. Sparkfun - https://forum.sparkfun.com/
24. Adafruit - https://forums.adafruit.com/
25. All About Circuits - https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/forums/power/
26. EEVblog - https://www.eevblog.com/forum/
27. SOftware Defined Radio - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/forum/
28. Electronics Lab - https://www.electronics-lab.com/community/
29. EEweb - https://www.eeweb.com/forum
30. Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange - https://electronics.stackexchange.com/
31. Ubuntu - https://askubuntu.com/
32. Sweet Home 3D - http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/index
33. Internet of Things forum - https://forum.phpoc.com/
34. Endless Sphere e-bike forum - https://endless-sphere.com/forums/ - direct relevance to Electric Motor/Generator, Open Source Microcar
35. Sienci Mill
36. Outernet - now called Othernet - OSE wiki is up in space
37. Scribus - http://forums.scribus.net/

Communications

Jenny Molloy

I would recommend posting on the GOSH Forum, with the caveat that most people there are focused on instrumentation for scientific research but there are more general open source hardware & STEAM education folks as well and a lot of the AfricaOSH crowd (who have a major overlap with Global Innovation Gathering who I think Open Source Ecology have worked with before). I'll send your blog post link to the AfricaOSH WhatsApp group.