Grounding Open Source Hardware
Grounding Open Source Hardware
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From: sasha <mrkf...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:25 AM Subject: [Open Manufacturing] crossposting "GOSH! Grounding Open Source Hardware" Summit To: openmanufacturing <openmanufacturing@googlegroups.com>
>> From: Daniel Jolliffe <daniel@...> >> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:59 AM >> Subject: [F/OSS-Discuss] GOSH! "Grounding Open Source Hardware" Summit >> at the Banff Centre, Banff Alberta >> To: Dicusssion list for Free/Open Source Software researchers >> <discuss@...>
>> Hello: >> just a quick note to alert you to >> GOSH! Grounding Open Source Hardware >> A Summit at the Banff Centre, Banff Alberta >> July 16-18th, 2009 >> GOSH! consists of a Workshop session July 11-15th for invited artists, >> engineers, theorists, producers and promoters of open source hardware, >> followed by a public Summit session July 16-18th, 2009. >> "The Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Summit at The Banff Centre >> serves to bring together the many and disparate makers, producers, >> theorizers, and promoters of physical objects that come to life under >> open and distributed models. This Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) >> summit will highlight and facilitate the emerging dialogue on both >> artist-driven and socially conscious open source hardware projects. >> >From prosthetic limbs to electronic hardware, the breadth of open >> source hardware projects and distributed models of manufacturing >> suggest that it is time for these disparate manufacturers, designers, >> artists, and engineers to come together to discuss the common issues >> of their practices." >> http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=888 >> The Workshop and Summit are organized in an open method via the GOSH >> wiki, accessible here: >> http://www.gosh2009.ca >> An open-licensed document covering the Workshop and Summit activities >> and presentations will be released at in August/September 2009. >> Best >> Daniel Jolliffe