Outreach Procedure to Potential Collaborators

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1. Find out their license. If their license is not open source OSHWA compliant, then we cannot collaborate in a formal manner due to license incompatibility. In practical terms, non-OSHWA compliant usage terms may not allow OSE to reuse their materials - in which case we cannot build upon their work and thereby collaboration is limited.

2. If open source OSHWA compliant, ask them for their documentation. Do they have design? People can say that they are open source, but unless their documentation is available, it is not formally open source.

3. If they have open source design, see if we can collaborate on common development topics.

4. If they don't have open product design, there may be areas to collaborate on other development areas, such as publicity, enterprise development, or teaching.