Fwd: Suggestions for the OSHWA website and FAQ?
Bryan Bishop
From: David A. Mellis <d...@mellis.org>
Subject: [Discuss] Suggestions for the OSHWA website and FAQ?
To: dis...@lists.oshwa.org
Hi all,
A while back, Alicia asked me to help update the content on the OSHWA
website and, in turn, I'd like to ask you for your help. In
particular, I'm interested in expanding the content of the FAQ
(http://www.oshwa.org/faq/) to make it more useful to those looking
for information about open-source hardware and OSHWA.
What questions would you like to see answered in the FAQ?
What information and advice would you offer to those interested in
open-source hardware?
I know that this is a busy time - with the Open Hardware Summit and
Maker Faire approaching - but I wanted to raise the question now so we
can think about it during the summit. Suggestions welcome now or
later.
David
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Bryan Bishop
Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Suggestions for the OSHWA website and FAQ?
To: The Open Source Hardware Association Discussion List <dis...@lists.oshwa.org>
David has been instrumental to getting the existing FAQs up. Thank you David!
I agree, it may be good to speak up about those unspoken rules. It seems there is a fair bit of confusion around those.
The list of companies sounds cool, but we don't want to get into situation where oshwa becomes a judge or gate keeper of what is and isn't, and rather remains an educational source about open source hardware. But we like celebration! I'll be celebrating several factoids about open source hardware companies at the summit. We are also talking about a repo that could include any and all oshw projects that people upload themselves. Basically a virtual library full of open source hardware goodness :) But I am off topic, that's a project not a FAQ.
See you all at the summit!
Alicia
- A step by step of how to open source the right away: what files should be published, when they must be up by (shipping, not 6 months later), etc. This is one of the questions we get most frequently at OSHWA. People decide to open source something but don't necessarily know what it's required to comply with the definition.- The unspoken rules of OSHW as described by Phil.On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:37 PM, phillip torrone <p...@oreilly.com> wrote:
a list of oshwa companies - elevate and celebrate oshw makers, a nice list of companies would be really cool for folks to see this is a real thing.
cheers,
pt
Bryan Bishop
Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Subject: [Discuss] “Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification”
To: Open Source Hardware Association Discussion List <dis...@lists.oshwa.org>
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom/
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria
"the seller must talk about "free software" more prominently than "open source."
cheers,
pt