The date/location for the 2016 Open Hardware Summit has been announced:
October 7, 2016
Portland, Oregon
Here’s their definition of Open Source Hardware:
Drew has a new blog post on why OSH matters:
Open Source Hardware (OSHW), why it matters and what is pseudo OSHW
I wonder why (OSHWA, Linux Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, Free Software Foundation) isn’t involved with local communities like Hackster, focusing on OSH subset of hardware (and the FSF definition of Free Hardware), and work on crowdfunding of new devices with these projects, perhaps as Open Compute Projects, not just random ‘blinky lights’ artsy ‘open hardware’. Maybe the enterpreneurs that run Hackster should get involved, projects for them, and may be able to help with this cat herding problem with their platform, perhaps in conjunction with CrowdSupply…
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