This document introduces the concept of open design and proposes creating an Open Design Definition through collaborative editing on GitHub. It provides examples of open design in different fields like web, product, and fashion design. The document explains how Git and GitHub can be used as tools for distributed and open collaboration on the Definition by designers from around the world. It invites the audience to join the opendesign mailing list and contribute to the discussion and development of the Definition through the opendesign organization on GitHub.

1. Today, we'll build
something together:
an Open Design Definition.
This CC BY presentation is based on workshops done by Massimo Menichinelli and Kat Braybrooke.

2. Our names are
Massimo and Kat.
We are an Italian in
Finland and a Canadian in
the United Kingdom.

3. We work at
the Open Knowledge
Foundation in London,
and the Aalto Media
Factory in Helsinki.

4. Together with
a global team of builders, we
are also organising the first
Open Knowledge Festival
ever in Finland this fall.

5. Open Design:
Many different kinds!
Let's look at its applications and background.

6. Open Web / Graphic Design
Source: http://www.opendesigns.org/

7. Open Product Design
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_OpenBook

8. OpenMoko: a completely open product
Source: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

9. OpenMoko: a completely open product
Source: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

10. And what about product hacking?
Source: http://www.ikeahackers.net/

11. BugLabs
Open Hardware + Software + Design
Source: http://www.buglabs.net/

12. Open Movie + Game Design
Source:
http://www.elephantsdream.org/
http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/
http://www.sintel.org/

13. Open Fashion Design
Source: http://www.openwear.org/

14. Open Type Design: Gentium
Source: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium

15. Open Type Design:
SIL Open Font License
Source: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL

16. Open Type Design:
SIL Open Font License
Source: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL

17. Open Architecture
Source: http://www.wikihouse.cc/

18. Open Interior Design
Source:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Instructables-Restaurant/
http://instructablesrestaurant.com/

19. Open Service Design?
Source: http://www.openpublicservices.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/

20. Open Design: is it software?
Source: http://www.sketchchair.cc/

21. Open Design: software or process?
Source: http://www.sketchchair.cc/

22. Open Design: process or data?
Source: http://www.sourcemap.com

23. Open Definitions:
What are they?
Why should we have them?

24. The Open Knowledge Foundation:
A global network of data wranglers, civil servants,
hackers and citizens who build tools, projects and
local communities that promote openness.
Source: http://okfn.org

25. Online and Offline
forms of openness allow end users
to produce new, unexpected results.
Source: Wellcome Collection Archives, London

26. #OKFest 2012
Is a week-long celebration of these
kinds of unexpected results in Helsinki.
Source: http://okfestival.org

27. For this festival, the first of its
kind, we decided to explore
experimental new methods.
Source: http://okfestival.org

28. With a focus on open knowledge in action,
we've given up over 2/3 of the week to
festival participants themselves to organise
as Guest Programme Planners.
Source: http://okfestival.org

29. Example of this concept:
An international Open Design Working Group.
Source: http://design.okfn.org/

30. A collaboration based on the creation of
a new Open Design Definiton to unite
designers + makers of different kinds.
Source: https://github.com/

31. A Definition, not a license!
A community shared agreement about what is
Open Design and how it could developed
further, not a legal tool!
Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/definition

32. Based on the Open Definition...
“A piece of content or data is 'open' if anyone
is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it without
legal or technical restrictions.”
Source: http://opendefinition.org

33. Also inspired by the Open
Source Hardware Definition,
first published in 2010...
Source: https://github.com/

34. … and the Open Source
Definition launched by the Open
Source Initiative ...

35. And, lastly, on the Open Design
Definition V. 0.2, which is
incomplete and not really open.

36. And now, Git.
Let's talk a bit about the history of our
collaborative toolset, and why we want
to use it to create our new Definition.

37. Git: a distributed version
control system
Source: http://git-scm.com/

38. A version control system?
Source: http://git-scm.com/

39. A local version control system
Source: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-About-Version-Control

40. A centralized version control system
Source: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-About-Version-Control

41. Git: a distributed version
control system
Source: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-About-Version-Control

42. Git: a command line tool

43. Git: GUIs also available
Source: http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis

44. Git: a good free book
Source: http://git-scm.com/book

45. Git: history of the file system
Source: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Git-Basics

46. Git: the architecture
Source: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Git-Basics

47. Git: history of a file's lifecycle
Source: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository

48. Git: commands & architecture
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29

49. And finally, GitHub...
an interface to Git that builds
communities around code.

50. GitHub provides a set of free
tools for sharing code in an Open
Source way, and is the most
popular platform now ...

51. It's also used websites like Reddit,
and by coders themselves (like Linus
Torvalds), who make accounts,
comment and edit code together ...

52. And now it will be used by those of
you who want to get involved, to
build this Definition together as
designers of different kinds!

53. We'd love to hear your ideas,
criticisms and additions to this idea
in the collective discussion!

54. So, let's start by joining the
mailing list:
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/opendesign

55. And then let's create a GitHub
account:
https://github.com/

56. A free account on GitHub:
https://github.com/

57. Then tell us on the mailing list your
username, and we'll add you to the
organization on GitHub!

58. So that we can start the discussion
with issues on GitHub!

59. Massimo Menichinelli
Aalto Media Factory
massimo.menichinelli@aalto.fi
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Thank you !!! Kat Braybrooke
Open Knowledge Foundation
kat.braybrooke@okfn.org
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