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- 1. The Needs of Others Al Razi Masri @jumplogic www.jumplogic.co.uk [email_address]
- 8. Machinery and equipment developed from such scientific knowledge
- 11. Free to use and modify
- 12. Environmentally, economically, locally sustainable
- 13. Sensitive to the needs of the users and local conditions
- 14. Leads to increased income or substantially better quality of life
- 15. Does NOT harm
- 18. Build sequence and physical form largely irrelevant
- 20. It takes a lot to get a good invention/idea adopted
- 21. For illiterate populations unreached by mass media, flyers, brochures, or radio campaigns do not work
- 22. Even then people often like what they are used to
- 23. Goal is achieving success as opposed to nominal functionality http://blog.paulpolak.com/?p=1111
- 26. Needs of each group very different
- 27. All important parts of the delivery chain
- 28. Documents need to meet the needs of each part of the delivery chain, or at the very least a large chunk of it so that only small segments require extra effort
- 30. If not how much can we cover in one step?
- 31. ...and in how few steps can we cover all of the important stuff?
- 32. …............................I'm still figuring this out
- 34. Developers
- 36. What are their needs? RESOURCES HIGH MEDIUM LOW NONE TEACH Expert Presenter Trained Presenter Novice presenter A VERY FREQUENT OCCURENCE Video Slideshow Posters/OHP Info Pack Take away booklet Single Reference Booklet Example Build Protoype/model build Premade model BUIILD Website Infopack Booklet/printout Borrowed photocopy Expert help (private) Course Second-hand advice Video Slideshow CAD model & Schematics Simple Diagrams Sketches DEVELOP Source material Compiled material CAD Model & Schematics Experience of product Second hand experience Viewed Multiple builds Few builds One Build Tech Data Estimations Guesses Many examples/variants Few Examples/variants One Example
- 38. BUT …..
- 40. Lack CAD skills
- 41. Are too busy inventing or engaged with other projects
- 42. Gave up
- 45. Hidden in the depth of their website
- 47. No declaration of license
- 50. Made by industrial design students
- 52. Are the diagrams comprehensible? http://www.notechmagazine.com/2011/11/when-low-tech-goes-ikea.html
- 62. Crowd sourced content, but are the crowds on their way?
- 64. Reliant on other formats
- 71. Compiled files for comparison
- 72. Fonts and similar (best avoided but not always possible)
- 75. No overlays
- 76. No Presenter (Value of the presenter? Complicates modification)
- 77. Narrators (how to make multiple voices feel normal)
- 78. Source Material
- 79. Padding and filler (different languages take different times to say the same thing)
- 81. Animations (has own source material)
- 82. Unedited Footage
- 83. Audio
- 84. Music
- 85. Transcripts & Subtitle Footage
- 86. Time Data (unedited video cuts and activities, edited video cut and activities, and transcript)
- 87. Still images
- 89. The Needs of Others Al Razi Masri @jumplogic www.jumplogic.co.uk [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- currently working on the documentation side of things. Instruction Manuals, videos, CAD models focus on the problem of applying Free and Open source ideals to physical object in the context of meeting the needs of the world's poorest because Generally people working in this field are quite agreeable to the broad interpretation of Free and Open source. Few will take the time to understand F&OS like Vinay and because many embodied practices echo those of F&OS. Applying the recognisable label can be incorrect but these developers have grander priorities
- The applications of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. Does hand washing fit this description? Based on germ theory. Practical purposes, not getting sick? Okay how about farming knowledge. One acre Fund.
- The applications of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. Does hand washing fit this description? Based on germ theory. Practical purposes, not getting sick? Okay how about farming knowledge. One acre Fund.
- As I said I will I try to avoid talking about the needs of the poorest too much and focus on the delivery. FOST can deliver results, so can many other methods. FOS approaches has proven its ability in developing the technology. But if FOST want to operate in this field it will require and understanding of the delivery which is a totally different ball game.
- GNU free documentation license
- Caters to the curious and self actuating Paul Polak and the treadle pump. recruited several village theatre groups to write songs about the treadle pumps, perform at markets and larger celebrations, incorporating demonstrations of working treadle pumps into their performances. Finally, created a Bangladesh-style 90-minute Bollywood movie featuring the treadle pump that played off of a truck-mounted projector to an audience of a million people every year, in village open-air settings. Film was often the first movie that our customers had ever seen. In Uganda they attach outboard motors to boats way to big for them to handle. They get burnt out and waste more fuel than is necessary One of my university professor has for a very long time trying to get long tail motors into Uganda.
- ALWAYS REMEMBER THE PEOPLE IN THE GROUND Recognise that they know their needs Recognise they may now or may not know the answer If I had asked people what they wanted they would have asked for faster horses - Henry Ford They will become the developers
- We talk about scalable technologies Sharpenning one pencil vs 10 vs 1000 One acre fund Bad or lack of Instructions whether due to legal measures or other incapability blocks the scaling of technology. This is a huge issue when your end goal is saving lives The legal thing is pushed aside with the FOS so that leaves incapability
- Will NGOs spend their time making instructions? Will the students on project make instructions? I want it to be there in big letters in every budget proposal DOCUMENTATION.
- Doing it wrong What if we want to translate http://www.echonet.org/content/agriculturalResources/611 Requires email everytime you want to download?
- All in PDFs Hidden in the depth of their website No source material No declaration of license
- I would argue for a version with words so the manufacturers, if illiterate can have the instruction explained one and use as a reference.
- Fuzzily defined collection of sustainable, low carbon or appropriate technologies We havea problem of many different treasure trove's of knowledge made publicly available in very clunky ways The reliance on other formats is the most important thing to me. If you remember earlier I was talking about what single format can meet the needs of the most then creating supplementary. Can't eliminate supplementary but should eliminate omission I view a 3stage process. Cover as much in one go as you can, fill in the gaps, expand the gap filler OSE GVCS
- Now consider that any of the people in the right side can also be a developer, how does this information works its way into the wider ecology. Does it need to come back to the right side When I say developer I mean those in the connected western development network. People will create their own improvements. but from a documentation point of view only when the information moves its way out of the local ecology into the wider sphere does it become part of what I consider the narrative. The narrative is only part of the story
- Water runs downhill in Sri Lanka At iMechE conference The Economic lives of the poor. TV more important than food People don't care about washing hands and sanitation. They want a phone