This presentation was made on 20 April 2013 by Vidyaratha Kissoon to introduce Hardware Freedom Day. The slidecast is at http://youtu.be/-OXByLPj_n0

1. Welcome

2. Agenda
● Presentations
– Vidyaratha Kissoon
– Roger Nurse
– Lenandlar Singh
● Discussion
– How do we promote in Guyana?

3. What on earth...
● Open Source Software
● Open Design
● Open Source Hardware
● Hardware Freedom

4. What is 'open'..
● “... Openness, in short, is more than a commercial
and cultural issue. It’s a matter of survival. Systemic
challenges such as climate change, or resource
depletion – these ‘problems of moral bankruptcy’ –
cannot be solved using the same techniques that
caused them in the first place. Open research, open
governance and open design are preconditions for the
continuous, collaborative, social mode of enquiry and
action that are needed.” John Thackera Open Design
Now”

5. Open Source (Software)
● Code (blueprint) is shared widely
● Improvements are made
● New products are created
● Goal is not profit, but creation for open use
● Sometimes 'free'
● Peer review, collaboration, across boundaries
● Internet enabled

6. Open Design
● “Open design is the development of physical
products, machines and systems through use
of publicly shared design information”
Wikipedia
● Collective Invention
● Trends
● Current projects

7. Open Design – Collective Invention
Episodes of Collective Invention, Peter B. Meyer, U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWorking Paper 368, August 2003

8. Open Design – Guyana?

9. Open Design - Trends
● Common Good – volunteer skills
● Collaboration in advanced projects – share
resources
● Application of the high tech solutions to local
development eg 3D Printing

10. Open Design – Projects
RepRap general-purpose 3D
printer that not only could be
used to make structures and
functional components for open-
design projects but is an open-
source project itself.
Zoybar open source guitar kit With 3-D
printed body

11. Open Source Hardware
● Hardware created and shared with all design
components
– Software, schematics, drawings, bills of quantity,
Hardware Definition Language code, etc
● Electronics, Cameras, Robotics, Computers..

12. Hardware Freedom!
Open Hardware and Design Alliance
Freedom 0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the device works and
change it to make it to do what you wish. Access to the complete
design is precondition to this.
Freedom 2: Redistribute the device and/or design
(remanufacture).
Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the device and/or design,
and release your improvements (and modified versions in
general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

13. Thanks..
Further Reading
http://opendesignnow.org/i