[OpenDesign] Open Design Definition: let's start the collaboration! :)

[Massimo Menichinelli]

Hi everybody,
We’ve been busy preparing the tools and the documentation for starting 
the discussion about the Open Design definition, but now we are ready to 
start! You can check this blog post for further information:
http://design.okfn.org/2012/05/16/open-design-definition-we-are-ready-to-start/

After checking which tools to use, we decided to try Git and Github, to 
have a real open source process!

We have created an organization account in Github for our group:
https://github.com/organizations/OpenDesign-WorkingGroup

And there we've just launched the repository for developing 
collaboratively the Open Design Definition, with all the information 
that are necessary to start the process:
https://github.com/OpenDesign-WorkingGroup/Open-Design-Definition

What can you do next then?

01. Create your own basic / free Github user.
02. Send your username to the mailing list so that we can add you to the 
group and the repository (only the username, no passwords!!).
03. Start reading the documentation about the whole process that’s in 
the repository.
04. Start reading the existing Open definitions already in the 
repository, and for any comments open an issue ticket on Github.
05. If you need help, just send an e-mail to the mailing list.

And, this week we are going to have an Open Design Definition workshop 
at Fab* in Manchester, the first meeting of the European FabLabs and 
part of the Future Everything Festival! If you cannot attend it, don’t 
worry: the most important part of the process is the online discussion, 
the local workshops are very useful for speeding up the process and help 
people jump in the Github platform, but we want to have as many 
participants as possible with the online discussion!

Any question / comment?

Best,

Massimo

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Massimo Menichinelli
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