[OpenDesign] Questions about the Open Design Definition

Tue Feb 26 14:38:13 UTC 2013

Hi all,
I've finally had time for getting back to our discussion about the Open 
Design Definition. I've published a blog post about it (including the 
presentation of the workshop held during the Open Knowledge Festival, 
and few analysis that I did about our discussion) here:

http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2013/open-design/working-on-the-open-design-definition/

http://design.okfn.org/2013/02/26/working-on-the-open-design-definition/

In the post I've highlighted few questions regarding the Open Design 
Definition, it would be great to have your comments about them here in 
the mailing list or on the blogs. Let's start the discussion about the 
definition again!
Here are the questions:

1. Are we focusing only on Product Design (i.e. something physical, and 
that may be 3D printed) or are we talking about any kind of design? 
Personally I’m trying to having a discussion on all the fields of 
design, since there are already many different cases of Open Source in 
Design in many fields (see the presentation above), but of course this 
means that we have to describe a generic enough definition of Design, or 
a definition that makes references to the different Design fields.

2. Shall we start from what Intellectual Property (IP) laws consider 
Design, or from what designers consider Design? This choice would lead 
to two very different definitions, so we have to decide this together: 
starting from the IP laws viewpoint, it will be easier to define 
licenses and IP strategies; starting from designers’ viewpoint will make 
the definition easier to be understood by the Design community at large

3. And, related to this, shall we leave the discussion about licenses 
out, or shall we include something in the definition?

4. What about the “source files” of a design project? Shall we consider, 
in the definition, to ask about publishing also the source files (i.e. 
vector drawing and not only the exported picture, CAD files and not only 
the rendering pictures)

5. Shall we clarify and distinguish about the definition being about 
Openness and/or Freedom? Or shall we include both in the definition?

6. Shall start preparing a draft of a definition, in order to start the 
discussion to be more focused? From which existing definition should we 
start?

What do you think about these issues?

Br,
Massimo

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