[Open Design] Fwd: Open Design Year One: Hardware, Tools, Communities

Thu May 2 17:05:41 UTC 2013

ah damn, forgot to put you guys in cc - sent email below just now :)

kat

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From: Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:00 PM
Subject: Open Design Year One: Hardware, Tools, Communities
To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>

Hello all,

For the Open Design / Hardware inclined amongst you, to celebrate the Open
Design Working Group's first year in existence we've put together a piece
that summarises some of the work our 100+ members have gotten up to in the
past year, as well as new opportunities for how you can get involved.

Post here:
http://design.okfn.org/2013/05/02/opendesignyearone/

Quick summary:
The past year has been busy - we launched v0.1 of the Open Design
Definition, held Github workshops across Europe, delivered a keynote
lecture at LibreGraphics in Madrid, did a lot of arguing about design
paradigms, planned a new design hardware challenge in France and helped run
the first Design/Hardware/Fabbing topic stream at the Open Knowledge
Festival in Finland. This year, we're focused on fostering the Open Design
community in new ways, from building local installments to participating in
MOOCs to inviting design practitioners to feature their works in new and
unexpected ways.

Final verdict:
This year, we hope to see even more activity across paradigms, especially
from design + hardware practitioners, makers and fabbers in the Global
South. We'd love to hear your ideas and figure out new forms of
local/global engagement, so please drop us a line on the discussion list or
G+ to get started: http://design.okfn.org/about/

Thanks, and hope to see many of you there!

- Massimo, Primavera and Kat

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hi, i'm: @kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> | find me at:
kaibray.com
currently hacking popular culture at: mozilla <http://webmaker.org>
otherwise, i do: open design <http://design.okfn.org/> | the open
book<http://theopenbook.org.uk/>
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