[OH Updates] OSHW Definition gap analysis system (was Re: TAPR meeting results)

[Erin RobotGrrl]

Hey J,

Just noticed your kickstarter campaign to continue the development of this, here's the URL for everyone else on the list too :) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/373493158/open-hardware-needs-a-sourceforge-of-its-own

w00t!

EK

On 2011-09-20, at 6:32 PM, J. Simmons wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is J. Simmons, one of the folks demoing Open Design Engine (ODE).  In fact, one of the plugins we want to develop for the public beta release is a clear and consistent project licensing plugin.  Our current thought was to use this as a velvet rope for projects hosted on the site (you need to select an open source license for your hardware when you create your project in order to get project space), and then to have a consistent visual cue about what license(s) are applied to this project.  Since the original idea is opt in, it might not capture the community sorting it sounds like it being discussed here.
> 
> On the other hand, one of the primary goals of ODE is to provide an easy to use public platform to use from day one so projects will naturally be encouraged to share their entire process and history (along the lines of Amanda Wozniac's presentation - http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Wozniak-OHS2011.pdf).  The idea being to encourage desired behavior from new projects and in doing so demonstrate to existing projects what the community is expecting.  This softer sell may actually get more traction in the long run, since it avoids labeling people as "bad" for not conforming to standards that are honestly something of a moving target (if only because this has not really been done before so as a community we are kind of groping in the dark for the answers).
> 
>  -J
> 
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Erin RobotGrrl <erin.robotics at robotgrrl.com> wrote:
> Could this also be accomplished by making a "plugin" for the Open Design Engine (demoed at OHS)? https://opendesignengine.net/
> 
> They were thinking of doing some interesting project forking things too, iirc.
> 
> EK
> 
> On 2011-09-20, at 2:41 PM, Andrew Plumb wrote:
> 
> > On 2011-09-20, at 2:24 PM, Chris Church wrote:
> >> I have no experience implementing fancy web-based databases with smooth interfaces so I'll leave that in someone else's capable hands.  However, I'll start sketching out some ideas for how I think it might be structured, some rough examples of automagically generated tables and reports, and generally what I as an (ab)user of the system would be looking for.
> >>
> >> I'll point to it when I have something fleshed out.  Feel free to whip up your own ideas in parallel!
> >>
> >> Could this be simply implemented as a table in a page on the current wiki?
> >>
> >> !c
> >
> > It could to start off that way; manually entering data into a wiki table is a bit of a pain to maintain.  I prefer to break out compliance entries on a per-product basis - not per-company - so that product ownership and transitions from partial- to fully-compliant status can be tracked over time, and so that project forks and "orphaned" products can exist independent of their originator(s).
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
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