Hello everyone,
I’m Pen (full name Pen-Yuan Hsing but I know it’s hard to pronounce), one of the GOSH Community Council members 2021-2023. Click here for more details about me from my candidate statement last year.
I started a citizen science project for wildlife monitoring and in the last 5-ish years have become much more active in open source software/hardware communities, which led to to GOSH.
I am also eager to promote open science best practices. To that end, I’ve contributed to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, among other things.
One open science hardware project I’d really like to work on is adding stereoscopic abilities to motion-triggered camera traps to improve wildlife monitoring. By using the depth-map made from stereo images, we can obtain data useful for estimating animal populations that would otherwise be very labour intensive to get. Check out this thread if you’re interested in this topic.
My dream for the GOSH Gathering this October in Panama is to run the Cut, Copy, and Paste workshop with everyone. It is a hands-on activity designed to give participants a holistic appreciation for the freedoms of reuse, study, remixing, and sharing that underlies open source work. Let me know if you’re interesting in doing this with me!!
P.S. I plan to be in the Netherlands in late June, who knows maybe @gallaugher can meet up some place in the middle?