Hi, I am m byron from Ecuador, I work in VLSI systems (Microchips), and once a year ago at my University designed the first microchip in Ecuador, now we realized that one of the problems in the VLSI design is the excessive cost of the EDA tools and the restrictive NDA between foundries and users. We want establish a fully open-source flow to develop more microchips involving more universities in the region.
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I’m super excited to have someone to Appropedia! Such an awesome resource and exciting to see ways we can contribute. Welcome @emiliovelis !
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Just popping in to say that this is super cool. Hope you can explain to me more about what I can and cannot do with this someday.
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Hi! I am a molecular microbiologist based near Lausanne Switzerland. I founded a public service group AGiR! Action for Genomic integrity through Research! in 2013 and learned about the open public lab Hackuarium in around 2015, where I have become more and more involved in this exciting world of open science and participatory research. My long term aim is to become a real expert at science communication, so I do better at convincing people to make better choices for our future. I was very lucky to participate in GOSH2018 in Shenzhen, where I discovered the openflexure microscope, which we hope will provide the platform for our ‘cheek cell chip’ to open source DNA damage detection! (using inner cheek cells). Hoping everything works out well, so I can meet more GOSHers in Panama later in the year! Let me know if you might be near Lausanne - Hackuarium has open nights every Wednesday!
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Hi everyone, I’m Shannon. I’m the co-founder of EnviroDIY, an online community for sharing hardware, software, and other resources for low-cost environmental science and monitoring. I’m also the inventor of the EnviroDIY Mayfly Data Logger, an open source Arduino-based logger that has been used by thousands of people around the world for the past 5 years. I’ve also taught many dozens of workshops to show people how easy it is to program, build, and deploy a water monitoring station using our hardware, so I can bring a handful of Mayfly Loggers with me to the gathering so people can experiment with them. I can also share our experience of what it’s like to manage and support a large open source hardware and software project, and all of the challenges that can occur. I attended GOSH 2017 in Santiago and learned a lot and met so many great people, so I’m really looking forward to meeting everyone in Panama this year!
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Hi all! I run a foundation focused on health disparity and artificial intelligence/machine learning – and it’s open source 
Slides from a keynote I delivered to aim-ahead.net last week: Dropbox - 220801-onefact.org-aim-ahead.net-keynote.pdf - Simplify your life
Examples of foundation projects:
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Open source hardware for the control of sound in clinical settings
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Open source AI/ML solutions for analyzing time series data from wearables and other patient-generated data
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Open source AI/ML solutions for clinical decision support, especially in low- and middle-income countries
Very exciting to get to attend GOSH and meet all of you!
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Hello everyone, my name is Niko Arranz. I’m based in New York City and I’m a product designer by trade. I’m also an active community member of Genspace, a public communal biolab. At Genspace I’m part of a open-source tech group where I help build custom lab tools like a syringe pumps and microscope attachments. New to the GOSH community and I’m curious to learn more from people on how they approach open-science. One of the Genspace managers has been interested in creating a nano-scale microscope using DVD optics, similar to what Edwin Hwu mentioned earlier, but we’ve run into a black box issue. Looking forward to this October!
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Hello all! I am Sana Jalili from Mumbai,India.Person with Microbiology Background .Worked in Academics as Ass . Professor in Microbiology at University of Mumbai. I was/ am part of Friendzymes 2021 iGEM. I am into citizen science where I tried to convert home kitchen labs into Microbiology Labs using simple kitchen ingredients .
I am following GOSH activities as part of friendzymes but I am very new to this community ^^.
Happy to learn from the panel and experts in different walks of science!!
This community brings so much positivity and work towards science !
Please Feel free to contact : Sign Up | LinkedIn,
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sana-Jalili
Twitter : https://twitter.com/chitinaseeeeeee
Blog :https://sanajalili1microbiology.blogspot.com/
Warm Regards,
Sana Jalili.
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Hi! Marcela here, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am a journalist, comms person and a teacher who fell in love with the open and free knowledge movement almost ten years ago. So I started covering it! I put up a website for that, in Spanish: el plan C.
I was part of 2018 Gathering in Shenzhen and loved this community! On 2021 I was lucky enough to be part of a beautiful project of documentation by interviewing more than 20 members of GOSH. And I’m happy to know that I will meet a lot of peopel again, and another bunch of people for the first time!
In Shenzhen I made this videos, you can take a look:
https://elplanc.net/cual-es-la-importancia-del-hardware-cientifico-abierto/ (two playlist: Spanish / Portuguese and English)
Last year I’ve been part of another video project, Ciencia en común, where we showcased different examples of open science and open knowledge. There is a chapter dedicated to open science hardware and GOSH! (starring @jarancio and Fernán Federici!
You can watch it here (it requires registration, I am afraid)
I don’t know much about tropical animals, but I hope to learn soon!
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Hey everyone, Jay here. Sorry, I’ve only gotten into the introduction game a little late here, but my schedule has been all over the place these past couple of months. Anyway, I’m from Singapore and this will be my first GOSH event so I’m pretty excited to meet everybody and get into the whole GOSH community scene.
I’ll mainly just be helping represent Edible Makerspace(EMS) and making an effort to connect and network with fellow like-minded individuals. Because frankly, I’m fairly new to the whole maker scene and would like to be able to get more involved with the community. So GOSH, having adopted an “unconference” style of event holding, I feel, would be ideal to do so.
Just a little more on EMS. It is a community startup here in Singapore, which was started by some fellow maker friends of mine(who have been in the scene far longer than I have) and its idea is to combine scientific knowledge with making/growing one’s own food using resources that are relatively accessible. We work with fermentation mostly, as not only is it highly versatile in making a whole bunch of food prototypes but also, fairly easy to attain and use. Hence, our modus operandi is mainly conducting workshops to educate and inspire non-scientists on how to utilize and grow food prototypes from the comfort of their own homes.
Examples of workshops we’ve done are on SCOBY leather, Kombucha, Gingerale, and sourdough cultivation.
Feel free to explore these in more detail on our website:
EMS website
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P.S. I should mention that my background’s in Biomedical Science, but I’m fascinated by all things tech and science, so I’m very enthused to discover much more
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Hello everyone! I’m Nico from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
My journey towards GOSH started around 2016, during the first TecnoX event. I liked the idea of R&D biotech projects led by undergrad students (being one of them), and then quickly realized that we were limited by access to tools.
I was already biased towards hardware development, and fell in love with the idea of freedom of knowledge through FOSS. So I decided to start learning how to make lab-stuff, slowly got involved in the free-tech movement.
This will be my first GOSH! I look forward to meeting all of you .
What’s up with me now in a list:
- Building a more libre OSH pipetting robot with others.
- Documentation enthusiast.
- Active participant of the reGOSH network; general chemistry teacher at UNSAM; thankful caretaker of two awesome cats; etc.
- PhD student-ing in biology; working with molecular mechanisms of decision-making in yeast cells.
- Learning about dynamical system identification / inference of dynamic networks.
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Hi everyone! I am Gina Leite, I come from Salvador (Brazil) and I am program officer for Open Science and Amazon Waters and specialist for regional collaboration at WCS. Among other things, I support the coordination of the Citizen Science for the Amazon Network. The network is a space to test innovative solutions for freshwaters conservation, so I am excited to learn about projects associated with water monitoring such EnviroDIY (@shicks). @alejobonifacio it will be great to exchange some ideas with you.
I participated in Gosh 2017 in Santiago, Chile and will be great to reconect with JP, @shicks, @tarunima and other friends.
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Hi everyone! I’m Paola Larrauri, from Peru.
I have a Major in Molecular Biology. I’m also a STEM education and mentoring advocate, and Science Communicationand outreach enthusiast.
I am a PhD student in Biological and Medical Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), currently preparing my project for candidacy as part of the Laboratorio de Tecnología Libre (https://federicilab.org/), held by Dr. Fernan Federici at the IBM-UC (https://ingenieriabiologicaymedica.uc.cl/en/).
My proposal covers the adoption of open technologies to optimize the detection and monitoring of infectious diseases in the region, making them more accessible for the point-of-care/point-of-need (POC/PON) settings. In particular, I have found a very interesting niche in zoonoses transmitted by wild animals, specifically introduced invasive species, with a view to conservation, dissemination, and contribution to epidemiological control. The above strengthening my training in matters of technological sovereignty and autonomy for the Global South, the democratization of scientific knowledge, and citizen science.
This is my first GOSH event, but I recently had the great opportunity to participate in the reGOSH meeting in Mendoza
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Hello folks. Late to the game here, but I’m Jason. Up until May of 2021 I was a Registered Nurse working procedural cases. I ended up finally realizing that nursing wasn’t “home” for me and have decided to attempt to pursue my varied more nerdy interests and fascinations. I’ve always enjoyed technology and science, especially the practical applications. I greatly enjoy building my own hardware and at some point, I’ll learn to write my own software to round out the application experience.
For the past 7 years I was the volunteer medical lead for my region’s Burning Man “regional” called SOAK. Through that volunteer work, I met my friend Zoom who is one of the people who runs Black Rock Observatory at Burning Man proper where we set up an actual observatory and run scopes all week for people to come see space with their own eyes. Our twenty inch (508mm) telescope provides a clear view of Andromeda even with all the light pollution on Playa.
I’m also falling in love with solar technology and lithium ferrous phosphate battery tech. I’ve begun building ultra compact, ultra lightweight (under 5 pounds/2.27kg) batteries for friends who race cars and are looking to reduce weight.
I play around with various laser cut art and shenanigans using the 100 watt laser cutter I built; and my CNC router table occasionally gets put to use when I’m not arguing with my 3D printer.
I fell into the Dubai Expo this year and found that it was kind of limited on technology discussions, so I’m coming to GOSH to get an opportunity to immerse myself in a community I’ve generally been a spectator to, and possibly discover some fascination and direction. I’m a bit overwhelmed by the number of options I have made available to myself, in terms of what I could do when I grow up, and it causes my ADHD to panic a bit.
I didn’t even get into talking about my podcast or video ideas, or metal casting, restoring old tools, working on my Datsun, constantly fighting the blackberries, the never-ending disaster that is my shop space… …
Hi.
Did the prompt ask for a random fact? If so, I am a producer of high fidelity, professional grade hugs, offering an extensive catalog of options and customizations.
Oh… it asked for a favorite animal. Okay, well I already typed the hug part, so that stays now.
As for the animal… less a particular animal, and more a feature. Photophores. Many deep sea animals, chiefly squid, maintain a symbiotic relationship with luciferin-oxidizing bacteria within their own bodies. The squid culture and cultivate the bacteria within the photophore “cells”, and can secrete luciferin on command which is rapidly oxidized by the bacteria, resulting in a bioluminescent cascade.
The photophores are found all over the body of the squid, and other creatures, and often can be manipulated at will in any number of patterns and intensities. Additionally, deep sea squid can secrete clouds of bacteria from internal sacks in the same way shallower water squid use ink; except now it’s a bright, blinding cloud of bacteria that dazzles predators.
Okay, it’s 6am, I should go to bed finally. Looking forward to meeting you all. If anyone is staying a few days after the event, I think I’m staying until November 4th or such, so I’ll be available for adventures.
See you lovely folks soon.
Jason / Honey Badger
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Hey Folks. I’m Darin from Ediblemakerspace, Singapore. I am a researcher and ex emergency medical technician. On the side I am a maker and I like to dabble in all areas from electronics and metal work all the way to pottery. My interests involve open source lab and medical equipment.
I co-run two makerspaces with Saad Chinoy who sadly couldn’t make it this year.
Ediblemakerspace is a space focusing on starting conversations with the public. We use food as medium as it is more palatable. Through workshops from fermentation and baking sourdough we explore microbiology and other concepts. We also design frugal lab equipment and protocols.
Salvage garden our other space is a makerspace designing assistive tech and tools for persons with disabilities. We use 3d printing as a core for low cost iteration to reduce the barrier to entry for assistive devices.
I would like to facilitate a brainstorming session for accessibility in lab equipment and laboratories if anyone is interested.
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Hi everyone! I´m Lara from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
For the first time I participated in a GOSH activity this year at the regional meeting in Mendoza. So I am very excited to be able to participate in this meeting and to start being part of this network!
I´m member of a group called CoSensores. We are a horizontal and interdisciplinary research group who works together with organized communities around socio-environmental problems in the aplication of open tools.
This year I obtained a doctoral scholarship, which seeks to develop a home treatment system for river water intended for consumption in populations of the Paraná Delta, applying electrocoagulation and advanced oxidation methodologies. The idea is to associate an operation control system through the application of free tools. We seek that the development be conceived together with the families and communities of the place that are going to apply it.
See you in a few days!
Lara
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Hello everyone! My name is Guillermina Actis (pronouns she/her). I am from Argentina, where I am doing my PhD in Science and Technology and I work at CENIT, a research centre of the National University of San Martin. I am studying the relationship between citizen science initiatives and policymaking processes. I became interested in open science issues when almost a decade ago Argentina passed a National Lawmandating open access to the results of publicly funded research and I worked in its implementation in the Argentinian National S&T Research Council. My background is in political science, public policy, and science and technology studies.
I have followed the Open Science Hardware Movement with great interest through some colleagues in the past years, but more recently I became part of a citizen science project in environmental science (CoAct Environmental Justice: Spanish local website of the project - English webpage of the global project), in which ‘¿Qué Pasa, RIachuelo?’ (QPR), an open source digital platform for citizen data production, was co-designed with groups from local communities and organisations.
This process has been challenging, especially regarding the development of a technology that can be accessible and usable. But it is also very inspiring, as we continue to see oportunities to connect and create synergies with different actors. I think that GOSH will be a great opportunity to share some of the challenges we have been facing to learn from other projects and initiatives experiences. It would also be great to discuss learn about the possibilities of producing environmental data with communities to monitor contamination by using open science hardware, to inform our project and share ideas with the groups we are collaborating. These include learning institutions, community libraries and different nertworks of neighbours coordinating social actions in the territory of the Matanza-Riachuelo river basin in Argentina.
My favorite animal is the spider, so I am more that happy to learn about local species from those with biodiversity expertise
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Hello everybody!
Sadly I won’t make it to Panama… the “fiiiiirst” time i miss the global GOSH event 
My name is Marc also know as “dusjagr” or “Pakdhe Marcjono” and have been very active with the Global Hackteria Network on bridging art and DIY science, connecting people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Now we are in the middle of our GOSH funded regional activities here in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and it didnt make sense to travel so far during the activities we planned here.
You can see info on ROŠA - Regional Open Science Hardware & Art, Indonesia here:
https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/ROSA
“A regional event series combining a longer on-site residency, aswell as a research & production lab, local outreach and a gathering of interesting players from the region of South East Asia.”
We are into the 2nd week of our activities and so many things have already happened, loads of sharing, making, exploring and nongkrong (hanging out together without a purpose). An amazing interdisciplinary and cross-cultural group came together and we are still exploring more projects to collaborate.
We are working on projects for DIY sound-art workshops, building hardware for local manufacturing, like a mini-lathe or drill-stand for PCB drilling, and of course exploring more advanced methods for making / etching your own hardware at home D.I.Y. Style (Dearah Istimewa Yoygakarta).
Personally i try to push the limit of homebrew manufacturing of PCBs, going double sided, adding soldermask to self-etched PCBs and exploring low-tech reflow methods for SMD components as far down as 0603 in the limited setting we have available here. Sofar progressing very good… more docu will follow in a specific thread here on the forum.
See a nice video of the late night reflowing session here.
And we got more experience with the “Draw your own PCP” workshop, about which i posted earlier this month. Many creative designs, some of them already etched and soldered.
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Hi all, I’m Amanda! 
I am a PhD student in the UK collaborating on SnapperGPS, an open source location data logger for wildlife tracking. We’ve already helped biologists use SnapperGPS to track sea turtles in Cape Verde and sea birds around the UK, and recently did a giveaway of 100 boards to research groups all around the world.
We’re also working on launching a GroupGets campaign so people who don’t want to have PCBs manufactured themselves can buy it. Stay tuned!
In the meantime, check out the preprint of our hardware paper accompanying the open source release. You can also follow the project on Twitter.
Before working on SnapperGPS I did an undergrad in physics and wrote my thesis on superscalar out-of-order processor design. I don’t do either any more but still always love to chat about quantum mechanics and computer architecture!
I got a last minute invite to the conference, so apologies that I am only saying hi now. Hope this still helps people find my full name after the conference. Obligatory links to my Twitter and my LinkedIn. 
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