Mega-OSH Meetup (online) 4 pm UTC - August 20th

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Howdy folks! Book your calendars for 4pm UTC august 20th!
Go to this Zoom link!

We want to do a simple thing which is just have folks from a bunch of different open source and science communities meet up with each other and learn about each other’s community!

I’ll be going around cross inviting folks from groups like

  • OSHWA
  • WILDLABS
  • openenvirodata
  • Dinacon
  • SORTEE
  • NEON and LTER

And whatever other groups i can think of!

You should do the same!

Me and @briannaljohns just decided on a specific date and time and a simple specific focus, and hopefully it gets out of control and we have lots of people join, but even if not, we aim to just help people know more about GOSH and help GOSH people know more about other groups!

We can probably figure out a format for this event later, as we approach the event and have a better idea of how many people will be joining.

If there’s a lot of people, we will prob do some breakout rooms to have people be able to introduce themselves to each other more personally!

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Nice nice nice.

Some more ideas for networks/people to invite:
Open Hardware | OpenScience at CERN
Hackteria open source biological art and generic lab equipment
JOGL (Just One Giant Lab)
Experiment | Crowdfunding Platform for Scientific Research
PLOS Journal / Open-source hardware
Open Science Hardware Foundation
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Wonderful, thanks for the suggestions

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Happy to share with the many different communities Im involved in and try to weave bridges between !!!
Feminist/Women/Intersectional and anti-colonial communities, the ACM FAcct community and others working on AI governance to ensure AI doesnt whipe us out before Nature will :wink:
Im meeting so many amazing people through my AI Futures and Speculative design research who could really benefit from sharing knowledge and learning about GOSH. (Here in Brazil for example people are so amazing and inventive : gambiarra !) Anyway Ill try and reach out to as many peeps as I can too. Could I also propose a follow-up session for us to do a Futures Scenario co-creation session soon ? Best Freyja

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I updated the August 20 event with the zoom link

Please share this meetup around with your friends!

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Reminder! This is happening tomorrow!!!

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Can you create a google calendar invite for this meeting? It think I have placed in on my calendar correctly, but things go wrong.

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The Mega-OSH meetup was awesome! Thanks for everyone who was able to make it and chat! We learned about so many different open science and open source groups!

Here’s some fun screenshots from the hangouts and also the list we compiled of some groups we got to chat and learn more about!

MegaOSH group list:

GOSH- Gathering for Open Science Hardware

  • what do they do?
    • Convene network of open science hardware practitioners from across the globe
  • How are they organized?
    • Kinda anarchist do-ocracy combined with a community council and a new constitution
  • What projects do they do?
    • lots of open science hardware projects + organize events and gatherings and help get funding out to groups
  • Where are they located?
    • around the world!
  • Relevant Links?

DINALAB / Digital Naturalism Conference

Dinalabs is in Panama

Main source of funding is doing freelance work

Recently got grant from Wildlabs.net

Wildlabs does lots of open source conservation tech

Got 60k to develop open source insect monitor (Mothbox)

It is located next to the Smithsonian, trying to do more community-based and iterative research in field devices

Big conference every year - Digital Naturalism Conference - Sid is cochair, along with Lee

Focus on project in natural world - next year, working with seacommunity in Northern Bali in July

GOSH might have our next big gathering in Bali as well; hoping for overlap

Dig Naturalism conference is a field station style conference

OpenSci Hardware

Open Envirodata

Air Quality Monitoring Station

Chun Lin

Based in UK

Portable air quality monitors

Potential for cross-collabs in other places

Biotech Without Borders

  • Community lab based in NYC
  • Website: https://biotechwithoutborders.org/
  • Runs on small private donations, monthly membership dues, and a revenue split between instructors that use the space
  • One project is working to move openly licensed DNA for key enzymes into expression vectors for testing
  • Shared decision making between members (ideally) and the board (required for 501c3 status in the USA) using Loomio: Biotech Without Borders
  • You can contact danwchan@biotechwithoutborders.org if you want to chat about the lab or come schedule a visit (or come give a talk or workshop [free or ticketed])

Reclone.org (Reagent Collaboration Network)

AfricaOSH

  • Monthly community calls; Africa O Summits
  • Help solve education challenges (ie, lack of equipment, student training)
  • Collab with Maker Space
  • Teaching/learning on microscopes (usage, creating)

Open Source Hardware Association

The Open Source Hardware Association works to spread awareness and knowledge of open source practices. We work to help show people how and why sharing their work for everyone to make and iterate on is a revolutionary act for the collective good!

  • Educational campaigns, events, and more
  • Volunteer board, two part time employees
  • The Open Hardware Summit is the biggest project!
  • Based in Boulder, Colorado, doing our best to spread globally
  • Website: https://oshwa.org/

Global Community Biosummit

MIT organizes this

Yearly conference at MIT media lab

3 day conference with workshops and discussions

Community-led bio meeting

https://www.biosummit.org/

BIOTOP

FOSSASIA

FOSSASIA is an organization dedicated to developing and promoting open technology solutions. Since its founding in 2009, FOSSASIA has connected developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts worldwide to collaborate on innovative open-source projects. The organization hosts the annual FOSSASIA Summit, one of Asia’s largest open tech events, which fosters networking, collaboration, and learning.

One of our open-source hardware projects is the Pocket Science Lab, designed for open science initiatives Specifications – Pocket Science Lab. Our next event will take place in Bangkok from March 14-16, where we have spaces available for project showcases. We would love to have you join us. Happy to connect with you all. hp@fossasia.org Telegram: hpdang

swiss mecatronik art society

Africitizen

Hackteria

Open source biological art

Public Invention

6 or 7 open source projects

example- breathing thing for humans

focused on medical stuff

also open source aspirometer

Xenopia - ALMA Futura

Gi- beginning open source pregnancy test

Xenopia - ALMA Futura

Chatting with hackteria/gaudi labs

develop projects via participatory workshops

Reclone

Open source reagents

looks posh, hahahahh

reclone.org

open DNA parts

SORTEE (Society for Open, Reliable and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Society for Open, Reliable and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

  • Advocacy for open science (software, data etc)

  • We have a yearly, virtual international conference that is very hands-on (hackatons, unconferences etc)

  • sortee.org

  • mostly code, software and publications (not so much on hardware)

  • Virtual Conference coming up - 24 format- hackathon (15-16 october)

  • society for open, reliable and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology!

  • Environmental/academic group (https://sortee.org/)

    • Experimented with workshops/hackathons
    • Exploring different formats
    • Bringing activists/DIY enthusiasts together/academics
    • Academia + other orgs

  • Share code/scripts these people are welcome

  • Flexible membership ; pay what you can

  • Upcoming meeting / virtual conference - 24h format

    • Hackathons/discussion groups happening

15-16 October: Upcoming events (sortee.org

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