Hardware Freedom Day April 20, 2013

The Digital Freedom Foundation (the organization behind Software Freedom Day) is launching a new celebration around Open Source Hardware called [ http://www.hfday.org/ Hardware Freedom Day} and which will be celebrated on April 20, 2013 (Saturday).

we will host an open Vienna prep Meeting as our contribution: http://wiki.hfday.org/2013/Austria/Vienna/VOSHS

Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam, New York City, April 26-28

The power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon others’ work and good documentation is the key to making this happen. We believe that open source hardware will become a new economic engine of innovation, efficiency, sustainability and collaboration. As the number of open source hardware projects continues to grow, it’s important to generate clearly-findable, modular, remixable documentation that can not only improve the quality of projects - but also enhance cross-project collaboration. Our goal is to make it easy to contribute to a common pool of hardware knowledge.

This 3 day event is intended to generate motion on the much-discussed ‘Github for Hardware’. We intend to release a minimum viable prototype for immediate beta testing by open hardware projects. The event will be based on a mashup of well-known co-design formats - Design Jams and Hackathons. The goal is to identify problems, propose solutions, and synergize on execution.

Check out the event’s website for more information: http://www.opensourcewarehouse.org/problem-statement/