Web site promoting open hardware?

Robin Paulson robin.paulson at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 02:15:59 CEST 2009


2009/9/11 Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>:
> While looking for new hardware, I noticed that all the open hardware
> I know, I discovered it by accident while reading some mailing-list.
>
> Is there a web site somewhere that kind of centralizes this info to try
> and make it easier for openness-conscious consumers to find
> appropriate hardware?  Of course, there are various notions of "open
> hardware", so there might be parts of the site for hardware-hackers, for
> example, but I'm more interested in a web-site for end-users.  Also it
> might include hardware that is not itself open source, but where the
> company states a clear commitment to Free Software principles.
>
> I.e. a site that links to things like Openmoko, Qi, AlwaysInnovating,
> maybe Lemote, OpenPandora, ...

this guy looks like he wants to do something around this idea, but he
also looks like he's not progressed too far. maybe he has ideas but
needs some motivation/help?

he talks of open hardware certification, whatever that is

http://openhardware.org/

decent domain name, no?



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