Collaboration in the development of Open Science Hardware

A research project under construction. Part of an effort to improve collaboration in Open Science Hardware (OScH) in the form of the GOSH Collaborative Development Program, with funding managed by the OSHF

Resources

GOSH Collaborative Development Program

• Program round 1 call
• Round 1 results
• Program round 2 call
• Round 2 results

ReGOSH Residencies

• 2019 POA, Brazil
• 2022 Mendoza, Argentina (+ Final Report)

Contextual

• GOSH website, GOSH forum
• Open-Source Hardware Definition

Ideas

Some questions

What does it take to design high-quality and useful Open Scientific Hardware?

What is the importance of collaboration?

• between academics;
• with professional and industrial hardware makers.

Sharing of tacit and experiential knowledge (TEK): technical skills, project management, know-how ; and development of new (appropriate, situated) forms.

Positive feedback loop with collaboration in methodological progress that embodies TEKs in communities, protocols and tools, expanding the domain of reproducibility and reuse.

Some dimensions to consider

• Software | Hardware
• Hackaton | Residency
• Academic | Professional
• Rich | Poor
• Beginner | Seasoned

Some actions

• Interview participants of the GOSH Collaborative Development program
• Describe anything that one may associate with collaboration:
  • from interviews and reports
  • from inscriptions such as forums and git repos
• Include participants from other OScH residency programs such as ReGOSH's in LatAm.
• Focus group if they find the time
• Literature review and comparative discussion of hackatons and residencies in respect to collaboration
  • Like hackatons, residencies are common in hacker/maker culture and the name may come from practices in the arts.
  • There's definitely a parallel to be made with research workshops and visiting researchers.
  • Explore the combinations afforded by the dimensions above.
    • In particular, reGOSH seems academic→academic, GOSH-CD seems academic→academic←industry; argue for an exploration of academic→industry?

Meetings

2023-02-16 Bootstrap meeting

Jenny, Morgan and Ale discussed the general lines on which a research on OScH collaboration including, and putting into perspective, the GOSH Collaborative Development program could be carried out.