Web 2.0 Expo Berlin - (CrowdVine)

In Case of Turbulence: Open Source Hardware's Next Challenges

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Speaker(s): Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 14:05 - 14:15
Location: C1

Track: Development
Tags Development

Open source software has grown and learnt its lessons. Web2.0 technologies have set standards about how communities are grown online. Looking at the emerging concept of open source hardware, (taking the Arduino board as a reference point). This session will explore how both open source software and Web2.0 approaches can help it move beyond some of its near-term challenges such as community growth, knowledge sharing and manufacturing realities.

Presentation files: In Case of Turbulence_ Open Source Hardware's Next Challenges Presentation.pdf

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	Ralph Talmont

Challenging, engaging, and well presented


	Ron Selling

well presented, but the end of her speech was less strong


	Tilman Becker

To be honest: having never heard of the Arduino board before, this was too deep for me.


	Marko Samastur

Same problem as with Rafi's presentation. Too short for a topic that may be unknown to many, but has a big potential in future.

This is not Alexandra's fault, who in my opinion spent her time well. I do think web2expo would benefit if more time was alloted to topic that may not be quite here yet, but aren't from behind the horizon either (electricity 2.0 was nice choice).


	Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Thanks for the comments everyone. It was a real challenge presenting this as I knew most of you wouldn't have heard about this topic. This is my second OR event and it feels like this is something they want to push forward as a topic of discussion to the web2.0 crowd. I could have done a talk where i just spoke about the basics, but I thought I'd go with problems that will be coming up and that web2.0 professionals might want to address. Hope it at least got you to google for Arduino :)


	Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

If you're interested, I've added some thoughts here: http://tinker.it/now/2008/10/24/web20-expo-talk/