News and Updates

CSCCE Community Profile on GOSH 

The Wilson Center and the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) have released a profile on the GOSH community, which you can read here!



NEW REPORT: Distributed Manufacturing of Open Hardware
Check out this paper from the NYU Engelberg Center on distributed manufacturing of open hardware, written by members of the GOSH Documentation and Distribution Working Group.



October GOSH Community Call: Ubiquitous Rural Open Science Hardware (UROŠ)
The October GOSH community call featured a series of reflections from those who attended the UROŠ local residency, which took place throughout October. You can view the notes from this community call and watch a recording of the reflections here.


GOSH Community Council Meeting Summary
You can read the most recent GOSH Community Council meeting summary here. All meeting summaries can be found in the Council News category on the GOSH forum, and you can access an archive of older meeting notes here.

New GOSH Community Member Profile: “Create the environment to explore”
Each week, GOSH is sharing a profile on a GOSH community member who were featured in the GOSH Community Events Framework.The most recent profile, “Create the environment to explore” was on Ji Li, lab manager and engineer of Open FIESTA (Open Faculty for Innovation, Education, Science, Technology and Art). Click here to read it!


Upcoming Events

Group photo from 2018 GOSH Gathering held in Shenzhen, China. Photo courtesy of GOSH.

18 November - Community Call

The next GOSH Community Call will be 18 November at 14:00 UTC, featuring presentations from the Internet of Production Alliance and EdibleMakerspace.


Read More About the Call

23 November - Open Hour

The next GOSH Open Hour will be 23 November at 11:00 UTC


Read More About the Open Hour

Click here to see a calendar of all upcoming GOSH events

Career Opportunities

Open.Make is looking for three student assistants to support their research team. Applicants must be a student of a Berlin university.

The fifth Reclone Symposium is happening on 24 November, 8:00 - 11:00 GMT, with a focus on diagnostics, innovation and local production in Asia-Pacific. Register to participate here.

Call for Abstracts: CITIZEN SCIENCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE; Special Collection: Biomedical Citizen Science Call for Papers. Deadline 1 December

The Internet of Production Alliance is seeking 3 people to support them in developing Open Data Standards and in growing the community of users of these standards. The roles include an Operations & Communications Officer, Data Standards Community Support Manager, and a DevOps Engineer.


Curated by GOSH Community Members

Photo of attendees at the 2017 Gathering in Santiago Chile. Photo Courtesy of GOSH

Each month, we like to feature new and relevant open science hardware papers and projects, specially chosen by GOSH community members!


Free and Open Source Solar DIY Book

To Catch the Sun, written by Lonny Grafman and Joshua  Pearce, features stories of communities who are harnessing their own solar energy, and explains how you can do it too! You can read it here.


Just Released: GitBuilding v0.10.0
GitBuilding is an open source program for writing hardware build instructions. Find out more about GitBuilding here.

Open Source Hardware Projects Related to Water

Check out some of these open source hardware projects related to water, including a 3-Way Valve Controlled Servomotor, Servomotor Controlled 3-Way Valve - II, Servomotor Controlled Syringe Pump, and a Photometer with LEDs to detect physical-chemical parameters.

Open Microscopy Featured in Nature Methods & Physics World 
Two articles were released earlier this month featuring open hardware and open microscopy projects. Check out this technology feature in Nature Methods, as well as this article in Physics World!

Open Chemistry Article

A recently published article titled Open Chemistry: What if we just give everything away? tells the story of a lab that is freely sharing fluorescent dyes. Read it here.


Have a paper, presentation or project you would like to share? Click here!


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