GOSH December 2021 Newsletter

News and Updates

GOSH Regional Event Funding: Apply Now!
The first round of GOSH Regional Event Funding for 2022 is now open! If you are part of open science hardware community and want to host a local or regional event, you can apply for up to $10,000 in funding to help make it happen! Apply here. Deadline 15 January 2022.

GOSH December Community Call: Internet of Production Alliance & FAIR Principles for Open Hardware

The December GOSH Community Call featured presentations from the Internet of Production Alliance and authors of the paper “Towards FAIR Principles for Open Hardware.” You can find the notes from this call and watch a recording of the reflections on the GOSH forum. Find out more about past community calls 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: “Ethically it should be mandatory to share”
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, “Setting infrastructures for equity” was on Julieta Arancio, a researcher in Science and Technology Studies, an advocate for the democratization of science and technology, and a mentor for open hardware projects. Click here to read it!

Upcoming Events

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

Sign Up to Present at Future GOSH Community Calls

The 2021 series of GOSH Community Calls has ended, but there will be more community calls in 2022! If you are interested in presenting, fill out this form or send an email to the GOSH Community Coordinator.

Career Opportunities

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

LIBRE_hub is looking to hire two post-doc equivalent positions for 3 years in Chile on OSH for Bioimgaing for Latin American scientists.

Call for Abstracts: STS Conference Graz 2022, May 2–4 2022. Deadline January 21st, 2022.

Apply to the Water Data Prize to help address communication and data needs to remove toxic lead water pipes. Deadline to submit your entry is January 12, 2021 at 5:00pm Eastern Time (US).

Applications are open for the next Digital Naturalism Conference (DINACON), which will be held in Sri Lanka in July 2022! Deadline to apply: January 30, 2022.

The 2022 Open Hardware Summit has opened its call for talk proposals. The Ada Lovelace Fellowship has opened as well, which offers a $500 travel stipend and entrance to the Open Hardware Summit to ten community members. The deadline to submit talk proposals and apply for the fellowship is December 17th at 11 PM EDT

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!

Latin American Hub for Bioimaging Through Open Hardware (LIBRE_hub)

Hands-on workshops organized by LIBRE_hub will train Latin American researchers in using, building, and modifying multi-modal modular microscopes, light sources, data acquisition automation approaches, and deep learning tools for bioimaging.

The Open.Make Project
The Open.Make Project seeks to improve the quality of hardware documentation, and contribute to the establishment of an open and FAIR hardware strategy in academia.

FAIR Principles for Research Hardware RDA Group
Check out this Research Data Alliance (RDA) Group working on the adaptation of FAIR principles for research hardware.

Paper: A Call to Broaden Investment in Drinking Water Testing and Community Outreach Programs
Check out this article that discusses the need for developing drinking water testing and community outreach programs to ensure safe drinking water.

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

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