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 an 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 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, “A workshop is playground for human interaction” was on Marc Dusseiller, a transdisciplinary scholar/lecturer for micro-and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator, educator, and artist. Click here to read it!


Meet the new AfricaOSH Liaison, Kafid!
We are excited to welcome Abdoul Kafid Toko as the new GOSH-Africa OSH liaison! As a liaison, Kafid will help connect the two communities by facilitating the flow of information between them. Read more about Kafid and the AfricaOSH liaison position here.

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

January Open Hours

January 13th at 11:00 UTC
January 27th at 21:00 UTC

Find out more about the open hours

Book Club Meeting

February 2nd at 21:00 UTC

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Open Source Applications Meeting

February 3rd at 21:00 UTC

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January Community Call

January 25th at 21:00 UTC
This call will feature a presentation on what GOSH has accomplished this past year, and what we plan to do next! Join the call to hear updates from the GOSH Council, GOSH Community Coordinator, the new GOSH-AfricaOSH liaison, and other community members. 
Register for the call here 

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.
Read More About the Community Calls

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.

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. 

Parc 2022 is hosting two robotics competitions in Senegal. You can register here. The deadline to register is February 28th, 2022.

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.

Call for speakers at the 2022 FOSSASIA Summit, which  is taking place online between 7th - 9th April 2022. Open source experts, developers, researchers and companies from around the world are welcome to join and submit a session. Deadline to apply 22 January, 2022. 23:59 (SGT)

The Free and Appropriate Technology lab at Western University in Canada, has five funded positions for MSC an PHD students to work on open hardware development in photovoltaics, recycling+3D printing, and resilient foods. 

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!


Our-Sci Articles on SurveyStack, SoilStack and tools for Soil Research

Check out these three articles from Our-Sci on some of their applications and tools for soil research and environmental monitoring.  Moving from Research to Prediction with SurveyStack: A Day in the Life of a Data Point; Putting soil research into the hands of the community; and SOILSTACK: SMART MEASUREMENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF SOIL HEALTH. 

Open Sourced Science
The Wilson Center’s THING Tank released a series of stories on open hardware and open science communities, called Open Sourced Science.  

CALL FOR PAPER COLLABORATION: Open Software Landscape for Science Hardware Development
Check out this new collaborative paper project on the Open Source software landscape for science hardware development.  

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

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