GOSH February 2022 Newsletter

News and Updates

GOSH Collaborative Development Program: Apply Now!
The 2022 GOSH Collaborative Development Program is now accepting applications! This program is for groups working on existing or new open science hardware projects, with the aim of building collaboration with industry experts, groups, and organisations. Apply here. Deadline 25 February 2022.

GOSH Collaborative Development Program: Call for Reviewers!
The GOSH Community Council is forming a working group to review and select open science project proposals for the GOSH Collaborative Development Program. Interested in joining the working group and reviewing applications? Click 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: “Sharing not just knowledge but know-how”
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, “Sharing not just knowledge but know-how” was on Rachel Aronoff, who helps coordinate a community lab association and biohackerspace called Hackuarium. Click here to read it!

2021 GOSH Community Report
Want to know more about what the GOSH Community accomplished in 2021? Check out this community report to find out what we've been up to!

January Community Call: GOSH Updates
The January GOSH Community Call featured a presentation from the GOSH Community Coordinator, GOSH-AfricaOSH liaison, and GOSH Community Council on updates in the GOSH Community. You can see a recording of the presentation here, or read the notes from the call here.

Upcoming Events

Photo of attendees blowing out candles on a cake at the 2018 GOSH Gathering

February Open Hours

February 10th at 11:00 UTC
February 24th at 21:00 UTC

Find out more about the open hours

Book Club Meeting

March 2nd at 21:00 UTC

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Open Source Applications Meeting

March 3rd at 21:00 UTC

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February Community Call

February 24th at 19:00 UTC
Join us for the February GOSH Community Call! This call will feature presentations from Just One Giant Lab and Public Invention along with time for discussion and community updates. You can find out more about the GOSH Community Calls here.

Click Here to Register for the Community Call

Click here to see a calendar of all upcoming GOSH events

Opportunities

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

Open Hardware Makers (OHM) is seeking mentors for the first OHM cohort! Click here to find out more.

Call for Submission: (Open and Accessible) Fabrication and application of nano- and microfluidic devices.

Hacking friendly publication opportunity: A community member is looking for peer reviewers for a special issue in Biosensors titled "Hacking Consumer Electronics for Biosensing." Find out more here.

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 Bioimaging for Latin American scientists.

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.

Call for anyone in Nigeria: a community member is planning to relocate to a remote place in Nigeria with the plan to establish an alternative educational system with the use of open source technology. If you know any underserved or unreached community, please read and respond to this forum thread.

The registration for the Barcamp Open Science 2022 is now open. The Barcamp Open Science is a barcamp dedicated to the Open Science movement. It is open to everybody interested in discussing, learning more about, and sharing experiences on practices in Open Science. Register here!

The Université Catholique d'Afrique Centrale is holding a workshop-seminar on innovative biotechnology, synthetic biology, and research capacity building. It will be held on February 9 2022, click here to find out more information.

Curated by GOSH Community Members

Attendee at the 2017 GOSH Gathering soldering a printed circuit board

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

First Version of Open Hardware Makers Curriculum

The first version of Open Hardware Makers Curriculum is now online! Feel free to check it out here. For those interested, there are also opportunities to provide feedback!

EMBL releases new Open Science Policy

The European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) now has an official Open Science Policy, and you can read it here!

Article on the Plant Protein Extractor device
Explore this article from Proofing Future on the Plant Protein Extractor device, featuring an interview with Prof. Joshua Pearce from the Open Sustainability Technology Research Group and Tiberius Brastaviceanu from Sensorica.

PRESENTATION: From Open Science to Open Medical Devices: Managing Community, Quality and Documentation
Check out Dr. Jenny Molloy's presentation from RespiraConII, which features several lessons from the GOSH Community!

Photo of a workstation taking at the 2018 Gathering in Shenzhen

NEW ARTICLE: Bringing Open Source to the Global Lab Bench
Written by Julieta Arancio and Shannon Dosemagen, this article describes how open hardware can contribute to collaborative science on a global scale, and the need for policy support behind it. Read it here!

New meeting space for MboaLab!
A new meeting space is under construction for MboaLab in Yaoundé, and will serve as a meeting space for Africa OSH and residencies for visiting scientists and innovators.

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

Get Involved

Group photo of attendees at the 2018 GOSH Gathering held in Shenzhen

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