GOSH April 2022 Newsletter

News and Updates

Apply to the 2022 GOSH Gathering in Panamá!
Applications to attend the 2022 GOSH Gathering are now open! The Gathering will be held at Ciudad Del Saber, in Panamá, from October 26-29. We’re looking for people who are actively engaged in open hardware for science as developers, users, inventors, tinkerers and thinkers who can contribute to growing the community and movement. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2022, apply here!

Apply for support to the GOSH 2022 Research and Policy Workshop Program
The 2022 Research and Policy Workshop Program has commenced and you can now apply for support to the program. The call supports meetings, writing workshops or other collaborations to scope research topics, conduct literature reviews and develop further policy advice aimed at defined audiences. Deadline to apply is 8 May 2022.

Check out the New GOSH Welcome Guide
This welcome guide is perfect for new members looking to get involved in the GOSH Community! It highlights key aspects of GOSH, including events, communication channels, publications, and other resources. You can download the guide 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.

March Community Call: Presentations from Public Invention and JOGL
The March GOSH Community Call featured presentations from Community Creativity for Development (CC4D) and Our-Sci along with time for discussion and community updates. You can see a recording of the presentations here, or read the notes from the call here.

Upcoming Events

Photo of attendees during a group presentation at the 2018 Gathering in Shenzhen

April Open Hours

April 14th at 11:00 UTC
April 28th at 21:00 UTC

Find out more about the open hours

Book Club Meeting

April 26th at 11:00 UTC
If you'd like to join, check out this thread!

April Community Call

April 25th at 11:00 UTC
Join us for the March GOSH Community Call! This call will feature a presentation from Engineers without Borders UK 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

If you are interested in presenting at a future GOSH Community Call, fill out this form!

Click here to see a calendar of all upcoming GOSH events

Opportunities

Participate in MIT's Learning Creative Learning course, which opens on April 18!

A GOSH community member is seeking help with FEM solvers on FreeBSD.

Our-Sci is seeking a front-end focused full stack developer to help support it's open source software.

Submissions open for open hardware panel at 4S/ESOCITE conference. Deadline is April 14, 2022.

A new cycle of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Essential Open Source Software for Science RFA is now open. Applications due April 19.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking for reviewers for its Transform to Open Science Community Panel.

Join the open hardware research community, an open and collaborative group of researchers studying the socioeconomic aspects of open hardware practice.

Seeed Studio has announced it’s Tech4Good Bounty Program, an all-year-round open source hardware sponsorship for carbon neutrality, environmental conservation, and other SDG projects.

The Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) at the Wilson Center is seeking a graduate-level or recent graduate intern to support their work in open science, in particular low-cost and open hardware. Applications are due by April 15

Become a member of AfricaOSH! AfricaOSH is a community for all open science enthusiasts, makers, creators, students, innovators, policy makers, government institutions, makerspaces, researchers etc. in Africa and the global south. Join AfricaOSH by clicking here!

The Internet of Production Alliance is looking for one or more individuals for the role of standards researcher and technical author to help their community write open standards for data, knowledge and know-how related to hardware and manufacturing. Apply here!

Join the Research Data Alliance (RDA) interest group. This interest group aims to collaborate with the OH community (GOSH, OSHWA), scientific research projects involving OH (Open.Make, OPENNEXT), maker communities, and the RDA community to facilitate open discussions on FAIR principles for research hardware.

AfricaOSH is crowdsourcing articles, ideas, presentations, or any form of writing on open science and open science hardware to be published on the blog section of their website. If interested, please send your piece for publication here, along with your name and occupation/institution.

The AfricaBerlin Network together with Berlin Partner and the Global Innovation Gathering are looking for active, impact-driven ecosystem Thought Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Experts for a 4-day trip to Berlin, Germany, for cross-cultural knowledge exchange and network building. Flights and accommodation for 5 nights in Berlin are covered. It's an open call for Ecosystem experts from Egypt, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa. Find out more about the call on the AfricaBerlin website, and register here. Deadline is April 19, 2022

Curated by GOSH Community Members

Photo of the OpenHAK display at the 2017 Gathering in Santiago

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

PiSpy
PiSpy is an affordable and flexible platform for automated imaging and video recording. Check out the project on the GOSH forum!

You can also checkout this preprint on PiSpy. Authors include GOSH Forum members André Maia Chagas (@amchagas) and Benjamin Morris (@bimorris).

Wilson Center Publication on low-cost & open source science tools
A recent publication from the Wilson Center's Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) discusses data quality in relation to low cost and open source hardware, and mentions the GOSH Community!

Recently Published Papers on Open Science Hardware:
Combining development, capacity building and responsible innovation in GCRF-funded medical technology research; Authors include GOSH Forum members Louise Bezuidenhout (@louisebez), Julian Stirling (@julianstirling), Valerian Sanga (@valerian), Paul Nyakyi (@NyakyiJr_1993) and Richard Bowman (@rbowman).

An Open-source, Cost-Efficient Excitation Module for Single-molecule Microscopy

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

Get Involved

Photo of attendees at the 2017 Gathering in Santiago.

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