October 2022 GOSH Newsletter

News and Updates

GOSH 2022: Happening this month!
The 2022 global Gathering is happening this month, from October 26-29. The Gathering will take place in Panama City, Panamá. We look forward to welcoming over 80 attendees from more than 20 different countries. You can can keep up with the Gathering via the GOSH Forum!

Check out some regional open science hardware events happening in October
The 2022 TanzaniaOSH Summit is happening from October 12-13 at Buni Innovation Hub in Dar es Salaam, and the Eco (i) Logic Queer Energy harvesting event is taking place from October 16 to 23.

Results: Phase 2 of the Collaborative Development Program

Congratulations to the awardees of phase two of the GOSH Collaborative Development Program. Three projects were selected for funding, you can read more about them here!

September Community Call: Presentation from OreSat!
The September GOSH Community Call featured a presentation from OreSat, a fully open source, modular, and scalable CubeSat "bus" aimed at interdisciplinary student teams. You can see a recording of the presentation here, or read the notes from the call 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.

Upcoming Events

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No virtual community events this month!

Since the Gathering is taking place later this month, there will not be a GOSH Welcome Call, Community Call, or book club meeting this month. These virtual community events will return next month!

Opportunities

Code for Science and Society is hiring a Sponsored Projects Program Manager. Deadline to apply is October 17, 2022

HardwareX has issued a Special Issue on Open Source Decarbonization for a Sustainable World. Submission deadline: April 28th, 2023

OpenDP is looking for an Open-Source Community Manager.

Open Food Network USA is looking for a part-time project director.

Hackaday is hiring contributers to write a few articles per week.

Apply for the Open Science Fellowship for Influenza Researchers.

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.

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, or signing up to the AfricaOSH whatsapp group!

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

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

Call for contribution: Participate in an international workshop on Open Source Hardware Development. NOTE: This is an in-person event to be held in Grenoble, France on October 21st.

Curated by GOSH Community Members

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

Recently Published Articles and Books on Open Science Hardware:
Open-source hardware may address the shortage in medical devices for patients with low-income and chronic respiratory diseases in low-resource countries; Authors include GOSH Forum members Joshua M. Pearce (@jpearce)

Canadian professors’ views on establishing open source endowed professorships; Authors include GOSH Forum members Joshua M. Pearce (@jpearce)

Open Science: Challenges, Possible Solutions and the Way Forward

Ag-IoT for crop and environment monitoring: Past, present, and future

FoamPi: An open-source raspberry Pi based apparatus for monitoring polyurethane foam reactions

Book: FreeCAD for Makers

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

Get Involved

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