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News and Updates

Get Involved: GOSH 2022 Roadmap Actions

The GOSH Roadmap Working group has announced it's new plan for managing actions from GOSH 2022! With over 27 different actions to take part in, check out this forum thread to find out how to get involved!

What topics would you like to discuss at GOSH community calls?
Would you like to discuss a specific area or topic related to open science hardware at an upcoming GOSH community call? Let us know by contributing to this wiki post on the forum!

Help write an open hardware handbook!
Several GOSH Community Members are participating in a Turing Way Book Dash to collectively write a handbook for open hardware. The event will take place from May 24-26, if you would like to get involved, follow up on this forum thread!

Upcoming Events
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April Community Call: Open Science Hardware Practices and Potentialities for Africa & The Rotoforge Project

April 27 at 12:00 UTC

Join us for our April GOSH Community Call, featuring presentations from AfricaOSH-GOSH liaison Abdoul Kafid Toko on open science hardware practices and potentialities for Africa, and from GOSH community member Michael Lynn on the Rotoforge project.
Click here to register!


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

April Welcome Call

April 26 at 13:00 UTC

Welcome calls are a great opportunity to find out more about GOSH! The calls are open to new members of the community and will be capped at five participants to make the experience more personal and engaging.
Click here to register!

Click here to see a calendar of all upcoming GOSH events

 Opportunities

The 2023 Open Hardware Summit is happening in New York City from April 28-29!

Register for the 2023 FOSSASIA Summit, taking place in Singapore from April 13-15!

Call for Steering Committee Members for Reclone Symposium on 12 April 2023

Call for Proposals: 'Can Technology Save Biodiversity?' Deadline to submit abstracts: October 5 2023.

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


The iGEM community is recruiting volunteers for their SynBio 101 project. Find out more here!

The second round of the Open Science Fund is now open to proposals. The Fund’s aim is to support projects designed to advance the application and advancement of open science practices. Deadline to apply: May 9

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

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!

A PhD position is available at the Umeå Institute of Design in Umeå, Sweden, on sustainability and grassroots communities. Under this topic potential research areas can include observing, exploring and experimenting with critical making, urban activism and material participation, DIY maker culture, open design and open hardware, shared community workshops, distributed manufacturing and local production, or similar topics. Deadline to apply: April 15

Curated by GOSH Community Members


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

Featured Papers & Other Publications:
Interview: OpenFlexure microsocpe; Featuring GOSH Forum member Julian Stirling (@julianstirling)

Postprint: More eyes on the prize: Open-source data, software and hardware for advancing plant science through collaboration
Attendees adding sticky notes to a wall at GOSH 2022


Lab in a bottle, open-source technologies for the design of affordable environmental samplers integrating on-site extraction
FloripaSat-2: An Open-Source Platform for CubeSats

FOMSy: 3D-printed flexible open-source microfluidic system and flow synthesis of PET-tracer


Featured Projects:
Waterproofing your Electronics Project


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

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