The open hardware community survey received 2091 responses from 70 countries! A big thank you to all those who took the time to fill out the questionnaire. We’re now sorting the data and will publish the aggregate results in the coming weeks. We hope that the information and insights you shared will help us better serve this community and make the case for open source hardware.
And a special thanks also to those who provided feedback on the questionnaire itself. Your input is greatly appreciated and will help us do better next time. Initially we launched the survey with a question about race/ethnicity, but while this is a common demographics question in the USA, feedback from respondents in other countries informed us that this is not the case in several other regions. So, out of respect for different sensibilities, we pulled that question shortly after the survey launched and purged the data collected until then. You can download the feedback report here.
Stay tuned for the results!
Answered question: 1502 out of 2091. Breakdown by country: Algeria - 1, Argentina - 9, Australia - 54, Austria - 9, Bahamas - 1, Belarus - 1, Belgium - 16, Brazil - 23, Brunei - 1, Bulgaria - 4, Canada - 78, China - 7, Colombia - 2, Croatia - 1, Czech Republic - 5, Denmark - 7, El Salvador - 1, Estonia - 2, France - 43, Finland - 16, Germany - 51, Greece - 5, Hungary - 4, India - 32, Indonesia - 1, Iran - 1, Ireland - 6, Israel - 4, Italy - 32, Japan - 4, Jordan/Palestine - 1, Kazakhstan - 1, Kyrgyzstan - 1, Latvia - 2, Lithuania - 2, Luxembourg - 1, Macedonia - 1, Malaysia - 2, Mexico - 10, Morocco - 1, Netherlands - 21, New Zealand - 18, Norway - 7, Pakistan - 3, Panama - 1, Paraguay - 1, Peru - 3, Philippines - 5, Poland - 7, Portugal - 31, Romania - 4, Russia - 3, Saudi Arabia - 1, Scotland - 3, Singapore - 5, Slovakia - 3, Slovenia - 1, South Africa - 3, Spain - 37, Sri Lanka - 1, Sweden - 23, Switzerland - 14, Syria - 2, Taiwan - 3, Thailand - 4, Turkey - 4, UK - 59, Ukraine - 4, USA - 779, Venezuela - 3.
Michael Weinberg is putting together an Open Hardware event in DC to introduce open source hardware to our congresspeople. The one-day event will be held on April 20th, 2012 at the Rayburn House Office Building Room 2322 in Washington DC. There will be two panels followed by demos. The event is free, though I’m sure Michael wouldn’t mind a donation or two to help out. Bring your project and yourself!
