Thank you to our community for supporting OSHWA through another successful year. OSHWA’s primary activities include hosting the annual Open Hardware Summit and maintaining the Open Source Hardware certification, which allows the community to quickly identify and represent hardware that complies with the community definition of open source hardware.
Some of OSHWA’s recent activities include:
- Our 2024 Open Hardware Summit in Montreal. To get an idea of what Open Hardware Summit is all about check out our 2024 Summit live stream recording.
- Our 2024 Open Hardware Month initiative.
- Our NSF POSE Grant that will outline how open source hardware can play and instrumental role in the rapid response to pandemics and other major medical events and structure a medical/health specific open hardware certification. Due to this grant, we are growing by 4 employees!
- Certifying hundreds of open hardware projects from across the globe – Everything from open source medical devices in New Zealand to tissue culture incubators in the US.
The evergreen purposes and activities this organization aims to do are as follows:
- Organize conferences and community events
- Educate the general public about open source hardware and its socially beneficial uses.
- Organize the open source hardware movement around shared values and principles.
- Collect, compile and publish data on the Open Source Hardware movement.
- Provide a painless way for creators to indicate that their products meet a standard for open-source compliance.
Your generous support enables OSHWA to continue its mission of supporting the open source hardware community. Become a member or donate financially to help keep our programs going.