Presentations

This is a page for generic presentations about Qi Hardare, Copyleft Hardware and/or your copyleft hardware project.

Shanzhai vs. Qi, Jon Phillips

Shanzhai vs. Qi Inside: Making Legal Open Source Hardware in China

FSCONS2009

• Redefining Freedom with Copyleft Hardware, Mirko Lindner, http://fscons.org/node/44

FOSDEM2010

David

[1] ODP 9,2Mb http://www.tuxbrain.com/downloads/fosdem2010/lighningtalk_fosdem2010_qihardware_dsamblas_v2.odp

[2] PDF 2,2Mb http://www.tuxbrain.com/downloads/fosdem2010/lighningtalk_fosdem2010_qihardware_dsamblas_v2.pdf

Mirko + Jon

Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote

With the recent activities in projects such as Openmoko, Arduino and Open Pandora, Copyleft Hardware is gaining more and more support and prominence. Every month developers around the globe realize that the hurdles to start hardware development are not as high as the industry wants us to believe. They get their tools out, load a free CAD program and join one of the many "Open Hardware" projects.

This trend was started with ever more accessible hardware. Locked hardware that lets users install their own applications or completely customized operating systems. This was a good start, but a few questions arise. Is locked hardware running Free Software really all we want ever wanted? Do we trust the industry to respect our privacy when they control the software in the chips that route our communication? Is this really an opening up of the industry or just another marketing spin to keep the customer base happy?

This talk will draw on the theory that Free Software on a locked device is only half the way and will highlight possible paths to the future. It will look at the alternative presented by the Copyleft Hardware movement, its difficulties as well as the possibilities of collaborative development.

Drawing on examples from Shanzai Hardware from China, Arduino and the NanoNote the talk with explore the idea of the Qi hardware project and highlight some of the countless volunteers. It will propose a shift in ideology by which we no longer neglect aspects of our freedom simply because they seem too difficult to reach, a shift which appreaciates the changing environment in the Hardware arena instead of defining innovation away, a shift which finally brings us back to the point where 100% free means absolute freedom and not "everything after a certain point".

To get you into the mood, ponder on the following:

Is a monkey in a cage less trapped if you give him a banana? Or two? Does a dog feel more free if you tear down the fence and instead put him on a leash?

http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/devrooms/embedded

http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/emb_nanonote

Well I have the schedule:
Saturday
18h-19h   Iris: a new capability-based microkernel OS:
           Bas Wijnen

Sunday
17h-17h30 Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote
           Jon Phillips & Mirko Lindner

Attached is the rest of the schedule of the Embedded Dev Room.

I'm not very satisfied , but total of 1:45 hs of oficial Nanonote
presence in FOSDEM is not so bad.