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Dear Friends of GIG,
The year is still young and we want to share some gems from 2020 as well as exciting news about new projects starting off! We invite you to revisit the virtual version of DOTS - The Impact Summit that took place in December, celebrate with us the kick-off of Critical Making, join CoAct's brand new community, check out OSE's latest achievements and hear what r0g_agency has been up to!
This month we revisited another part of our Core Values: "Whether it’s building infrastructure, shaping policies, building solutions or managing communities, or researching, GIG is an alliance of people who believe in actively shaping their future, supporting their communities and taking responsibility."
Whatever 2021 has got in store for us, we believe we will encounter it with ingenuity, passion and mutual support.
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We are what we create together.
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DOTS 2020
We closed 2020 with a virtual edition of DOTS - The Impact Summit. We connected as hubs, makers, and innovators, shared our work experiences and ideas on how to navigate the Corona-Crisis and support local communities with open technologies. The programme included workshops, meet-ups, panels and of course great music and dancing!
You missed DOTS? You can find our sessions on youtube and listen to our playlist here!
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Watch the opening of DOTS Day One! Jump to min 35:05 and see the recorded chat for loads of GIG love.
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Our Critical Making project kicked off!
On January, 14th 2021, the Critical Making project was officially kicked off! As part of a great consortium we will engage in a 30-month-project to study grassroots innovation processes and relate them to RRI practices. We will also co-design, evaluate and disseminate concrete interventions that aim to foster RRI principles and provide hands-on input for practitioners in the field.
Find out more about the project on our website!
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 A new family is born – Join CoAct´s *Open*Citizen*Social*Science community
As a community being engaged in both, the Open Science and the Citizen Social Science space, we were keen to explore those common grounds in the *Open*Citizen*Social Science Meetup we hosted during DOTS. The thought provoking inputs we gathered there serve as the stepping stone for further conversations. Thus, we are now launching the *Open *Citizen *Social Science chat group on Signal!
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 We celebrate 3 years of Careables
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Are you curious what our Careables project is about or already a big fan? Watch our very new short video and share it with your friends!
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The Open Know-How Manifest Specification Version 1.0
Open Source Ecology Germany (OSE) is connecting the open source hardware out there: distributed standardised metadata of OSH in an open graph database. This provides a powerful filter for OSH (#design-reuse) and a platform to cross-link information (e.g. ongoing COVID-19-research with open ventilator designs).
If you have hardware, you want to see in this network or (even better) know a OSH platform operator so we can link a whole database, drop a mail via assessment@oho.wiki or open an issue in the linked GitHub-Repo. v1.0 will be released August 2021!
Read more here!
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Open Source Hardware in industry - DIN SPEC 3105 is published!
OSE has more good news: the first official standard in the domain of open source hardware and has been published as open source! Building on the OSHWA definition it delivers a rigorous definition of the "source" of open source hardware and an open procedure to assessment OSH. This may serve as a significant leverage to bring OSH deeper into science and industry and facilitate public funding. Open assessment of OSH according to DIN SPEC 3105-2 is now possible on oho.wiki.
Find out more here!
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