Open Hardware Makers
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Fiscal Host: Open Collective Europe
Mentoring & Training Program on Open Hardware inspired by Mozilla Open Leaders. Making Open Hardware the default everywhere, one project at a time.
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Sponsor a project
Help us cover the costs of a new project (and mentee) joining Open Hardware makers. This covers the time of mentorship and expert assessment for on... Read more
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Sponsor a cohort
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Today’s balance€8.86 EUR
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About
Open Hardware Makers is an online mentorship program. Inspired by Mozilla Open Leadership programs, it aims to support new hardware projects in their way of acquiring best practices, building welcoming and inclusive communities and connecting to existing networks.
Who is Open Hardware Makers for?
Any person or team starting a hardware project in any part of the world can apply to Open Hardware Makers, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or professional background.
Open Hardware Makers supports the development of early stage open hardware projects around the world. You may want to build your project for different purposes (science, education, business, community) and use a variety of materials (analog, digital, mechanical, textiles, bio). In any case, the program will support you in making it open for anyone to reuse.
Learning Goals
Open hardware projects are as diverse as their creators. We propose a series of fundamental principles and concrete practices that are applicable to any open hardware project.
You will learn and apply these best practices in order to design and build an open hardware project in a collaborative way
Participants who complete OHM will be able to:
You will learn and apply these best practices in order to design and build an open hardware project in a collaborative way
Participants who complete OHM will be able to:
- Understand what openness means for hardware projects
- Understand the role of their project in the open hardware community
- Build a fully-reusable project and make it easier for others to find it
- Understand & promote cooperation, diversity and inclusion in open hardware
Program Structure
15-weeks applying our curriculum to your own project, and preparing a demo to showcase at a public call. We support you with the following activities, all remote:
1:1 mentorship meetings
You will meet with your mentor every second week to review the week’s content and assignments, and for general follow-up on your project.
Cohort meetings
You will meet your fellow mentees every other week to peer-review your progress and share lessons, questions and concerns.
1:1 mentorship meetings
You will meet with your mentor every second week to review the week’s content and assignments, and for general follow-up on your project.
Cohort meetings
You will meet your fellow mentees every other week to peer-review your progress and share lessons, questions and concerns.
Round of experts
You will have access to a pool of experts who can provide support in different specific domains (technical, community building, business experts, etc.)
You will have access to a pool of experts who can provide support in different specific domains (technical, community building, business experts, etc.)
Why are we on Open Collective?
Right now, Open Hardware Makers is a program organized and deployed on our free time, with contributions from an amazing network of volunteers (participating as mentors or experts).
We would like to collect funds so that we can actually pay these volunteers for their time, as well as pay for running costs, such as website domain and design, online meeting platform (such as Zoom).
Eventually, we would like to receive enough funds to create mini-grants for projects going through Open Hardware Makers program and also to cover our time, so we can dedicate more time to Open Hardware Makers
We would like to collect funds so that we can actually pay these volunteers for their time, as well as pay for running costs, such as website domain and design, online meeting platform (such as Zoom).
Eventually, we would like to receive enough funds to create mini-grants for projects going through Open Hardware Makers program and also to cover our time, so we can dedicate more time to Open Hardware Makers