*Wow. I bet this'll be every bit as exciting as watching people make law and sausage.
*We'll drop by later when all the hard work's been done by other people. In the meantime, feel free to opendesign us something nice. We'll be lazily waiting here next to the Update button, ready to describe all its flaws, blogger-style.
http://design.okfn.org/2012/05/16/open-design-definition-we-are-ready-to-start/
"Open Design definition: we are ready to start!
May 16, 2012 in Definition
"We’ve been busy preparing the tools and the documentation for starting the discussion about the Open Design definition, but now we are ready to start! After checking the different technical solutions for handling a distributed discussion about the Open Design definition, the best option turned out to be using Git as a distributed version control system and Github as the online platform. ((("But wait – is GitHub properly defined as an opendesign platform for an opendesign definition? And shouldn't you opendesign the hardware and software with which you access GitHub? I bet you flew to this conference on a plane that wasn't opendesign," etc etc etc)))
"Github is really popular for developing open source applications, and the platform is really well developed for collective discussion and easiness of use. You can also read this article about Github on Wired, (((soon to be obsolesced by the exciting new publication "OpenWired," printed entirely on fabs with Raspberry Pi Arduinos and flown free to subscribers with tiny hobbyist drones))) which was then published as a Github repository as well. Furthermore, this will also mean having a real open source and collaborative process and experience! If you don’t know Git and Github already, don’t worry, (((oh good))) we will provide you with information and help, and the process will start with easy tasks. We also chose Github for its simplicity!
"We have created then an organization account in Github for our group:
https://github.com/organizations/OpenDesign-WorkingGroup
"And there we’ve just launched the repository for developing collaboratively the Open Design Definition, with all the information that are necessary to start the process:
https://github.com/OpenDesign-WorkingGroup/Open-Design-Definition
"What can you do next then? (((Yeah, that's what I always ask, because I always forget what I did already. That's not called "being harebrained," mind you, that's called "New Aesthetic n-dimensional layered contexts of PolySociality.")))
"Create your own basic / free Github user.
"Send your username to the mailing list so that we can add you to the group and the repository (only the username, no passwords!!).
"Start reading the documentation about the whole process that’s in the repository.
"Start reading the existing Open definitions already in the repository, and for any comments open an issue ticket on Github.
"If you need help, just send an e-mail to the mailing list.
"And, this week we are going to have an Open Design Definition workshop at Fab* in Manchester, the first meeting of the European FabLabs and part of the Future Everything Festival! (((http://www.slideshare.net/openp2pdesign
*It's pretty awesome hardware, right? Yeah, you bet it is. So, you guys do all the hard work of learning how to use that stuff, and make something for us on the blog here. We'll be sure to tell you what's wrong with it.
