How participative is open source hardware? Insights from online repository mining

Bonvoisin, Jérémy; Buchert, Tom; Preidel, Maurice; Stark, Rainer

doi:10.1017/dsj.2018.15

Cited by 23 publications

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“…The production of a regulated medical product is difficult to achieve in the absence of commercial expertise. This is consistent with previous data showing that OSPD is most effective within the context of private-public partnerships 48 . We are therefore working with an industry partner to develop PanFab PAPRs into commercial products.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

De novo Powered Air-Purifying Respirator Design and Fabrication for Pandemic Response

Kothakonda

Atta

Plana

et al. 2021

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Importance: The rapid spread of COVID-19 and disruption of normal supply chains resulted in severe shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), particularly devices with few suppliers such as powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs). A scarcity of information describing design and performance criteria represents a substantial barrier to new approaches. Objective: We sought to apply open-source product development to PAPRs to enable alternative sources of supply and further innovation. Design: We describe the design, prototyping, validation, and user testing of locally manufactured, modular, PAPR components, including filter cartridges and blower units, developed by the Greater Boston Pandemic Fabrication Team (PanFab). Two designs, one with a fully custom-made filter and housing, and the other with commercially available variants (the "Custom" and "Commercial: designs) were developed. Prototype testing was conducted at academic laboratories using equipment available during COVID-19. The designs and software are in the common domain for use or further modification. Setting: User feedback on the functionality and comfort of the design was obtained at a major US academic medical center. Participants: Feedback on designs was obtained from four individuals, including two clinicians working in an ambulatory clinical setting and two research technical staff for whom PAPR use is a standard part of occupational PPE. Main Outcomes and Measures: Engineering performance was measured using NIOSH-equivalent tests on an apparatus available in university laboratories. Clinical feedback was assessed by (1) comparison to existing PPE; (2) sense of security in a clinical setting; and (3) comfort. Results: Custom and Commercial Designs were developed for filter cartridges and blower units. The two PAPR variants passed testing for PAPR certification using an apparatus available under pandemic shortages. Respondents rated the PanFab Custom PAPR a 4 to 5 on a 5 Likert-scale across every survey question. The three other versions of the designs (with a commercial blower unit, filter, or both) also performed favorably, with survey scores of 3-5. Conclusions and Relevance: Engineering testing and clinical feedback demonstrate that the PanFab design represents a favorable alternative PAPR in terms of user comfort, mobility, and sense of security. A nonrestrictive license promotes innovation in respiratory protection for current and future medical emergencies.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

De novo Powered Air-Purifying Respirator Design and Fabrication for Pandemic Response

Kothakonda

Atta

Plana

et al. 2021

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“…Our research was based on a corpus of interviews with OSH practitioners collected as part of the research project OPEN! 2 (Bonvoisin et al , 2018Bonvoisin, Thomas, et al 2017). This interview corpus served as a basis to understand the OSH phenomenon and provide empirical data for OSH research.…”

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Issues and challenges of knowledge management in online open source hardware communities

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Knowledge management (KM) is the process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. In this paper, we investigate KM practices and needs in Open Source Hardware (OSH) communities. The aim is to provide insights into the KM issues and challenges facing these communities. Our analysis is based on interviews carried out with the participants of 22 projects. Interview transcriptions were coded and tagged with concepts extracted from the literature. Text mining was used to uncover the main concepts embedded in the corpus. From this analysis, knowledge sharing emerged as one of the top-rated concepts. Codification and personalization also proved to be important KM approaches, both requiring support in the OSH design process. Using a dendrogram, we highlighted the benefits and challenges of codification together with some interesting concept associations. High contributor turnover, little or no standardization and weak project structuring are still key challenges for OSH communities when it comes to ensuring awareness, making decisions and sharing knowledge.

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“…and can be integrated in user stories or scenarios. The qualitative analysis of 23 interviews led to 5 personas: 1) The participant in open source development [5] Among the 5 personas, the Maker & Geek, the participant in OSD projects and potentially the inventive creator are the main stakeholders for design reuse. However, these personas may have potentially different needs in terms of reuse and we need to characterize them.…”

Section: Design Reuse In Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The transfer of open source principles from software development to the world of physical objects gave birth to the phenomenon of open source hardware (OSH). OSH is piece of hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware [5]. OSH falls in the category of open source innovation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards a Better Understanding of Open Source Hardware Design Reuse in Company-Community Collaboration

Ezoji¹,

Pinquié²,

Boujut³

2021

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

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The open-source-software movement that emerged in the late 90s has recently extended to hardware. In this paper, we try to better understand how the reuse of design solutions facilitates company-community collaboration. On the one hand, based on existing research studies, we analyze three fundamental questions - 1) who wants to reuse a design? 2) Why do they want to reuse a design?, and 3) How do they reuse a design? - from a company perspective and a community perspective. On the other hand, we identified that companies and communities must create a common understanding of the design problems and solution and they could benefit in reusing design artifact to speed up the development time and improve the quality and transferability of the results. However, this research shows that companies and communities don’t use the same type of tools and methods to reuse design knowledge which may cause some problems for collaboration [2].

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How participative is open source hardware? Insights from online repository mining

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

De novo Powered Air-Purifying Respirator Design and Fabrication for Pandemic Response

De novo Powered Air-Purifying Respirator Design and Fabrication for Pandemic Response

Issues and challenges of knowledge management in online open source hardware communities

Towards a Better Understanding of Open Source Hardware Design Reuse in Company-Community Collaboration

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