How to create successful Open Hardware projects — About White Rabbits and open fields

Bij, E. van der; Arruat, M; Cattin, M; Daniluk, Grzegorz; Cobas, Juan David González; Gousiou, E; Lewis, J.; Lipinski, Maciej; Serrano, J.; Stana, T; Voumard, N; Włostowski, Tomasz

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“…The flagship project of the Open Hardware initiative at CERN is "White Rabbit," an Ethernet-based network technology developed for timing and data synchronization with subnanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization (Bij et al 2013). In 2006, CERN started to plan for the upgrade of its timing system, Global Machine Timing (GMT),…”

Section: Validating Reseach Results With Open Hardwarementioning

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Assembling Open Hardware at CERN

Murillo¹

2018

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Under the rubric of “Open Science,” new models of coordination and collaboration have been increasingly taken up by research institutions for the development scientific software and hardware. Yet “open” research instruments have understudied socioeconomic, organizational, and political dynamics, describing distinctive modes of participation in scientific knowledge infrastructures. In this paper, I describe the CERN “Open Hardware” initiative with a focus on the exchange practices and technologies of participation that were mobilized to assemble a critical infrastructure with distributed teams at research centers, companies, and Internet-based projects. Drawing from ethnographic and archival research of collaborative and competitive dynamics around “Open Hardware” at CERN, I examine how “open” scientific tools and infrastructures are designed, disputed, and implemented following Free and Open Source development models. In questioning “openness” both at the level of technical objects and their technical collectives, I examine the usage of Open Hardware for validating and assessing research results as well as rendering scientific projects more permeable to new modes of participation in the making of the“technoscience by other means.” --- Paper submitted for the "Colloque annuel de l’IFRIS 2018," Université Paris VI, France.

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Section: Validating Reseach Results With Open Hardwarementioning

confidence: 99%

Assembling Open Hardware at CERN

Murillo¹

2018

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“…Not only did CERN and GSI provide "reputation" to WR suppliers, but they also facilitated access to industrial customers; CERN and GSI supported the companies engaged in WR development to succeed in the commercialization of the technology. As Bij et al (2013) explained: "OSH also fits CERN's role of transferring the technologies it has developed to industry and to stimulate industry with innovative products such as the WR. In the process, we are even promoting new business models.…”

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“…From 2009, when the project started, until 2013, 77 WR switch 18 ports were manufactured and distributed by one of the two single suppliers of WR in that period (Bij et al 2013) (see Table 6). 2.…”

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Obsessed with Time? White Rabbit At CERN

Priego

Wareham²

2019

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To conduct research in fundamental science, big-science research infrastructures develop some of the most sophisticated technologies in existence. As such, mechanisms that can facilitate the transfer and commercialization of these technologies have vast potential to contribute to economic and social welfare. Scientists and engineers at CERN were confronted with the problem of minute data latency that was corrupting scientific measurements in their geographically distributed computing network. In response, they developed White Rabbit (WR) as open source hardware (OSH). In a context of basic research and a deliberate decision to share the R&D process openly with no IP restrictions, WR is now commercialized in diverse economic sectors including finance, telecommunications, energy, Internet of Things (IoT), and air traffic control. We analyze the emergence, development, and exploitation of WR to a) identify the antecedents in which complex R&D-intensive OSH differs from open source software (OSS), b) capture the mechanisms employed by CERN to stimulate firms' R&D revelation and WR collaborative development, and c) investigate the business model configurations that companies have adopted in the commercial implementation of WR.

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“…Particularly in practitioners' non-academic literature, but also increasingly in academia, open design is seen and conceptualized as alternative manufacturing or fabrication, a new way to organize and manage design, acts of prosumption or peer production, alternative material culture, and/or explorations in horizontal community organization (Boisseau, Omhover, & Bouchard, 2018;Manzini, 2015;Thackara, 2011;Tooze et al, 2014;van Abel, Evers, Klaasen, & Troxler, 2011). Researchers interested in 'openness,' whether in product design, engineering, HCI, media and communications, management studies, or the natural sciences, appear to be taking up the notion of 'open design' and 'open-source design' to frame their studies.…”

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“…However, are these benefits simply proposed or are they examined empirically, and by whom? In 2011, a volume titled Open Design Now (van Abel et al, 2011) was published that became seminal to European designers. The book contributed to consolidating open design as a design direction of note, particularly as it was supported by the official design promotion body in the Netherlands.…”

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Framing Open Design through Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications: A Systematic Literature Review

Bakırlıoğlu

Kohtala

2019

Human–Computer Interaction

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This study reports on the results of a systematic literature review on 'open design' in academic fields including and beyond design and HCI. The review investigates how studies are framed as open design and open-source design (including 'open hardware'): how researchers contribute to conceptual theorizing about open design or study its practical operationalization, in do-ityourself 'making,' manufacturing and practices in-between these domains. Most of the papers reviewed were empirical studies from diverse fields. Open design was analyzed not only as contributions and solutions, but also as open-to-participate processes, openly shared processes, and open, closed, and modular (open and closed) outcomes. Various research fields presented an open design framing as an alternative to the status quo: new ways to do business and/or to foster socio-environmental sustainability. On the manufacturing side, open design was sought especially to accelerate innovation cycles; on the making side, it was espoused to foster democratization. However, the studies reviewed indicated that companies do not appear to develop much beyond business-as-usual. From the research perspective, the conceptual potential of open design to promote sustainability saw little practical exploration. Additionally, issues around open design community governance Yekta Bakırlıoğlu

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How to create successful Open Hardware projects — About White Rabbits and open fields

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Assembling Open Hardware at CERN

Assembling Open Hardware at CERN

Obsessed with Time? White Rabbit At CERN

Framing Open Design through Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications: A Systematic Literature Review

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