Our fourth Open Healthware Session took place in Boulder, Colorado and gathered folks from across the community to discuss business practices, community building, funding, risk and source. Read all about the takeaways right here: https://oshwa.org/announcements/open-healthware-session-4-key-takeaways-and-reflections/

@mike thank you!!

We’ve got such incredible tables at #OHS2025 this year! It’s been so much fun exploring and seeing what everyone has been making!!

Day Two here we gooooo! Doors at 9am, panels and workshops start at 10am!! Get ready to have some good old open source fun!!! #OHS2025

First day of #OHS2025 was a success

Stoked for this year's @oshwassociation #OpenHardwareSummit – and today's #HacksterCafe stream with Summit Chair @Leeborg & Fellowship Chair Sid Drmay!

Join us live in ~40min, check out the badges, and jump in the chat :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=impWSmTUVcs

// #OpenSource #Electronics #Hardware

🚨 New RFP Open! COS is funding open source developers to build or enhance tools that integrate with the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Got an idea to make open science more powerful? We want to hear it.

🔗http://cos.io/pose

#OpenScience #OSS #Grants #DevCommunity #Reproducibility

#UN Gives the Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite #CryptPad a Try

https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/

Periodic reminder that we make unique wood puzzles! Smaller ones make great gifts but go for an Agate or Bismuth if you want more of a challenge https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/line.php?code=12

Said it many times before, but the most punk awesome thing you can do is make something neat and give it to the world.

@hikinghack, Bri Johns, Kitty Quitmeyer and Hubert Szczygiel will be talking about building a low cost, open source insect monitoring system called Mothbox on the main stage day 1!

Here’s a list of ActivityPub services that are not Twitter-like, along with a description of what each service does:

• Pixelfed - image sharing
• Peertube - video sharing
• NodeBB - forums
• Lemmy - forums
• WriteFreely - blog
• Friendica - Facebook-like macroblog
• Hubzilla - macroblog / CMS
• Funkwhale - audio
• ActivityPub for WordPress (Plugin) - CMS
• ActivityPub for Drupal (Plugin) - CMS
• ActivityPub for xwiki (Plugin) - wiki
• ActivityPub for Discourse (Plugin) - forums
• Kbin - forums
• Mbin - forums
• Bookwyrm - book reviews
• Owncast - video streaming
• Pinetta - pins
• Nextcloud - data storage
• Plume - blog
• Castopod - podcasts
• Mobilizion - events
• Flohmarkt - classifieds
• Loops - video sharing
• Gancio - events
• Piefed - forums
• wafrn - Tumblr-like blog
• Lotide - forum / link aggregator
• Postmarks - social bookmarking
• Manyfold - 3D print sharing
• Ghost - CMS
• Brutalinks - link aggregator

There’s a lot more stuff, so let me know what I may have missed.

Said it many times before, but the most punk awesome thing you can do is make something neat and give it to the world.

Last chance to apply to the Digital Naturalism Conference! Applications close Jan 1!

Check out our invitation video to learn more about our experimental unconference exploring ways of interacting with the natural world!
Http://youtu.be/X12kPx2amoA

It's Colorado Gives Day and OSHWA runs on donations! Colorado Gives will match (today only!) new reoccurring donors up to $100 through their giving platform. Please help us double your donations for some much needed funds. https://www.coloradogives.org/organization/Open-Source-Hardware-Association

OSHWA's office is located in Colorado, but you don't have to be to give. Colorado Gives will still match recurring donations set up today from anywhere you are.

Applications are open for the FOURTH Digital Naturalism Conference!

Check out our invitation video to learn more about our experimental unconference exploring ways of interacting with the natural world!
Http://youtu.be/X12kPx2amoA

We had so much fun during our 24hr Show & Tell that we're bringing it back for 1hr Monthly instalments! On the third Thursday of the month we will have newly certified creators talking about their work.

First session will be November 21st at 1pm EST watch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXza7CV6OY

OSHWA: "We had so much fun during our …" - Mastodon
https://mastodon.social/@oshwassociation/113482760578750461

I have a bluesky thing too https://bsky.app/profile/dinalab.bsky.social

All part of the #opensource Mothbox project https://digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/