Open Hardware Funder Salons
Convened by the Gathering for Open Science Hardware with facilitation by OSHWA and Aspiration, with financial support from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.
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Why Now and Where to Start
Why fund open hardware and what are the most impactful funding strategies?
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Outputs and Impacts
Identifying categories of open hardware outputs and how funders can track their impact: a critical component of evaluating funding programmes.
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Expectations and requirements
Funders shape the open hardware ecosystem alongside practitioners: what are their responsibilities and expectations for their investments?
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Institutional Support
Who is doing and/or supporting OH within different types of
institutions? How do we support them?
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Supporting Individual Leaders
What types of leaders do we need to empower in order to realise our collective open hardware objectives, and how might we support them?