May | 2010 | Peter Troxler

Peter Troxler

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OHANDA: an open hardware “trademark”?

OHANDA (http://www.ohanda.org/) — short for Open Hardware and Design Alliance — has proposed a system to “open source” hardware by taking the four freedoms from the software world and transferring them to the hardware world. On a superficial level this is done by simply replacing the word “program” with the term(s) “device /& design” in…

Congratulations, Ton, and Thank You

Past Friday and Saturday, I spent 2 days with Ton Zylstra and his friends and family celebrating his 40th birthday with an unconference and a BBQ. It was an awesome opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new ones — and to exchange insights and opinions on stuff as diverse as Lilia’s “unschooling schools”,…