Open source hardware through volunteer community: a case study of eCars -- now!

Authors:
Tiina Malinen;Teemu Mikkonen;Vesa Tienvieri;Tere Vadén
Affiliations:
TRIM, University of Tampere, Finland;TRIM, University of Tampere, Finland;TRIM, University of Tampere, Finland;TRIM, University of Tampere, Finland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The development model of Open Source Software (OSS) has been widely recognized as resilient and productive. Consequently, high hopes have been placed on projects that try to adapt the OSS model into material production, in projects that can be called Open Source Hardware (OSH). While OSS development has received increasing scholarly attention, the research on OSH is still in its early stages. Here, based on a survey done in 2010, we describe the demographic and motivational structure of one OSH community and compare it to OSS communities. The community analysis will be accompanied with a short discussion of what we see as bottlenecks in OSH development, i.e., features that may disable some of the beneficial dynamics of OSS development, and consequently merit further study.