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Newsletter
N°07 December 2011
In this issue:
- MAKIT Symposium, Glasgow (UK)
- FabCamp Torino, Turin (Italy)
- Simbioms.org, Helsinki (Finland)
- Redesigning openp2pdesign.org
On 16th September 2011, Massimo Menichinelli was invited to the MAKIT Symposium in Glasgow, an event organized by Skirmishes in order to facilitate the emergence of a FabLab in Glasgow, in the Lighthous building.The presentation was done with remote video link, and you can see it here.
Skirmishes Limited want to establish MAKLAB, an open access digital manufacturing workshop, in Glasgow’s Lighthouse Building and are raising money through a crowdfunding platform here. More information on the wiki of the project and on the twitter account of Skirmishes.
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The awareness about FabLabs and Open Design is still not very common in Italy, for this reason, openp2pdesign.org and other friends had been trying to organize an event in order to help emerge a network of people and initiatives linked to FabLabs and Open Design.
The event that we were planning encountered some problems (another sign of the difficulty of proposing these issues in Itay), but in end, thanks to Massimo Banzi of Arduino, there was a similar event called FabCamp Torino we participated to. The event was held on October 29th in FabLab Italia, the temporary FabLab (now closed) hosted in the Future Station. The remaking of Italy exhibition, part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
During this event, we discussed FabLabs, the experience of FabLab Italia and how it could be possible to continue such experience starting another FabLab in Turin. You can still follow this discussion (in Italian) here.
Massimo Menichinelli's presentation (in Italian) can be found here; the full morning of the event (in Italian) was recorded and you can watch the video on YouTube here.
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On November12th, Massimo Menichinelli was invited to give a lecture in a SIMBioMS workshop in Helsinki. SIMBioMS (System for Information Management in BioMedical Studies) is a project for a multi-module solution for data management in biomedical studies. In this lecture we discussed how to apply the Open P2P Design mehtodology to designing collaborative services for biomedical studies.
The presentation can be accessed here.
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A brief recap: the openp2pdesign.org project started in March 2005 with Massimo Menichinelli's Master Degree Thesis in the Faculty of Design of the Milan Polytechnic. Therefore, for the first year (March 2005 – April 2006) openp2pdesign.org was just a work in progress and it did not really exist yet, it started as a website towards the end of 2006, opening the 2007 as a blog. The main idea, however, was to provide a space for collective discussion and further research for Open P2P Design, with the aim of becoming an open source community.
During the following years, the project has become quite successful, with workshops, lectures or panels in many countries, including Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, South Korea, Singapore, Mexico. Other people joined the project, but due to technical limitations and varios issues the project has been staying small, without becoming a real open source community.
Luckily, after many months of research, the moment of redesigning openp2pdesign.org, both as a website and as a community dedicated to a set of collaborative activities has finally arrived.
If you go to meta.openp2pdesign.org, you will find that the redesign process has already started, and if you want, you can join it. You can read a longer blog post about this process here. We will use Trac and Subversion software (as in many open source projects) and the Open P2P Design methodology for designing how openp2pdesign.org project will work as a set of collaborative activities. There is also a mailing list for discussion about the redesign of the project here:
http://lists.meta.openp2pdesign.org/listinfo.cgi/discussion-meta.openp2pdesign.org
If you want to participate in the process, go to meta.openp2pdesign.org or send an e-mail to meta [at] openp2pdesign.org asking for a Subversion account. If you don’t want to participate in the process but want to see / use the new website / community, just subscribe to the newsletter and we will keep you updated. In this project, open doesn’t mean just something that you can download for free, but that we welcome any participant in further improving this collaborative effort, so we will very happy if you'll join and help us!
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