OSEwatch

"OSHW Draft Definition 1.0 has been endorsed by the following persons and/or organization as of 2012/09/6. Please feel free to add (your own names) to this section. Listing your affiliation is optional for personal endorsements, and endorsements are presumed to be personal unless the organization name is listed separately. Please join the conversation about the definition here Aaron Clarke, [1] EmbeddedCoding.com Aaron Harper, Lobo Savvy Technologies and Ahead Research Corporation Abhimanyu Singh Udawat, Explore Labs Adam Mayer, Makerbot Industries" etc.... very useful list to identify potential partners

"From Kostas: Hi Marcin, I see there is now some active discussion on CAD/CAM so I would like to give you some hints about the status of FreeCAD: 1. after my work on the sketcher mostly been finished, we can draw all parts of a 3D printer: https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/free-cad/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1867 2. jriegel (project founder/manager) is actively working on the assembly module, multidocument support: http://free-cad.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=free-cad/free-cad;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/jriegel/dev-assembly after this step FreeCAD will be ready for real applications. 3. Collaborative modelling, a revision system and an online parts library are further objectives of the project. e.g. https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/free-cad/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1378 "

"Scientific coordination of the FIRE EU Large-scale integrating project (IP) CONFINE on "Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet" (10/2011-9/2015) Scientific coordination of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing EMJD-DC (a 5 year contract starting in 2011/2012) Scientific coordination of the national research project Delfin: Self-adapting distributed systems for the Future Internet (TIN2010-20140-C03-01) Principal Investigator (PI) for Planetlab at UPC."

"I think we both understand that this is the key; "A further step would consist in setting up a more permanent collaboration mechanism (forum? Network?) for integration/coordination of efforts between different initiatives" The hard part is figuring out how it may be implemented so it brings together (the secretariats of) so many publicly funded initiatives; both in Europe and on other continents. E.g. Paradiso's terena's, geant's, NEM's, epractice's, global plaza's, etc, etc. Fundamentally, we have this problem with publicly funded initiatives that there is little coordination to be SEEN going on between NCP."

very important, because there we can see who does what, what are the trends and "hidden" criterias...

- CollabCAD is lead by Indians : http://www.collabcad.com/technical_support.html - FreeCAD is lead by 2 germans (I presume, but I'm sure at least for one of them who's working for DaimlerChrysler and participating to FreeCADon his spare time) : http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Manual03/fr (search "lead" in the page)

"Lead developers of the FreeCAD project Jürgen Riegel Werner Mayer"

Imetric is a Swiss company that donated code or developer to help the FreeCAD CAD project

AMEPLM
Advanced Platform for Manufacturing Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management -Develop an open engineering platform based on existing tools and libraries, by special consideration of open-source software

AGRIXCHANGE
A common data exchange system for agricultural systems

German partner: INSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE STRUKTURFORSCHUNG AN DER JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAET, FRANKFURT AM MAIN

German partner: "GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER"

CORE ORGANIC II
Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems

"Objective This horizontal ERA-NET proposal is cutting across several themes in the Cooperation Programme: Theme 2 (Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology), Theme 3 (Information and Communication Technologies) and Theme 6 (Environment including Climate Change). The overall strategic objective - also beyond the time frame of the ERA-NET proposal - is a contribution to increase quality, effectiveness and efficiency of national research programmes within Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Robotics for a competitive, sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture." German partner: BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR ERNÄHRUNG, LANDWIRTSCHAFT UND VERBRAUCHERSCHUTZ

FUTUREFARM
Integration of farm management information systems to support real-time management decisions and compliance of management standards

"Prospects for Farmers Support: Advisory Services in European AKIS"

Here is 10 Free and useful computer-aided design software. Computer-aided design (CAD) is a combination of computer programs and systems that allow engineers and architects to design detailed two- or three-dimensional models of physical objects, such as mechanical parts, buildings, and molecules. It specially used to design curves and figures in two-dimensional ("2D") space; or curves, surfaces, and solids in three-dimensional ("3D") objects. There are so many "free" CAD programs out there but only a handful are either really free or useful. 

the film seems interesting, although typically NOT understdning the opensource culture, theerefore partly promoting an "old paradigm" approach while saying it's a new paradigm apporach

"What is Sociocracy? Sociocracy is a method of designing harmonious organizations, workplaces and associations in which each member is valued equally. It is based on creating self-optimizing systems that are effective and productive. The principles and practices were developed by Gerard Endenburg based on: Modern management theory and practices Quaker traditions of peace education and the valuing of each person Cybernetics, the science of communications and control"

schemes and images on googleimage, showing the large panel of structural options to build a biogas digester, and also the common elemenst of each technical plan