Open Hardware Communities to Empower Citizen Science.
with Jinger Zeng
August 5 2023, 15:00 BST/ 10:00 EDT/ 07:00 PST (3pm BST/ 10am EDT/ 7am PST)
How Open Hardware Projects and Companies Can Shape the Future of Sustainability
Jinger Zeng
Over the past two decades, Open-Source hardware has leap-frogged, providing accessible tools for citizenry to design, build, hack, innovate, collaborate over, customise and deploy hardware technology. Communities of practice have grown around the technology. In some cases, open-hardware is being used as an affordable alternative to sense, monitor and gather data on non-human animal populations and environments.
About the Speaker:
Jinger Zeng is an Ecosystem and Community Builder and Contest Manger at Hackster.io, an online platform and community that focuses on open source hardware and electronics projects. As a long-term practitioner in open hardware, Jinger will share her personal experiences and take-aways from building a robotics startup based on open hardware, managing a global developer ecosystem and community, to balancing commercial vs social approaches in the field.
