Initial idea for Statistical Studies of Peer Production (SSoPP – Surveying, analyzing and documenting peer to peer practices) was born about a year ago. Around March 2012 I contacted Michel Bauwens from P2P Foundation and asked for support, which they offered in form of providing server capacity and domain. Encouraged by the support from Bauwens and Franco Iacomella, I decided to build the platform. We decided to use WordPress as [...]
Devaamo organized again yet another awesome Hackday at New Factory, Tampere 3.11.2012. We had about 15 participants out of which youngest were 6 years old. The event was tinkering, making and hacking oriented. We had just one presentation, mine. I told about my experiments and learnings from 3D printing RaspberryPi cases. I had brought several of those prints with me. People liked a lot about the “Carrot” model, which was [...]
I’m attending Devaamo Hackday Nov 3rd 2012 at New Factory where we are dealing/hacking with RaspberryPis and Qt. One part of the tentative agenda is 3D printing. I have arranged that Want3D Ltd and Palonen Labs Ltd will bring Ultimakers at the event. New Factory has one Ultimaker as well, so we’ll have three 3D printers at use. Intention is to make some RaspberryPi cases at the event which begins [...]
This is a tale of how I turned one family into a 3D design & printing family. I’m working in rapid manufacturing management oriented company called Want3D Ltd. Actually I’m one of the owners and hold CTO position. I’m also doing my PhD (partly) about 3D Printing and the community around it. Anyway, I took the liberty and brought one of our (Want3D) Ultimaker 3D printer to home one day. [...]
As part of co-writing a scientific article about design process I collected data about “Open Design” field. With the term I refer to new wave of designers, who might use open source tools, online CAD environments (TinkerCAD and 3DTin) and share models freely in sharing platforms like Thingiverse, and who use 3D printers (such as Ultimaker, Replicator and RepRap) or 3D printing services such as Shapeways, Ponoko and i.Materialise in [...]
I have been organizing bigger and smaller events for the past few years. Some events, mostly the bigger needs some sponsoring, monetary or other. Some [...]
Discussion in Finland around Open Data has been a lot about Open Data Portals and technical solutions to achieve National Data Portal. Some have noticed [...]
You want to take your business in Open Source? We can help you in that. We have helped several communities to foster: MeeGo Network Finland, [...]
