share something about why open source is special to your work in wildlabs!
Hi Everyone! Our sister forum, GOSH, the Gathering for Open Science Hardware reaches a big milestone tomorrow! It will be 10 years since they created their roadmap for making open source hardware the default for scientific tools! Take some time tomorrow to share the open-source joy!
We are here at Dinacon 2025 in Bali with lots of amazing scientists, artists, and researchers and will be doing fun events to celelbrate!
Join us at Dinacon! - Dinacon 2025
You are invited to apply to the upcoming Digital Naturalism Conference (Dinacon 4). It is an experimental conference about exploring new ways of interacting with nature! For one month, we will be hosting field biologists, interaction designers, engineers, artists, and anyone simply interested in exploring new ways of interacting with nature. To get a feel for the
You can celebrate too! Even by something as simple as giving a license to an old project, or even certifying a project as open source hardware!
I have more examples of fun things you can do below, but you can also just reply to this thread and share something about why open source is special to your work in wildlabs!
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30 June 2025 10:45am
Dinacon - GOSH 2025
Here at Dinacon, we will host a day of discussing Open Science Hardware, the history of it, the different communities, have unconference workshops, build some mothboxes and other cool open science tools people can use right now!
We will have lots of different GOSH folks (like the Dinacon team) plus visiting GOSH superstars like @briannaljohns @arky @saadcaffeine @harold,folks from Bali Fablab and many more!!
We will try to do some live-streams throughout the day and can post links here!
Everywhere else! (Ubiquitously celebrate!)
There’s lots of things you can do to celebrate the ubiquity of open science tools (and the greater ubiquity to come 
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- Share things online
- discuss what open science hardware means to you, and the future you see in it!
- Organize a local get-together!
- Make it small! Get a pizza and invite friends to tinker on a microscope together!
- Make it medium! Organize a little community get-together in a park and share cool open source tools together
- Make it HUGE! Fill a 200 person theater and run a full unconference. This might sound difficult, but we literally have published a wonderful step-by-step guide for running big community events like this! (and you got 10 days!)
- Just build an open science tool!
- Making is one of the loveliest forms of celebrating! Get around to printing that open-flexure you have always wanted! Ask someone like @dusjagr how to turn your tool into an awesome synthesizer! Have fun with science!
Andrew Quitmeyer