Talk:Open Hardware and Design Alliance

Orphan
I removed the orphan tag from the article after adding links from the articles about Open Hardware and Open Design. Hope that's ok. SilkeM (talk) 13:06, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

To the Madman Bot
Dear Bot,

you are right that I copied pieces of text. I tried to rewrite them in my own words now but I suppose this was too little. Will you run again? The thing about copyright violations is that I am sure I do not violate any copyright because it's a copyleft project - though at the moment I cannot "prove" it. I would be glad if this article was not deleted but improved! If anyone wants to help, this would be great (maybe a native speaker who finds a different wording more easily than I do). SilkeM (talk) 13:24, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, the content has been released under a Creative Commons license, but a Creative Commons license that restricts it from being used commercially. Wikipedia requires that free content not have this restriction of use. If you'd care to re-write the article in your own words at Talk:Open Hardware and Design Alliance/Temp, you may do so, or you can contact the project and request copyright permission. Please let me know on my User talk page if you have any questions. Thanks! &mdash; madman 21:09, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for the answer. I saved my last edition and hope to find the time or people to rewrite it all as an own text. SilkeM (talk) 23:55, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I started a rewrite on this linked temp page. The only copied part now is the quotation of the 4 freedoms. What is going to happen next? SilkeM (talk) 22:00, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Organization seems inactive
Their project website is down. Dbsnp (talk) 01:26, 12 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi, OHANDA is still active, but the acticities have shifted a little. I will try to work on iproving and updating the article. Jueneu (talk) 10:02, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * That's good to hear, what are you basing it on that they're still active? When I was trying to find sources covering them I couldn't find reliable secondary sources with sufficient coverage to establish notability but mentions them in passing and says it folded "some time after 2010" and  says they've been "discontinued". Additionally, there's virtually no web activity mentioning them after 2012.
 * says it "resurfaced with the “Open Source Hardware Certification” programme of the Open Source Hardware Association in 2018" but annoyingly doesn't source that or explain if it was actually a continuation or just a similar idea.
 * I'm still not convinced this is notable. If it is, the article seems to need a major rewrite into the past tense unless there's evidence I'm missing that they still exist. JaggedHamster (talk) 10:24, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I know "they" are still active, because I have been a founding member of OHANDA, who is still active. I am in closer exchange with most of the other people related and connected. I agree it became very silent over the passed years (for many reasons), which I hope will change again, soon. And yes, some of the original ideas (like “Open Source Hardware Certification”) have been (partly) carried out by other initiatives in the meantime, which is good! But many of those still focus on electronics, digital devices, or 3d printed stuff, while OHANDA is really about everything tangible. Here is a link to currently related work (which is still work in progress): https://ohanda.one. Looking into "Past" might help understand what happened. Some people engaged are planning to meet in a few weeks. I hope this will also help to feed the story. We have just uploaded the "RE-CAMPAIGN": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RE-campaign_presentation.pdf - a theme that was also very relevant in terms of the "right to repair". I am not yet so very familiar with how to write about all that over the passed decade in a good wikipedian way. But I will try. And maybe you can help me with this? Jueneu (talk) 17:33, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'd be happy to help. Firstly, I'd suggest you read WP:COI given your membership of OHANDA, there's important guidance there on how to handle your conflict of interest. Next up, WP:NOTABILITY has guidance on what makes a subject notable, what we'd be looking for is significant coverage in independent and reliable secondary sources. Are you aware of anything useful there? JaggedHamster (talk) 08:33, 11 July 2024 (UTC)