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This document contains information on the building event to be executed as part of the Mozilla/FreiesWissen fellowships.


  • This event is the second stage of this project, where the first stage was the development of an online survey to understand the needs researchers and educators have in terms of laboratory/research equipment.

  • With the results of the survey available, we want to engage communities/groups/institutions and individuals that are already experienced in building OS tools, and support them to build based on the survey.


The idea is to elect project leads and setup a two month time window.

  • Project leads are groups/institutions and/or individuals responsible for spearheading the development of a certain hardware (whether this is to be created from zero, or adapted from an existing design is to be decided by project leads).

The building will be done in a local and distributed way.

  • In order to maximize the use of the grant, to empower local communities and to kick-start this movement build following demand movement, we decided to take a distributed approach for the building of the tools. This means that we will, in this initial stage, work with groups/institutions/individuals to support them, so that they can do what they are already doing and share it in an open way.

During this time, where they will be supported in the following way:

  • financial support (up to 800 dollars per group) for the purchase of components and tools to build. This will be paid in the form of reimbursements when participants provide paid invoices. (We know this can be taxing to participants, but it was the way found to make use of the grant).

  • Weekly "check ins" to see how development is going and where we can offer remote support, put them in contact with other people/groups that might have gone to similar issues.

  • An online closing event where all groups come together for a "show and tell" and to celebrate their efforts.

Project leads will commit to following a documentation template (as well as a repository template)

so that other people can easily contribute and onboard


Preliminary survey results are in! Here are the most needed tools (16/04/2019):

optical microscope
thermocycler
electrophysiology system
centrifuge
sequencer
hplc
spectrophotometer
fluorescence microscope
confocal microscope
2-photon microscope
incubator
behavioural setup
real time thermocycler
mass spectrometer
liquid handling robot
gas chromatography system
plate reader
electron microscope
freezer
cytometer
transilluminator