Some preliminary thoughts on an agenda for the Open Hardware Workshop
This workshop will be held during the Sunday preceding ICALEPCS 2011, i.e. 9 October 2011 in Grenoble, France. There will be a participation fee of 50 euros to book the venue. This fee includes a pack lunch. Below is a first draft of the program with ideas for further discussion. Please subscribe to the OHR Meta mailing list if you wish to take part in the discussion. The list of talks below will grow with time until it forms a complete program. If you want to participate in the workshop, please send an e-mail to Javier.Serrano at cern.ch.
Morning
- Session 1: Introduction and legal framework. This will be an
opportunity to define exactly what we mean by OH and discuss the
latest developments on the legal side, such as the
recently-published CERN Open Hardware License.
- Open Hardware: what, why, how, when, who (Javier Serrano).
- Open Hardware Licensing (Myriam Ayass).
- Session 2: Business models. It is very interesting to discuss the
role(s) of companies and how they can make business under an open
paradigm.
- First experience in Seven Solutions (Eduardo Ros).
Afternoon
- Session 3: Tools. Most of our tools are not open themselves yet.
Here we can discuss about what is the current offer and possible
future plans. This affects mainly HDL simulation and PCB design.
- GNU PCB (Larry Doolittle).
- Icarus Verilog (Pawel Szostek).
- Kicad (tbd).
- Makefile-driven HDL flow (Pawel Szostek).
- Session 4: Ongoing projects. A selection of current projects
illustrating OH practice. Here we could also discuss common
platforms, both in HW and HDL.
- White Rabbit (Tomasz Wlostowski).
- OH developments in BNL (Joe De Long).
- OH developments in Soleil (Pascale Betinelli).
- Session 5: Discussion.
Participants so far
01. Pablo Alvarez (CERN).
02. Myriam Ayass (CERN).
03. Pascale Betinelli (Soleil).
04. Matthieu Cattin (CERN).
05. Joe De Long (BNL).
06. Larry Doolittle (LBNL).
07. Eduardo Ros (Seven Solutions).
08. Alessandro Rubini (University of Pavia).
09. Javier Serrano (CERN).
10. Pawel Szostek (Technical University Warsaw).
11. Erik van der Bij (CERN).
12. Tomasz Wlostowski (CERN).
Reference material
- Third part of the Document.
- Slides and notes for an OH talk in FSCONS 2010 (video part 1 and part 2).