Open design

Having the designs available for a variety of different things would benefit humanity in general.

If designs to manufacture a variety of useful projects were licensed under the GFDL or other "free" licenses, this would give the chance for commercial enterprises to easily enter the market. This also may allow for the items to be produced at the lowest possible cost.

This resource is simply here to promote and create easily accessible and truly open designs.

Things that would be nice to have open designs for

Some of these things might include:

• A tractor
• A harvester
• Seed planters
• Other farming implements and agricultural equipment
• Silicon and cheap (organic?... roll to roll?) solar cells
• Wind turbines
• Dish washers
• Clothes washers
• Clothes dryers
• Sinks
• Pipes
• Shirts
• Socks
• Pants
• Photovoltaics
• Cars
• Barns
• Houses
• Other buildings and Blue prints
• Machine tools
• Manufacturing equipment
• Electric motors
• Air planes
• Heavy equipment
• Microchips
• Microphones
• LCD's
• Flash memory
• RAM
• Amplifiers
• Those space-foam mattresses
• Rockets [1] [2]
• An optimized UHF antenna [3]

How to get involved

THERE ARE NO WRONG WAYS TO GET INVOLVED so please do what you think would further the goals of this project but more importantly the mission of Wikiversity and Wikimedia as a whole, so long as you adhere to a few basic rules:

• Be civil towards others (and maybe even considerate, polite, and respectful)
• Be bold
• Assume good faith towards others
• Act in good faith in your contributions

See also

• Open projects
• Free content
• Free engineering
• Lunar Boom Town Designers wanted and welcome!
• Public domain

External links

• Open design on Wikipedia
• Open architecture challenge
• Open Source Green Vehicle Project
• OpenSPARC T2 source
• Open source hardware @ Wikia
• Open Circuits wiki
• Open80211s
• OpenGraphics.org