Open collaborative design/See also

Wikipedia articles

• Open design 
• Open source hardware 
• List of open source hardware projects 

The two articles above also list examples of existing open collaborative design projects. As this methodology becomes better known and the toolset more powerful then the projects undertaken in this manner will gradually increase in sophistication, capability and impact.

• Commons-based peer production 
• Gift economy 

Other links and articles

• Wired article about 'Arduino' open-source hardware

• Draft of open-source hardware definition

• On the viability of the Open Source Development model for the design of physical objects (Lessons learned from the RepRap project) - Erik de Bruijn's Masters thesis Nov 2010

• http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/40994/Crowdsourcing-design-model-is-moving-forward-fast.aspx - going down the proprietary software route, but an interesting article

Other related 'open' endeavours

• Open source drug discovery network - for infectious diseases common to developing countries. Launched in India, Sep. '08.
• See links at bottom of Beyond software panel in the Free and open-surce software page on this site.