# Notes week 9: Project sustainability and preparation for the final presentation consultation

## Participants
|initials| name | discord user |
|---|---|---|
| JV | Jerry | Jerzeek |
| JC | Jose Urra | jurra |
| NA | Nemo Andrea | sandcrawler |
|JV| Jerry Vos | Jerzeek |
|SI|Santosh |Santosh |
|MS| Mik Schutte | Borming|
|LD| Laura Dinkla| LauraD|
TTH| Tom Hommes | Tom3000
| PO | Pepe Ocampo | jossoca

The link to our eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hardware-academy-final-presentation-tickets-416601475227

# Icebreakers
What is the most exciting technological development for the coming decade?
Jose: AI
Mik: BCI
Jerry: Open source hardware
Santosh: advances in green technologies
Andjela: Brain communication implant/interface

What is the most worrying technological development for the coming decade?
Jose: AI
Mik: AI
Laura: DNA technology
Jerry: Proprietary hardware
Tom: The speed of development making it incromprenhensible
Santosh / Andjela: No privacy

# Questions
What comes first Publishing first or open sourcing?
- Santosh recommends to do both things

How would you go about making something marketable?
- Find a mixed group of people, get people from different backgrounds with focus.
- Because is more difficult to make money with open hardware projects, recognition should be more.

How to build communities? How to go about this?

How is open source received in low income areas or countries?
- In low income areas academics might not be interested in open sourcing or fear to do so.

On competitiveness and open hardware markets:
- Open hardware products are from a business point of view products like non open hardware ones, in the sense that they need to be good quality, functional and so on. In some cases open source combined with other business criteria can be profitable for example, in a manufacturing type of business model.
- The fact that open source is not based on market monopolies hold on to IP doesnt mean that a company doesnt' have a competitive advantage. In fact we argue that businesses that deliver open hardware products have some kind of competitive advantage, either from a costs, R&D, or know how point of view.

# Exercises
:::warning
:warning: For this week we recommend focusing on preparing for the final presentation and providing the peer review to your peers, this is why we put the sustainability exercises optional.
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## Let us know if you need any help from our side to prepare for the final presentation
[Template for the final presentation](https://hackmd.io/HaaoCySQRO6y6vtTNZt_Ew)

:point_right: Check out Vincent's example to get inspired: https://hackmd.io/hSqwTE_VTCSzBbBvctUW_w

:point_down: For those still interested in doing/sharing the sustainability exercises feel free to do so.

## Exercise 1 (Optional) - Assess the sustainability of your current project cycle

> Nemo - The [SpotiStation project](https://github.com/NemoAndrea/SpotiStation/) is out for its first test run in the wild this week. Future development (beyond just bug fixes) will depend on interest. As this lesson rightfully pointed out, this will not magically happen. I'm still thinking about what the best way to publicise the project. Suggestions are welcome; maybe people have ideas they can share during next week's final presentations. If the project were to get more users, then sustainability becomes a real issue. The code quality will have to be improved (rule out as many crash conditions as possible) and setup instructions need to be even simpler. If the project gets more users it will quickly not be sustainable for me to handle all their issues and setup problems (within reasonable time).

## Exercise 2 (Optional) - Assess the sustainability of your project after your next release