I truly believe open source hardware is here to stay — it’s established itself as a great community, a great effort, and, for many, a great business. I spend most of my days working on open source hardware in some way, and I wanted to talk about some of the {unspoken} rules we all seem to follow. Why? Because the core group of people who’ve been doing what we’ve collectively called “open source hardware” all know each other — we’re friends, we overlap and compete in some ways, but we all work towards a common goal: sharing our work to make the world a better place and to stand on each others shoulders and not each others toes : ) I’m sure there will be some folks who agree strongly with what I’ve outlined, other will completely disagree with many points too. That’s great, it’s time we start this conversation.

OK, let’s go!