<div dir="ltr">On the Open Hardware related note, a number of organizations in the Google Summer of Code are accepting open hardware (and related area) proposals. <b>Deadline for proposal submission is Friday next week!</b><div>
<br></div><div><div><a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/">Google Summer of Code</a> is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-f02ece20-b997-8a65-ed89-d0d6ccbd5029"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizations with hardware possibilities;</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/beagle" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beagle Board</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - true open hardware, exposing users to the broader world of electronics.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/cryptostick" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Crypto Stick</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - next generation USB security keys.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/openlighting" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenLighting</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - an effort to build tools for the entertainment lighting industry.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/timvideos" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TimVideos</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - recording and live event streaming for conferences, meetings, user groups and and other presentations.</span></p>
</li></ul><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Software Defined Radio organizations;</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/gnuradio" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GNURadio</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - free library for developing Software Defined Radio applications.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/gnss_sdr" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GNSS SDR</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - open source Global Navigation Satellite Systems software receiver.</span></p>
</li></ul><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Robotics</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/ompl" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Motion Planning Library</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/osrf" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Source Robotics Foundation</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
</li></ul></span></div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 March 2014 14:44, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kira0030@gmail.com" target="_blank">kira0030@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Come and celebrate Hardware Freedom Day with us at Hackerspace this Saturday 15 March - talks happening between 1pm-4pm. Bring along a project to display, discuss or work on. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What is Hardware Freedom Day?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It is a celebration of Open Hardware, It is the Free Software philosophy, extended to the world of physical things. It is technology where the plans are provided to the community to build and improve upon.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What is Hackerspace Adelaide?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are an open group which holds regular "hacksessions" where we get together to work on projects together. Think, a "knitting circle" for nerds.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What is hacking?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hacking is the understanding that technology is malleable and so much more than just a product you buy from a shop. Sometimes we take things apart to find out how they work, sometimes we put them back together to make them better and sometimes we take what we have learned and make entirely new things.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/Australia/Adelaide/Hackerspace" target="_blank">http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/Australia/Adelaide/Hackerspace</a><br>
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