This page is about standards in open source hardware production.

Definitions

Open source hardware definition from the OSHWA Association

Best practices

Best practices of open source hardware from OSHWA Association

Open source hardware standards

German Standardisation Organisation

It is the first ever standard published by DIN under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. A standard in two parts:

   DIN SPEC 3105-1:2020-07, Open Source Hardware - Part 1: Requirements for Technical Documentation. This document delivers an unambiguous definition of the term Open Source Hardware based on objective and enforceable criteria.
   DIN SPEC 3105-2:2020-07, Open Source Hardware - Part 2: Community-Based Assessment. This document defines requirements for an assessment procedure for OSH products based on reviews by OSH community members, emulating the model of peer-review used in scientific publishing.

Where to find it?

   On the official DIN webshop. You can download there the official DIN documents free of charge, however they require a registration (not cool). Here are the links:
   DIN SPEC 3105-1:2020-07
   DIN SPEC 3105-2:2020-07
   On the GitLab repo of the working group. Here it is completely open, no charge, no registration. You can find there the “preprints” of the documents, so to say. That is: same contents, different layout. Here are the links:
   DIN_SPEC_3105-1.md, alternatively as PDF here
   DIN_SPEC_3105-2.md, alternatively as PDF here

The governance guidelines for participating in the further development of the standard itself and the technology specific documentation criteria are respectively here and here. That is: if you think something has to be improved in the current versions, flag an issue in the GitLab repo, join the discussions, fork and edit, the scene is yours!

See thread in GOSH Forum

Open source scientific instrument standard

Organizations involved in standards related to open source hardware

Internet of Production Alliance, IoPA - See collaboration with Sensorica

Standards

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