OPEN!

Objective

The goal of this project is to develop an online open-design platform that provides developer communities with innovative methods and tools to collaborate on the design and improvement of open-source products. The project’s objectives include: 1) characterizing the concept and practices of open design as they are emerging today, 2) developing a set of methods tailored to organizing open-design processes based on current industrial practices and methods, and 3) prototyping and implementing the online platform.

The scientific hurdles that must be overcome to achieve this goal are:

• Define a development process that ensures the convergence of open-source projects, enabling the development of more complex and technologically advanced products.
• Develop an information support system tailored to the needs of communities, incorporating tools for online collaboration, technical data management, and quality management.
• Define guidelines for developing business models that enable entrepreneurs to reduce the risk associated with developing open-source products.

Partners

G-SCOP Sciences for Design, Optimization, and Production in Grenoble
HIIG Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
IWF-ITT Technische Universität Berlin - Institute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Technology – Department of Industrial Information Technology
IWF-QW Technische Universität Berlin - Institute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Operations, Quality Science
Open IT Open IT Agency
OSE Open Source Ecology
P2PLab Lab Research Hub
Raidlight RAIDLIGHT-VERTICAL

Project Coordinator:
Jean-François Boujut
Funding Agency: ANR

Start date: 2016
End date: 2018